The Tool Box — your Most Important Tool

The tool box is a little rectangular box found in your graphics editor work area. It contains most of the tools that you need for editing and designing your graphics. It is therefore the most important tool, and the one you will be using most frequently. It is therefore a very good idea for you to know it.

It is usually found on the left hand side of your work editor work area and is easy to identify. But in case you are still in the dark, I have taken snap shots of the work areas of MS Paint and Paint.net below to show you what I am talking about. Take a look.

Here is the tool box for MS Paint (encircled):

And here is the box in paint.net:

You can actually shift the little box around and place it in any position you fancy:

This box actually contains the tools that you will use to create and edit your graphics. It is more or less like a pencil case, where the artist keeps his tools. Whenever he needs to use a pencil or an eraser, he removes it, uses it, and when he is done, he places it back.

Let us take a closer look at the box and see what tools are actually at your disposal.

Here is a close up look at the box:

A future article will discuss some of these tools in detail. Note that these are the most basic tools that most graphic editors contain.

As for now, I recommend that you open your graphic editor and get familiar with your box of tools and the tools it contains. You will find out that once you know how to use your tools so well, you are capable of designing the best graphics.

All the best.

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