| | 1 | = Introduction = |
| | 2 | |
| | 3 | Drawing in Grafx2 can be done with only a mouse. However, you will be much faster if you use the keyboard and the shortcuts from this list. |
| | 4 | Note : These are the default shortcuts. You can modify the actual shortcuts for your config in the helpscreen inside the program. |
| | 5 | |
| | 6 | |
| | 7 | = Details = |
| | 8 | |
| | 9 | ||Scroll up||Up||Scrolls the picture up, both in magnify and normal mode. This hotkey cannot be removed.|| |
| | 10 | ||Scroll down||Down||Scrolls the picture down, both in magnify and normal mode. This hotkey cannot be removed.|| |
| | 11 | ||Scroll left||Left||Scrolls the picture to the left, both in magnify and normal mode. This hotkey cannot be removed.|| |
| | 12 | ||Scroll right||Right||Scrolls the picture to the right, both in magnify and normal mode. This hotkey cannot be removed.|| |
| | 13 | ||Faster scroll up||<Shift> + Up||Used to scroll upwards in the picture fast, either in magnify and normal mode.|| |
| | 14 | ||Faster scroll down||<Shift> + Down||Used to scroll downwards in the picture fast, either in magnify and normal mode.|| |
| | 15 | ||Faster scroll left||<Shift> + Left||Used to scroll to the left in the picture fast, either in magnify and normal mode.|| |
| | 16 | ||Faster scroll right||<Shift> + Right||Used to scroll to the right in the picture fast, either in magnify and normal mode.|| |
| | 17 | ||Slower scroll up||<Alt> + Up||Used to scroll upwards in the picture pixel by pixel, either in magnify and normal mode.|| |
| | 18 | ||Slower scroll down||<Alt> + Down||Used to scroll downwards in the picture pixel by pixel, either in magnify andnormal mode. normal mode.|| |
| | 19 | ||Slower scroll left||<Alt> + Left||Used to scroll to the left in the picture pixel by pixel, either in magnify and normal mode.|| |
| | 20 | ||Slower scroll right||<Alt> + Right||Used to scroll to the right in the picture pixel by pixel, either in magnify and normal mode.|| |
| | 21 | ||Move mouse cursor 1 pixel up||<Ctrl> + Up||Used to simulate a very small mouse deplacement upwards. Its very useful when you want a ultra-high precision.|| |
| | 22 | ||Move mouse cursor 1 pixel down||<Ctrl> + Down||Used to simulate a very small mouse deplacement downwards. Its very useful when you want a ultra-high precision.|| |
| | 23 | ||Move mouse cursor 1 pixel left||<Ctrl> + Left||Used to simulate a very small mouse deplacement to the left. Its very useful when you want a ultra-high precision.|| |
| | 24 | ||Move mouse cursor 1 pixel right||<Ctrl> + Right||Used to simulate a very small mouse deplacement to the right. Its very useful when you want a ultra-high precision.|| |
| | 25 | ||Simulate left mouse click||' '||Used to simulate a click with the left mouse button.. Its very useful when you want a ultra-high precision.|| |
| | 26 | ||Simulate right mouse click||<Shift> + ' '||Used to simulate a click with the right mouse button.. Its very useful when you want a ultra-high precision.|| |
| | 27 | ||Show/hide option menu||F10||Switch the tool bar display on/off. This hot-key cannot be removed.|| |
| | 28 | ||Show/hide cursor||F9||Switch the cursor display on/off. This only works on the "small cross" and "hand" cursors.|| |
| | 29 | ||Set paintbrush to 1 pixel||Del||Useful when you want to use a "single-pixel-brush". || |
| | 30 | ||Paintbrush choice||F4||Opens a menu where you can choose a paintbrush out of 24 predefined ones. || |
| | 31 | ||Monochrome brush||<Shift> + F4||Turn your current user-defined brush into a single colored one. All non-transparent colors are set to current foreground color.|| |
| | 32 | ||Freehand drawing||'d'||Set the drawing mode to the classical freehand one. || |
| | 33 | ||Switch freehand drawing mode||<Shift> + 'd'||Switch between the 3 ways to use freehand drawing. These modes are: continuous, discontinuous and point by point.|| |
| | 34 | ||Continuous freehand drawing||<Ctrl> + 'd'||Switch directly to continuous freehand drawing mode. || |
| | 35 | ||Line||'l'||Allows you to draw lines. || |
| | 36 | ||Knotted lines||<Shift> + 'l'||Allows you to draw linked lines. This mode can also be called "Polyline".|| |
