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.