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Rectangular Marquee Used for making rectangular,
elliptical, or single row selections.
Lasso Used for choosing the polygonal, magnetic or
regular lasso tool.
Crop Tool Used fro cropping image borders.
Airbrush Used for painting; imitates commercial
airbrush.
Clone stamp Used for painting with copied image data;
includes pattern stamp: used for painting with patterns.
Eraser Used for removing portions of images; act like a
paintbrush in reverse. Includes background eraser: erases the color on which
you first click, while leaving other colors untouched; and magic eraser: erases
to transparency on the active layer
Blur Used for retouching; hardens or softens the edges
of an image; sharpen tool: increases contrast of an image; smudge tool: does
the opposite.
Path component selection Will select any path component,
including one that is part of several other components.
Pen Used for creating, and editing paths; includes
freeform pen: used for drawing vector lines and shapes; and magnetic pen:
tracing tool, which snaps to distinct edges, as you drag along the outline of
an existing object.
Notes Used for attaching text, and audio notes to files;
works like post-it notes. 
Hand Moves the image around like a scroll bar, or paging
up or down, but it works in any direction.
Foreground color Chooses foreground and background
colors.
Default colors Restores foreground and background to
black and white.
Standard/Quick Mask Converts a selection into a mask
that can be edited with any of the painting tools.
Screen mode Used for selecting screen mode.
Jump to Jumps to ImageReady and back to PhotoShop.
Move Moves contents of selections or layers.
Magic Wand Selects all pixels that are the same color as
the one you click on.
Slice Divides images into independent areas; includes
slice select: cuts images into rectangular sections.
Paintbrush Used for painting foreground, background and
lines; includes pencil: used to draw hard-edged lines, as oppose to the softer
line of the paintbrush.
History brush Paints from an earlier, or different image
onto the current version of the image; includes art history brush: copies data
from the version you select in the history palette. 
Gradient Add or edit color blends; includes paint
bucket: ads or changes fill colors. 
Dodge Used to lighten tones; includes burn tool:
darkens; sponge: changes image saturation.
Type tool Adds type to images.
Rectangle shape Creates paths in geometric shapes:
rounded rectangle; ellipse; polygon; line; and custom shape.
Eyedropper Used to find color values and choose colors.
Zoom Changes the magnification of an image.
Switch colors Changes foreground and background colors.