Pixa Color & Brush panels

This is a brief introduction to Pixa’s Color & Brush Panels.

Color Panel

1. The color panel allows you to select the current drawing color by clicking on the selecting area.

   
    

2. You pick a color from anywhere in the application window with the picker tool and double click on the desired color.
    
3. To select a color manually press on the button to open the manual color selection panel.

   
   

4. Pixa has an option to save working palettes with different styles. The current palette style is the color list on the bottom of the panel.

   You have two viewing options for the palette style list, one as a list and one as grid, to switch between them click on the view mode button .

   

Brush Panel

1. The brush panel let you select, add and edit custom made drawing and erasing brushes.

   

2. To add new brushes to the list just press on the Add button and a new brush will be added to the list.
   
3. To remove a brush, first select it and then press the Remove button.
   
4. To edit a brush press on the Edit button, an option panel will be open; to save the changes and to close the panel, press the Edit button again.

    

And thanks to famfamfam for the free icons used in Pixa.

 

Enjoy!

Pixa – the drawing tool

I’m happy to introduce you to Pixa!

Pixa is a drawing program that takes full advantage of WPF. While it looks like a typical raster editor it is actually a vector editor, every stroke you paint on Pixa is actually a Geometry object, this allows you to zoom and resize without affecting the drawing quality.

I have launched a CodePlex project for Pixa, so you can download and play with it or contribute if you wish.

Please take into consideration that Pixa is a “PRE-ALPHA” version and is a long way from stable, I’m releasing it now so I can get feedback and share it with you (if you are interested in the code or your have an artistic soul ).

I will talk in following posts about Pixa’s roadmap, features and explain how I implemented some of the main features.

I will be happy to know what you think.