Moving, resizing and cropping

Drag on the stage; Alt to crop; right-click for fit, centre, flip and rotate.

The buttons on an item: point at something on the stage (or select it) and a small toolbar appears at its top-right corner: fill the screen (and back again), bring to the front, lock so it can't move by accident, hide, and its settings.

On the stage:

• Drag a source to move it. It snaps to the canvas's edges and centre, and to the other sources' edges and centres, so one lands centred on another (hold Ctrl not to snap).
• Several at once: Shift-click adds sources to the selection, or drag a box over empty space to select what it touches. Then drag any of them to move them all; the arrow keys and Delete act on all of them too. A small toolbar above the selection lines them up (edges, centres), spreads three or more out evenly, or groups them (Ctrl+G) so they move as one from then on. Ctrl+A selects everything in the scene.
• Drag a handle to resize, keeping its shape (hold Shift to change the shape).
• Hold Alt and drag a handle to crop.
• The round handle rotates it (Shift for 15° steps).

With a source selected: arrow keys nudge it (Shift for 10 pixels), Ctrl+F fits it to the screen, Delete removes it from the scene, Escape deselects.

The … menu beside a source has fit, fill, stretch, centre, flip, rotate and order (bring to front, send to back). The padlock stops it being moved by accident; the eye hides it.

Show and hide transitions (its settings › Transform): instead of appearing at once, it can fade, slide, wipe, zoom or pop in when it's shown and out when it's hidden, by the eye, a hotkey or a control (alerts made with "Show for N s" too).

Blend mode and scaling (its settings › Transform, per scene): Additive and Screen brighten what's under it (light leaks, glows, sparks on black), Multiply darkens it (shadows, paper textures on white), Subtract, Lighten and Darken too. Scaling: Pixel keeps pixel art and retro games crisp when made bigger; Sharp is a bicubic for anything else scaled up.

For exact numbers, open its properties › Transform.

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