Editing Art

To edit your art, use the functions of the Edit menu.

Select Undo to restore the art to the way it was before the most-recent editing operation.

Four of the editing functions require that you first mark the area to be edited, using Select or Select All.

If you choose Select, the cursor changes to a plus (+) inside a square. Hold mouse button 1 down to anchor one corner, and then drag the mouse. Release the button to anchor the opposite corner of the rectangular area you want to edit.

If you choose Select All, the entire figure is selected.

The following functions require that an area be selected first:

• Fill to fill the selected area with the current palette color. For additional information, see Filling Areas with Color.

• Cut to cut an area you would like to move or delete.

• Copy to copy an area you would like to duplicate elsewhere in the same file or in another file.

• Paste to place an area you have marked with Cut or Copy. Drag the outlined area that you have marked to the place you would like to paste it.

• Clear to erase all drawing within an area you have selected and leave transparent pels. If you have used Select All, this will clear your entire icon, pointer, or bit map.

• Stretch Paste to paste the clipboard contents into your art, stretching and positioning them to fit.

• Flip Horizontal to flip the art on its horizontal axis, reversing bottom and top.

• Flip Vertical to flip the art on its vertical axis, reversing left and right. You can create a symmetrical drawing by copying one side of the art to the other side, and then flipping one of them.

• Circle to inscribe a circle or ellipse within the selected area.