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Here is the paint toolbar, with the names of all the available
tools:(moving downwards)
- Selection Tools - for regular and irregular areas - select an
area of the image to do something to including copy, erase, flip,
or modify in some way.
- Eraser tool - erases part of the image (changes foreground
color to background color)
- Bucket tool - fills in an enclosed part of the image with the
foreground/background color.
- Eyedropper tool - chooses a color and turns on the bucket
(fill) tool.
- Zoom tool - zoom in or out to see different magnifications of
the image.
- Pencil tool - draw free hand lines with a single line width
- Brush tool - like the pencil tool but with a variety of brush
strokes available. This is more useful than the pencil tool.
- Airbrush tool - draws a loose pattern of dots to give a light
fill effect. A limited number of patterns are available.
- Text tool - places text on your image of various sizes and
typefaces.
- Line tool - draws straight lines of various strokes
(thickness).
- Curve tool - draws simple curves with up to 2 control points
(besides the ends) of various strokes (thickness).
- Rectangle tool - draws square/rectangles with various fill
characteristics.
- Polygon tool - draws polygons with various fill
characteristics.
- Ellipse tool - draw ellipses/circles with various fill
characteristics.
- Rounded Rectangle tool - just like the rectangle tool but
draws rectangles/squares with rounded corners.
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2001-07-19