Learn about the tools in Dottie on Mac

Draws with the primary colour, and intelligently erases when you click a pixel that already has that colour.

Always draws; never switches to erasing.

Picks up pixels and smears them along your stroke, fading through dither patterns.

Sprays a feathered scatter of pixels that builds up while you hold the button.

Shifts painted pixels to the next colour along a palette ramp.

Copies pixels from a source point to wherever you paint.

Flood-fills an area; modifiers give outline, non-contiguous, and gradient fills. On vector layers, fills or recolours the clicked object.

Erases to the eraser colour (usually transparency). On vector layers, deletes every object you stroke across.

Draws straight lines, either as pixels or as editable vector objects on a vector layer.

Draws rectangles, outlined or filled, either as pixels or as editable vector objects.

Draws ovals and circles, outlined or filled, either as pixels or as editable vector objects.

Picks up the colour of the pixel or vector object you click.

Draws a freehand vector line object. Brush size controls the stroke width.

Places whole-pixel vertices one by one. Double-click or press Return to finish, click near the first vertex to close, or press Escape to cancel.

Fills the clicked object with the primary colour. Closed paths fill their interior; open paths and lines are recoloured. Cmd-click outlines a filled shape again.

Deletes every vector object you stroke across.

Creates an editable straight line object.

Creates an editable rectangle object, outlined or filled.

Creates an editable oval object, outlined or filled.

Picks up the colour of the vector object you click.

Pans the canvas. Hold Space to pan temporarily from any tool.

Selects vector objects. Drag to move, drag handles to resize, drag empty space to marquee-select, and press Delete to remove selected objects.

Selects a rectangular area.

Selects an oval area.

Selects an area you draw around.

Selects an area defined by clicked corner points.

Selects all connected pixels of the clicked colour.

Pans the canvas. Hold Space to pan temporarily from any tool.