Burn Tool: It allows you to darken parts of your image, while keeping the photo natural. You can adjust the strength, size and whether it affects the highlights, mid tones or shadows.
Sponge Tool: This one just allows you to saturate or desaturate parts of your image. It can be helpful for naturally bringing out or not certain colors of the picture.
Clone Stamp: You can take a sample from part of your image and essentially stamp it in another place with this tool. With it you can retouch images by taking out or adding things to the picture.
Versions: This one is really cool because if you make a mistake which a simple "command-Z" can not fix you can use this tool. It keeps ever different version of your image and lets you access all of them in a timeline, then you can just pick the one you want to restore your image to.
Full Screen: The title discribes this one. It just lets you edit and use in pixelmator with full screen.
Auto Save: Again, the title discribes what this tool does. Pixelmator will auto save all of your work so you don't have to manually press "command-S" every now and then.
Getting Pixelmator: This one isn't really a tool, but just how to get Pixelmator. You can buy it in the Mac App Store and it will download to your applications folder.
Dodge Tool: This is the opposite of the burn tool. The Dodge tool allows you too brighten specific parts of your image Again, with it you can choose to adjust the highlights, mid tones and shadows.
Smudge Tool: This one I find really cool and helpful. What you can do with it is smear parts of the image to make it look smoother.
Heal Tool: I really wish I had this tool for the assignment last week and I think its pretty cool looking. It is essentially a large clone stamp tool and it seems to work seamlessly so you can take out large or small parts of you picture.
Eyedropper Tool: With this you can sample a certain color from your picture. With that color you can then go on and paint.
Red Eye Tool: This is a pretty simple tool. All it does is get rid of the red eye which sometimes happens when taking a picture with flash. It will automatically fix it or you can manually by using the tool over the eye.
Layer Group: This tool allows you to group certain layers to make them easier to manage. Once you have them as a group you can edit them as if they were a single group.
Crop Tool: Like a normal cropping tool this one just allows you to crop out different parts of an image. When you are copping, the tool also uses lines to show the rule of thirds.
Exporting Images: To export an image go to file>export. From there you can choose which type of format you want and then just click "export".
Opening Images: There are a few different ways to open an image in pixelmator. The first is to just go in to file>open and choose the correct photo. Another is to just drag an image from your desktop straight into the pixelmator app in your dock.
Polygonal Lasso Tool: With this you can just select parts of your image using straight lines. To use it just open it in the tools palette and start clicking to make the points for your selection.
Magic Wand Tool: You can select the backgrounds of images with this tool. Just select it and use it by clicking and dragging outward
Marquee Tool: With this one you can select round areas of your picture. It can be good for selecting eyes, balls or really anything roundish.
Lasso Tool. Like the "Polygonal Lasso Tool". Although, with this one you can select freely, instead of just using straight lines for selection. It can be good for choosing parts of the image which are more gagged and rough.
Gradient Tool: You can create a gradient from one color to another with this. You can do a variety of different gradients with it, like from the center out, diagonal, side to side, etc.
Remove Backgrounds: You can do this by using the magic eraser tool. This can be helpful if you just want a single object without any kind of background.
-Grant William Howard Snodgrass
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