Preferences

The preferences are very important to customize the application to fit your needs. There are a lot of options that affect the applications behavior or look.

The different sections and their options:

Directories

Undo directory is the directory where all undo-files are saved. Please make certain that there is always enough disk space available (20MB or more). Otherwise the undo function does not work properly.

Default Palette: You may select a different default palette here. Hit the little button besides to open a palette file.

Controls

Spacebar hides... means if the spacebar can hide/show certain windows. With the checkboxes you can choose the windows that should be hidden/displayed when hitting the spacebar.

Windows

Auto-move Windows... moves all windows of the application automatically when the main window is moved.

Display New Project Dialog... shows the dialog box to create a new animation after the application is started.

Miscellaneous

Center Animation Window... centers the animation window on the screen when it is played. After playback the previous window position will be restored.

Correct rectangular Brush Cutting... corrects the brush size after creation with the brush picker when the lock grid is activated. The rightmost and lowest pixel row is removed. This is used to create a brush that has the dimensions of the lock grid snap spaces. See toolbox / lock grid.

Create centered Circles... creates circles from their center. That means you at first set the center of the circle and by moving the mouse you define the radius.

Autotransparency when creating a rectangular brush... If you create a brush using the box selection (brush picker) and all four corner pixels have the same color then this color is automatically used as transparent.

Activate single Dot Paint Tool... activates the single dot paint tool after creating a custom brush with one of the brush pickers and after loading a brush from the brush container. If this option is not selected the last used paint tool will be switched after creating a brush.

Update Magnify Window when cycling... updates the magnify window too if you use the gradient cycling and you are running your Windows desktop with more than 256 colors. For more information see descriptions for theGradient Editor/Toolbox.

Coordinate display starts with 1... will make the coordinate display of the workspace start with 1 instead of 0.

Show startup tips... Displays useful tips when the application is started.

Show Splash Screenon Stratup... Displays the title screen when starting the application.

Default Zoom... defines the zoom value that is used after the program is started.

Brush scale... Defines the percentage for the brush size change (shortcuts: Shift + '+' / '-'.

Transparency Pattern... lets you choose the two colors used for displaying the transparency checker pattern.

Reset entire settings puts all program settings back to default. You should restart the application after using this function.

Reset Hints/Questions... when using certain functions special hints and questions appear then can be set to "don't display again". This setting will reset this flag for alle messages.

JPEG/PNG Export

Quality (0-100)... selects the compression ratio for JPEG saving. "0" is least compression, but highest image quality.

Progressive Encoding... decides if the JPEG image is to be saved with progressive mode.

Interlaced... defines if PNG images are to be saved using an interlaced mode.

Shortcuts

The shortcut preferences allow you to customize the keyboard shortcuts for the most functions.
Shortcuts that don't belong to menu entries can be found under the category "Other Shortcuts" and its sub-categories. With the "Reset to Default" - button you may reset all shortcuts to the standard defaults.

File Types

You can set the application to be automatically open when executing several image or animation file types.

Project Defaults

Define several default project settings that are used when creating a new project.