### 6.7. Tool Options

Figure 15.75. Tool Options Preferences

This page lets you customize several aspects of the behavior of tools.

#### 6.7.1. Activating the Dialog

The preferences dialog can be accessed from the main menu, through Edit → Preferences.

#### 6.7.2. Options

General

Allow editing on non-visible layers

  You can edit layers with disabled visibility (the eye icon in the layer dock).

Save tool options on exit

  When enabled, the Tool Options of all tools will be saved when closing GIMP.

Save Tool Options Now

  This immediately saves the current Tool Options of all tools.

Reset Saved Tool Options To Default Values

  This resets the Tool Options of all tools to their default values.

Scaling

Default interpolation

  When you scale something, each pixel in the result is calculated by interpolating several pixels in the source. This option determines the default interpolation method: it can always be changed, though, in the Interpolation settings of the Transform Tool Options.

  The available interpolation methods are described in detail in the Interpolation documentation of the Transform tools.

Paint Options Shared Between Tools

Brush, Dynamics, Pattern, Gradient, Expand Layers

  You can decide here whether changing the brush etc for one tool should cause the new item to be used for all tools, or whether each individual tool (pencil, paintbrush, airbrush, etc) should remember the item that was last used for it specifically.

Move Tool

Set layer or path as active

  By default, the Move Tool does not change which layers or paths are selected. When you enable this setting, the layer or path you are moving is set as the active layer or path.

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