ASE Quick Help

Editor

• Mouse cursor: is the icon (a little image) that you displaces with the mouse movement (it moves pixel-by-pixel of the screen).
• Drawing cursor: is the cross that appears inside the editor (it moves pixel-by-pixel of the image).
• Left/Right: go to previous/next frame.
• Down/Up: go to first/last frame.
• 1 to 6: changes the editor's zoom.
• Shift+Mouse movement: moves the editor's scroll
• + or - from pad: changes the brush size
• 9 or 0: picks primary or secondary color from the image
• Ctrl+Mouse movement: moves the current layer

In box-like tools (marker, line, rectangle, ellipse)

• Shift: uses square aspect.
• Ctrl: converges from center.

In Move/Copy/Swap movement

• M: changes between masked/copy method.

Color bar

• Double-click: opens the color selection dialog to change the double-clicked color.
• Ctrl+Click: opens a mini-palette window.

Palette Editor (in color selection dialog)

• Shift+Mouse click: selects a lineal range
• Ctrl+Mouse click: selects a rectangular range
• Left/Up/Right/Down: moves the selection to the used direction (lineal selection can be only moved to left or right)

Film Editor

• ` (backquote): closes the film-editor

Configure Tool Window

• C: closes the window

Tiled sprite view (F8)

• Left/Right: go to previous/next frame.

Normal sprite view (F7)

• + or - from pad: changes the background color

Hotkeys

Default keyboard bindings (you can change it from the "data/menus.en" file):

System menu
F5	Refresh the screen
F12	Take a screen shot
File menu
Ctrl+N	Creates a new sprite
Ctrl+O F3	Opens a sprite
Ctrl+S F2	Saves current sprite (ask for file name)
Ctrl+W	Closes the current sprite
Ctrl+Q Esc	Quits (ask about modified sprites)
Edit menu
Ctrl+Z Ctrl+U	Undo
Ctrl+R	Redo
Ctrl+X Shift+Del	Cut
Ctrl+C Ctrl+Ins	Copy
Ctrl+V Shift+Ins	Paste
Ctrl+B Ctrl+Del	Clear
Shift+M	Moves the selected pixel region (mask) to other position
Shift+C	Copies a pixel region in other position
Shift+H	Flips the pixel region horizontally
Shift+V	Flips the pixel region vertically
/ (slash)	Replace colors
Ctrl+I	Makes a negative of the image inside selected area
Sprite menu
Ctrl+P	Shows the main sprite's properties
Layer menu
Shift+P	Shows the properties of selected layer
Shift+N	Inserts an image-layer
Frame menu
Ctrl+Shift+P	Shows the properties of selected frame
Ctrl+Shift+N	Creates a new frame
Mask (selection) menu
Ctrl+A	Selects all
Ctrl+D	Deselects the mask
Ctrl+Shift+D	Reselects the mask
Ctrl+Shift+I	Inverts the mask
?	Shows the window to mask regions by image color
Ctrl+Shift+M	Shows the masks' repository
Tool menu
Ctrl+0	Loads a script from file
F1	Shows tips
Ctrl+Shift+O	Shows options
Drawing Tool menu
C	Shows/hide Configure Tool window
M	Marker: Select mask regions
D	Dots: Draw pixel by pixel
P	Pencil: Draw perfect trace
B	Brush: Draw imperfect trace
F	Floodfill: Fill areas
S	Spray: Draw random pixels
L	Line: Draw a line between two points
R	Rectangle: Draw a rectangle between two points
E	Ellipse: Draw a oval between two points
Filters menu
F9	Shows the Convolution Matrix window
F10 Ctrl+M	Shows the Color Curve window
View menu
F8	Views the sprite like a mosaic (tiled)
F7	Views the sprite in a normal size
Ctrl+F1	Switch the menu-bar
Ctrl+F2	Switch the status-bar
Ctrl+F3	Switch the color-bar
Ctrl+F4	Switch the tool-bar
Ctrl+1	Makes the current editor the unique one
Ctrl+2	Splits the current editor vertically
Ctrl+3	Splits the current editor horizontally
Ctrl+4	Closes the current editor
Tab	Shows/hide the Film Editor
F4	Shows the palette editor
X	Shows the filters popup menu