Menu Commands

Main Menu Items

• New: starts a new document. Will prompt to save the current document.
• Open: opens a document. Also will prompt.
• Save: saves the document. If you have saved the image previously, or if you loaded the current image and have edited it, this command will save it without a prompt.
• Save As: saves the document. This will prompt for a file name and saving type.
• Close: closes the document. Will prompt to save changes.
• Revert: loads the last saved iteration of current document.
• Recent Files: holds a list of recently opened, edited or saved files.
• Tools: fully described in the Advanced Tools section.
• Exit: (HPC only) exits Pocket Artist 3.
• Minimize: (PPC only) minimizes Pocket Artist, just like tapping the Smart Minimize button in any other Pocket PC application.

• Undo/Redo: undoes the last command, whether it be a paint stroke or a document command (such as resizing the image). If you have just selected to Undo, the command will Redo the undone operation.
• Step Backward: same as Undoing a step, but allows you to keep stepping backward in your image editing history.
• Step Forward: same as Redoing one step in your image editing history.
• Cut: takes the current selection, moves it to the clipboard (for version 3, the Pocket Artist and system clipboards are unified), and erases the current selected area of the document.
• Copy: takes the current selection and copies it to the Pocket Artist clipboard, retaining the selection and the document.
• Copy Merged: grabs all the layers as they are shown onscreen and copies it to the clipbaord.
• Paste: creates a new layer and copies data from the clipboard to a new layer.
• Clear: clears the current layer (or the current selection) by filling with the background color or erasing layer data.
• Transform: rotate, resize or flip the current layer or selection. If performed on the background layer, it will affect the entire document.
• Fill: fill the current layer or selection with the foreground color, background color or texture. Variable opacities and blending modes can be used. The "Preserve transparency" option will keep the current layer's alpha information intact when filling. If a texture is selected, another prompt for the texture file to use will open.
• Stroke: will outline a selection in various ways. Variable width and location (inside, centered, outside) settings can be used, as well as blending modes.
• Define Pattern: uses the current selection as the current pattern for the Pattern Stamp tool.
• Preferences: edit Preferences & Memory.
• About Pocket Artist: shows the version screen and copyright information for Pocket Artist and the installed plugins.

• Zoom In / Out / 100%: visually zooms in and out on the document. Zoom 100% resets the view.
• Zoom to Fit: zooms in or out to show the document as large as possible while still fitting it into the document area.
• Quick Zoom: a submenu of zoom increments from 12.5% to 1600%.
• Layer Toolbar / Channel Toolbar / Color Picker / Tool Options: toggle the visibility of the corresponding toolbar. A checkmark appears next to toolbars that are visible.
• Information: pops up a movable window that displays information on the stylus position and the color beneath it.
• Full Screen: switches Pocket Artist into a full screen mode, whereby the editing canvas fills the entire device screen.
• Grid: toggles the Grid, which is useful in guiding the stylus on the canvas with precision.
• Guides: toggles Guides, which help in precision (like the Grid). Each guide is created by dragging from the Ruler to the canvas, and consists of either a vertical or horizontal line that stylus motion is "snapped to" when painting or using other tools.
• Ruler: toggles the Ruler, which shows the range of pixels that is onscreen at any time.
• Snap To Grid, Guides: uncheck these options to keep the Grid and Guides visible, but to not perform any stylus precision snapping.
• Lock Guides: normally, the Move tool can be used to reposition a Guide. Locking the guides will not permit the Move tool to perform that action.
• Clear Guides: resets and clears all guides that have been created on the document.

• Levels...: adjusts the black, gray and white levels of the layer/selection. See Photography/Level Tools.
• Auto Levels: automatically adjusts the levels to have a uniform intensity across all levels and color balances.
• Auto Contrast: automatically adjusts the levels to have a uniform intensity across all levels without altering color.
• Fill Shadows: for images that have large dark areas, it expands the dark region to higher intensities to bring out detail. See Photography/Level Tools.
• Fix Overflash: for images that have large bright areas, it expands the bright region to lower intensities to bring out detail.
• Bright/Contrast: a window will allow you to adjust the brightness and contrast levels for the layer or selection. As these levels are modified, changes take place in the document window immediately.
• Hue/Saturation: adjust the hue, saturation and lightness levels for the layer or selection. As these levels are modified, changes take place in the document window immediately.
• Color Curves: adjust color levels of the layer or selection. All colors may be affected or just red, green or blue components.
• Desaturate: converts color image to grayscale.
• Invert: color values for the layer or selection will be inverted. This changes black to white, red to cyan, green to magenta, and blue to yellow.
• Image Size: scales the image up or down in size. Constrain proportions will keep the resulting aspect ratio the same as the original. The resampling algorithm may be selected. Each option offers a different tradeoff between quality and speed. On this screen you can also control the print resolution of the image, which is saved for certain image formats such as PSD, JPEG and BMP. Print resolution can be specified either in dots-per-inch or dots-per-centimeter.
  
• Canvas Size: changes the size of the canvas without scaling the image. The Anchor area specifies how you would like the pre-affected image to be placed in the new image -- in this case it would be aligned in the middle. If the height and width are decreased, the image would be cropped on each side.
  
• Crop Image: shrinks the current image, cropping it to the bounds of whatever selection you currently have.

• Deselect: defloats and removes the selection.
• Select All: selects the entire layer.
• Select Inverse: inverts the current selection so areas of the image that were selected are no longer selected and vice versa.
• Defloat: if a selection contains colors that were picked up during a Move operation, the colors are merged with the underlying layer.
• Feather: blurs the selection and creates a softer edge to the selection area. Colors data is not modified.
• Modify Border, Expand, Contract: adjusts the selection to either expand, contract the selected area or to select the border of the currently selected region.
• Save Selection: stores the current selection as a new channel. See Alpha Channels for more information.
• Toggle Outlines: the "marching ants" that appear as the boundary to the current selection will be hidden or shown by selecting this menu option.

• Filters: contains filters that may be applied to a layer or selection. They are discussed in further detail in the Filters chapter.
• Repeat: repeats the last run filter with the same settings.
• Fade Last...: steps back to before the last Filter was applied, and reapplies the filter with a new blending mode and opacity. Normally, all Filters apply themselves as a "100% Normal" function; this enables greater control.
  
  For example, add white text on a black background, and use the Gaussian Blur filter to blur it. The result is a blurry text image. Now, tap Fade Last, and pick the Difference or Exclusion blender. This combines the before (non-blurred) and after (blurry) images together, and computes the difference between the two, which results in glowing edges.
  
  Another example would be a "Soft Focus" effect, by using the Gaussian Blur on any layer, and then using the Fade Last command to apply the blur with the Lighten or Hard Light blender.