PAINTBRUSHES
Paintbrush choice
LEFT CLICK
(Key:
F4)
Displays a menu where you can choose the
shape of your paintbrush.
Paintbrushes are sorted by family. You can
see some paintbrushes of the same family but
with different sizes. There is at least one
paint-brush from each family displayed in
this menu.
Here is the list of all the different
paintbrush families:
******* *** * * * * * *
******* ***** * * * * * *
******* ******* * * * * * * * *
******* ******* * * * * * *
******* ******* * * * * * * * *
******* ***** * * * * * *
******* *** * * * * * *
Square Disc Sieve Sieve
square disc
* * *
*** * * *
***** * *
******* ******* *
***** * * * *
*** *
* * * *
Diamond Random Horiz. Vertical
bar bar
* * * * *
* * * * *
* * * * *
* * * *******
* * * * *
* * * * *
* * * * *
Slash Back- Cross X Cross +
slash
When using one of these, you can change the
brush size by using the keys:
Reduce :
','
Increase :
'.'
Other brushes are bitmaps, their size can't
be adjusted.
Click with left mouse button to choose a
paintbrush, and right mouse button to store
your current brush in the slot. If your
current brush is a grabbed brush, it will
store a monochrome version of it, maximum
15x15. (See below 'Brush container' to store
backups of a big brush)
The stored brushes are saved when you exit
the program.
The 'Preset' button allows you to pick a
brush from any family. It's useful if you've
overwritten all normal slots with brushes
that you use more often.
BRUSH CONTAINER
The bottom row, initially showing empty
buttons, is the brush container. You can
right-click a button to store the current
brush in it, and then whenever you need the
brush back, open this menu again and
left-click the button.
The container can memorize resizable brushes
as well as brushes grabbed from the image.
Brushes are lost when you exit the program.
RIGHT CLICK
(Key:
Shift+F4)
Transforms your current user-defined brush
into a paintbrush. This is actually a
"monochromisation" of your user-defined
brush. This means that every color of the
brush that aren't the Back-color will be
set to the Fore-color. But this option
doesn't alter the brush: you'll just have
to right-click on the "Get brush" buttons
to get your brush back.
Note: When you press (not in the menu) the
key
Del, the current
paintbrush becomes the smallest member of
the "Disc" family: i.e one pixel.