Painting Tools (:

1. Rectangle Select

You can use this tool to define a rectangle or square area that you want o select.

2. Move Selected Pixels

You can use this tool to move pixels that are already selected by using different selection tools.

3. Lasso Select

You can use this tool to define free form selection area.

4. Move Selection

You can use this tool to move the selected area without affecting the pixels that are selected.

5. Ellipse Select

This tool is very much like the rectangle select tool, but it can be used to define ellipse or circle selection areas.

6. Zoom

This tool can be used to enlarge and minimise various parts of the canvas or the whole canvas.

7. Magic Wand

You can use this tool to select areas of the similar colour.

8. Text Tool

You can use this tool to add text onto a selected area on your canvas. 

9. Paintbrush

This tool is automatically chosen when you use paint and can be used to draw free from images on your canvas.

10. Eraser

You can use this tool to rub out various parts on your canvas.

11. Pencil

You can use this tool the active layer pixel-by-pixel.

12. 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.

13. Clone Stamp

You can use this tool to copy pixels in the same layer or in-between layers.

14. Recolor Tool

You can use this tool to change one colour with another.

15. Paint Bucket

You can use this tool to fill in areas that are of the same colour with another colour in the same area.

16. Line / Curve Tool

You can use this tool if you want to draw straight/curved lines.

17. Rectangle

You can use this tool to draw rectangles or square shapes.

18. Rounded Rectangle

This tool is very much like the rectangle tool and can be used to draw rounded rectangles and squares.

19. Ellipse

Like the rectangle tool you can use it to draw ellipses and circles.

20. Freeform Shape

You can use this tool to draw a shape with a free form outline or an irregular shape.

21. 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.)

22. 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.

Graphics Terms- Re-editied

animated gif:

An animation created by combining multiple GIF images in one file. The result is multiple images, displayed one after the other, that give the appearance of movement.

jpeg:

A set of standards and file format for compression of digital color images.

pixel:

Any of a number of very small picture elements that make up a picture, as on a visual display unit.

bmp:

In computer graphics, BMP stands for bit map, a file format for an image made up of dots or pixels.

 video card:
A circuit board fitted to a computer containing the necessary video memory and other electronics to provide a bitmap display.

fps (frames per second):

The unit of measurement of the frame rate(number of frames in an animation that are displayed everysecond) of a moving image.

frame:

A single one of a series of still transparent pictures forming a cinema, television or video film.

morph:

to transform (an image) by computer.

CPU:

central processing unit: the key component of a computer system, which contains the circuitry necessary to interpret and execute program instructions.

dpi:

dots per inch: a measure of the resolution of a typesetting machine, computer screen, etc.

resolution:

the degree of sharpness of a computer-generated image as measured by the number of dpi in a hard-copy printout or the number of pixels across and down on a display screen.

file extension:

The portion of a filename, following the final point, which indicates the kind of data stored in the file - the file type.

Compression:

Also called data compression. reduction of the storage space required for data by changing its format.

frame buffer:

Part of a video system in which an image is stored, pixel by pixel and which is used to refresh a raster image. A frame buffer holds one frame from a sequence of frames forming a moving image.

colour depth:

The number of bits of information stored per pixel of an image or displayed by a graphics adapter. The more bits there are, the more colours can be represented, but the more memory is required to store or display the image.

Crop:

To cut off, trim or mask the unwanted parts of image.

Mirror:

To reflect an image by flipping it on an axis.

(image flipped and moved to the left)

Flip: to turn an image on an axis.