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About The Drawing Tool Menu |
This is the drawing tool menu. This is where you
select the tool to draw with or modify the image. This includes the paint brush,
that includes feature such as rendering gradients, patterns and texture. Next is
the paint bucket, use this to fill in areas you would like to change to another
color or render gradients or textures and patterns. Other tools included are a
cloning tool, the shape tool, text rendering tool, eraser tool, selection tools
such as the magic wand, and a tool to move your images currently selected area
or layer around. It also includes a color picker tool for getting any color on
the screen. For the paint bucket and magic wand there is a included color range
feature to specify whether the operation should include similar colors or only
an exact match to the selected color. The menu also has a zoom tool to see your
image up close or from a distance. Just a bit to the right is the point size
selector, use this to adjust the size of the brush to be used, Move your mouse
to the green arrow next to the point size text box and you will see a pop up
list with predefined choices to draw with. The point size is also used to define
the size of a texture if you are drawing with textures. The is also a pressure
setting, to use, slide the popped up slider to the right for the strongest
pressure or to the left to increase the amount of translucency of the selected
brush or paint operation will deliver. If you are drawing a polygon from the
shape menu item, define your points by left clicking on the image and then click
the right mouse button to complete the polygon at which the start off point and
the end point will be connected. With the Curved Line tool you select the points
for the curve by left clicking on the image where you would like the curve
points to be, when you are finished defining your points right click to commit
the curve and reset the curve points. The rest of the shapes are defined by
clicking and holding the left mouse button and then dragging to the desired
size. To operate the cloning tool, first left click on the location on the image
of what you would like to clone. After your what to clone point is set, click
and hold down the left mouse button again to render to the area you would like
the clone to appear. To start over, right click on the image and select on reset
from the context menu.
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