The image shown on the screen is a collection of tools that are primarily used to apply, or manually manipulate, color in an image. This set of tools belongs to the second group.

The Airbrush tool shown on the screen is used to apply color in a soft or feathered stroke. This tool is helpful in creating shadows, highlights or graffiti painting.

The Paintbrush tool is used to apply color in a uniform width with either soft or hard edges. This tool is useful for free hand drawing, image blending and blending colors.

The Rubber Stamp tool is shown on the screen. It copies the pixels in one part of an image for application in another part of an image. It finds its use in touching up an image, removing an unwanted portion or object or for duplicating part of an image.

The History Brush paints back previous image edits in conjunction with the History palette. The Art History Brush allows for more creative painting and effects, utilizing historical states of an image as a basis for each stroke.

The Eraser tool along with the items of its submenu is shown on the screen. It either applies the background color or converts underlying pixels to full transparency (no color). Thus giving rise to an erasing effect. It is useful for refining the edges of an image.

The Line tool applies color in a uniform width. It is also used to draw arrows; and also change the shape of the arrowheads. The Pencil tool, located under the Line tool is a free hand version of the Line tool.

The Blur tool comes with three options: Blur, Sharpen and Smudge. The tool with its option is shown on the screen. This tool is used to alter the focus of a selected area of an image though it is not as precise as the blurring and sharpening filters.

The Dodge tool along with its three options of toning is shown on the screen. The three options are Dodge, Burn and Sponge. Using the Dodge tool we can effectively lighten an area on the image. Similarly, using the Burn tool, we can darken areas of an image. The Sponge tool alters the Gray level of the image.

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