Texture Form

The textures are displayed tiled in their own windows, which are child windows of the main interface.

You can draw and move your objects on it, like in any other image processing software, and apply the Texture Functions to modify the texture.

The objects (like ellipse, lines etc.) are drawn with the left mouse button. Hold down this button, move the mouse and release the button to define the position and size of an object. If you click on the black corner square, you can move and rescale objects. The shape of the objects (rectangles, etc.) are dependent on the Mask mode.

Press the ALT key to draw circles instead of ellipses, squares instead of rectangles and to limit lines to horizontal, vertical and diagonal directions.

Sometimes it is useful to draw multiple objects and apply the texture function at once to all of them instead of one after the other. Press the CTRL key to add objects. Activating this key while moving or rescaling objects causes them to be cloned. Holding down the CTRL key also prevents the function from being executed directly after drawing the objects.

Use the right mouse button to scroll the texture. Because the texture is displayed tiled, you can scroll without limit. Press the right mouse button on the texture's surface without moving the mouse to bring up a menu, which lets you e.g. rename the texture, run a function multiple times or recenter the texture.

You can crop the texture's colors and cast them to the Primary Color and Secondary Color by holding down the SHIFT key and pressing the left or right mouse button. Adding the CTRL key while cropping causes the cropped colors to be added to the Color History.