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# Tools pallete

The most important palette in Pixelmator is the Tools palette. This is where you choose tools that let you select, paint, move, edit, type, sample, and view images.
cmd ⌘ + 1 Tools
cmd ⌘ + 2 Tool Options
This is a list of image editing tools available in Pixelmator.
To use a tool, do one of the following:

• Click a tool in the Tools palette.
• Use a keyboard shortcut to access a tool.

When you click on a tool, its icon becomes bigger so you can see which tool is active.

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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Foreground and Background color.
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Switch between Standard mode and Quick Mask.
Click the Full-screen button to switch between window and full-screen modes.
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Tool icon | Tool name | Tool description | Shortcut
--- | --- | --- | ---
| 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