Customize Dots/Lines

Dots and lines can be displayed in a variety of different color schemes, styles, and sizes. By default, dots are set to cycle through a set of 8 colors in a medium sized square shape. Each photo mix in your timeline can be given a different look for the dot's default look in that photo mix.

The color scheme allows you to have dots be automatically assigned a color from a set palette, have all dots be a single solid color picked from the color button on the next line, or have the dots invert the picture behind them. Opacity can be changed to give the dots varying degrees of translucency. There are many different styles to choose from other than a square, such as circles, crosshairs, or even just outlines of shapes. Finally, you can adjust the size of the dots. Larger dots are easier to click on and smaller dots are easier to place more precisely.

Lines can be displayed in a variety of different ways just like dots, except there is no shape selection. By default, all lines are a solid color.

Triangles can also be customized with all the same choices as lines. All lines are also triangle lines, but when you are viewing both lines and triangle lines in your pictures, the settings for lines will be used for the lines you placed, while the settings for triangles will be used for the generated lines which cannot be moved.

In addition to being able to set a default way to display dots and lines for each photo mix, you can assign specific customization to dots and lines individually by using the Customize Selected Items option under the Edit menu. While the color scheme option does not apply to customizing a specific dot or line, there is an additional choice for each option called 'Automatic'. Selecting Automatic for any of the various options will result in using the default settings for that photo mix.

Customizing groups of dots or lines individually lets you group them to your tastes, to separate pieces of your work. For example, you could set all the dots around the eyes in a picture of a face to one color and shape, and set the dots around the mouth to a different color and shape.

These four buttons on the toolbar will also allow you to customize selected dots and lines, just like the Customize Selected Items option. You can also use the Page Up and Page Down keys to quickly cycle through eight basic colors for dots or lines. Pressing Shift+Page Up or Shift+Page Down will cycle through shapes for selected dots as well.