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I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to Draw (With 9front)

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  • The document 'How to draw (with 9front)' teaches drawing using the 9front operating system, focusing on the paint(1) program.
  • Suitable for perverts, robots, and witches; not for artists, atheists, or iconoclasts.
  • Key input methods include mouse, finger, tablet (like GAOMON S620), keyboard, and remote access via Drawterm/VNC.
  • paint(1) is a simple drawing tool with no pressure sensitivity or layers; it simulates drawing on physical paper.
  • Canvas management involves creating, cropping, resizing, and rotating images using tools like vcrop(1), crop(1), resize(1), and rotate(1).
  • Advanced techniques include faux layers via color substitution with pico, tracing images, and palette manipulation.
  • Images are saved in 9front's internal format and can be converted to PNG for sharing via methods like USB drives or SSH.