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
1. 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.
2. 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
3. Bottom panel resize
All of the bottom panels (timeline, palette, and gesture pad) can be resized. Look for a little bar at the top corners, and drag that bar to size the panels.
4. 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
5. Color drop
The color box at the top right corner can be dragged into the canvas to perform a bucket-fill.
The same thing can be done directly from the palette. However, for the palette, we need to long-press and then drag instead of just dragging.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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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