Dottie Help

• Welcome
• Draw your first sprite
• Work with documents

  • Create a document
  • Save documents
  • Import images and sprite sheets
  • Export your artwork
  • Open your artwork in another app
• Draw

  • Learn about the tools
  • Draw with the brush tools
  • Use brushes and dithering
  • Use dither patterns
  • Draw lines and shapes
  • Fill areas with colour or gradients
  • Shift colours along a palette ramp
  • Clone part of your drawing
  • Draw symmetrically
• Select and edit

  • Make selections
  • Move, clone, or delete a selection
  • Cut, copy, and paste
  • Undo mistakes
• Work with colour

  • Choose colours and palettes
  • Edit a palette
  • Protect colours
  • Import and share palettes
• Layers, animation, and tilesets

  • Work with layers
  • Create an animation
  • Edit a tileset
• Adjust the canvas and view

  • Resize the canvas or image
  • Zoom and pan
  • Show the grid, inspector, and previews
  • Work with windows and tabs
• Automate and reference

  • Automate Dottie with AppleScript (Experimental)
  • Extend Dottie with plugins
  • Keyboard shortcuts
  • Tool modifiers at a glance
  • New Document presets
• Learn about Dottie

  • Change settings
  • Use Dottie with an iPad
  • Tips and tricks
  • Troubleshooting
  • About Dottie and Finder integration
  • Get support