In PSP, the convention is that another icon bar is called the - tool bar. It is the one which has a button corresponding to each item in the menu bar. And in that sense, that icon bar is unnecessary (and I switch it off, myself). This bar, here, is much more useful, and it does in fact refer to the various tools you can use in the program. So then, this is - the 'toolbar' - in PSP; or more properly called the, Tool Palette, in the help file (to differentiate it from - tool 'bar').

There are 22 tools in all, shown on the Tool Palette. In the table below, and just to the right of each button, is the shortcut key used to select each tool, as well. Click on the orange plus sign, below the shortcut key, to read more about that tool:

The arrow just moves the image around if it's too large for the image window. You could just use the scroll bars on the window, as well.

The magnifying glass is used quite a lot. Zooms in by left click, and back out with right click. You can get back to normal size, or some set variant, using View on the menu bar, as well.

Image Deform tool. Works on layers (try on menu bar, Layers, Promote to Layer, if the deform button isn't 'on'). Resizes or shrinks, or rotates, an image without modifying the original image dimensions. Likely a throwback to earlier versions, now that other methods are preferred. Still, useful for quick interactive resizing and rotation of image. Double click on the icon to bring up the Deform menu.

Crop. Define cropping rectangle, and move it around. Shift-R then performs the crop. Could use the rectangular selection tool, below. But that can't be moved around once defined.

Mover, or image slider. Works on layers, and moves the whole image around over a transparent background. The arrow worked when the image window had scroll bars, so you wouldn't have to use the scroll bars. The mover works on layers, regardless of how the layer is sized in the image window.

Rectangular selection. Used very often. Displays what some call 'marching ants' around a rectangular section of the image that you create by clicking and then dragging to complete the rectangle. Standard select tool in any paint/raster program. In fact, in PSP, more than just a rectangle can be selected.

The lasso, or freehand selection (with a couple of options - see the option window after selecting lasso). Select an area just by holding down the mouse button and tracing out some contour. Let go of the mouse button, and where you started and ended are automatically connected.

The 'magic' wand. Important auto edge detect selection tool. Five match options, along with tolerance and feathering.

Color picker. Also called, Eye Dropper. Copies the color on the image, at the tip of the 'dropper', to either of the Style boxes. Left click for foreground/top Style box, and right for the bottom/fill Style box.

Brush. Freehand line drawing. Many possibilities on the options menu.

Clone brush. All sorts of options. Basically, right click on image, or somewhere on any other open image, to establish what to copy. Then hold down left mouse button to copy wherever you like.

Color replacer (shortcut: comma key). Using any number of blend options, and holding down the mouse button as you drag the cursor over the image, replaces the lower Style, or background, with the upper Style. Sort of a manual flood fill.

Whole bunch of different sorts of ways to retouch the image, on the options menu. Used quite a lot for small touch up, blending and smoothing. Soften or sharpen, smudge or lighten, and so on.

Auto scratch remover, likely holdover from previous version of PSP. Interesting artistic effects. Now the Effects, Noise filters, or the Scratch Removal under Effects, Enhance Photo would likely be preferred, though this is an easy tool to use and might well serve better in some situations.

Eraser. And because of blend and opacity settings, can be used just to fade portions of the image, and much else.

Tubes (shortcut key: period). Painted, or 'sprayed' on, small clip art graphics, with spread and scale set on the options menu. Very interesting fill surfaces and effects.

Spray paint. Airbrush. Given various settings, behaves similarly to airbrush.

Flood fill. Fills in selected area (or whole image if nothing selected) with either foreground Style (left click) or background (right click). Have to set the color, gradient or image beforehand, of course, for that Styles box. And there are quite a few blend options and other things in the options window, as well.

Text. Press button, click on an area on the image, and the text menu comes up. All sorts of options, from kerning and leading, to use of foreground as border and background as fill, and many other things.

Line drawing. Where the Bezier curves are found. Also point to point and freehand drawing.

Shapes. Not merely rectangles, but all sorts of scalable 2D clip art. Can be set as a raster image. Also can be laid down as a vector graphic. PSP as vector illustration program.

Vector select. If the shapes, above, are made 2D, vector graphics, then pressing this button allows you to go back and select each vector graphic by clicking on it. You can then reshape and resize it, by clicking on the little box 'handles' that appear.