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- <h2>Toolbar</h2>
- <p>The toolbar contains buttons for accessing many common commands, controls
- for configuring how the image is viewed, and controls for configuring how
- many of the tools perform drawing.</p>
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- <li class="nobullet"><img border="0" src="Images/Toolbar.png"></li>
- <li><h3><a name="CommonActions"></a>Common Actions</h3><p>
- <img border="0" src="Images/Toolbar_CommonActions.png"><br>
- These buttons allow you to quickly perform many common actions. From
- left to right, they allow you to create a new image, open an existing
- one, save, print, cut, copy, paste, crop, deselect, undo, and redo.</p></li>
- <li><h3><a name="ViewControls"></a>View Controls</h3>
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- <img border="0" src="Images/Toolbar_ViewControls.png"><br>
- These controls allow you to modify how the image is presented to you.
- The first two buttons let you zoom in or out, while the dropdown list
- allows you to set a specific zoom level. You may also choose the
- "Window" zoom level, which causes the zoom level to be maintained such
- that the entire image is always visible (this is the same as selecting
- the
- <a href="ViewMenu.html#zoomToWindow">View <font face="Times New Roman">→</font>
- Zoom to Window</a> menu option).</p>
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- The next two buttons toggle the visibility of the grid and the rulers,
- respectively. The last control lets you specify whether you wish to work
- with measurements in pixels, inches, or centimeters. This does not
- change the units that are stored in the image; you may change those
- using the
- <a href="ImageMenu.html#Resize">Image <font face="Times New Roman">→</font>
- Resize</a> menu command.</p></li>
- <li><h3><a name="ToolChoice"></a>Tool Choice</h3>
- <p><img border="0" src="Images/Toolbar_ToolChoiceButton.png"></p>
- <p>The second row of the toolbar starts with a button that lets you
- choose the current tool. If you click on this button you will be
- presented with a list of possible tools, as well as a command called
- "Choose defaults." Clicking on it will bring up this dialog:</p>
- <p><img border="0" src="Images/ChooseDefaults.png"></p>
- <p>This dialog may be used to set all of the default toolbar item
- settings. You may also change which tool is made active when Paint.NET
- starts up. The "Reset" button will reset all of the values to the
- defaults, while "Load from Toolbar" will take the settings that are in
- the current toolbar and apply them to the settings in this dialog. </p>
- <p>Previous versions of Paint.NET would automatically remember some
- settings in the toolbar between sessions, such as those for antialiasing
- and color tolerance. In version 3.0, none of the toolbar settings are
- automatically remembered. If you want a toolbar setting to be remembered
- then you must manually change it through this dialog and then press the
- "Save" button.</p>
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- <li><h3><a name="ToolConfiguration"></a>Tool Configuration</h3>
- <p>After the Tool button, the rest of this row contains controls that
- let you adjust how the current tool operates. There will always be a
- combination of the toolbar controls from the "Choose Defaults" dialog
- shown above. Each section is discussed below.</p>
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- <li><h3><a name="ShapesBrushesFill"></a>Shapes, Brushes and Fill</h3><p>
- <img border="0" src="Images/Toolbar_ShapesBrushesFill.png"></p>
- <p>
- The <a href="ShapeTools.html">Shape Tools</a> use these controls. Here
- you can select if the shape should be drawn with its outline, interior,
- or both, the size of the brush stroke, and the fill style.</p>
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- <li><h3><a name="Text"></a>Text</h3><p>
- <img border="0" src="Images/Toolbar_Text.png"></p>
- <p>
- This section of the toolbar is only used by the <a href="TextTool.html">
- Text tool</a>, and lets you configure the font family, size, rendering
- method, and style.</p>
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- The two rendering methods are "Smooth" and "Sharp." The Smooth rendering
- method is optimized for medium to large text. At small text sizes it may
- look fuzzy or blurry, although this will depend on the font being used.
