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Selecting and moving

Making a selection #

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 ants.

Select menu: All (Ctrl+A), Deselect (Ctrl+D), Reselect, Invert (Ctrl+Shift+I), and Modify, which grows, shrinks or borders the selection by any number of pixels, with square or round corners.

While there is a selection, the pencil, eraser and fill stay inside it.

Moving and changing what is selected #

• Drag the selected pixels with the Move tool (V), or nudge them with the arrow keys.
• Flip horizontally (Shift+H) or vertically (Shift+V).
• Edit > Rotate freely puts the selected pixels on a layer of their own and shows a ring to turn them by any angle, as often as you like; Edit > Scale freely shows eight handles to size them. Neither resamples the drawing: any size or angle goes back to the original exactly.
• Cut, Copy and Paste (Ctrl+X, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V). Paste as new layer is Ctrl+Shift+V. Delete removes the selected part and keeps the hole as part of what it cut from.
• Edit > Fill selection paints it in the current colour; Stroke selection paints a band the brush's width just inside its edge. Both are ordinary paint, one undo step each.
• Brush from selection (Ctrl+B) makes the selected pixels your brush.

The clipboard works with other programs #

Copies also go on the system clipboard as an image, so they paste into a browser, a chat or another editor. An image copied anywhere else pastes into Fast as a floating piece, one element per colour; a colour the palette already has comes in as that slot, so it recolours with the palette straight away. Paste can also make the image a reference.

Snapping #

Snap to grid (Shift+S) makes selections cover whole tiles, shapes put their corners on tile lines, and a moved selection step from tile to tile. Set the tile size under View > Tile grid. See Tiles, grids and slices.

This is the guide that ships inside the program (F1).