Canvas Tools
The 'Canvas Tools' palette provides the ability to select the current interactive tool active in the canvas workspace. The palette also makes available all the available settings to currently active canvas workspace tool.
- [[File:CanvasToolsCollapsed01.png|thumb| 221px |none|Canvas Tools Palette with Settings Collapsed.]
To set the active canvas workspace select the corresponding tool icon button. The active canvas tool settings can be displayed or hidden by clicking the active canvas tool settings label below the canvas tool icon buttons.
The ability to quickly switch between different canvas tools is provided by custom [Keyboard_Shortcuts].
Hand Tool
The hand tool provides ways to interactively navigate the canvas view.
Pan Canvas
When the pan canvas mode is selected the canvas can be quickly panned by pressing and dragging the mouse cursor in the canvas viewport area.
Zoom Tool
The zoom tool provides ways to interactively zoom the canvas view.
Drag Zoom
When the pan canvas mode is selected the canvas can be quickly zooms by pressing and dragging the mouse cursor in the canvas viewport area. The current centre of the canvas view will be retained as view is zoomed in and out.
Paint Brush Tool
The paint brush tool provides an interactive tool to manipulate the pixel colours of areas of the current canvas layer. Circular stamps of the current tool colour will be produced at regular intervals on the current canvas layer based on the following settings:
Type
Four brush types are provides that produce different results when using the mouse to interact with the canvas view.
Freeform
Clicking and dragging the mouse cursor in the canvas view will produce brush stamps under the mouse cursor at regular intervals as it is moved.
Line
Clicking and dragging the mouse cursor between two points in the canvas view will produce a line comprising of brush stamps at regular intervals. A dashed line is provided during tool interaction to indicate where the output stamps will be produced. Holding the Shift key during tool interaction will snap the produced line to Horizontal or Vertical orientation.
Rectangle
Clicking and dragging the mouse cursor between two points in the canvas view will produce a rectangle comprising of brush stamps at regular intervals. A dashed line is provided during tool interaction to indicate where the output stamps will be produced. Holding the Shift key during tool interaction will snap the produced rectangle to be a square.
Oval
Clicking and dragging the mouse cursor between two points in the canvas view will produce a oval comprising of brush stamps at regular intervals. A dashed line is provided during tool interaction to indicate where the output stamps will be produced. Holding the Shift key during tool interaction will snap the produced rectangle to be a circle.