- The Sharp rendering method is well suited for sharp text at smaller text
- sizes; at larger text sizes it may not appear very smooth. It is also
- ideal for doing user interface mockups as it uses the same rendering
- code that Windows uses for displaying user interface text. If
- antialiasing is disabled (via the <a href="#Rasterization">Rasterization</a>
- options), then it does not matter whether Smooth or Sharp is selected.</p>
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- <li><h3><a name="Gradient"></a>Gradient</h3><p>
- <img border="0" src="Images/Toolbar_Gradient.png"></p>
- <p>
- The <a href="GradientTool.html">Gradient Tool</a> has 5 different
- gradient types that it can render, and it can also operate in either
- color mode or a special transparency mode.</p>
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- <li><h3><a name="Tolerance"></a>Magic Wand, Paint Bucket, and Recolor</h3><p>
- <img border="0" src="Images/Toolbar_MagicWandPaintBucket.png"></p>
- <p>
- This slider affects how the <a href="MagicWand.html">Magic Wand</a>, the
- <a href="PaintBucket.html">Paint Bucket</a>, and the <a href="RecolorTool.html">
- Recolor Tool</a> operate. It controls how similar colors must be when
- being operated on by these tools. If this is set to 0%, then only the
- exact color specified will be considered. If this is set to 100%, then
- all colors will be included. The default value is 50%.</p>
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- <li><h3><a name="ColorPicker"></a>Color Picker</h3><p>
- <img border="0" src="Images/Toolbar_ColorPicker.png"></p>
- <p>
- The <a href="PixelTools.html">Color Picker</a> may be configured to
- switch to the <a href="PixelTools.html">Pencil</a> tool or the previous
- tool after clicking on a color.</p>
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- <li><h3><a name="MoveSelectedPixels"></a>Move Selected Pixels</h3><p>
- <img border="0" src="Images/Toolbar_MoveSelectedPixels.png"></p>
- <p>
- The <a href="MoveTools.html">Move Selected Pixels</a> tool can be
- configured to use either "smooth" (bilinear) or "pixelated" (nearest
- neighbor) resampling. Smooth quality is usually preferable unless you
- have a specific need for pixelated quality.</p>
- </li>
- <li><h3><a name="Rasterization"></a>Rasterization</h3><p>
- <img border="0" src="Images/Toolbar_Rasterization.png"></p>
- <p>
- Many tools are affected by one or both of these options which select how
- drawing is performed on a per-pixel basis. To use these split-buttons,
- you can either press on the icon to toggle the setting, or click on the
- arrow to open a menu describing the possible choices.</p>
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- The first split-button controls whether
- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antialiasing">antialiasing</a> is
- used. The circle on the left was drawn with antialiasing enabled,
- whereas the one on the right was drawn with antialiasing disabled. It is
- noticeably more "jagged" in its appearance:</p>
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- <img border="0" src="../images/aaVSnoAA.png"></p>
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- The second split-button controls the type of
- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_compositing">blending</a>.
- Normal blending applies what is known as "OVER" blending, where each
- pixel that is being drawn is blended into the pixel that is already on
- the layer. Overwrite blending applies what is known as "COPY" blending,
- where each pixel that is being drawn replaces any pixel that was already
- there. In the image below, a line was drawn twice with an alpha value of
- 128, which means it is approximately 50% transparent. The line on the
- left was drawn with Normal blending, and as such it blended into the
- image of the car. Both the car and the line are visible where the line
- was drawn. The second line, on the right, was drawn using Overwrite
- blending. The car is no longer visible where the line was drawn, and the
- checkboard pattern is now visible which indicates that this portion of
- the image is now transparent.</p>
- <p>
- <img border="1" src="../images/bmw_AB_vs_noAB.jpg"></p>
- <p>
- The Overwrite blending option can be especially useful with the
- <a href="PixelTools.html">Pencil</a> tool when editing images at the
- pixel level.</p>
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- <font color="#808080" size="1">Copyright <font face="Times New Roman">© 2007 </font>
- Rick Brewster, Tom Jackson, and past contributors. Portions Copyright
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