Options Menu

The options menu controls some of the finer points of
UltraPaint's behaviour.

- Highlight selections specifies whether
to highlight selected image data. If this is not checked,
it will be very difficult to tell whether something is
selected.
- Highlight invisible color will cause 0
pixels (i.e. transparent pixels) to be highlighted and
animated with a green color. This is disabled by default.
- The three draw modes are described here.
- Show grid will cause a grid to be
overlaid on the image.
- Snap drawing to grid will cause the
start and endpoints of draw primatives to be aligned with
the corners of grid squares.
- Grid setting will bring up the grid setup dialog box.
- The selections/deforming menu will
control the behaviour when moving or deforming a
selection with the selection
tool.
- If detach when moved/deformed is checked, then
moving a selection will cause it to be removed
from the image. Otherwise, the selection is only
copied from the image.
- If prevent from being moved off the image is
checked, you can't move the edge of the selection
off the image. This effectively protects the
selection, because if you move part of the
selected data off the selection, it is clipped;
that is, any portion of a selection you move off
the image vanishes into oblivion as soon as you
let go of the mouse button.
- You can choose from 5, 9, 13, or 17-point deform
modes. When deforming,
there's a focus point in the middle and a number
of points on the outside. The number of points on
the outside is controlled by these menu options.
- Smooth deforming will generally increase
the quality of deformations. Because it blends
with the transparent color, it may cause
the edges of whatever you are deforming to appear
darker.
- Single brush set for all files will make
it so that each open file will use the same set of colors
for drawing. Otherwise, every file will have a different
set of colors to use for drawing operations.