This tutorial gives an overview of shaders and how they’re used in Hexels, and then shows a couple simple examples of adding custom shaders, allowing Hexels to perform new tricks. Shaders allow these effects to be calculated in real-time for Hexels’ vector graphics. One of the coolest new features in Hexels 2.5 is the use of fragment shaders for layer blending and post effects (PFX). I’ve posted it here because we’re currently in the middle of transitioning to a new website, and this tutorial hasn’t made its way over yet. Note: This is a re-post of my Shaders tutorial from the Marmoset website. You could even draw a picture there! (This is a flower and grass and a sun.) HexelsĬustom Shaders in Hexels Adding Your Own Blending and Post-Processing Effects So next time you fire up Hexels, take a new look at that plain-looking empty grid. yellow, black, and chocolate), so all your bases should be covered. Hexels 2.55 even added support for importing Lab color (i.e. aco palettes from Photoshop as well as export back to the format.
Gradients can quickly populate an entire grid of colors. Behold! The Hexels palette lets you create gradients in RGB or HSV color space.Ĭreating vertical gradients between the two takes just a few seconds and gives us a nice color selection. Click the little gear icon at the lower right of the palette and you can select HSV gradients. Hexels will even create multi-color gradients that hit every color it finds along the way. The layout of your palette can help you keep track of what’s what.Īutomatic Gradients Drag and drop a color onto another to create gradients!ĭo you find it somewhat tedious to carefully pick eight evenly spaced colors between salmon and magenta? Then we have the solution for you! Hexels allows you to create gradients right on the color palette by dropping one existing color onto another color in the same row or column. Double-click again to edit the new color swatch. Or you can double-click to add the currently selected color anywhere you want. Colors can be dragged and dropped anywhere on the palette, and even copied if you hold alt. While Hexels can’t tell you where you put your keys or what time dinner is, its palette can help you organize your mind.
“Organize your mind, organize your life.” Vector layers merged with pixel layers will be rasterized to pixels first.Although it looks deceptively like a plain old list of colors, the color palette in Hexels 2 has got a few tricks up its sleeve. Merge current layer with the one below it. Isolate current layer while button is held Hover tool over layer content to pick layer View and paint on a vertically flipped canvas View and paint on a horizontally flipped canvas If using outline tool, creates outline around selection borders. Select everything on the current layer that isn’t empty spaceįlood-fill selected area with color. Select everything on the current layer, corner to corner Repeat the previous export to the same file with the same settings Import and convert an image file to a vector layer Switch to the pan tool while the button is held Switch to the Layer Transform Tool for animating layer motion
#Hexels 2 grab and move free#
Switch to the Free Transform tool (requires a selection) Zoom to pixel resolution until button is released Hold key to temporarily switch to the eraser tool Select the Outline tool for drawing outlines on a Vector layer Switch to the current shape tool (Line, Shape, Super Shape)Ĭycle through the shape tools (Line, Shape, Super Shape) Switch to the current fill tool (Flood fill, Gradient, or Noise)Ĭycle through the fill tools (Flood fill, Gradient, Noise) Swap selected foreground and background colors
Switch to the anywhere-on-screen color picker for one click only Tools ItemĬycles pixel brush between paintbrush, pencil, and airbrush modes Note: On Mac, use Command instead of Ctrl. We’ve put together a helpful list of keys and shortcuts to help you push all the right buttons. There are plenty of ways to use the tools in Hexels, including some fancy features you may have not known about.
0 kommentar(er)
