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> ========================================================================== =key = = mb1 mouse button 1 = mb2 mouse button2 (middle button) = mb3 mouse button3 (right button) = = Ctrl Control Key = Shift Shift key = Alt Alt or Meta or whatever = ========================================================================== All selections (rectangular, ellipse, fuzzy, magic wand) mb1 draw 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+mb1 keep part of selection in both selections (union) on active selections alt+mb1 move 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 ??? Feather Turns 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 ???? Feather Turns 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 mb1 sets 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+mb1 adjust one handle ctrl+mb1 move the point Tool Options Antialiasing ???? Feather Turns 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 mb1 move current layer shift+cursor keys move current layer by 25 pixels ctrl+cursor keys move current layer by 1 pixel alt+cursor keys move selection by 1 pixel alt+shift+cursor keys moce selection by 25 pixels Magnify (Zoom) mb1 zoom in shift+mb1 zoom 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 crop crop to area selected selection use the bounds of the current selection to set bounds of crop close cancel the crop Transform note: transform type is selected via the tool options dialog Rotation mb1 free rotation ctrl+mb1 rotate 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 mb1 free shearing Perspective mb1 move the control points Tool Options Smoothing determines if sub-pixel sampling is done Flip mb1 Flip in indicated direction Tool options Horizontal Flip horizontally Vertical Flip vertically Text Tool mb1 set top left bounds of text Color Picker mb1 set active color to color under cursor Bucket Fill (with no selection) mb1 do a seeded fill from the pixel where the cursor is filling with the foreground color shift+mb1 do 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 Fill use foreground or background color to fill Pattern Fill use 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 Offset at what percentage fo the gradient to start from (ie, 50 to start the blend at halfway through the gradient) Mode What 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 Linear from point a to point b bi-linear like linear but "mirrored" across the inital point Radial blends radial form point A being the center to point B being a point on the circumference. Square makes a sqaured shaped blend from a center at Point A to point B on the perimeter conical ???? conical (asymeteric) ???? Shapeburst Fills selections based on the shape of the selections Repeat None just make one blend Sawtooth repeat the blend triangle another 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+mb1 draw 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+mb1 draw a straigtline from the last place the cursor was Tool Options Fade Out distance 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+mb1 erase 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+mb1 draw a straigtline from the last place the cursor was Tool Options Rate Controls how quickly the "paint flows". Higher values reach full value quicker Pressure the higher the value, the quicker the airbrush fills the brush Clone Tool mb1(hold) draw with the clone tool ctrl+mb1 set 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+mb1 draw 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 Pressure used to control intensity of tool Blur blurs the are under the cursor Sharpen tries to sharpen the are under the cursor