Move
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Scroll up Scrolls the picture up, both in magnify and normal mode. This hotkey cannot be removed. |
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Scroll down Scrolls the picture down, both in magnify and normal mode. This hotkey cannot be removed. |
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Scroll left Scrolls the picture to the left, both in magnify and normal mode. This hotkey cannot be removed. |
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Scroll right Scrolls the picture to the right, both in magnify and normal mode. This hotkey cannot be removed. |
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Faster scroll up Used to scroll upwards in the picture fast, either in magnify and normal mode. |
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Faster scroll down Used to scroll downwards in the picture fast, either in magnify and normal mode. |
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Faster scroll left Used to scroll to the left in the picture fast, either in magnify and normal mode. |
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Faster scroll right Used to scroll to the right in the picture fast, either in magnify and normal mode. |
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Slower scroll up Used to scroll upwards in the picture pixel by pixel, either in magnify and normal mode. |
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Slower scroll down Used to scroll downwards in the picture pixel by pixel, either in magnify andnormal mode. normal mode. |
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Slower scroll left Used to scroll to the left in the picture pixel by pixel, either in magnify and normal mode. |
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Slower scroll right Used to scroll to the right in the picture pixel by pixel, either in magnify and normal mode. |
Mouse emulation
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Move mouse cursor 1 pixel up Used to simulate a very small mouse deplacement upwards. Its very useful when you want a ultra-high precision. |
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Move mouse cursor 1 pixel down Used to simulate a very small mouse deplacement downwards. Its very useful when you want a ultra-high precision. |
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Move mouse cursor 1 pixel left Used to simulate a very small mouse deplacement to the left. Its very useful when you want a ultra-high precision. |
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Move mouse cursor 1 pixel right Used to simulate a very small mouse deplacement to the right. Its very useful when you want a ultra-high precision. |
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Simulate left mouse click Used to simulate a click with the left mouse button.. Its very useful when you want a ultra-high precision. |
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Simulate right mouse click Used to simulate a click with the right mouse button.. Its very useful when you want a ultra-high precision. |
Settings
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Settings Opens a menu which permits you to set the dimension of your picture, and to modify some parameters of the program. |
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Screen resolution menu Opens a menu where you can choose the dimensions of the screen in which you want to draw among the numerous X and SVGA proposed modes. |
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"Safety" resolution Set resolution to 320x200. This can be useful if you choosed a resolution that is not supported by your monitor and video card. Cannot be removed. |
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Show/hide option menu Switch the tool bar display on/off. This hot-key cannot be removed. |
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Show/hide cursor Switch the cursor display on/off. This only works on the "small cross" and "hand" cursors. |
Brush
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Set paintbrush to 1 pixel Useful when you want to use a "single-pixel-brush". |
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Paintbrush choice Opens a menu where you can choose a paintbrush out of 24 predefined ones. |
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Monochrome brush Turn your current user-defined brush into a single colored one. All non-transparent colors are set to current foreground color. |
Paint
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Undo (Oops!) Cancel the last action which modified the picture. This has no effect after a jump to the spare page, loading a picture or modifying its size. |
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Redo Redo the last undone action. This has no effect after a jump to the spare page, loading a picture or modifying its size. |
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Freehand drawing Set the drawing mode to the classical freehand one. |
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Switch freehand drawing mode Switch between the 3 ways to use freehand drawing. These modes are: continuous, discontinuous and point by point. |
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Continuous freehand drawing Switch directly to continuous freehand drawing mode. |
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Line Allows you to draw lines. |
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Knotted lines Allows you to draw linked lines. This mode can also be called "Polyline". |
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Spray Allows you to spray brushes randomly in the picture. |
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Spray menu Opens a menu in which you can configure the spray flow and size. |
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Flood-fill Allows you to fill an area of the picture made of pixels of the same color. |
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Replace color Allows you to replace all the pixels of the color pointed by the mouse with the fore-color or the back-color. |
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Beziers curves Allows you to draw Beziers curves. |
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Beziers curve with 3 or 4 points Allows you to choose whether you want to draw Beziers curves with 3 or 4 points. |
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Empty rectangle Allows you to draw a rectangle using the brush. |
