Infinite Painter is designed for use on touchscreens and many functions are controlled by gestures. Starting with drawing and painting which are, well, inherently gesture-controlled.

Tap and draw

Use your finger or a stylus.

You may paint, blend, erase and use any of other tools with your finger alone. Select tools by tapping them.

If you have a stylus, like the Samsung S-Pen®, you gain a lot more precision.

Note that once you use the stylus, certain functions in Infinite Painter may be used with the stylus only (learn more about that in Using a stylus.

Navigate around the canvas

With two fingers.

Pinch with two fingers to zoom in and out.

Rotate canvas with two fingers. You can simultaneously zoom and rotate.

Got lost?

It is easy to return to full canvas view

Quickly pinch with your fingers and lift them up to see the entire canvas.

...or double tap with one finger.

Note that you may assign the double-tap gesture to other functions if you wish to. See Application settings for details how to do this.

Undo and redo with gestures

So easy.

Tap with two fingers to undo last action.

Up to 32 steps back.

Tap with three fingers to redo if you changed your mind.

Long-press

Touch-and-hold.

On the canvas:

Long press gesture (on canvas) can be bound to any of several actions.

The default action is the Eyedropper (color picker).

Settings panel

In lists of items:

Long-press on an item in a list usually gives access to its options/settings.

This applies to: brushes (and brush folders), project thumbnails, swatch palettes, color swatches, image thumbnails (in Texture and Pattern selectors and in Clipboard) etc.

Long-press-and-drag

Move things around.

Long-press-and-drag gesture on an item usually allows you to move it.

Reorganizing layers

(See Reorganizing the layers)

Reorganizing projects

(See Reorganize thumbnails in the gallery)

Reorganizing brushes

(See Brush organization)

Reorganizing brush folders

(See Brush organization)

Docking tool icons on the top bar

(See Custom toolbar)

Adjust the brush size with a gesture

Don’t bother using sliders anymore.

Drag with three fingers up and down to adjust the size of the current brush.

This works for other tools too.

You may change the brush size in other ways too; see Basic brush controls.

Adjust the brush opacity with a gesture

And not only opacity.

Drag with three fingers left and right to adjust the opacity of current brush.

This works for other tools too.

Drag to the left to decrease opacity, to the right to increase it.

You may change the brush opacity in other ways too, see Basic brush controls.

Touch-Alt

Modify the stylus function with a touch of your finger

While using your stylus, you may quickly change its function by touching the screen with a finger. You can touch the screen in any place.

The resulting action depends on the settings for the Finger function. Default option is the Eyedropper (color picker; see Eyedropper tool for details)

Depending on the tool used, the Touch-Alt function yields different results:

For brushes (in Paint, Blend, Erase and Clone modes) — switches the stylus to Eyedropper or to the function set for Finger (Blend, Erase or canvas move).

For Shapes:

Rectangle: constrains to square

Line: snaps to 15° direction

Ellipse: snaps ellipse axis to 15° direction

For Transformations:

Move: constrains to 45° direction

Resize: constrains to 100% size increments

For Gradient and Pattern fills: constrains the fill axis to 45°

For Crop/Resize: keeps original canvas ratio.

Hide the interface with a gesture

For full immersion work

Tap with four fingers to hide all the interface elements.

In this immersive mode you can still draw and paint, or use any previously activated tools.

This however does not hide the “floating” screen widgets:

so you can still use them in the immersive mode.

Also, the mini-toolbars for the active tools remain on the screen.

Return to regular interface

Tap again with four fingers to return to the regular interface.