This raw productivity power and imho the reason why Photoshop is still the most widespread production tools. ⬆️ all of this while having the marquee tool as active tool! This way you can easily duplicate a selection while still having the marque tool selected for instance. This is incredibly powerful as suddenly all the move tool functionality is available too. The real beauty herein lies in the fact that while the marquee tool is the active tool, as long as the user presses Ctrl this will activate the move tool (quick).

LMB drag + Ctrl will therefore move only the selected area.Hovering over the selection area and pressing Ctrl will show a 'sissor' move icon to indicate click-drag now will cut and move the content of the selection.LMB drag inside will therefore move the selected area.Hovering over the selection will show a 'marquee area' move icon to indicate click-drag will now move the selected area.LMB drag outside to draw a selection area.Hovering over the selection will show a 'scissors' move icon to indicate click-drag now will cut and move the content of the selection.LMB drag inside the selection will move only the selected area.LMB drag outside the selection will move the whole layer.Here is how the move tool works in Photoshop (just one layer active, just LMB pressed): Especially because there seems to be no reason why Aseprite should be any different, imho. Since Photoshop has so well known and wide spread UX, I would really not mind if Aseprite would behave the same. To move the selection + content of the selection, you need to press Ctrl+LMB drag. It does not mean that other tools like the marquee tool should not automatically and temporary change to the move tool (or imitate it's functionality) in certain cases.įor instance, I would expect if I make a selection and while I have the marquee tool as my current tool, if I move the cursor over the already selected area, I could left click and drag all pixels within that selection. Otherwise, why is it called move tool? Why can I select it but can't use it? Whenever I can use the move tool, I should be able to use it to move whatever is the current selected layer, frame, selection subarea of a frame/layer, or slice. Anyway is something that must be thought with patience. selecting several layers with a box like selection, transforming several layers+slices at the same time which may be related to #2173 too, etc.). I would say that the Move tool is in its simplest form at the moment, it could be improved a lot (e.g. What should happen if there is a layer, selection, and slices, should we move the selection or the slice if we click outside the selection and inside the slice? or slices do not make sense with the Move tool.Īs in this discussion, if we drag-and-drop the selection with the move tool it's just like moving the selection only. What about slices? should the Move tool move slices (like the slices tool already do that). Not sure if this would be better than the first case. The layer + the selection: it would be like right now but with the extra behavior that selection borders are moved too (no pixels are changed, only the cel and the selection border). if we click outside the selection with the Move tool, what should happen? should we move the layer below the mouse cursor, or the selection, or it depends on the 'Auto Select Layer' option:

Move tool to move the whole layer (just like right now), e.g. For example, I see several use cases for the move tool: The only problem that I would need some help is to analyse if there is something we're missing. We could add the possibility to start the whole selection movement cycle with the move tool. That some users find confusing that they cannot move only the selection pixels with the move tool indicates that something is not working as expected.

Aseprite move all layers