Turn on the Magnify tool with the left button; then move the selector over
the part of the picture you want magnified and press the button again.
When magnify is turned on, clicking on the Zoom icon with the left button
zooms you closer (into the foreground, as it were) and clicking with the
right button zooms out. Mahnify will stay on until you click it off.
Use the cursor keys on the keyboard to scroll around in the magnified image.
Also typing n while magnification is turnedon moves the center of
magnification to the current location of the pointer. Pointing anywhere in
the image and typing m on the keyboard brings up magnification at that point.
Typing m again turns magnification off.
All tools work in both the magnified wondow on the right side of the screen
and the normal view window on the left. If the picture is "off-center" when
you turn magnify aff, use the cursor keys to adjust it.
Freehand, Airbrush and Line Tools
Select the line tool you want with the left button. Use the continuous
freehand line tool to produce an unbroken line. Use the dotted freehand line
tool to make the space between brush splats depend on the speed you move the
mouse.
Use the airbrush tool to spray the paint as you go. Select the tool with the right button to change the width of the nozzle. This tool works best with the one-pixel (smallest) brush and the dotted brushes, and is especially effective with Blend and Shade modes.F
Select the straight line tool; then drag and release to draw a straight line.
With the curve tool, drag and release to set the two and paint for the curve;
then move the mouse to establish the curvature and press the button to draw
the curve. To stop drawing a curve in the middle of the process, press the
space bar.
All the line tools use the current brush. If that brush is large, you may
find the display disconcertingly jumpy when using those tools. Turning on
Fast Feedback in the Prefs menu causes those tools to draw with the snallest
available brush while you hold the button down. Releasing the button redraws
the line or shape with the current brush.
Hold down the Ctrl key while drawing to cause the straight line and curve
tools to leave traces as you draw.
From the keyboard, type a for airbrush, s for the dotted freehand line and
d for the smooth one. Type v (for "vector") for the straight line tool and
q for the curve.
Shape Tools
Select the shape tool you want with the left button. Click on the upper left
half of the tool's icon to select the hollow version of the shape. Click on
the lower right half to select the filled version.
The rectangle tool draws out from a couner as you drag; the circle and
ellipse tools draw out from the center. Polygon draws a series of connected
lines, ending the series when you click on the starting point or when you
press the space bar. Filled Polygon does the sane, filling with color when
you complete the series.
If you want to quit in the middle of drawing a hollow or filled polygon,
press the space bar. Pressing the space bar after drawing more thatn one
side of a filled polygon completes the polygon and fills it in. Undo had no
effect until you finish a filled polygon, then it removes the entire polygon.
Undo removes the last line you drew while drawing a hollow polygon.
Hollow shape tools use the current brush. If that brush is large, you may
find the display disconcertingly jumpy when using those tools. Turning on
Fast Feedback in the Prefs menu solves the difficutly by cousing those tools
to draw with the amallest available brush while you hold the button down.
Releasing the button redraws the line or shape with the current brush. Turn
on Coords in that same menu for help with precise positioning.
Holding down the Ctrl key while drawing causes the hollow shape tools to
leave traces as you draw. Holding down the Shift key while drawing with the
Rectangle tool produces squares.
Filling Areas with Color
Select the Fill tol with the left button. Position the paint bucket with the
spilling paint in the area you want to fil and click with the left button to
fill with the current foreground color. Clicking with the right button fills
with the current background color.
To select Fill from the keyboard, press f; then click as you would if you had
selected the tool from the Control Panel.
If you have 512K of memory and want to fill an area with a pattern, see
"Using a Scratchpad with 512K of Memory," in the Getting Started section.
Using Text and Fonts
Select the Text tool with the left button, then click with the left button in
the drawing area to position the text insertion box. Typing enters text where
the insertion box appears. Backspace erases the character to the left of the
insertion box. Return begins a new line.
You may point to a different location on the screen and click to move the
insertion box there. (You cannot set the insertion box to the right of
existing text and then backspace over the text. When you move the insertion
box to a new location, the program treats text left behind just like any
other picture part.)
From the keyboard, type f to select the Text tool, and type Esc to leave it.
To load fonts from a disk choose Load Fonts in the Fonts menu. A list of
available fonts will appear in the Font menu. (There are 7 fonts, 4 of which
come in two sizes, on the program disk. To see what each looks like in
comparison to the others, load the picture named "All fonts." Print the
picture if you'd like an on-paper reference.)
To enter text in a particular font, choose that font from the Font menu,
then choose the text tool. A mark will appear next to the current font in
the Fonts menu.
Using Symmetry
Turn on the Symmetry tool with the left button. It will stay on until you
turn it off by clicking it again. Click with the right button to bring up a
window in which you can change the symmetry settings.
The program will accept any whole number up to 40 for Order (which determines
the number of symmetry points). Use the Backspace or the Del key to erase any
number already entered there before entering a new one. You nay turn on
either mirror symmetry (each stroke produces lines in opposite directions
around each symmetry point) or cyclic symmetry (each stroke produces a line
at each symmetry point; all lines go in the same direction).
