Using the Drawing Toolbar

The Drawing Toolbar is divided into two categories:

Tool Options Dialog Box

Accompanying the enhancement tools is the Tool Options dialog box.  This box provides individual options for the tools.

You can set an option  that "rolls up" the dialog when the mouse pointer is not over the box.  When you click on the tool, the tool name appears in the Tool Options title bar, if the tool has options.

To set the Tool Options dialog box "roll up":

  1. Do one of the following:

  2. Check the Enable automatic bar roll up.

  3. Select the type of roll up.

  4. Click OK.

Selection Tools

Scroll

Grabs an image larger than the display area and moves it vertically, horizontally or diagonally

Crop

Selects a rectangular area of the image and removes the outside portion from the display

Zoom

Selects a center point on the image and zooms in or out around that point

Rectangular Select

Creates a rectangular selection from a part of the image

Lasso Select

Creates a user traced selection from a part of the image

Magic Wand Select

Creates a selection of the color you select in the image

Mover

Grabs the selected area of the image and moves it to a desired location

Eyedropper

Selects the color at the tip of the eyedropper and changes the mouse button color in the Color Picker

Enhancement Tools

Pencil

Draws a freeform line on the image

Line

Draws a straight line on the image

Ellipse

Draws an ellipse on the image

Rectangle

Draws a rectangle on the image

Airbrush

Applies a color spray pattern to the image

Fill

Replaces the color at the tip of the tool

Clone

Copies one area of an image to another area

Add Text

Places text on the image

Manual

Red-eye Reduction

Changes the bright red-eye color seen in flash images to the natural eye color of the individual

Manual Sharpen

Sharpens the image in specific area

Manual Blur

Blurs the image in a specific area