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Directions on how to use the spray tool

Asked by Christopher Guilfoil on 2010-09-26

I cannot find any directions on how to use the spay tool in Help.

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Aruna Hewapathirane (aruna-hewapathirane) said on 2010-09-26:

You first need to select one or several items, then select the Spray Tool. To spray, click on the canvas, then move the mouse or scroll the mouse wheel.

Three modes are available.

    * Spray Copy mode : each sprayed item is independent from the others.
    * Spray Clone mode : each sprayed item is a clone of the selected item. Changing the properties of the original item will
       affect the clones.
    * Spray Single Path Mode : everything you spray is in a single path. You may need to convert your item into a path to make
      it work properly.

Spray options

* Amount : spray more or less items.

* Rotation : randomly rotates items around the original rotation value.
* Scale : randomly scales items around the original scale value.

* Scatter : low values to spray items under the cursor, high values for a more uniform repartition over the spray zone.
* Focus : items are sprayed following a ring. This parameters modifies the radius of the circle. Default at 0 to spray a spot.

Use keys ↑ and ↓ to control the size of of sprayed items. Use ← and → to set the width of the cursor.

The Spray tool is a perfect match for the transforming, duplicating, and deleting modes of the Tweak tool.

A video is here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQegGv6y3Yo

And the reference is here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.48#Spray_Tool