| | 37 | ||Spray||'a'||Allows you to spray brushes randomly in the picture. || |
| | 38 | ||Spray menu||<Shift> + 'a'||Opens a menu in which you can configure the spray flow and size. || |
| | 39 | ||Flood-fill||'f'||Allows you to fill an area of the picture made of pixels of the same color. || |
| | 40 | ||Replace color||<Shift> + 'f'||Allows you to replace all the pixels of the color pointed by the mouse with the fore-color or the back-color.|| |
| | 41 | ||Beziers curves||'i'||Allows you to draw Beziers curves. || |
| | 42 | ||Beziers curve with 3 or 4 points||<Shift> + 'i'||Allows you to choose whether you want to draw Beziers curves with 3 or 4 points.|| |
| | 43 | ||Empty rectangle||'r'||Allows you to draw a rectangle using the brush. || |
| | 44 | ||Filled rectangle||<Shift> + 'r'||Allows you to draw a filled rectangle. || |
| | 45 | ||Empty circle||'c'||Allows you to draw a circle using the brush. || |
| | 46 | ||Empty ellipse||<Ctrl> + 'c'||Allows you to draw an ellipse using the brush. || |
| | 47 | ||Filled circle||<Shift> + 'c'||Allows you to draw a filled circle. || |
| | 48 | ||Filled ellipse||<Ctrl> + <Shift> + 'c'||Allows you to draw a filled ellipse. || |
| | 49 | ||Empty polygon||'n'||Allows you to draw a polygon using the brush. || |
| | 50 | ||Empty "polyform"||<Ctrl> + 'n'||Allows you to draw a freehand polygon using the brush. || |
| | 51 | ||Filled polygon||<Shift> + 'n'||Allows you to draw a filled polygon. || |
| | 52 | ||Filled "polyform"||<Ctrl> + <Shift> + 'n'||Allows you to draw a filled freehand polygon. || |
| | 53 | ||Rectangle with gradation||<Alt> + 'r'||Allows you to draw a rectangle with a color gradation. || |
| | 54 | ||Gradation menu||<Alt> + 'g'||Allows you to configure the way color gradations are calculated. || |
| | 55 | ||Sphere with gradation||<Alt> + 'c'||Allows you to draw a rectangle with a color gradation. || |
| | 56 | ||Ellipse with gradation||<Alt> + <Shift> + 'c'||Allows you to draw an ellipse filled with a color gradation. || |
| | 57 | ||Adjust picture||KP 5||Allows you to move the whole picture in order to re-center it. Notice that what gets out from a side reappears on the other.|| |
| | 58 | ||Flip/shrink picture menu||<Shift> + KP 5||Opens a menu which allows you to flip the picture horizontally/vertically or to shrink it to half-scale horizontally and/or vertically.|| |
| | 59 | ||Drawing effects||'e'||Opens a menu where you can enable/disable and configure the drawing effects listed below.|| |
| | 60 | ||Shade mode||F5||Allows you to shade or lighten some pixels of the picture belonging to a color range, in addition of any drawing tool.|| |
| | 61 | ||Shade menu||<Shift> + F5||Opens a menu where you can choose color ranges to use with the Shade mode. This menu also contains parameters used both in Shade and Quick-shade modes.|| |
| | 62 | ||Quick-shade mode||<Ctrl> + F5||Does the same thing as shade mode with a simpler method (faster to define but a bit less powerful).|| |
| | 63 | ||Quick-shade menu||<Ctrl> + <Shift> + F5||Opens a menu where you can define the parameters of the quick-shade mode. || |
| | 64 | ||Stencil mode||F6||Allows you to mask colors that must not be affected when you are drawing. || |
| | 65 | ||Stencil menu||<Shift> + F6||Opens a menu where you can choose colors masked by the Stencil mode. || |
| | 66 | ||Mask mode||<Alt> + F6||Allows you to mask colors of the spare page that will keep you from drawing. This mode should be called "True stencil".|| |
| | 67 | ||Mask menu||<Alt> + <Shift> + F6||Opens a menu where you can choose colors for the Mask mode. || |
| | 68 | ||Grid mode||'g'||Force the cursor to snap up grid points. || |
| | 69 | ||Grid menu||<Shift> + 'g'||Open a menu where you can configure the grid used by Grid mode. || |
| | 70 | ||Sieve mode||<Ctrl> + 'g'||Only draws pixels on certain positions matching with a sieve. || |
| | 71 | ||Sieve menu||<Ctrl> + <Shift> + 'g'||Opens a menu where you can configure the sieve. || |
| | 72 | ||Invert sieve||<Ctrl> + <Alt> + 'g'||Inverts the pattern defined in the Sieve menu. || |
