Paint Tools

1. Rectangle Select
To confine a square or rectangle of a selected region.

2. Move Selected Pixels
To move pixels that are currently selected as a result of using the various Selection Tools.

3. Lasso Select
To draw a freeform selected region.

4. Move Selection
To move a selected part of the image without affecting the pixels that are selected.

5. Ellipse Select
To draw an ellipse or a circle on a selected area.

6. Zoom
This tool can be used to zoom in (left click), zoom out (right click), or zoom the whole canvas around a particular region (draw a rectangle).

7. Magic Wand
To select areas of the acitve layer that are similar in colour.

8. Text Tool
This tool is used to put any text on a image.

9. Paintbrush
This tool is selected by default when you start Paint.NET, and is useful for many kinds of freeform drawing.

10. Eraser
This tool is used for erasing any part of the image.

11. Pencil
The pencil allows you to edit the active layer pixel-by-pixel.

12. Colour Picker
The tool, colour picker allows you to pick up a color from the active layer and set it as the current primary or secondary color.

13. Clone Stamp
The clone stamp is used on layers, or within in layers to copy regions of pixels on it.

14. Recolour Tool
This tool is used for replacing one colour with another.

15. Paint Bucket
Paint Bucket is used for filling in areas of similar colour with a different colour.

16. Line/Curve Tool
To draw curved or straight lines.

17. Rectangle
This tool is used to draw squares and rectangles.

18. Rounded Rectangle
This tool is used to form rounded rectangles and rounded squares.

19. Freeform Shape
This tool is used to create a shape with a freeform outline.

20. Tolerance Slider
The tolerance tool controls how similar colours must be when being operated on by these tools.

21. Colour Display
The colour display allows you to show what primary and secondary colours are and also it allows quick buttons for resetting to black and white, and for swapping the primary and secondary colors.