Photoshop 6 Tool Palette

The marquee tools make rectangular, elliptical, single row, and single column selections.

The move tool moves selections, layers, and guides.

The lasso tools make freehand, polygonal (straight-edged), and magnetic (snap-to) selections.

The magic wand tool selects similarly colored areas.

The crop tool trims images.

The slice tool creates image slices and the slice selection tool selects slices.

The airbrush tool paints soft-edged strokes.

The paintbrush tool paints brush strokes.
The pencil tool paints hard-edged strokes.

The clone stamp tool paints with a sample of an image.
The pattern stamp tool paints with part of an image as a pattern.

The history brush tool paints a copy of the selected state or snapshot into the current image window.
The art history brush tool paints with stylized strokes that simulate the look of different paint styles, using a selected state or snapshot.

The eraser tool erases pixels and restores parts of an image to a previously saved state.
The background eraser tool erases areas to transparency by dragging.
The magic eraser tool erases solid-colored areas to transparency with a single click.

The gradient tools create straight-line, radial, angle, reflected, and diamond, blends between colors.
The paint bucket tool fills similarly colored areas with the foreground color.

The blur tool blurs hard edges in an image.
The sharpen tool sharpens soft edges in an image.
The smudge tool smudges data in an image.

The dodge tool lightens areas in an image.
The burn tool darkens areas in an image.
The sponge tool changes color saturation of an area.

The path selection tools make shape or segment selections showing anchor points, direction lines, and direction points.

The type tool creates type on an image.

The pen tools let you draw smooth-edged paths.

The custom shape tool makes customized shapes selected from the custom shape list.

The annotations tool makes notes and voice annotations that can be attached to an image.

The eyedropper tool samples colors in an image.
The measure tool measures distances, locations, and angles.

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