Preference

You can change Pixia configuration settings from this dialog box. The options in the Preferences dialog box are grouped under five tabs. When you have finished setting preferences, click the OK button. The actual functions may be different from this discription, depending on the version of Pixia you are using.

Basic


* Icon Color

This changes the color of the icons at the tool bar.
The result gets displayed realtime.

* Notation of Number

This changes the figures used for the range of t-value, and d-value in P-panel, RGB, CMY values in C-panel. Choose between 0-255 and 0-100.

* Auto adjust window size

This will adjust the size of the window automatically when you use zooming function.

* Auto initialize tone filter

This will initialize tone-filter setting automatically, every time you finish using tone-filter.


Layer


* Default Display Setting

This changes the default setting of the display mode of a newly added layer.
(The display mode can be changed at L-panel.)

* No Redrawing Current Layer

Checking this option will restrain update of the thumbnail pictures at L-panel. Thumbnail pictures of L-apnel will get updated only after activating another layer. Check this when you want to make the speed of L-panel.

* Double Accuracy as Default

This will make "Double Accuracy" mode default, when you open a new canvas.


Undo


* Undo Count[0-100]

When this setting, you can change the number of steps that can be undone from [Edit]-[Undo] by entering values in the text box or by using the arrow buttons to change the value. Do not input a value too high, or the undo buffer will consume a huge disk space.

* Restrain during Freehand

PIXIA creates undo files after each stroke of pen on the canvas, and this may result in slow response using free hand drawing. Checking this opetion restrains making undo files, which will only be made after several pen strokes. The drawback of this function is that undo will reset a lot of pen strokes at one time, and so you cannot undo only one stroke.


File


* No warming when PXA not used

Extra information such as layers, transparency, mask, etc. can be saved only when you save the image in "PXA" file format. Saving in other formats will lose all this information.
Checking this option will display a dialog every time you save an image in a format other than "PXA". It is recommended to leave this option checked till you get used to the difference.


Advanced Option


* Position Smoothing

This will make free-hand strokes smooth. The larger the figure, the smoother the strokes will become, but it may make operation very slow, depending on the power of your machine. The figure you can input here is 1 - 20.

* Anti Arias

Anti Alias is the function to eliminate jagginess of pen strokes by adding pixels of thinner colors around the edge of strokes. Choose among the three selections.