Painting Tools

Our new activity is exploring the tools of paint net. Here is a screen shot of all of the tools on paint net.

We had to use the "Snipping Tool" and snip each of the tools and explain what each tool does. Sir wants us to explore each software so we can know what each tool can do, and it will help us in our project on animations.

What each tool does:

Selection Tools

Rectangle Select

You may use this to define a rectangle or square selection region.

Lasso Select

You may use this to draw a freeform selection region.

Ellipse Select

You may use this to draw an ellipse or circle selection region.

Magic Wand

You may use this to select areas of the active layer that are similar in color.  

Move Tools

Move Selected Pixels

You are able to more things by using this tool.



Move Selection

you are able to move selected things without moving the

View Tools



Zoom

This tool can be used to zoom in and zoom out.

Pan
Using this tool you can scroll, or pan through the image.

Fill Tools

Paint Bucket
This tool  is useful to fill in areas with colour.

Gradient

this tool allows you to draw gradients (meaning blending in colours).

Drawing Tools

Paint Brush

this is useful to kids that want to draw easily.

Eraser

you may use this tool to erase areas in the image that you don't want.

Pencil

this allows you to edit the layer pixel by pixel.

Photo Tools

  

Colour Picker
you can use this tool to pick up any colour and use it as your primary or secondary colour.

  

Clone Stamp

this tool is useful for copying regions.

 

 

Recolour Tool

this tool lets you replace one colour with another.

Text and Shape Tools

Text tool
with this tool you can place text on the image

Line/Curve tool

you can draw straight lines and curves with this tool.

Rectangle

this can be used to draw rectangles and squares.

Round Rectangle

this can be used to draw rounded rectangles or rounded squares.

Ellipse

can use this to draw circles.

Freeform Shape

this can be used to draw a shape with a freeform outline.

Thats all the tools on Paint. Net

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