Canvas Tools

The 'Canvas Tools' palette provides the ability to select the current interactive tool active in the Canvas workspace.

The palette also makes available all the available settings to the currently active canvas workspace tool.

To set the active Canvas workspace tool press the corresponding tool icon button.

The ability to quickly switch between different Canvas tools is provided by custom Keyboard Shortcuts.

The active canvas tool settings can be displayed or hidden by clicking the active canvas tool settings label below the canvas tool icon buttons.

Canvas Tool Buttons

Use the 'Detailed Information...' link in the below selections to view help about using each of the available Canvas Tools:

Hand Tool caption The 'Hand' tool provides ways to interactively navigate 'Panning' the Canvas viewport. Detailed Information... Paint Brush Tool caption Paint Brush-strokes in the selected Canvas Layer by dragging in the Canvas Viewport. Detailed Information... Fill Bucket Tool caption Flood areas of the current Canvas Layer of similar colours by pressing in the Canvas Viewport. Detailed Information... Eyedropper Tool caption Select an existing colour in the Canvas by pressing in the Canvas Viewport. Detailed Information... Free Transform Tool caption Interactively Move, Rotate and Scale the currently selected Canvas Layer(s) or selected area by dragging in the Canvas Viewport. Detailed Information... Rectangle Selection Tool caption Select an rectangular area of the current Canvas Layer(s) by dragging in the Canvas Viewport. Detailed Information... Magic Wand Selection Tool caption Select areas of similar colours of the current Canvas Layer(s) by pressing in the Canvas Viewport. Detailed Information...

Zoom Tool caption The 'Zoom' tool provides ways to interactively navigate 'Zooming' the Canvas viewport. Detailed Information... Eraser Brush Tool caption Erase with Brush-strokes in the selected Canvas Layer by dragging in the Canvas Viewport. Detailed Information... Gradient Tool caption Gradient colour fill the selected Canvas Layer by dragging in the Canvas Viewport. Detailed Information... Move Tool caption Interactively move the currently selected Canvas Layer(s) or selected area by dragging in the Canvas Viewport. Detailed Information... Distort Transform Tool caption Interactively Distort and Move the currently selected Canvas Layer(s) or selected area by dragging in the Canvas Viewport. Detailed Information... Lasso Selection Tool caption Select an arbitrary area of the current Canvas Layer(s) by dragging in the Canvas Viewport. Detailed Information...