In this time I introduce my pixelart-ready-efficient-gimp-setup!!

Toolbox alignament

To do my ugly pixelart I only need some draw/selection tools, layers, color palletes, and a action history. Because of that, I remove every toolbox and I add one by one!

In the left I put the color pallete editor. Also, I can select the colors from here.
In the right-top I put the undo history (without buttons).
In the right-bottom I put the layer toolbar.

Also, I don’t like having too much windows spreaded in the screen, so I prefered the single window mode (seted in Windows/Single-Window Mode).

Shortcuts and tools

I really hate using the mouse or presing imposible keybindings to use some tools! Thats why I make my own shortcut scheme (editable in Edit/Preferences/Interface/Configure Keyboard Shortcuts).

Resumed Key Layout:

• numbers – tool selection
• qwert… – undo/redo/etc
• adsf… – cut/copy/paste/etc

Because the only things that I do are: Pencil, Erase, Rect-Select, Magic-Select, Undo, Redo, Cut, Copy, Paste… I do the following bindings:

• 1: pencil
• 2:  erase
• 3: rectangle select
• 4: fuzzy select
• w: undo
• e: redo
• a: cut
• d: copy
• s: paste

If you have some time, tryit! It’s really confortable

Preferences details

To improve a few more the behaviour, I setup a few more options:

• Pencil – size: 1 (1px draw)
• Erase – size: 1 (1px draw)
• Erase – hard edge (dont do interpolation, erase only 1px!)
• Preferences/Default grid – spacing: 1px x 1px
• Preferences/Default image – fill with: transparency

That’s all folks! I hope that this info were useless, and that my english use was fine

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