Tool cursors
Default cursor
 The Arrow
cursor appears anytime you're outside of the project window. It is the default cursor for
selecting commands or tools and manipulating palettes options.
Selection cursors
 The Marquee
Cross cursor appears when you select any of the selection tools and navigate
inside the project window.
 To
display the Marquee Minus cursor press and hold the Shift key.
Dragging with with this cursor substract from the current selection.
Press to display the Marquee Plus cursor. Hold Alt key
and drag to add the new selection to the current one.
Magic Wand
 This cursor works
exactly like the marquee cursor. It is associated with the Magic Wand tool.
 Shift
+ Click to substract the similarly coloured zone from the current selection.
 Alt
+ Click to add the similarly coloured zone to the current selection.
Move tool cursors
 The Move
Object cursor is associated with the move tool by default when no selection is
made on the current project. Drag to displace the object. When using any other of Photonyx
tools Ctrl + Drag to display this cursor and displace the current object.
When there is a selection on the current project you can displace it using the move tool (V).
Doing so you'll only displace the selection mask with the Move Selection
cursor. You also can access the Move object cursor by Alt + dragging and
than moving the whole object while the selection maks remains in place.
Hand tool
 This is the cursor
associated with the Hand tool. Drag to pan and thus navigate the image as
it was a true sheet of paper.
Object and History palette
The Pointing Hand appears when navigating the object or history palette.
Click to select an object or an editing step in the history palette.
 Exclusive
to the object palette the Grabbing Hand cursor appears when you grab an
object in the object palette. It desappears when you release the object.
Type Tool
 This cursor
indicates that the type tool is selected. Clicking on the project window will display the
Type tool dialog box. The text will be added where you clicked with this cursor in the
current project.
Zoom Tool
 When you select
this tool click with the left button of your mice to zoom in or right click to zoom out.
Anyway the best use of this tool is to drag to select a rectangular zone that will be
zoomed at.
Color Picker
 This cursor
appears when you select the Color Picker tool (K) or when you press Alt
with any of the painting tools and also with the paint can and type tool. Clicking
with this cursors selected changes the foreground color in the Color Tuner palette.
 With the
color picker tool selected Alt + click or with any of the painting tools Ctrl
+ Alt + click to change the background color.
Eraser
 This
is the default Eraser cursor. Use it to erase the alpha channel of the
object.
 Select
from the Eraser option palette or press Alt to switch to the erase with background color.
 The
magic eraser cursor appears when you select the magic eraser tool. This tool enables you
to remove contiguous areas of similarly colored pixels.
Clone tool
 This
cursor is associated with the clone tool. Once you Alt clicked to select the source you
can paste a clone of the selected pixels and surrounding area anywhere on else on the
project window.
 Press Alt to display the source
cursor. You then can specify which portion of an image you wish to clone.
 The Precise
cursor is not the prettiest cursor you may choose for the drawing, toning, focus
tools. Anyway we strongly advise you to change all of the following cursors to the unique
precise one. The only reason is that this cursor is much more precise than the prettier
following ones. Press CAPS LOCK to switch to precise cursors.
Painting tools
 You see this
cursor by default when you paint with the brush (D).
 This is the
default airbrush cursor .
 This cursor appears
when you select the pen tool.
 Select the Finger
Paint tool to display this cursor and smear colors inside the image.
 This is
the default cursor for the Paint Can tool (I)
Line and Gradient tools
 This
cursor appears when you select either the Line (L)or the
Gradient (G) tool. It enables you to precisely define
the start and end point of both line and gradients.
Focus tools
 Select the Blur
(B) tool from the toolbar to display this cursor or press Alt
with the Sharpen tool selected.
 Select the
Sharpen tool from the toolbar or press Alt or B with the
Blur tool selected.
Toning
 This
is the cursor you see when you use the Sponge - desaturate tool. You can
also press Alt with the Sponge - saturate tool selected
to achieve the same result.
 This is
the cursor for the Sponge - saturate tool and behaves exactly like is
dual the Sponge desaturate
 This is the cursor
you see when using the Burn tool or when you press Alt
with dodge tool selected.
 This is the cursor
you see while using the Dodge tool or when you press Alt
with burn tool selected
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