Selecting, transforming and warping

The head came out too small, the tree is in the wrong spot? In the new drawing program you don't have to redraw anything for that: you select the part and move, rotate, scale or bend it.

Selecting

Take the Select tool (key L). At the top of its options are two buttons: Select and Transform. First you select:

• Shape of the selection: lasso (freehand), polygon (point by point), rectangle or ellipse.
• Adding and subtracting: hold Shift to add to the selection and Alt to take something away.
• Select all, Invert and Reset select everything, the opposite, or nothing.

A selection affects other tools too: brush, bucket and filters then only change the selected area.

Transforming

Click Transform or press L again. Now you move what's selected:

• Move: click into the selection and drag. The arrow keys move it pixel by pixel.
• Scale and rotate: drag the handles of the frame.
• Flip X, Flip Y, -90° and +90° flip and rotate at the press of a button.
• Clone stamps a copy, and you keep moving - ideal for repetition like fence posts or stars.
• Keep proportions stops things getting squashed. Snapping keeps you to the edges, to 45° steps and to sizes like ¼, ⅓, ½, ¾, 1×, 1.5×, 2×, 3× and 4× of the selection.
• Transparency decides what's left in the old spot: see-through instead of filled with the current colour.

Apply with Enter, by clicking Select, or by taking another tool. Cancel with Esc.

Warping

Warp lays a grid over the selection. Drag any point, and the selection bends along - a straight fish becomes one swimming round a corner, a flat sign one waving in the wind.

Switch Warp off again and you can move, scale and rotate the bent result as usual. While warping there's no Clone, Keep proportions or Snapping.

Undo

While you're transforming, Ctrl + Z steps back through your individual moves. Once everything is taken back, the transformation is dropped. Once applied, it's a single step that Ctrl + Z undoes as a whole.