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title: 'Controls sidebar'
linkTitle: 'Controls sidebar'
weight: 8
description: 'Overview of available functions on the controls sidebar of the annotation tool.'
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## Navigation
**Navigation block** - contains tools for moving and rotating images.
|Icon |Description |
|-- |-- |
||`Cursor` (`Esc`)- a basic annotation pedacting tool. |
||`Move the image`- a tool for moving around the image without
the possibility of editing.|
||`Rotate`- two buttons to rotate the current frame
a clockwise (`Ctrl+R`) and anticlockwise (`Ctrl+Shift+R`).
You can enable `Rotate all images` in the settings to rotate all the images in the job|
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## Zoom
**Zoom block** - contains tools for image zoom.
|Icon |Description |
|-- |-- |
||`Fit image`- fits image into the workspace size.
Shortcut - double click on an image|
||`Select a region of interest`- zooms in on a selected region.
You can use this tool to quickly zoom in on a specific part of the frame.|
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## Shapes
**Shapes block** - contains all the tools for creating shapes.
|Icon |Description |Links to section |
|-- |-- |-- |
||`AI Tools`|[AI Tools](/docs/manual/advanced/ai-tools/)|
||`OpenCV`|[OpenCV](/docs/manual/advanced/opencv-tools/)|
||`Rectangle`|[Shape mode](/docs/manual/basics/shape-mode-basics/); [Track mode](/docs/manual/basics/track-mode-basics/);
[Drawing by 4 points](/docs/manual/advanced/annotation-with-rectangles/)|
||`Polygon`|[Annotation with polygons](/docs/manual/advanced/annotation-with-polygons/); [Track mode with polygons](/docs/manual/advanced/annotation-with-polygons/track-mode-with-polygons/)|
||`Polyline`|[Annotation with polylines](/docs/manual/advanced/annotation-with-polylines/)|
||`Points`|[Annotation with points](/docs/manual/advanced/annotation-with-points/)|
||`Ellipses`|[Annotation with ellipses](/docs/manual/advanced/annotation-with-ellipses/)|
||`Cuboid`|[Annotation with cuboids](/docs/manual/advanced/annotation-with-cuboids/)|
||`Tag`|[Annotation with tags](/docs/manual/advanced/annotation-with-tags/)|
||`Open an issue`|[Review](/docs/manual/advanced/review/) (available only in review mode)|
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## Edit
**Edit block** - contains tools for editing tracks and shapes.
|Icon |Description |Links to section |
|-- |-- |-- |
||`Merge Shapes`(`M`) - starts/stops the merging shapes mode. |[Track mode (basics)](/docs/manual/basics/track-mode-basics/)|
||`Group Shapes` (`G`) - starts/stops the grouping shapes mode.|[Shape grouping](/docs/manual/advanced/shape-grouping/)|
||`Split` - splits a track. |[Track mode (advanced)](/docs/manual/advanced/track-mode-advanced/)|
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