Photoshop Elements Most Commonly Used Tools and Tasks

Tool Icon	Name	Tool Function
	Move	Used for moving the contents of selections or layers
	Zoom	Used to change the image's magnification
	Hand	Used to move the view of an image
	Eyedropper	Used for finding color values, and for choosing colors
	Rectangular Marquee	Used for selecting rectangular and elliptical areas
	Magnetic Lasso	Used for selecting areas with a clearly defined edge
	Magic Wand	Used for selecting all pixels that are the same color as the one you click on
	Selection Brush	Used for painting inside a selected area
	Text Type	Used for adding text to images
	Crop	Used for cropping images
	Cookie Cutter	Used to cut a layer into a shape, ideally for superimposing shape against a background
	Red Eye Removal	Used to remove the red in eyes often caused by flashes
	Healing Brush	Used to fix blemishes and imperfections
	Clone Stamp	Used for painting with copied image data
	Pencil	Used for drawing hard edged lines
	Eraser	Used for removing portions of an image
	Brush	Used for painting
	Paint Bucket	Used for adding and changing fill color
	Gradient	Used adding and editing gradient color blends
	Custom Shape	Used for creating custom shape objects
	Blur	Used to apply blurring with a brush
	Sponge	Used to change an image’s color saturation