PSP7 Basic Class:  Do not get overwhelmed with the number of pages to this tutorial.  There are a ton of screen captures which is why there are so many pages.  Not every tool on the Palette will have a lesson assignment.  The Lesson Assignments are listed on a separate page all together.  Complete instructions will be given on that page on how to send each of those lessons in.

Originally I was going to do both a Tool Palette tutorial and a Tool Options tutorial.  But since they go together like pork & beans, I'm not going to separate them.  You need to work with both at the same time.  Every time you click on a tool on the Tool Palette, you need to have your Tool Options window up so you can change settings, styles, types, etc.  So on just about every page in this tutorial you are going to see the Tool Options window also.

Your Tool Palette has 22 tools on it, and you will use just about every one of them.  The only two that I don't use are the Color Replacer and the Scratch Remover.  If anyone else has found them useful, please let me know.

I don't really use the Arrow tool that much either.  I am usually picking up images with the Selection tool active.  In fact, the only time I do use the Arrow tool is when one of my images gets stuck way over on the side of the workspace and I have to try and move it back into the workspace.  Another tool I don't use often is the Crop.  Normally I am selecting what I want to crop with the Selection tool.  Then I go to the top toolbar, Images and then crop.  But it can be an easy shortcut for that feature.  The Zoom tool doesn't need any explaining since it's for making your image in the workspace smaller or larger.  Left click to make larger, right click to make smaller.

The Arrow, Zoom, Deform, Crop, Mover, Selection, Freehand Selection, Magic Wand, Eye Dropper, Paint Brush, Clone Brush, Color Replacer, Retouch, Scratch Remover, Eraser, Picture Tube, Air Brush, Flood Fill, Text, Draw Tool, Preset Shapes, Object Selector/Node Edit.

What I want to do is to spend more time explaining some of the more used tools for graphic work.  There are 16 sections for these tools.  Not 17?  That's because I combined the two Selection tools as one section.  These are all basics looks at the tools and what they are used for.  Since so much of what is covered for the Paintbrush also applies to the Airbrush, read the Paintbrush first because I added more details there.  And be sure to look over the section for the Retouch tool.