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Filled rectangle Allows you to draw a filled rectangle. |
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Empty circle Allows you to draw a circle using the brush. |
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Empty ellipse Allows you to draw an ellipse using the brush. |
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Filled circle Allows you to draw a filled circle. |
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Filled ellipse Allows you to draw a filled ellipse. |
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Empty polygon Allows you to draw a polygon using the brush. |
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Empty "polyform" Allows you to draw a freehand polygon using the brush. |
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Filled polygon Allows you to draw a filled polygon. |
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Filled "polyform" Allows you to draw a filled freehand polygon. |
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Rectangle with gradation Allows you to draw a rectangle with a color gradation. |
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Gradation menu Allows you to configure the way color gradations are calculated. |
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Sphere with gradation Allows you to draw a rectangle with a color gradation. |
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Ellipse with gradation Allows you to draw an ellipse filled with a color gradation. |
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Text Opens a menu which permits you to type in a character string and to choose a font, and then creates a new user-defined brush fitting to your choices. |
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Shrink paintbrush Decrease the width of the paintbrush if it is special circle or square. |
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Enlarge paintbrush Increase the width of the paintbrush if it is special circle or square. |
Picture
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Adjust picture Allows you to move the whole picture in order to re-center it. Notice that what gets out from a side reappears on the other. |
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Flip/shrink picture menu Opens a menu which allows you to flip the picture horizontally/vertically or to shrink it to half-scale horizontally and/or vertically. |
Effects
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Drawing effects Opens a menu where you can enable/disable and configure the drawing effects listed below. |
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Shade mode Allows you to shade or lighten some pixels of the picture belonging to a color range, in addition of any drawing tool. |
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Shade menu Opens a menu where you can choose color ranges to use with the Shade mode. This menu also contains parameters used both in Shade and Quick-shade modes. |
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Quick-shade mode Does the same thing as shade mode with a simpler method (faster to define but a bit less powerful). |
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Quick-shade menu Opens a menu where you can define the parameters of the quick-shade mode. |
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Stencil mode Allows you to mask colors that must not be affected when you are drawing. |
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Stencil menu Opens a menu where you can choose colors masked by the Stencil mode. |
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Mask mode Allows you to mask colors of the spare page that will keep you from drawing. This mode should be called "True stencil". |
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Mask menu Opens a menu where you can choose colors for the Mask mode. |
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Grid mode Force the cursor to snap up grid points. |
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Grid menu Open a menu where you can configure the grid used by Grid mode. |
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Sieve mode Only draws pixels on certain positions matching with a sieve. |
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Sieve menu Opens a menu where you can configure the sieve. |
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Invert sieve Inverts the pattern defined in the Sieve menu. |
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Colorize mode Allows you to colorize the pixels on which your brush is pasted. This permits you to make transparency effects. |
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Colorize menu Opens a menu where you can give the opacity percentage for Colorize mode. |
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Smooth mode Soften pixels on which your brush is pasted. |
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Smooth menu Opens a menu where you can define the Smooth matrix. |
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Smear mode Smears the pixels when you move your brush on the picture. |
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Tiling mode Puts parts of the brush where you draw. |
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Tiling menu Opens a menu where you can configure the origin of the tiling. |
Brush
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Classical brush grabbing Allows you to pick a brush defined within a rectangle. |
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"Lasso" brush grabbing Allows you to pick a brush defined within a freehand polygon. |
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Get previous brush back Restore the last user-defined brush. |
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Horizontal brush flipping Reverse brush horizontally. |
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Vertical brush flipping Reverse brush vertically. |
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90ø brush rotation Rotate the user-defined brush by 90ø (counter-clockwise). |
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180ø brush rotation Rotate the user-defined brush by 180ø. |
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Strech brush Allows you to resize the user-defined brush. |
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Distort brush Allows you to distort the user-defined brush. |
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Outline brush Outlines the user-defined brush with the fore color. |
