Displaying Irregularly Shaped Images/Transparency

[Ben Rubinstein]

Jeanne wrote:
 
>> Is there any way to set the size of the eraser?
> 
> Yes: in the paint tools palette, choose a shape from the Brush Shape popup
> menu (bottom left of the palette). The eraser will erase that shape. One of
> the available shapes is a single-pixel dot, so you can get fine control.

Thanks for this.  A couple of observations: two of the available shapes
appear in the palette to be a single-pixel dot; the second one turns out to
be a five-pixel cross.   Secondly, the hotspot on many of these shapes -
certainly on the single-pixel dot, and at least in magnify mode - seems to
be pretty off-centre, making it quite tricky to use.  On the single pixel,
in fact the hotspot appears to be above and to the right of the magnified
pixel.

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