To draw with a mouse choose tool you need (brush, pen, airbrush, liquid brush) from Tool Palette. Pick a foreground color (your cursor switches to eyedropper when you point to colors tab, you also can pick up color from anywhere in your image using Dropper tool), adjust tool parameters, click on image and drag to draw with selected tool.
PM Painter supports all pressure-sensitive pen/tablets communicating with PC through Wintab drivers (should be supplied with your pen/tablet). The density of paint you apply will depend on pen pressure. You can use back tip of pen as Eraser tool.
To correct mistakes you can use Undo or Eraser. PM Painter allows you to undo up to 5 last actions you performed. Each action could be any command from Image and Effects Menu, or a brush stroke (whatever you draw until you release mouse button is just one action).
Eraser tool provides several choices on the attribute tool bar. If you want to erase portion of last brush stroke, or to undo locally any command from Effects menu choose Last action in Erase list box.
To wipe out and fill with background/foreground color choose To background or To foreground options respectively.
Use Eraser tool to substitute one color to another. Choose foreground to background mode in Erase list box of Eraser痴 attribute bar to change colors locally. Imagine you made multicolored picture and now want to change only one specific color.
PM Painter can import images from any device communicating with PC through TWAIN driver. To scan image or download it from camera choose available source device using Select Source command from File menu. Then run Acquire command. You will see the interface of TWAIN driver program.
You should have the driver software supplied with scanner or camera be installed on you computer before you try to download images to PM Painter.
You can download multiple pictures at once from digital camera in PM Painter. All images will be opened in separate windows.
JPEG files you download from Web or compressed images taken from digital camera usually feature blocking structure. Use Cleaning Background command from Effects menu to improve image quality.
To post images on Web page or to send by e-mail you should save them in GIF or JPEG formats. These formats are used to compress image data and to reduce image file size. GIF is better for clip-arts, while JPEG is better for photos.
You can稚 save true color or grayscale image in GIF. To save image as GIF file use Convert to 8-bit paletted command from Image menu. Run Save As command. Choose GIF Files (*.GIF) in the Save as Type list box and click Save button.
You can save interlaced GIF files in PM Painter. Images will appear with gradually increased resolution when downloaded in your Internet browser through slow connection lines.
You can save GIF files with transparency in PM Painter. Check GIF89a Signature and Select transparency color boxs when you save GIF file. Then select transparent color.
The best way to save truecolor image for the Web is to save it as JPEG file. Choose JPEG Files (*.JPG) in the Save as Type list box of Save As dialog box. Then you can select the level of quality. The more quality the less compression.