To change the center around which symmetry operates, choose Symmetry Center
in the Picture menu. Set the crosshairs where you want the center to be and
click with the left button. The symmetry center will remain there untill you
move it, even if you turn the symmetry icon off.
From the keyboard, type / to turn symmetry on and off. All the other tools
work while symmetry is on, including Fill.
Using the Grid
Turn on the Grid tool with the left button. It will remain on until you click
it again to turn it off. When the Grid is on, it affects all the other tools
except for the continuous freehand line tool. Use it when precise spacing is
important.
When the grid is on, lines drawn with the straight line and curve tools must
start and end at grid intersections. And drawing with the dotted freehand and
airbrush tools produces paint splats centered around those same
intersections. The grid similarly constrains actions with the shape and text
tools.
To change the grid spacing, click the grid tool with the right button and
move back into the drawing area. When you press the left button, the grid
coordinates will appear in the Tjitle strip. Hold the button down and drag
to resize the gtrid to fit your purposes. The numbers will change as you
move. Release the button when you have the setting you want.
Experiment with different grid settings to get a feel for what kind of help
the grid can provide. The smallest setting you can have in either direction
is 1.
Making the Grid Visible
If you'd like to make the grid visible while you work then invisible when
you finish, begin by selecting a color in the paint set to use in drawing
the grid. Turn on the grid tool, select the straight line tool and draw in a
section of the gridding. Pick up that sectionas a brush and continue painting
until the grid lines are conpletely painted in.
Paint whatever you want on your "graph paper," then click on the foreground
color indicator with the right button to bring up the Palette. In the Palette
, click on the color you are using for the background in your picture; then
click on Copy. Finally, click on the color you used to draw the grid. This
will copy the background color to the color used to draw the grid, causing
the remaining grid lines to disappear into the background.
Painting Patterns with the Grid
The grid is also useful for drawing patterns. To see why, load the picture
called "Patterns" and turn the grid on. Select the dotted line freehand tool;
then use the brush selection tool to take a brush from one of the patterns
on the screen. With the grid still on, paint with the pattern brush.
Experiment with different grid settings and notice their effect on the
painting action of the pattern brush.
If you have 512K of menory in your computer, you can use the spare screen to
fill an area with a parrern. See "Using a Scratchpad with 512K of Memory" in
the Getting Started section for more information.
Using the Prefs Menu
Choose Brush Handle before using the brush selection tool to switch between
holding the brush in the center and holding it by the lower right-hand
corner. Choose it again before selecting another brush to turn this feature
off.
Choose Coordinates to turn on visible coordinate readings on the right side
of the title strip. When you move the mouse without pressing a button, the
numbers show your position in pixels (the smallest visible dot in the
resolution you are using) relative to the top left of the screen. Dragging
sets the numbers to 0,0 at the button press and displays numbers relative to
that position until the button is released.
Choose Fast Feedback in the Prefs menu to couse the line and hollow shape
tools to draw with the smallest available brush while you hold the button
down. Releasing the button redraws the line or shape with the current brush.
4. COLOR CONTROL_________________________________________________
Changing Colors in the Paint Set
Bring up the Palette by clicking with the right button on lthe foreground
color indicator (or by choosing Color Control and then Palette in the
Picture menu). To move the Palette, point)t its title bar and move the
mouse while pressing the left button. Within the Palette, point at a color
you want to change and click with the left button. You nay select the color
from the drawing area, from the paint set, or from the Palette's color set.
The 3 sliders on the left labeled R, G and B control the amount of red, green
and blue in the selected color. The 3 sliders on the right labeled H, S and
V control the hue, saturation and value of the color (comparable to the tint,
color and contrast controls on a color tv).
Move the sliders either by clicking above or below then, or by dragging them.
When you release a slider in a new position, the other sliders will adjust
as necessary to reflect the effect of your change. Click UNDO in the Palette
to undo changes you've made since selecting the currently selected color.
Click CANCEL to put the Palette away, undoing everything done since you got
it out. Click OK to say, "Yes, that's what I want."
Think of the colors in the paint set as numbered from 1 in the upper
left-hand corner to 32 (in lo-res mode, 512K of memory) in the lower
right-hand corner. The program uses colors 1 and 2 to draw the menus, the
Control Panel and the Palette itself. The Palette will prevent you from
setting these colors so that there is too little contrast between them.
Otherwise you might accicentally find a way to make the Palette invisible.
The program uses colors 17 through 20 to draw the pointer and the brush
cross hairs. Be careful when using those colors as part of a set of closely
related shades. If you reduce the contrast among the colors used to draw the
pointer and then place it against a closely related background color, you may
find it difficult to see.
To return to the Palette color set available when you start the program,
choose Color Control and then Default Palette in the Picture menu.
Changing One Color to Another
To copy a color from one position in the Palette to another, click the color
to be copied; then click COPY; then click the color to be replaced.
To swap two colors, click the first, then EX, then the second. You can also
do this directly on the picture in the drawing area click a color, click EX,
click the other color, and the two colors will swap with each other.
