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Arrow |
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This enables you to return focus to the Irfan View window, to make selections, crop, etc. The
IrfanPaint tools, such as paintbrush or flood-fill will have no effect outside of the selected area.
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Paintbrush |
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The left mouse button paints with the foreground color, and the right mouse button paints with the background color. Hold down the shift key, and scroll with the mouse scroll-wheel to change the brush width or use the width control on the toolbox.
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Eraser |
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Click and drag with the left mouse button to erase any part of the image, leaving the background color. Click and drag with the right mouse button to undo any previous painting, leaving the original image. Hold down the shift key, and scroll the mouse scroll-wheel to adjust the width of the eraser.
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Clone tool |
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Right click to define the source; left click and drag to define the target and start painting a copy of the source. Hold down the shift key, and scroll with the mouse-wheel to adjust the width of the clone brush.
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Color replacer |
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The color replacer is used to replace a color with another one. Click and drag with the left button to replace the background color with the foreground color. Click and drag with the right button to replace the foreground color with the background color. Hold down the shift key, and scroll the mouse scroll-wheel to adjust the width of the color replacer. Use the tolerance field to adjust the tolerance of the color substitution.
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Text tool |
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The Text Tool adds formatted text to the image. The text cursor’s cross-hair will be the baseline for the inserted text. The text will be left, right, or center aligned on the insertion point.
When you click the text cursor on an image, the Insert Text dialog opens. Here, you can select text, format individual words or letters with font, size, color, and text attributes, or align the text left, right, or centre.
Unicode text can be pasted from the clipboard, or typed by using a customised Windows keyboard.
The text can be drawn as an empty path, a filled path, as text or antialiased text. For path text, the text color icon changes to the brush settings icon, from which you can set the line and fill attributes of the text.
Text in the dialog can be copied to the clipboard for reuse, and all formatting is preserved.
The Hold to preview button will display the formatted text in the image so that you can check that it is not too big, correctly justified, and has a suitable color contrast, etc., before clicking on OK to insert the text.
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Line tool |
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Click and drag with the left mouse button to draw a straight line with the foreground color. Click the right mouse button while dragging to cancel. Hold down the Shift key to constrain the line to 45° angles. Hold down the Control key to draw a line centred on the start point. Hold down the shift key, and scroll with the mouse-wheel to adjust the width of the line. Use the Brush Settings to change the style of the line, or line endings.
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Arrow-line tool |
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The same as the line tool. Right-click the arrow tool to define the start and end arrow styles.
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Ellipse/circle tool |
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Click and drag to draw an ellipse. Hold down shift to draw a circle. Hold down control to constrain the centre to the start point. Click the right mouse button to cancel drawing.
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Rectangle/square tool |
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Click and drag to draw a rectangle. Hold down shift to draw a square. Hold down control to constrain the centre to the start point. Click the right mouse button to cancel drawing.
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Floodfill tool |
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Click with the left mouse button to fill an area with the foreground color. Click with the right mouse button to fill an area with the background color. Use the selector tool first to limit the flood fill to the enclosed area. Use the tolerance field to set the tolerance value of the floodfill (suggested value: 40).
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Color-picker tool |
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Click with the left mouse button to select the foreground color. Click with the right mouse button to select the background color. After using the color picker tool once, focus will immediately return to the previously selected tool unless you selected the picker tool holding Shift.
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Straighten/Rotate Image Tool |
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Click and drag the tool along a straight line or between two points that you want to be on a horizontal or vertical line after rotation. The current background color will be used to fill the canvas, which is extended to accommodate the rotated image. The background color used by the custom fine rotation in Irfan View is not affected or used by this tool. It uses the background color of IrfanPaint.
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Pen and brush settings |
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Open the brush settings dialog to set line and fill styles, and line endings. Results will depend on the line width, and will affect the paintbrush, line, arrow, ellipse, and rectangle tools.
Here you can set the line style, pen width, line ending style, line joints (corner) style, line color, and line hatching style.
The background tab allows you to set the color and hatching style for the fill. The secondary hatching color can be transparent to get a highlighting effect when painting over text with the background color (right mouse button with the brush tool).
To make it look like there is no pen outline, use the same color and hatching for the line as you use for the fill.
Empty path text and filled path text will also use these brush settings. Unless text is very large you will probably need to use a line width of only 1 or 2 pixels.
The preview indicates (roughly) what the result will be. Click the preview to invert the foreground and background styles and colors.
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Help (exhaustive tooltips) |
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Choose between short tool tips and extensive context help for the tool tips shown on mouse over.
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About IrfanPaint |
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Version number of the IrfanPaint plugin, information
about the translation, credits and a link to the IrfanPaint website, from where you can download the latest IrfanPaint version.
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Line width |
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Enter a line width value in pixels, scroll with the buttons, or use the up/down cursor keys to adjust the line width. The line width can also be adjusted by holding shift and scrolling with the mouse wheel, while using the tools.
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Tolerance |
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Higher values increase the range of colors replaced by the color replacer and flood fill tools. Reducing it to zero replaces only pixels with the specified color; increasing it to 255 replaces every color.
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Fill |
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Used by the arrow-line, ellipse and rectangle tools. Choose from solid (filled) or outline (unfilled) shapes.
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Color pane |
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Click on the rectangle on the foreground to select the foreground color.
Click on the rectangle on the background to select the background color.
Click on the little arrow to exchange the two colors.
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