The most important palette in Pixelmator is the Tools palette. This is where you choose tools that let you select, paint, move, edit, type, sample, and view images.
• Click a tool in the Tools palette.
• Use a keyboard shortcut to access a tool.
Tool Options
When working with tools, you may want to use the Tool Options palette that allows you to customize the way your tool works.
Learn more
Foreground and Background color.
Switch between
Standard mode and
Quick Mask.
Click the Full-screen button to switch between window and full-screen modes.| Tool icon | Tool name | Tool description | Shortcut |
|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Move | Move layers and selections | V |
![]() | Rectangular Marquee | Make rectangular selections | M |
![]() | Elliptical Marquee | Make elliptical selections | M |
![]() | Lasso | Make freehand selections | L |
![]() | Polygonal Lasso | Make straight edged selections | L |
![]() | Magic Wand | Use to select similarly colored areas | W |
![]() | Slice | Use to divide an image into smaller sections | K |
![]() | Crop | Use to trim images | C |
![]() | Pencil | Paint hard-edged strokes | P |
![]() | Brush | Paint brush strokes | B |
![]() | Clone Stamp | Paint with a sample of an image | S |
![]() | Eraser | Erase portions of your image | E |
![]() | Magic Eraser | Use to erase similarly colored areas | E |
![]() | Gradient | Use to create linear, radial or angle blends between colors. | G |
![]() | Paint Bucket | Fill similarly colored areas with color | N |
![]() | Blur | Use to blur hard edges in an image | R |
![]() | Sharpen | Use to sharpen soft edges in an image | O |
![]() | Type | Create type on an image | T |
![]() | Eyedropper | Sample colors in an image | I |
![]() | Hand | Move an image within its window | H |
![]() | Zoom | Magnify and reduce the view of an image | Z |