This is a crash course in the basics of what all the hotkeys for the
the Toolbar tools do. It also describes basics of what the Tool Options
parameters control.
Version 1.0 Fri Nov 7 1997 Adrian Likins <adrian@gimp.org>
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=key
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=mb1 mouse button 1
=mb2 mouse button2 (middle button)
=mb3 mouse button3 (right button)
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=Ctrl Control Key
= Shift Shift key
= Alt Alt or Meta or whatever
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All selections (rectangular, ellipse, fuzzy, magic wand)
mb1draw selection
mb1+mb3 (release mb1)cancel selection
At inital click
shift+mb1 Add selection to existing selection
ctrl+mb1 subtract selection from existing selection
shift+ctrl+mb1keep part of selection in both
selections (union)
on active selections
alt+mb1move selection
ellipse and rectangular selection
while making selection
shift+mb1 constrain selection to regular shape
(square/circle)
ctrl+mb1 draw selection centered from click
ctrl+shift+mb1 draw (square/circle) selection centered
on click
Tool Options
Antialiasing ???
FeatherTurns on feathering (similar to blurring a
selection mask)
Used to make a "smoother" selection
Feather Radius Determines the blur radius of the selection mask.
How smooth the selection needs to be.
Magic Wand selection
(all the general selection addition rules apply)
Tool Options
Sample Merged If off, just use the contents of the
current drawable
if on, use whats visible.
Antialiasing????
FeatherTurns on feathering (similar to blurring
a selection mask)
Used to make a "smoother" selection
Feather Radius Determines the blur radius of the selection mask.
How smooth the selection needs to be.
Bezier Select
While making selection
mb1sets the control points
To make bezier into a selection
close the selection (beziers have to be closed), then click
inside the selection. Zooming in sometimes helps.
After closing bezier (but before making a selection)
mb1 on control point adjust handles
shift+mb1adjust one handle
ctrl+mb1move the point
Tool Options
Antialiasing????
FeatherTurns on feathering (similar to
blurring a selection mask)
Used to make a "smoother" selection
Feather Radius Determines the blur radius of the selection mask.
How smooth the selection needs to be.
Intelligent scissors
Nothing yet
Move Tool
mb1move current layer
shift+cursor keysmove current layer by 25 pixels
ctrl+cursor keysmove current layer by 1 pixel
alt+cursor keys move selection by 1 pixel
alt+shift+cursor keys moce selection by 25 pixels
Magnify (Zoom)
mb1zoom in
shift+mb1zoom out
Tool Options
Allow window resizing if on, window will resize when
zooming in and out
if off, window will retain its current size
Crop
Before making crop bounds
mb1 select bounds of crop
mb1+mb3(release mb1) cancel crop
After making crop bounds
mb1(inside bounds)crop to are selected (same as
pressing crop button)
Crop tool dialog options
cropcrop to area selected
selectionuse the bounds of the
current selection to
set bounds of crop
closecancel the crop
Transform
note: transform type is selected via the tool options dialog
Rotation
mb1free rotation
ctrl+mb1rotate in 15 degree increments
Scaling
mb1 free scaling
ctrl+mb1 scale in Y direction only
shift+mb1 scale in X direction only
shift+ctrl+mb1 scale with constrained ratio
Shearing
mb1free shearing
Perspective
mb1move the control points
Tool Options
Smoothingdetermines if sub-pixel sampling is done
Flip
mb1Flip in indicated direction
Tool options
HorizontalFlip horizontally
VerticalFlip vertically
Text Tool
mb1set top left bounds of text
Color Picker
mb1set active color to color under cursor
Bucket Fill
(with no selection)
mb1do a seeded fill from the pixel where the cursor is
filling with the foreground color
shift+mb1do a seeded fill from the pixel where the cursor is
filling with the background color
(with a selection active)
mb1 fill the seelction with foreground color
shift+mb2 fill the selection with the background color
Tool Options
Fill Opacity opacity of the fill?
Fill Threshold If the surroundings pixels are within this value
of the inital pixel, they are filled
Mode What paint mode to use
Fill Type
Color Filluse foreground or background color to fill
Pattern Filluse current active pattern to fill
Sample merged if on, use the visible compontents to determine
where to fill
if off, use the active drawable to determine
where to fill
Blend Tool
mb1 set start and endpoints of gradient
mb1+mb2(release mb1) cancel blend
Tool Options
Opacity How transparent the gradient should be
Offsetat what percentage fo the gradient to
start from (ie, 50 to start the blend at
halfway through the gradient)
ModeWhat paint mode to apply the blend with
Blend
FG to BG (rgb) Blend from the foreground color to
background color in rgb space
FG to BG (hsv) Blend from the foreground color
to the background color in hsv space
FG to Transparent Blends the foreground color from 100%
opacity to 0% opacity
Gradient
Linearfrom point a to point b
bi-linearlike linear but "mirrored"
across the inital point
Radialblends radial form point A
being the center to point B
being a point on the circumference.
Squaremakes a sqaured shaped blend
from a center at Point A
to point B on the perimeter
conical????
conical
(asymeteric)????
ShapeburstFills selections based on
the shape of the selections
Repeat
Nonejust make one blend
Sawtoothrepeat the blend
triangleanother way to repeat... ??
adaptive supersampling
if on, blend does supersampling
resulting in a much smoother
blend if off, blend does no
supersampling resulting in a
much faster blend
Max Depth.???
Threshold???
Pencil
mb1(hold)draw with pencil tool
alt+mb1(hold)draw with pencil tool, but store all
of the cursor history events (so you
can draw fast and let it catch up
with you without losing info)
shift+mb1draw a straigtline from the last place
the cursor was
Paintbrush
mb1(hold)draw with paintbrush tool
alt+mb1(hold)draw with paintbrush tool, but store
all of the cursor history events (so you
can draw fast and let it catch up
with you without losing info)
shift+mb1draw a straigtline from the last place
the cursor was
Tool Options
Fade Outdistance you can paint before
the paint "runs out"
set to 0 for unlimited "paint"
Eraser
mb1(hold)erase (set to transparent or background
color)
alt+mb1(hold)erase but store all of the cursor history
events (so you can erase fast and let
it catch up with you without losing info)
shift+mb1erase a straightline from the
last place the cursor was
Airbrush
mb1(hold)draw with airbrush tool
alt+mb1(hold)draw with airbrush tool, but store all
of the cursor history events (so you
can draw fast and let it catch up with
you without losing info)
shift+mb1draw a straigtline from the last place
the cursor was
Tool Options
RateControls how quickly the "paint flows".
Higher values reach full value quicker
Pressurethe higher the value, the quicker the
airbrush fills the brush
Clone Tool
mb1(hold)draw with the clone tool
ctrl+mb1set the point from which the brush clones
alt+mb1(hold)draw with clone tool, but store all of
the cursor history events (so you can
draw fast and let it catch up with you
without losing info)
shift+mb1draw a straigtline from the last place
the cursor was
Tool Options
Source
Image source clone from somewhere within the
image (set with ctrl+mb1)
Pattern source clone from the current active pattern
Aligned
tries to keep the source point and the cloned
point "in sync" YMMV if for pattern source,
having alligned on means the clone tool reveals
a consistent pattern. If off, the clone tool
can start the cloning from a new pointin the pattern
each time.
Convolver
note: convolve type is set in the Tool options dialog
mb1(hold)blur or sharpen under cursor
Tool Options
Pressureused to control intensity of tool
Blurblurs the are under the cursor
Sharpentries to sharpen the are
under the cursor