• Click a tool in the Tools palette.
• Use a keyboard shortcut to access a tool.
Tool Options
When working with tools, you may want to use the Tool Options palette that allows you to customize the way your tool works.
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Tool icon | Tool name | Tool description | Shortcut |
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![]() | Move | Move layers and selections | V |
![]() | Rectangular Marquee | Make rectangular selections | M |
![]() | Elliptical Marquee | Make elliptical selections | M |
![]() | Lasso | Make freehand selections | L |
![]() | Polygonal Lasso | Make straight edged selections | L |
![]() | Magic Wand | Use to select similarly colored areas | W |
![]() | Slice | Use to divide an image into smaller sections | K |
![]() | Crop | Use to trim images | C |
![]() | Pencil | Paint hard-edged strokes | P |
![]() | Brush | Paint brush strokes | B |
![]() | Clone Stamp | Paint with a sample of an image | S |
![]() | Eraser | Erase portions of your image | E |
![]() | Magic Eraser | Use to erase similarly colored areas | E |
![]() | Gradient | Use to create linear, radial or angle blends between colors. | G |
![]() | Paint Bucket | Fill similarly colored areas with color | N |
![]() | Blur | Use to blur hard edges in an image | R |
![]() | Sharpen | Use to sharpen soft edges in an image | O |
![]() | Type | Create type on an image | T |
![]() | Eyedropper | Sample colors in an image | I |
![]() | Hand | Move an image within its window | H |
![]() | Zoom | Magnify and reduce the view of an image | Z |