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T = Swaps shapes between 'Fill' and 'Outline' (Indicated by the icon in the tool bar)
R = Toggles whether or not the ruler tracking your mouse is enabled. (Slightly less laggy disabled, but not by much!)
S = Swaps your primary and secondary colour.
G = Change Grid Spacing.
C = Clear everything/New Document!
Most tools are pretty self-explanatory.
With the picker, if you left click then the colour you clicked on will become your primary colour and if you right click then the colour will be your secondary colour.
It will search the layer you have selected first, if it doesn't find a colour - it'll search all layers starting on the top one going down until it finds one. If it doesn't find a colour still, it just
won't change your colour. After the picker has been used, it will go to the tool you used before that.
Brush creates circles where your cursor is creating an imperfect line, stroke works by creating a path between your points making it more smooth. Pen has a random width giving it a more realistic feel.
Holding shift whilst using the 'Rectangle' tool will force it to make a square.
From left to right, the layer buttons do:
- Lock. When enabled on a layer, you can not modify that layer, not delete it. Click to toggle.
- Shift Up (disabled). Moves the layer up a level.
- Shift Down (disabled). Moves the layer down a level.
- Delete. Deletes the current layer.
- Compress. Compresses all the layers into one.
- Merge Down. Merges the selected layer with the one below.
- New Layer. Adds another layer (up to a specified maximum in the config).
The background layer can not be modified, deleted or in fact selected. Although you can toggle the visiblity, with all other layers, by the eye to the left of the layer. Toggling visibility only makes it
hidden, and does not clear it. The selected layer is the layer that gets drawn to.