Preferences

1. Choose Edit > Preferences….
2. Select a section on the left and adjust its settings.
3. Click Apply to save your choices and use them immediately.

Cancel, Escape or the close button discard unapplied changes. Defaults resets the settings in the window; click Apply to save them.

Settings

Section	Setting	Effect
General	Language	Change the language used by menus, panels and dialogs.
General	Appearance	Choose Dark, Light or System. System follows your Windows app theme.
General	Streamer mode: Hide account name and avatar	Hide your account identity while recording or streaming. The account control remains available.
Editing	Brush cursor: Snap to pixels	Align Pencil/Eraser cursors to pixel centers; painting always uses the pixel grid. Also available as Align brush cursor in their context bar.
Editing	Move tool: Auto-select layers	Pick the topmost visible raster layer under the pointer with Move. Locked layers remain protected.
Graphics tablet	Windows Ink pressure	Enable pressure data from a PC graphics tablet or pen display. Ordinary fixed-size pointer drawing remains available when this is off.
Graphics tablet	Pressure controls size	Off by default. Pencil and Eraser vary from 1 px to the chosen size, in whole pixels.
Graphics tablet	Pressure controls opacity	Off by default. Pencil and Eraser vary up to the chosen opacity. This can create semi-transparent pixels.
Shortcuts	Keyboard shortcuts	Change file command, tool and Pencil mode shortcuts. See Keyboard shortcuts.
Transparency	Checker size	Choose 4, 8 or 16 image pixels per square. The checkerboard indicates transparency and is never exported.
Grid	Drawing grid	Set the grid type, spacing, offsets and appearance. Enable snapping independently of grid visibility.
Startup	Show Preview on startup	Open the floating Preview window next time Pixelithra starts. Off by default.

The Move context bar changes Auto-select layers for the current session. To keep that choice between launches, save it in Preferences. Manage panel arrangements separately with the layout commands in View.

Interface language

Choose English, French, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Spanish or Portuguese. Spanish covers Spain and Latin America; Portuguese uses one shared choice for Brazil and Portugal.

On first launch, Pixelithra uses your Windows display language when supported, or English otherwise. Your saved language takes priority on later launches. Changing the interface language leaves your documents and shortcuts unchanged.

Change a shortcut

In Shortcuts, click a binding and press its replacement, then click Apply. Use a letter, digit or F1–F12, optionally with Shift. File commands also require Ctrl. Click × to clear a binding, or press Escape to cancel key capture. Conflicting or reserved assignments are rejected. Other command shortcuts and navigation gestures remain fixed.

Graphics tablets

For a PC-connected graphics tablet or pen display, enable Windows Ink in its driver. In Graphics tablet, leave both pressure controls off for consistent pixel marks, or enable size to vary a contour without adding soft edges. Enable opacity separately when you want translucent marks. Choose Apply.

These options apply to Pencil and Eraser, including custom tips and Free Canvas. Custom Pencil tips change size in whole-number scales, with their native size as the minimum. To vary their size with pressure, set a larger maximum in the context bar. See custom brush presets. Editable shapes, palette-step Shading and automatic-fill settings are unchanged. Mouse input and devices without pressure data use the fixed brush settings. WinTab-only drivers, tilt and automatic hardware-eraser switching are not supported.

Problems saving preferences

If settings cannot be loaded or saved, Preferences displays an error. An invalid existing file is preserved and saving settings stays disabled until the file problem is resolved. You can continue working on your documents.