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This is a crash course in the basics of what all the hotkeys for the
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the Toolbar tools do. It also describes basics of what the Tool Options
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parameters control.
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Version 1.0 Fri Nov 7 1997 Adrian Likins <adrian@gimp.org>
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==========================================================================
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=key
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= mb1 mouse button 1
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= mb2 mouse button2 (middle button)
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= mb3 mouse button3 (right button)
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= Ctrl Control Key
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= Shift Shift key
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= Alt Alt or Meta or whatever
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=
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==========================================================================
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All selections (rectangular, ellipse, fuzzy, magic wand)
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mb1 draw selection
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mb1+mb3 (release mb1) cancel selection
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At inital click
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shift+mb1 Add selection to existing selection
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ctrl+mb1 subtract selection from existing selection
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shift+ctrl+mb1 keep part of selection in both
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selections (union)
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on active selections
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alt+mb1 move selection
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ellipse and rectangular selection
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while making selection
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shift+mb1 constrain selection to regular shape
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(square/circle)
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ctrl+mb1 draw selection centered from click
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ctrl+shift+mb1 draw (square/circle) selection centered
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on click
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Tool Options
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Antialiasing ???
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Feather Turns on feathering (similar to blurring a
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selection mask)
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Used to make a "smoother" selection
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Feather Radius Determines the blur radius of the selection mask.
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How smooth the selection needs to be.
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Magic Wand selection
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(all the general selection addition rules apply)
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Tool Options
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Sample Merged If off, just use the contents of the
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current drawable
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if on, use whats visible.
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Antialiasing ????
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Feather Turns on feathering (similar to blurring
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a selection mask)
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Used to make a "smoother" selection
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Feather Radius Determines the blur radius of the selection mask.
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How smooth the selection needs to be.
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Bezier Select
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While making selection
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mb1 sets the control points
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To make bezier into a selection
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close the selection (beziers have to be closed), then click
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inside the selection. Zooming in sometimes helps.
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After closing bezier (but before making a selection)
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mb1 on control point adjust handles
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shift+mb1 adjust one handle
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ctrl+mb1 move the point
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Tool Options
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Antialiasing ????
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Feather Turns on feathering (similar to
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blurring a selection mask)
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Used to make a "smoother" selection
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Feather Radius Determines the blur radius of the selection mask.
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How smooth the selection needs to be.
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Intelligent scissors
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Nothing yet
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Move Tool
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mb1 move current layer
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shift+cursor keys move current layer by 25 pixels
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ctrl+cursor keys move current layer by 1 pixel
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alt+cursor keys move selection by 1 pixel
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alt+shift+cursor keys moce selection by 25 pixels
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Magnify (Zoom)
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mb1 zoom in
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shift+mb1 zoom out
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Tool Options
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Allow window resizing if on, window will resize when
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zooming in and out
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if off, window will retain its current size
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Crop
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Before making crop bounds
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mb1 select bounds of crop
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mb1+mb3(release mb1) cancel crop
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After making crop bounds
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mb1(inside bounds) crop to are selected (same as
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pressing crop button)
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Crop tool dialog options
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crop crop to area selected
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selection use the bounds of the
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current selection to
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set bounds of crop
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close cancel the crop
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Transform
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note: transform type is selected via the tool options dialog
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Rotation
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mb1 free rotation
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ctrl+mb1 rotate in 15 degree increments
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Scaling
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mb1 free scaling
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ctrl+mb1 scale in Y direction only
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shift+mb1 scale in X direction only
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shift+ctrl+mb1 scale with constrained ratio
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Shearing
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mb1 free shearing
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Perspective
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mb1 move the control points
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Tool Options
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Smoothing determines if sub-pixel sampling is done
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Flip
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mb1 Flip in indicated direction
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Tool options
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Horizontal Flip horizontally
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Vertical Flip vertically
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Text Tool
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mb1 set top left bounds of text
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Color Picker
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mb1 set active color to color under cursor
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Bucket Fill
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(with no selection)
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mb1 do a seeded fill from the pixel where the cursor is
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filling with the foreground color
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shift+mb1 do a seeded fill from the pixel where the cursor is
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filling with the background color
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(with a selection active)
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mb1 fill the seelction with foreground color
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shift+mb2 fill the selection with the background color
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Tool Options
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Fill Opacity opacity of the fill?
