Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Painting Tools (:






















  1. Rectangle Select
You can use this tool to define a rectangle or square area that you want o select.
  1. Move Selected Pixels
You can use this tool to move pixels that are already selected by using different selection tools.
  1. Lasso Select
You can use this tool to define free form selection area.
  1. Move Selection
You can use this tool to move the selected area without affecting the pixels that are selected.
  1. Ellipse Select
This tool is very much like the rectangle select tool, but it can be used to define ellipse or circle selection areas.
  1. Zoom
This tool can be used to enlarge and minimise various parts of the canvas or the whole canvas.
  1. Magic Wand
You can use this tool to select areas of the similar colour.
  1. Text Tool
You can use this tool to add text onto a selected area on your canvas. 
  1. Paintbrush
This tool is automatically chosen when you use paint and can be used to draw free from images on your canvas.
  1. Eraser
You can use this tool to rub out various parts on your canvas.
  1. Pencil
You can use this tool the active layer pixel-by-pixel.
  1. Colour Picker
You can use this tool to transfer a colour pixel by pixel into either the primary or secondary colour chosen use the mouses left and right click.
  1. Clone Stamp
You can use this tool to copy pixels in the same layer or in-between layers.
  1. Recolor Tool
You can use this tool to change one colour with another.
  1. Paint Bucket
You can use this tool to fill in areas that are of the same colour with another colour in the same area.
  1. Line / Curve Tool
You can use this tool if you want to draw straight/curved lines.
  1. Rectangle
You can use this tool to draw rectangles or square shapes.
  1. Rounded Rectangle
This tool is very much like the rectangle tool and can be used to draw rounded rectangles and squares.
  1. Ellipse
Like the rectangle tool you can use it to draw ellipses and circles.
  1. Freeform Shape
You can use this tool to draw a shape with a free form outline or an irregular shape.
  1. Tolerance Slider
You can use this tool to define how the magic wand, recolour tool and paint bucket operate. It can control how similar colours change. A tolerance of 0% means that only colours that are exactly the same as you chose will be changed. A tolerance of 100% means that the colour you chose and colours that a similar too it will be chosen. The default value is 50%. (Example: if you wanted a purple part of the picture to be turned red and the tolerance was set to 0% then only everything purple will be change, if the tolerance was at 100% then colours that are purple and a shade of purple will get changed.)
  1. Colour Display
You can use this to be able to see what your primary and secondary colours are. It also allows you to rest the primary and secondary colours back to black and white as well as swapping the colours of the primary and secondary colours.


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