The mtPaint Handbook
1. Legal
2. Introduction
2.1 Life Before mtPaint
2.2 Project Genesis
2.3 General Philosophy
2.4 Development Timeline
2.4.1 Version 0.23 - 0.37
2.4.2 Version 0.40 - 0.97
2.4.3 Version 2.00 - 2.30
2.4.4 Version 3.00
3. Pixel Art
3.1 Creating a New Canvas
3.2 Painting Tools
3.2.1 Paint
3.2.2 Shuffle
3.2.3 Flood Fill
3.2.4 Straight Line
3.2.4.1 Drawing Arrows
3.2.5 Smudge
3.2.6 Clone
3.2.7 Text
3.2.7.1 Text (FreeType)
3.3 The Palette
3.3.1 Editing the Palette
3.3.2 Loading and Saving the Palette
3.3.3 Sorting and Adjusting the Palette
3.3.4 Colour Protection
3.3.5 The Transparent Colour
3.3.6 Picking a Colour from the Canvas
3.4 Patterns
3.5 Painting Modes
3.5.1 Continuous
3.5.2 Opacity
3.5.3 Tint
3.5.4 Colour Selection
3.5.5 Mask
3.5.6 Gradient
3.5.6.1 Placed Gradients
3.5.6.2 Stroke Gradients
3.5.6.3 Custom Gradients
3.5.6.4 Utility Channel Gradients
3.5.7 Blend
4. The Selection Tool
4.1 Rectangle Selections
4.2 Polygon Selections
4.3 The Lasso
4.4 Masking Colours
4.5 Alpha Blending
4.5.1 Single Colour Variation
4.6 Multiple Clipboards
4.7 Brush Pasting
5. Image Viewing
5.1 Zooming and Panning
5.1.1 Zooming to a Particular Area
5.2 Full View Mode
5.3 The Command Line Window
5.4 The View Window
6. Image Manipulation
6.1 Cropping
6.2 Scaling
6.2.1 Gamma Correction
6.3 Rotating
6.4 Resizing the Canvas
6.4.1 Tile Effects
6.5 Adjusting the Image Gamma, Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, Hue
6.6 Applying Effects
6.6.1 Bacteria
6.6.2 Greyscale
6.6.3 Unsharp Mask
6.6.4 Gaussian Blur
6.7 Isometric Transformations
6.8 Converting an RGB Image to Indexed Palette
6.8.1 The Palette
6.8.2 The Pixels
6.8.3 Examples
6.8.4 Tricks and Tips
6.8.4.1 Saturation
6.8.4.2 Manually Selecting Colours
6.8.4.3 Dithering Settings
7. Channels
7.1 Alpha
7.1.1 Coupling RGBA Operations
7.1.2 Unassociate Alpha
7.2 Selection
7.3 Mask
7.4 File Handling
7.5 Tricks and Tips
7.5.1 Converting a Colour Transparency to an Alpha Transparency
7.5.2 Converting an Alpha Transparency to a Colour Transparency
7.5.3 Separating a Red, Green or Blue Channel
7.5.4 Adding a Red, Green or Blue Channel
7.5.5 Converting Red, Green or Blue into any Other Colour
7.5.6 Adding or Subtracting Masks
7.5.7 Creating a Mask from a Single Colour
7.5.8 Cutting out Text Shapes from a Photo
7.5.9 Creating Text Cut Outs for Web Pages
7.5.10 Feathered Edges
7.5.11 Outlined Edges
7.5.12 Partial Masking
7.5.13 Magic Wand Selections
8. Layers
8.1 Creating
8.1.1 Drag 'n' Drop
8.2 Manipulating
8.3 Examples
8.4 Tricks and Tips
8.4.1 Creating a Scrapbook using Layers
8.4.2 Gradient Stencils
9. Animation
9.1 Loading Animated GIF Files
9.2 Creating Animated GIF Files
9.3 Animating Layers
9.3.1 Preparation of Ideas
9.3.2 Project Initializing
9.3.3 Setting up Positions and Cycle Data
9.3.4 Exporting Frames for GIF or MPEG Encoding
9.3.5 Extra Notes
9.4 Indexed Palette Animation Examples
9.5 RGB Animation Examples
9.6 Palette Shifting
A. Miscellaneous
A.1 Shortcuts
A.1.1 Keyboard Shortcuts
A.1.2 Mouse Shortcuts
A.2 Supported File Types
A.2.1 PNG Files
A.2.2 JPEG 2000 Files
A.2.2.1 Lossy Image Comparison - JPEG vs JP2
A.2.2.2 Lossless Image Comparison - PNG vs JP2
A.3 Grabbing Screenshots
A.4 Preferences
A.4.1 Touch Sensitive Tablets
A.4.2 Localized Translations
A.5 Limitations
A.6 Customizing mtPaint
A.6.1 Creating Patterns
A.6.2 Creating Brushes
A.6.3 Custom Icons
A.7 File Actions
A.7.1 GNU/Linux Systems
A.7.2 Windows Systems
A.8 Installing mtPaint as a Library (libmtpaint)
A.8.1 Compilation and Installation
A.8.2 Usage
A.8.3 Examples
B. The History of this Document
C. The NEWS file from mtPaint
D. The README file from mtPaint
