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Almost all tools can be summarized with one word [1]: Marquee, Move, Lasso, *Magic Wand, Heal, Paintbrush, Clone, Stencil, Eraser, Paintbucket, Smudge, Dodge/Burn, Path, Text, Pen, Shapes, Hand, Eyedrop, Hand, Zoom.

[1] https://annhjelle.wordpress.com/assignments-2/assign-12-spac...

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Aren't those are summaries of the icons, not the tools? I'm struggling to come up with a concise and accurate way of describing the abstract actions of magic wand and heal, they might as well have been called foo and bar. I'd argue that you need to know what the icon means to know what the tool does - since you come across the icon first - and so would tautologically know what icon to look for to get the tool you want.

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