User Guide

Drawing in Block’Ed, from a new document to an exported file.

Getting Started: a new document, the editor, drawing and saving.
Documents and Modes: machines and modes, canvas sizes, ULA+, half-width pixels and .blked files.
Projects: screens, sprites and tiles as parts of one document, and the sidebar.
Maps: maps, layers, tile properties, value layers, objects, target rules and exports.
Drawing Tools: pencil, lines, curves, shapes, fill, airbrush and eraser.
Brushes: brush size and shape, custom brushes, transforming and stamping, and pressure.
Painting Modes: the nine painting modes and colour ramps.
Colours and Palettes: INK and PAPER, foreground and background, and palettes.
Fills: solid, pattern, gradient and brush fills.
Selections: selecting, cutting, copying and pasting.
Text: the text tool.
Drawing Helpers: grids, snapping, constraints, symmetry and perspective.
Animation: frames, onion skins and playback.
Assets: several sprites or tile sets in one document.
Importing Images: turning a picture into a document.
Exporting: PNG, Timex screens, tiles and sprite patterns.
Apple Pencil and Mac Input: the Pencil, pressure, the mouse and the trackpad.
Keyboard Shortcuts: every shortcut, by menu.