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7 - Five Tools on Top of the Basic Panel

Look in the upper-right corner of Lightroom, and make sure you're in the Develop module.

We're now going to look at the five tools located in the top of the Basic panel.

Five Tools

Here they are.

The following features are common to the five tools.

The tools create overlays showing where the tool was used.

The overlays allow you to locate previous editing, so you can refine it.

Depending on the tool, the overlays are circles, ovals, lines, and pins.

Pins are a circle with something in the middle.

An active pin has a black dot, an inactive pin has a gray dot.

If needed, you'll do the following.

1) Click on the tool.

2) Click the overlay that needs some more editing.

3) Refine the previous editing.

The overlays may become distracting.

To toggle between showing and hiding the overlays, do one of the following.

• Press h.

• Select an overlay preference in the tool bar.

You can turn off the effects created by the tool.

Toggle the icon in the lower-left corner of the panel on and off.

To delete a single overlay, i.e. the editing the overlay represents, do the following.

1) Click on the overlay.

2) Press Delete.

Reset at the bottom of the tool panel.

Click Reset in the tool panel to remove the editing done with a tool.

Reset in the lower-right corner of your screen. Don't click it!

Don't click Reset in the lower-right corner of your screen.

If you do, all editing is removed.

Click Close in the tool panel to close the panel.

Let's look at the five tools.