Gestures and quick actions

Gestures

Here is the list of all supported gestures in Pixquare:

  • Pan canvas - Two-finger pan

  • Zoom canvas - Pinch

  • Rotate canvas - Rotate (configurable)

  • Undo - Two-finger tap

  • Rapid undo - Two-finger hold

  • Redo - Three-finger tap

  • Rapid redo - Three-finger hold

  • Finish current tool - One-finger double-tap

  • Select a canvas grid - Pencil double-tap

  • Navigate to the next frame - Left swipe (configurable)

  • Quick eye dropper - Long press one canvas by finger or pencil (configurable)

  • Pencil double-tap (action will match with system configuration for pencil)

  • Pencil squeeze (either tool customization or quick palette)

Quick actions

Apple Pencil Pro squeeze actions

If you're equipped with the Apple Pencil Pro which supports the squeeze gesture, you can activate some quick actions with that gesture.

While hovering the pencil on the canvas, squeeze the pencil to show the menu.

There are 2 modes for this gesture: tool customization and color palette.

For more fluent flow, you can squeeze, hold it, hover over the buttons, and release it to trigger a selection.

Quick tools

In between the size and opacity sliders, there is a small square. If we tap and hold that square, the eye dropper tool will be activated until the touch is released.

The eye dropper is not the only tool that we can use, we can customize the tool in Settings > Drawing > Slider quick tool

Slider bookmark

Size and opacity sliders can add bookmarks so that next time we can quickly jump back to a preset size/opacity.

  • To add a bookmark, tap on the slider knob, then the "+" button

  • To remove a bookmark, tap on it twice and then the "-" button

Color drop

Artwork by @ArtNature_it

The color box at the top right corner can be dragged into the canvas to perform a bucket-fill.

Canvas 100% zoom

When tapping on the preview button, it will expand the preview window. However, we can also hold that button to quickly zoom the canvas to 100% and set it to be at the center of the screen to gauge how it looks in real size; release the button and it will zoom back to the previous zoom scale and position.

Drawing tools as an eraser

When using drawing tools (brush, line, shape) with 0 opacity, these tools will act as an eraser. So a quick trick is to drag the opacity slider down to 0 and use these tools to do custom erasing that the regular eraser cannot do easily.

Quick zoom level

At the bottom info bar, we can tap the zoom scale info to expand the quick zoom level options.

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