Graphics Programs Reference
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Figure 1-12. When you put your cursor over a section of the toolbox that has subtools nested with
the visible tools, you see these minute arrows next to the tool icons. Here, for example, you can see
that all the tools in the Enhance section except the Red Eye Removal tool have more tools grouped
with them. Unlike in old versions of Elements, you can't right-click a tool's icon or hold the mouse
down to see the subtools, but you can cycle through them by Alt-clicking/Option-clicking the
group's current Tools panel icon repeatedly, or just by looking in the Tool Options area at the bot-
tom of the Elements window. Incidentally, whether or not you see the category names (like the En-
hance and Draw labels shown here) depends on your screen resolution. If your screen is so short
that the Tools panel would be cut off if the names were displayed, then Elements just doesn't show
them.
To activate a tool, click its icon in either the Tools panel (if the icon is displayed there) or in
the Tool Options area (if the tool is grouped with the currently active tool). Each tool comes
with its own collection of options, as shown in
Figure 1-13
. The Tools panel remembers the
last tool you used, so if you choose to use one of the nested tools, the next time you'll see the
icon for
that
tool in the panel rather than the one for the tool that was there when you first
started Elements. This may seem complicated, but after a while you'll get pretty good at re-
membering where each tool lives.