Automatic Color Creation
Use the SPREAD command to generate a smooth set of shades between any two
colors in the Palette. First click one of the colors; then click SPREAD;
then click the other color.
For some practice with color creation, load StarFlight, then bring up the
Palette. Colors 29, 30 and 31 are the ones used to draw the alien, so keep
your eye on him (her, it) as you work. Select color 31 in the Palette and
change its Hue. Copy it to color 29; then change either the Saturation or
Value of that color. Click Spread, click color 31, and presto, an allen of
a different color.
Remember as you use SPREAD that the program will prevent you from creating
colors 1 and 2 with too little contrast between them. And remember that
colors 17 through 20 are used to draw the pointer. If you use SPREAD to
create closely related colors in these positions and then use the pointer
over a similarly colored background, you may have trouble seeing it.
You can use the Undo command in the Palette (or press U) to undo the effects
of a SPREAD command provided that you use Undo before selecting another color
or choosing a different command. To return to the Palette color set in effect
when you start the program, choose Default Palette under Color Comtrol in the
Picture menu.
A. KEYBOARD COMMAND SUMMARY______________________________________
If a keystroke equivalent is available for a menu command, it will be listed
to the right of the command in the menu.
Special Keys
F10 Turn the Control Panel on/off
F9 Turn the Title Strip on/off
F8 Turn the brush crosshairs on/off
Alt-Open Amiga Right mouse button
Alt-Closed Amiga Left mouse button
Cursor Keys Scroll in magnigy Recenter the picture after magnify.
NOTE: All keyboard commands work only when the pointer is NOT in the Control
Panel or Title Strip.
Shift Constrain. Hold down while using the Stretch command in the Brush menu to keep a brush'sF
Hold down while using the rectangle tool to
produce a square.
Ctrl Hold down while using the line or hollow
shape tools to leave traces as you draw.
Other Keystrokes
[and] Select the next higher/lower color in the
paint set as the current foreground color.
- and = Make the selected pre-built brush larger/smaller.
Control Panel Keystroke Equivalents
s Left button on dotted freehand drawing tool
d Left button on continuous draw
D Left button on continuous draw plus automatic
selection of one-pixel brush
v (For vector) left button on straight line tool
q Left button on curve tool
f Left button on fill icon
a Left button on the airbrush icon
r Left button on hollow rectangle tool
R Left button on filled rectangle tool
c Left button on hollow circle tool
C Left button on filled circle tool
e Left button on hollow elipse tool
E Left button on filled elipse tool
b Left button on brush selection tool
B Right button on brush selection tool
t Left button on text icon
g Left button on grid icon
/ Left button on symmetry icon
m Left button on magnify
n Recender picture
> Left button on zoom
< Right button on zoom
u Undo
K Clear
, Left button on foreground color indicator
P Right button on foreground color indicator (i.e.,
bring up Palette).
B. TROUBLE SHOOTING GUIDE________________________________________
1. I'm holding down the button and dragging but no paint is appearing.
First check to make sure you have a brush selected, either one of the
pre-built ones, or one you created yourself. And make sure you have a
drawing tool selected (freehand, line or shape).
Next, check your brush mode (listed in the title strip). The Smear, Blend or
Shade modes don't work unless there's paint already on the screen. And
remember, Shade and Blend only affect paint colors within the range set for
SH in the Palette.
If you want to paint with the Cycle brush mode, the current foreground color
must be one of the colors in the cycle set currently selected in the Palette.
2. Why does the color of the picture change when I use the Menus?
The operating system uses colors 1 and 2 to make the menus and colors 31 and
32 to create menu highlights. When you use the menu bar, the program
temporarily takes control of those colors to guarantee clear, readable menus
and highlights.
3. How can I say "Forget it! Stop!" in the middle of an action?
Press the Space Bar. This stops most actions in progress, returning matters
to the way they were before you started the action.
4. I saved a picture but now can't find its name.
Did you save it in a different drawer from the one currently showing in the
Load window? To change drawers, click into the drawer name line and erase
the exixting drawer name, then type the one you want and press Return. To
look at the top level of a disk's directory, just erase the current drawer
name and press Return.
5. I'm having a hard time seeing the pointer.
Look at the settings you are using for colors 17 through 20 (especially for
color 18) in the jPalette. These are the colors used to draw the pointer.
Adjust them to get what you want.
6. Why don't the keystroke commands work when I try them?
If you're pressing the key indicated in a menu or in Appendix ! of this
manual and nothing is happening, check the location of your pointer. None of
the keystroke commands will work while the pointer is in either the Title
Strip or the Control Panel.
==== KEYPAD CONTROLS FOR PERSPECTIVE MODE ===============================
+---+ +---+ +---+ X AXIS controls:
| 7 | | 8 | | 9 | 7 = rotate top away; 8 = rotate top toward; 9 = zero X
+---+ +---+ +---+
+---+ +---+ +---+ Y AXIS Controls:
| 4 | | 5 | | 6 | 4 = rotate right side away; 5 = rotate right forward;