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Nibble brush Deletes the borders of the user-defined brush. This does the opposite of the Outline option. |
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Get colors from brush Copy colors of the spare page that are used in the brush. |
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Recolorize brush Recolorize pixels of the user-defined brush in order to get a brush which looks like the one grabbed in the spare page. |
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Rotate by any angle Rotate the brush by an angle that you can define. |
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Brush effects menu Opens a menu which proposes different effects on the user-defined brush. |
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Center brush attachment point Set the attachement of the user-defined brush to its center. |
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Top-left brush attachment point Set the attachement of the user-defined brush to its top-left corner. |
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Top-right brush attachment point Set the attachement of the user-defined brush to its top-right corner. |
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Bottom-left brush attachment point Set the attachement of the user-defined brush to its bottom-left corner. |
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Bottom-right brush attachment point Set the attachement of the user-defined brush to its bottom-right corner. |
Colors
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Pipette Allows you to copy the color of a pixel in the picture into the foreground or background color. |
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Swap foreground/background colors Invert foreground and background colors. |
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Palette menu Opens a menu which allows you to modify the current palette. |
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Secondary palette menu Opens a menu which allows you to define color series and some tagged colors. |
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Exclude colors menu Opens a menu which allows you to define the colors you dont want to use in modes such as Smooth and Transparency, or when remapping a brush. |
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Scroll palette to the left Scroll palette in the tool bar to the left, column by column. |
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Scroll palette to the right Scroll palette in the tool bar to the right, column by column. |
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Scroll palette to the left faster Scroll palette in the tool bar to the left, 8 columns by 8 columns. |
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Scroll palette to the right faster Scroll palette in the tool bar to the right, 8 columns by 8 columns. |
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Next foreground color Set the foreground color to the next in the palette. |
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Previous foreground color Set the foreground color to the previous in the palette. |
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Next background color Set the background color to the next in the palette. |
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Previous background color Set the background color to the previous in the palette. |
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Next user-defined forecolor Set the foreground color to the next in the user-defined color series. |
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Previous user-defined forecolor Set the foreground color to the previous in the user-defined color series. |
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Next user-defined backcolor Set the background color to the next in the user-defined color series. |
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Previous user-defined backcolor Set the background color to the previous in the user-defined color series. |
Zoom
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Magnifier mode Allows you to zoom into the picture. |
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Zoom factor menu Opens a menu where you can choose a magnifying factor. |
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Zoom in Increase magnifying factor. |
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Zoom out Decrease magnifying factor. |
Divers
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Quit program Allows you to leave the program. If modifications were not saved, confirmation is asked. |
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Help and credits Opens a window where you can get information about the program. |
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Statistics Displays miscellaneous more or less useful information. |
Save/Load
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Save picture as... Opens a file-selector that allows you to save your picture with a new path-name. |
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Save picture Saves your picture with the last name you gave it. |
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Load picture Opens a file-selector that allows you to load a new picture. |
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Re-load picture Re-load the current picture. This allows you to cancel modifications made since last saving. |
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Save brush Opens a file-selector that allows you to save your current user-defined brush. |
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Load brush Opens a file-selector that allows you to load a brush. |
Pages
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Jump to spare page Swap current page and spare page. |
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Copy current page to spare page Copy current page to spare page. |
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Kill Kills the current page. It actually removes the current page from the list of "Undo" pages. |
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Clear page Clears the picture with the first color of the palette (usually black). |
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Clear page with backcolor Clears the picture with the backcolor. |
Notes
These are the default shortcuts. You can modify the actual shortcuts for your config in the helpscreen inside the program.