| | 73 | ||Colorize mode||F7||Allows you to colorize the pixels on which your brush is pasted. This permits you to make transparency effects.|| |
| | 74 | ||Colorize menu||<Shift> + F7||Opens a menu where you can give the opacity percentage for Colorize mode. || |
| | 75 | ||Smooth mode||F8||Soften pixels on which your brush is pasted. || |
| | 76 | ||Smooth menu||<Shift> + F8||Opens a menu where you can define the Smooth matrix. || |
| | 77 | ||Smear mode||<Alt> + F8||Smears the pixels when you move your brush on the picture. || |
| | 78 | ||Tiling mode||<Alt> + 'b'||Puts parts of the brush where you draw. || |
| | 79 | ||Tiling menu||<Alt> + <Shift> + 'b'||Opens a menu where you can configure the origin of the tiling. || |
| | 80 | ||Classical brush grabbing||'b'||Allows you to pick a brush defined within a rectangle. || |
| | 81 | ||"Lasso" brush grabbing||<Ctrl> + 'b'||Allows you to pick a brush defined within a freehand polygon. || |
| | 82 | ||Get previous brush back||<Shift> + 'b'||Restore the last user-defined brush. || |
| | 83 | ||Horizontal brush flipping||'x'||Reverse brush horizontally. || |
| | 84 | ||Vertical brush flipping||'y'||Reverse brush vertically. || |
| | 85 | ||90ø brush rotation||'z'||Rotate the user-defined brush by 90ø (counter-clockwise). || |
| | 86 | ||180ø brush rotation||<Shift> + 'z'||Rotate the user-defined brush by 180ø. || |
| | 87 | ||Strech brush||'s'||Allows you to resize the user-defined brush. || |
| | 88 | ||Distort brush||<Shift> + 's'||Allows you to distort the user-defined brush. || |
| | 89 | ||Outline brush||'o'||Outlines the user-defined brush with the fore color. || |
| | 90 | ||Nibble brush||<Shift> + 'o'||Deletes the borders of the user-defined brush. This does the opposite of the Outline option.|| |
| | 91 | ||Get colors from brush||F11||Copy colors of the spare page that are used in the brush. || |
| | 92 | ||Recolorize brush||F12||Recolorize pixels of the user-defined brush in order to get a brush which looks like the one grabbed in the spare page.|| |
| | 93 | ||Rotate by any angle||'w'||Rotate the brush by an angle that you can define. || |
| | 94 | ||Pipette||'`'||Allows you to copy the color of a pixel in the picture into the foreground or background color.|| |
| | 95 | ||Swap foreground/background colors||<Shift> + '`'||Invert foreground and background colors. || |
| | 96 | ||Magnifier mode||'m'||Allows you to zoom into the picture. || |
| | 97 | ||Zoom factor menu||<Shift> + 'm'||Opens a menu where you can choose a magnifying factor. || |
| | 98 | ||Zoom in||KP Plus||Increase magnifying factor. || |
| | 99 | ||Zoom out||KP -||Decrease magnifying factor. || |
| | 100 | ||Brush effects menu||<Ctrl> + <Alt> + 'b'||Opens a menu which proposes different effects on the user-defined brush. || |
| | 101 | ||Text||'t'||Opens a menu which permits you to type in a character string and to choose a font, and then creates a new user-defined brush fitting to your choices.|| |
| | 102 | ||Screen resolution menu||Return||Opens a menu where you can choose the dimensions of the screen in which you want to draw among the numerous X and SVGA proposed modes.|| |
| | 103 | ||"Safety" resolution||<Shift> + Return||Set resolution to 320x200. This can be useful if you choosed a resolution that is not supported by your monitor and video card. Cannot be removed.|| |
| | 104 | ||Help and credits||F1||Opens a window where you can get information about the program. || |
| | 105 | ||Statistics||<Shift> + F1||Displays miscellaneous more or less useful information. || |
| | 106 | ||Jump to spare page||Tab||Swap current page and spare page. || |
| | 107 | ||Copy current page to spare page||<Shift> + Tab||Copy current page to spare page. || |
| | 108 | ||Save picture as...||F2||Opens a file-selector that allows you to save your picture with a new path-name.|| |
| | 109 | ||Save picture||<Shift> + F2||Saves your picture with the last name you gave it. || |
| | 110 | ||Load picture||F3||Opens a file-selector that allows you to load a new picture. || |
| | 111 | ||Re-load picture||<Shift> + F3||Re-load the current picture. This allows you to cancel modifications made since last saving.|| |
