Selection tools used with other tools

In general, you can try everything with everything.

Selection tools may be used with many other ToolToolIn Infinite Painter ‘tools’ usually refer to functions that are not directly related to painting with brushes. In this context, “tool” may help in adding color to the artwork or may edit already existing composition.s. Try Symmetries, Perspective grids, Lazy guide etc. while using Lasso tool, Rectangle and Circle selection or Brush selection tool.

* Selection tools: Rectangle, Circle and Polyline are in fact the Lasso tool working with respective Shapes, so using any of these with other Shapes just switch the shape type.

Selection mask may be edited with most of the editing tools: (while still in the Selection workspace)

• Pattern tools (Symmetry, Path, Quilt, Tile patterns)

• Liquify tool

• Filters (however not all filters make sense with 8-bit mask)

New brush from a selection

Make a custom brush head in one step

New custom BrushBrushA brush is a tool that lets you paint on a the canvas with different shapes, textures, and colors, similar to using real paintbrushes. The brushes follow the movements of your finger or stylus on the touchscreen (as opposed to other tools that have no real-time interaction with the canvas). In Infinite Painter, the brushes have much more functionality than merely applying colors.Learn more can be easily made from any selected fragment of your artwork.

Select desired fragment with Rectangle selection tool

Use the Make Brush command on the Selection toolbar

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Complete the setup of the new brush and confirm. (Learn more about creating custom brushes in Brush Creator). Enjoy your new tool!

Ideally the brush head bitmap should be "white-on-transparent" (but in fact can be anything).

For best results, the selected fragment should be square, but it doesn’t even have to be rectangular. The brush engine will adjust the shape.

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Note that in Infinite Painter, the brush head may be a full-color bitmap. In such case make sure to activate the “Color” option in the Brush EditorBrush EditorComplex panel (or rather a set of panels) containing all the controls of a brush in Infinite Painter. Learn more.

More about using brush head bitmaps in Brush Head selector.

Selection mask appearance

Control how the selection mask is shown

There are two styles of the selection mask: the “marching ants” line and a color overlay.

Toggle the style in the Selection menu.

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"Marching ants" line

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The "marching ants" style is perfect for simple, hard-edged selections. This style doesn't obstruct artwork visibility, yet for more complex selections it may be confusing.

Color overlay style

Color overlay 50% opacity gray (default)

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You change the color of the mask overlay:

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Color overlay 50% opacity red

Semi-transparent color overlay shows both the artwork and the mask at the same time.

Color overlay 100% opacity red

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