Tools

You can use various tools to modify and enhance photos.

Steps

To arrange tool menus in two columns

1. Click the Expand icon on Tool Box or double click on the top of the Tool Box in one column.
   
2. Check each icon on Tool Box in two columns.
3. Click the Collapse icon on Tool Box or double click on the top of the Tool Box to make it again in one column.

To select part of a photo

1. Click the Select Tool icon on Tool Box.
2. Drag the mouse on the photo to make a selection area.
3. Click the Crop or Clone icon or another icon on Tool Box to carry on the action that you want to do.

To move the photo

1. Zoom in the photo to view part of it in details but not be possible to view an entire area of a photo.
2. Click the Hand Tool icon on Tool Box.
3. Move the mouse in any direction while clicking on the photo.

To pick a color

1. Click the Eyedropper Tool icon on Tool Box.
2. Move the Spuit mouse on the color that you want to pick.
3. Click the Spuit mouse to acquire the color.

More Information

Tools

Icon	Name	Description
	Select Tool	Select a desired area to paint or apply effects or do any other actions. The selected area in the photo is marked by the dotted line. If you perform actions on a layer or channel, the content in the layer or channel you are working on will be selected. The content in other layers or channels will not be selected.
	Transform	Display the target to edit as a small rectangle or dotted line. This cannot be used in the background layer of the background window.
	Crop Tool	Select the area to crop.
	Hand Tool	Move a photo by dragging the pointer. If the photo size is magnified and the full photo is not visible, then select [Hand] tool and drag the pointer on the photo to move the photo. The photo location will not be moved, but the part of the photo that is visible on the screen is changed.
	Brush	Open up various types of brushes that can be used to paint or draw figures. Click or drag multiple times to repeatedly use the same effect.
	Eraser	Erase undesired areas in your photo. Deleted pixels are filled with the background color in background images and filled with transparent color in other layers.
	Clone	Copy parts of your photo to another location or photo.
	Pattern Brush	Paint a photo with the selected pattern by using a brush.
	Effect Brush	Add effects to the desired part of your photo. You can click or drag the same location multiple times to repeatedly use the same effect.
	Shape	Draw various shapes.
	Paint	Fill the pixels having a similar color as the location clicked with the foreground color.
	Pattern Paint	Fill the pixels having a similar color as the location clicked with a pattern.
	Gradient	Fill a photo with gradations, which means a gradual change from one color to another. Drag to create a different gradient depending on the selected shape.
	Text	Add text to your photo. Click on the location where you want to enter text, and start typing to add text to it.
	Pen Tool	Create a shape used in photo editing works.
	Eyedropper Tool	Display or select the color of a pixel in a photo. You can place the eye dropper on the pixel that has your desired color, and click to select the pixel's color.
	Change Color	Select the color to be used. Two boxes are overlapped. The top left box shows the foreground color while the bottom right box shows the background color. If a single color is used in work, the foreground color is used. The background color is used to fill a photo when you use the Shape tool or fill an area deleted by the Eraser tool in the background layer. If you want to change the foreground color (or background color), click on the color.
	Undo	Cancel Foxit Studio Photo actions on the selected photo, one by one.
	Redo	Re-execute actions canceled by using [Undo] tool, one by one.
	Arrange Window	Arrange the windows that compose the Foxit Studio Photo screen. All windows will be moved to their default locations

See Also

New, Shape, Layers, Options, Adjust Color, Information, Color Palette

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