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Fill Threshold If the surroundings pixels are within this value
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of the inital pixel, they are filled
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Mode What paint mode to use
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Fill Type
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Color Fill use foreground or background color to fill
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Pattern Fill use current active pattern to fill
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Sample merged if on, use the visible compontents to determine
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where to fill
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if off, use the active drawable to determine
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where to fill
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Blend Tool
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mb1 set start and endpoints of gradient
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mb1+mb2(release mb1) cancel blend
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Tool Options
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Opacity How transparent the gradient should be
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Offset at what percentage fo the gradient to
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start from (ie, 50 to start the blend at
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halfway through the gradient)
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Mode What paint mode to apply the blend with
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Blend
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FG to BG (rgb) Blend from the foreground color to
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background color in rgb space
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FG to BG (hsv) Blend from the foreground color
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to the background color in hsv space
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FG to Transparent Blends the foreground color from 100%
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opacity to 0% opacity
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Gradient
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Linear from point a to point b
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bi-linear like linear but "mirrored"
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across the inital point
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Radial blends radial form point A
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being the center to point B
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being a point on the circumference.
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Square makes a sqaured shaped blend
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from a center at Point A
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to point B on the perimeter
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conical ????
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conical
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(asymeteric) ????
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Shapeburst Fills selections based on
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the shape of the selections
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Repeat
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None just make one blend
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Sawtooth repeat the blend
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triangle another way to repeat... ??
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adaptive supersampling
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if on, blend does supersampling
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resulting in a much smoother
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blend if off, blend does no
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supersampling resulting in a
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much faster blend
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Max Depth. ???
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Threshold ???
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Pencil
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mb1(hold) draw with pencil tool
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alt+mb1(hold) draw with pencil tool, but store all
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of the cursor history events (so you
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can draw fast and let it catch up
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with you without losing info)
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shift+mb1 draw a straigtline from the last place
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the cursor was
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Paintbrush
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mb1(hold) draw with paintbrush tool
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alt+mb1(hold) draw with paintbrush tool, but store
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all of the cursor history events (so you
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can draw fast and let it catch up
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with you without losing info)
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shift+mb1 draw a straigtline from the last place
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the cursor was
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Tool Options
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Fade Out distance you can paint before
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the paint "runs out"
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set to 0 for unlimited "paint"
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Eraser
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mb1(hold) erase (set to transparent or background
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color)
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alt+mb1(hold) erase but store all of the cursor history
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events (so you can erase fast and let
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it catch up with you without losing info)
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shift+mb1 erase a straightline from the
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last place the cursor was
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Airbrush
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mb1(hold) draw with airbrush tool
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alt+mb1(hold) draw with airbrush tool, but store all
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of the cursor history events (so you
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can draw fast and let it catch up with
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you without losing info)
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shift+mb1 draw a straigtline from the last place
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the cursor was
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Tool Options
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Rate Controls how quickly the "paint flows".
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Higher values reach full value quicker
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Pressure the higher the value, the quicker the
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airbrush fills the brush
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Clone Tool
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mb1(hold) draw with the clone tool
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ctrl+mb1 set the point from which the brush clones
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alt+mb1(hold) draw with clone tool, but store all of
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the cursor history events (so you can
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draw fast and let it catch up with you
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without losing info)
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shift+mb1 draw a straigtline from the last place
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the cursor was
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Tool Options
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Source
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Image source clone from somewhere within the
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image (set with ctrl+mb1)
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Pattern source clone from the current active pattern
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Aligned
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tries to keep the source point and the cloned
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point "in sync" YMMV if for pattern source,
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having alligned on means the clone tool reveals
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a consistent pattern. If off, the clone tool
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can start the cloning from a new pointin the pattern
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each time.
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Convolver
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note: convolve type is set in the Tool options dialog
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mb1(hold) blur or sharpen under cursor
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Tool Options
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Pressure used to control intensity of tool
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Blur blurs the are under the cursor
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Sharpen tries to sharpen the are
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under the cursor
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