Painting Tools

 

Rectangle Selection

To define a rectangle or square selection region

                                                                           

Move Selected Pixels

To move currently selected pixels

                                                                               

Lasso Select

To draw a free form selection

                                                                                

Move Selection

To move the selection without affecting the pixels that are selected

                                                                                

Eclipse Selection

To draw an eclipse or circle selection region

                                                                                  

Zoom

Used to zoom in and out of the canvas

                                                                                 

Magic Wand

To select colours similar in the the same layer

                                                                              

Text Tool

Used to place text on the image

                                                                            

                                                         Paintbrush

Freeform darwing

                                                                        

Colour Picker

To pick up colour from the active layer

                                                                         

Clone Stamp

Copying layers

                                                                   

Recolour Tool

For replacing one colour with another

                                                                      

Paint Bucket
Useful for filling in areas of similar colour

                                                                         

Line/Curve

To construct straight or curved lines with this tool.

                                                                          

Rectangle

To draw rectangles or squares

                                                                           

Rounded Rectangle

Rounded rectangles and rounded squares

                                                                   

Eclipse

Eclipses and circles

                                                                                     

Tolerance Slider
How the magic wand, the recolour tool and paint bucket work.
                                                                                                

 

Freeform

This can be used to draw a shape with a freeform outline.

                                                                                          

Colour Display

Shows the primary and secondary colours.

Graphic Terms

Animated gif

Stands for Graphics Interchange Format. A bitmap image format.

JPEG

Commonly used method of lossy compression for photographic images.

Pixel

The smallest discrete component of an image

BMP

An image file format used to stroe bitmap digital images.

FLIP

VIDEO CARD

An expansion card whose function is to generate and output images.

CROP

To, cut off the sides of an image to make it the proper size or to remove unwanted parts

Fps

A measure of how much information is used to store and display motion.

FRAME

A single drawing in a comic strip

MORPH

An animation technique in which one image is gradually turned into another.

 

CPU

(Central Processing Unit) The CPU is the brains of the computer.

DPI

(Dots per inch) Indication of the resolution of images. The more dots per inch, the higher the resolution.

RESOLUTION

The sharpness and clarity on an image. The term is most often used to describe monitors, printers and bit-mapped graphic images.

FILE EXTENSION

Suffix to the name of the computer file applied to indicate the encoding the convention (file format) of its contents.

  

COMPRESSION

Enables devices to transmit of store the same amount or data in fewer bits.

 FRAME BUFFER

The portion of memory reserved for holding the complete bit-mapped image that is sent to the monitor.

 COLOUR DEPTH

The number of distinct colours that can be represented by a piece of hardware or software.