Tour of Photogenics


STATUS BAR

The status bar (also known as the title bar) contains useful infomation like the name and size of the currently selected buffer, the brush type, paint mode and how much memory is available.

TOOLBAR

The toolbar, or toolbox contains drawing and filling tools, magnify, colour selector and many other features as icons. Some tools can be clicked on twice to perform a second type of operation, for example the circle tool can be clicked on once for a hollow circle and clicked again gives a solid, filled circle tool.

IMAGE WINDOW

This window shows your image. You can resize this to save space, or to make a small image larger for easier control. You can have multiple images loaded into Photogenics at one time.

PALETTE

Select from over 16.7 Million colours, using a colour wheel tool, sliders and our wax crayon reference colour selection!.

BRUSH SETTINGS WINDOW

This window is for you to alter the size, pressure and transparency of the brush.

BRUSHES

Use this to select a realistic brush type.

ALPHA & SECONDARY

Alpha and secondary channels both utilise secondary images to create effects on the main image.

DRAG & DROP THUMBNAILS

Displays all loaded images as thumbnail icons that can be picked up and dropped into the secondary or alpha channels.

PAINT MODES

Over 55 paintmodes are supplied - each one produces an effect on the image, these are the main core of image processing, and can be painted onto the image with the normal drawing tools (eg AirBrush).

SELECTOR

The five main parts of Photogenics; Loaders, Savers, Effects, Paintmodes and Brushes can be accessed from one pop-up menu.

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