Ideate AI - Core Tools & Functionalities

The core tools available in the Ideate AI interface, including their functionality and use cases for efficient design and editing workflows

01. Navigation Tools

Tools to move, pan, and manage canvas layout and elements.

🔼 Move Tool

• Function: Select and reposition objects.

• Shortcut: M

• Use Case: Rearranging or interacting with elements.

✋ Hand (Pan) Tool

• Function: Scroll or pan around the canvas without affecting objects.

• Shortcut: H

• Use Case: Navigating across large canvases or zoomed views.

02. Brush Tool

For sketching, visual markup, and freehand drawing directly on the canvas.

🖌️ Brush Tool

• Function: Enables freeform drawing with adjustable stroke settings.

• Use Case: Drawing, outlining ideas, quick sketching.

A. Brush Settings

Customize how your brush behaves for different styles of creation.

🎚️ Size

• Slider to control brush thickness.

🌫️ Opacity

• Controls transparency of the stroke.

🎨 Color Picker

• Gradient box with sliders for hue, saturation, and brightness.

• Select from full spectrum with real-time preview.

🌀 Stabiliser

Improves precision and smoothness in strokes, reducing hand jitter.

• Options:

  • 0x: No smoothing (raw input)

  • 1x, 2x, 3x: Increasing levels of smoothing

03. 🪣 Paint Bucket

• Function: Fills any selected shape (rectangle, ellipse, or closed area) with a solid color.

• Use Case: Best for applying backgrounds, flat fills, or base layers to visual elements.

🛠️ Paint Bucket Settings

1. Color Picker:

Tap the color swatch to open a full HSB (Hue, Saturation, Brightness) gradient interface.

• Drag on the color pad to choose any shade.

• Adjust hue, brightness, and saturation using sliders.

• Use Hex code input for precise brand or style-matching.

• See a real-time preview of the fill color in the shape.

This tool is visually identical to the Brush and Shape fill pickers but used specifically for filling areas with a single tap instead of drawing strokes.

1. Opacity

• Controls the transparency of the filled area.Can be combined with shape opacity for layered effects.

04. Eraser Tool

🧽 Eraser

Function: Deletes brush strokes or drawn elements from the canvas.

Settings:

• Size: Adjustable using a slider, Default is 50%

Use Case: Correcting mistakes or refining artwork edges.

05. Shapes Tool

🔲 Shape

• Function: Allows you to draw predefined shapes on the canvas.

Available Shapes:

• 🔳 Rectangle (R)

• ⚪ Ellipse (E)

• ➖ Line (L)

A. Shapes Settings

Customize the visual properties of drawn shapes, including color, borders, corners, and width.

🎨 Fill & Stroke

• Color Picker: Tap the colored box to launch full gradient and hex control.

• Opacity: Controls the transparency of the shape fill.

• Stroke Type (for lines and outlines):

  • Solid, Dashed, Dotted options

🟦 Corner Radius

• Available when rectangle is selected.

• Customize each corner’s curve individually.

• Lock Icon: Uniform corner radius toggle.

• Default radius values shown in pixels (e.g., 100px).

06. 🖍️ Lasso Tool Menu

• Function: Select specific areas of your canvas content in a flexible manner.

• Dropdown Includes:

  • 🌀 Lasso Selection: Freehand outline-based selection

  • ▭ Rectangular Selection: Traditional box selection

  • 🖌️ Brush Selection: Paint to select area

  • ✨ Magic Selection: Smart select based on contrast or edge detection

A. Using Lasso Selection

• Draw a freeform path around any object to create a custom selection.

Once the selection is made, the following actions become available:

🧰 Selection Controls

• ➕ Add to Selection: Select additional areas by drawing new lasso paths — the new regions are merged with the existing selection.

• ➖ Remove from Selection: Subtract areas from your current selection by drawing around them while in the subtract mode.

• 🧩 Duplicate: Instantly creates a copy of the selected area.

• 🔄 Deselect: Clears the active selection from the canvas.

B. Rectangular Selection

• Click and drag to define a rectangular area.

• Good for selecting grouped objects or bounding box areas.

C. Brush Selection

• Paint directly on the canvas to define selection.

• Size slider available to control the selection brush diameter.

• Helpful for soft-edge or irregular object boundaries.

07. 3D Generation

🧊 3D Tools

• Dropdown Options:

  • 🧱 Detailed 3D: For photorealistic 3D output

  • 🧩 Editable Mesh 3D: For deformable 3D models

  • 🖼️ Multi-view 3D: Generate multiple perspectives of a 3D object

Best used after generating or uploading a 2D sketch or model base.

08. Symmetry Tool

🔁 Symmetry Drawing

• Enables mirrored drawing across one or more axes.

• Modes:

  • ↕️ Vertical Symmetry

  • ↔️ Horizontal Symmetry

  • ➕ Radial Symmetry

  • 🔒 Lock Symmetry Axis

A. Free Form Symmetry

• Create artistic strokes mirrored in real-time.

• Great for character design, patterns, and mandalas.

Combine with brush or shape tools for enhanced precision or visual balance.

09. Upload Options

📤 Upload & Input Tools

• Options on click:

  • 🖼️ Upload an Image: Add a reference or material image

  • 🖥️ Share your screen: For collaborative workflows or presentations

  • 🧊 Upload 3D Model: Insert existing .obj or .glb mesh files

Ideal starting point before applying transformations, selections, or generation tools.