PixiePlus Users Guide: Section 2.1
In addition to the browser, Pixie also features built-in, lightweight image editor for doing basic editing to your photos and images. It has both color adjustment and over 30 effects you can apply either to entire images or to selected regions of an image.
To edit an image right-click on one in the browser and select the
"Edit Image..." menu entry. Once the editor component is loaded you can open
new images either by using the "Edit Image..." menu entry again from the
browser or by using the "File" menu from the editor. If you need a new window,
simply use the "New Window" button. This will
create another editor window with whatever file your currently editing.
The image editor is pretty straightforward. You have a toolbar with several built-in effects on top, the image your editing in the middle, and a statusbar on the bottom. The statusbar has 4 items: the zoom level, the current cursor position, a modification indicator, and status text.
Pixie can zoom up to 16x by increments of 2. This means you can zoom 2x, 4x,
6x, 8x, 10x, 12x, 14x, or 16x. To change the zoom level simply use the
Zoom In and Zoom Out
buttons.
It is important to note that this is very different from changing the image
size. Zooming doesn't change an image's size at all, it just changes how it
looks in the editor. To change the size of the image itself see the next
section.
You mainly use the mouse for making selections on the image. Using the left mouse button you can select a region of the image to apply effects to. The cursor position indicator will change to display the region's upper-left position and size and any effect you select will only be applied to the region, not the entire image. Double-clicking on the image will reset the selection.
You also can use the middle mouse button to display the color at the current cursor position in both decimal and hexdecimal (web format).
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