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P. WhittPractical Paint.NEThttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7283-1_3

3. An Overview of the Paint.NET Tools

Phillip Whitt1  
(1)
Columbus, GA, USA
 

Paint.NET offers a modest yet capable set of tools to help you with your image editing and creation projects. In this chapter, we’ll take a look at the tools available to you in Paint.NET and how they work.

The topics covered in this chapter are

  • Accessing the Tools

  • The Selection Tools

  • The Move Tools

  • The View Tools

  • The Fill Tools

  • The Drawing Tools

  • The Photo Tools

  • The Text and Shape Tools

  • Chapter Conclusion

Accessing the Tools

Tools can be accessed from either the Tools Window or the Tools Menu. As was mentioned in Chapter

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