| | 112 | ||Save brush||<Ctrl> + F2||Opens a file-selector that allows you to save your current user-defined brush.|| |
| | 113 | ||Load brush||<Ctrl> + F3||Opens a file-selector that allows you to load a brush. || |
| | 114 | ||Settings||<Shift> + F10||Opens a menu which permits you to set the dimension of your picture, and to modify some parameters of the program.|| |
| | 115 | ||Undo (Oops!)||'u'||Cancel the last action which modified the picture. This has no effect after a jump to the spare page, loading a picture or modifying its size.|| |
| | 116 | ||Redo||<Shift> + 'u'||Redo the last undone action. This has no effect after a jump to the spare page, loading a picture or modifying its size.|| |
| | 117 | ||Kill||<Shift> + Del||Kills the current page. It actually removes the current page from the list of "Undo" pages.|| |
| | 118 | ||Clear page||Backspace||Clears the picture with the first color of the palette (usually black). || |
| | 119 | ||Clear page with backcolor||<Shift> + Backspace||Clears the picture with the backcolor. || |
| | 120 | ||Quit program||'q'||Allows you to leave the program. If modifications were not saved, confirmation is asked.|| |
| | 121 | ||Palette menu||'p'||Opens a menu which allows you to modify the current palette. || |
| | 122 | ||Secondary palette menu||<Shift> + 'p'||Opens a menu which allows you to define color series and some tagged colors. || |
| | 123 | ||Exclude colors menu||<Ctrl> + 'p'||Opens a menu which allows you to define the colors you dont want to use in modes such as Smooth and Transparency, or when remapping a brush.|| |
| | 124 | ||Scroll palette to the left||PgUp||Scroll palette in the tool bar to the left, column by column. || |
| | 125 | ||Scroll palette to the right||PgDn||Scroll palette in the tool bar to the right, column by column. || |
| | 126 | ||Scroll palette to the left faster||<Shift> + PgUp||Scroll palette in the tool bar to the left, 8 columns by 8 columns. || |
| | 127 | ||Scroll palette to the right faster||<Shift> + PgDn||Scroll palette in the tool bar to the right, 8 columns by 8 columns. || |
| | 128 | ||Center brush attachment point||<Ctrl> + KP 5||Set the attachement of the user-defined brush to its center. || |
| | 129 | ||Top-left brush attachment point||<Ctrl> + Home||Set the attachement of the user-defined brush to its top-left corner. || |
| | 130 | ||Top-right brush attachment point||<Ctrl> + PgUp||Set the attachement of the user-defined brush to its top-right corner. || |
| | 131 | ||Bottom-left brush attachment point||<Ctrl> + End||Set the attachement of the user-defined brush to its bottom-left corner. || |
| | 132 | ||Bottom-right brush attachment point||<Ctrl> + PgDn||Set the attachement of the user-defined brush to its bottom-right corner. || |
| | 133 | ||Next foreground color||']'||Set the foreground color to the next in the palette. || |
| | 134 | ||Previous foreground color||'['||Set the foreground color to the previous in the palette. || |
| | 135 | ||Next background color||<Shift> + ']'||Set the background color to the next in the palette. || |
| | 136 | ||Previous background color||<Shift> + '['||Set the background color to the previous in the palette. || |
| | 137 | ||Next user-defined forecolor||'='||Set the foreground color to the next in the user-defined color series. || |
| | 138 | ||Previous user-defined forecolor||'-'||Set the foreground color to the previous in the user-defined color series. || |
| | 139 | ||Next user-defined backcolor||<Shift> + '='||Set the background color to the next in the user-defined color series. || |
| | 140 | ||Previous user-defined backcolor||<Shift> + '-'||Set the background color to the previous in the user-defined color series. || |
| | 141 | ||Shrink paintbrush||','||Decrease the width of the paintbrush if it is special circle or square. || |
| | 142 | ||Enlarge paintbrush||'.'||Increase the width of the paintbrush if it is special circle or square. || |
| | 143 | |
| | 144 | |
| | 145 | = Mac OS X specific = |
| | 146 | |
| | 147 | ||Right mouse button simulation||<Apple> + mouse button or <Alt> + mouse button||Access to the alternate functions of the different icons.|| |
