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Flipping, rotating, and applying effects to bitmaps

The toolbar at the top of the Paint window contains buttons to apply effects to bitmaps. Before using any of these options, you must select part of the bitmap with the Lasso or Marquee tool. Effects that change the shape of the selection work only when the selection is made with the Marquee tool. Effects that change colors within the selection work with both the Marquee and the Lasso tools.

Lingo flips and rotates bitmaps by flipping and rotating bitmap sprites. See Rotating and skewing sprites and Flipping sprites.

Note: To repeat any of these effects after using them, press Control+Y (Windows) or Command+Y (Macintosh).

To flip, rotate, skew, or apply effects to part of a bitmap:

1 | Select part of a bitmap in the Paint window with the Marquee tool.
2 | Use any of the following effects:
| To flip the selection, click the Flip Horizontal button to flip right to left, or click the Flip Vertical button to flip top to bottom.
| To rotate the selection 90º counterclockwise or 90º clockwise, click the Rotate Left or Rotate Right buttons.
| To rotate the selection by any amount in either direction, click the Free Rotate button and then drag the rotate handles in any direction. (You can rotate a sprite containing a bitmap instead of the bitmap itself. See Rotating and skewing sprites.
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| To skew the selection, click the Skew button and drag any of the skew handles.
| To warp the shape of the selected area, click the Warp button and drag any handle in any direction.
| To create a perspective effect, click the Perspective button and drag one or more handles to create the effect you want.
| To create an outline around the edges of the selected artwork, click the Trace Edges button.

To apply color effects to a selected area:

1 | Select an area within a bitmap cast member using either the Marquee or the Lasso tool.
2 | Use any of the following effects:
| To soften the edges of the selected artwork, click the Smooth button. This works only with 8-bit cast members.
| To reverse the colors of the selected area, click the Invert Color button.
| To increase or reduce the brightness of the selected area, click the Lighten or Darken Color button. This works on 8-bit (256 color) images only.
| To fill the selected area with the current foreground color and pattern, click the Fill Color button.
| To change all pixels of the foreground color within the selection to the currently selected destination color, click the Switch Colors button.