Help
The same guide that is inside the program (press F1). Fifteen topics.
Welcome
Sprit's'fast is a sprite and pixel art editor with one unusual promise: nothing you draw is turned into pixels until it is shown. A pencil stroke is kept as the path the…
Getting started
Five minutes from an empty canvas to a sprite you can…
Drawing
The selection tools are in Selecting and moving…
Selecting and moving
Hold Shift to add to the selection, Alt to subtract from it, and both to keep only what overlaps. The selection is drawn with marching…
Colour and palettes
Every document has a palette, and colours in it are slots rather than values. A pixel painted through a slot remembers the slot. Change the slot and everything painted…
Layers and elements
The Layers panel lists the layers of the picture, topmost first, each with a thumbnail of what that layer alone draws. Right click a layer row for everything…
Rotating, scaling and the canvas
Pick a layer and open the Transform panel. Rotate , Scale , Mirror and Offset add an entry to the layer's list of operations: an angle, a factor, a number of whole…
Animation
A frame is a sprite, and the document's frames in order are the animation. Press T to open the timeline . It has two…
Cutout puppets
Cutout animation, the way a hand does it: a character built from parts, each turning about its own joint, posed by hand and captured to a…
Tiles, grids and slices
View Tiled mode draws the canvas again beside itself, across, down or both ways, so the seams of a repeating tile show while you draw it. A stroke that runs off one edge…
References and the library
File Import reference... brings in an image to draw from: a photograph, a sketch, a pose sheet. It sits over or under the canvas at any opacity. It changes no pixel: no…
Opening, saving and exporting
Fast's own file is .lsprite . It keeps everything: layers, elements, frames, palettes, cycles, slices, references, puppets and the view you left. A file written by Fast…
Panels, themes and preferences
Every panel docks, tabs, floats and resizes. Drag one by its tab to the side of another to dock beside it, onto it to share its place as a tab, or out over the canvas to…
Keyboard shortcuts
These are the defaults. Every one can be changed in Edit Preferences... Keys , and Help Keyboard shortcuts always shows what the keys are now , including your changes.…
Troubleshooting and limits
Start it again. If the last session ended without saving, it asks Recover your work? about the work you lost last, with a picture of it, its name (or Untitled ), when it…