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Pixelyz Interface
Create beautiful pixel art with our suite of tools.
You can find some of our best features below. They will simplify your work to help you to only focus on your art.
Splash screen
Splash screen appears when you launch Pixelyz. You have diffferent choices that are explain below.

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Open a new document
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Open an existing document
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Open files as examples
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Open recent file

Click on the information you wish to get it
Viewport
Pixelyz workspace is designed to be as unobtrusive as possible. The focus is on the art and contextual menus.
The viewport is comprised of a top panel with all the documents opened and the work area.


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Move viewport
Hold ctrl and drag to move the viewport

Zoom viewport
Scroll midle mouse button to change the zoom
Vector
Vector buttons and their functions. This apply only when a Vector layer is selected.
Hold A on your keyboard, pick a direction and release to pick one of the fifth actions
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Polygon
Switch to Polygon mode
New shape
Draw vector in new shape
Color
Select vector color
Clear
Delete current layer
Delete
Delete current layer
Validate
Validate current layer
Vector creation panel

Simplify
Click to change vector outline color
Spacing
Click to change vector outline color
Fill color
Click to change vector color
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Polygon tool
Freehand tool
Ellipse tool
Rectangle tool
Add shape
Cut vector
Drawing
A quick run down of all drawing buttons and their functions. This apply only when a Paint layer is selected.
Hold A on your keyboard, pick a direction and release to pick one of the fifth actions

Eraser
Select eraser tool
Property
Show property layer
Color
Select color layer
Animate
Create animation for current Layer
Deselect
Deselect layer
Side panel

Brush color
Ellipse brush
Triangle brush
Rectangle brush
Brush size
Brush size
Right click to open the panel: change brush size and spacing
Brush color
Click to change brush color
Brush shape
Click to change brush to rectangle, ellipse or triangle
Line
Line buttons and their functions. This apply only when a Line layer is selected.
Hold A on your keyboard, pick a direction and release to pick one of the sixth actions

Polygon
Switch to Polygon mode
New line
Create new line layer
Color
Clear current vector and redraw shape
Clear
Clear current line and redraw shape
Delete
Delete current layer
Validate
Delete current layer
Line creation panel

Simplify
Click to change vector outline color
Spacing
Click to change vector outline color
Line color
Click to change line color
Animation
Animation pie menu and its functions.
Hold A on your keyboard, pick a direction and release to pick one of the four actions

New
Create new keyframe
Copy
Copy current keyframe
Delete
Delete current keyframe
New Layer
Create a new Layer
Onion
Switch on/off the onion skin effect
Animation pie menu and its functions.
Preview window
The preview window is the small window that can show you the entire workspace while you are editing a document.

Menu bar
Top panel bar
You can find top panel at the top of window.

Side bar
You can find the side bar on the left of the window. Side bar buttons are contexual. It depends on the layer selected.
None selected
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Create a new vector layer
Create a new curve layer
Create a new paint layer
Vector
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Fill color
Outline color
Stroke size
Paint
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Brush color
Ellipse brush
Triangle brush
Rectangle brush
Brush size
Line
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Fill color
Line size
Solid
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Create a new vector layer
Create a new line layer
Create a new paint layer
Gradient
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Color 1 of Gradient
Color 2 of Gradient
Noise
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Color 1 of Noise
Color 2 of Noise
Layer panel
The layer panel can be opened by pressing the layer button on the menu bar.
Layer panel is used to organise layers. You can drag and drop layers to change order or delete them.
You can change the visibility setting by clicking on the eye icon.
Lock the layer by clicking on the lock icon. When locked, you can't transform or edit the layer.


Layer panel
Layer properties

Open the layer properties panel by double clicking on a layer.
Size:
Layer width
Layer height
Properties:
Color - fill color
Alpha - controls opacity
Outline color
Outline size
Animation timeline
The animation panel has a tool bar button at the top, a player bar at the bottom and animation clip timeline in the middle.
The tool bar button can be used to create a new keyframe.

Menu bar
A quick run down of all menu bar buttons and their functions.
Create a new document
New


Save incremental document
Save +

Import document as layer
Import

Redo the last action
Redo

Open a grid
Grid

Show layer menu
Layer

Show preview window
Preview window

Vector
Create a new vector layer

Animate selected layer
Animate

Save
Save current document

Open existing document
Open

Undo
Undo last action

Render
Export to image sequence, gif or image

Show scene properties
Scene properties

Show timeline menu
Timeline

Show document settings menu
Settings

Create paint layer
Paint

Duplicate selected layer
Duplicate
