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- BELLES PAINT v1.0
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- Released February 1995
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- PORTIA SOFTWARE
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- QUICK DOCS
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- If you are using a harddrive the best thing to do is drag the whole BPaint
- draw onto your "WORK" partition, it will then run by double-clicking it's
- icon and print using your harddrive prefs. Not everyone owns a harddrive
- so the disk is also autobooting, slip it into your internal drive DF0: and
- turn on the power, after a short while you'll be looking at a black screen
- with a load of buttons at the bottom, most of these buttons are straight
- forward:
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- LOAD - Opens a requester to select and load a picture.
- SAVE - Opens a requester to select and save a picture.
- DELETE - Opens a requester to select and delete a picture.
- PALETTE - Allows you to adjust the colour palette, click the
- button and the standard palette slider will appear,
- select a colour from the palette bar running along
- the centre of the screen and move the sliders.
- PRINT - Prints the current screen.
- FONTS - Opens a requester to select the font to be used,
- "Bitmap" or "iff" and then choose a font.
- SPARE - Opens and flips to a spare screen.
- SHOW - Displays the whole screen.
- FLIP-H - Flips the whole screen horizontally.
- FLIP-V - Flips the whole screen vertically.
- QUIT - ????
- FORMAT - Selects the screen mode.
- ABOUT - Displays version number.
- TOOLS - Moves to the tools menu buttons.
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- You can move from the "TOOLS" menu to the "PICTURE" menu at any time, the
- menu currently selected is shown in the top left-hand corner. The "TOOLS"
- menu is a little more complicated, but again is setout like most paint
- programs. The colour palette is shown at the top and the selected colour
- is highlighted by a small box. Below the palette are the built-in brushes
- and paint modes. I'll just mention one or two of the special features:
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- PATTERN - Selects one of the built-in patterns for filling
- objects. To test, select the button and then a
- pattern from the display and press USE. If you now
- select SOLID and CIRCLE, the circle will auto-fill
- with the pattern.
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- CLEAR - This button clears the current screen, to use it
- select CLEAR and a requester will appear to check
- if you want to proceed, click YES and the mouse
- pointer will move to the palette bar. Click on any
- colour and the screen will clear to that colour.
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- DRAWING
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- Use the left mouse button (LMB) to select tools and to move from menu to
- menu. When a tool is selected move to the drawing area, start drawing and
- the menu will disappear leaving only the palette bar, use the LMB to change
- colours. To return to the menu simply press the Right Mouse Button (RMB).
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- VIDEO PRESENTER WIPES
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- When you create a picture and wish to use it in a sequence to produce a
- video intro, it must be saved under a special name, which allows the
- program to load it when required eg:
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- Vid.01.pic-name.04.08.09
- ^^ ^^
- || Wipe OUT
- Wipe IN
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- In the above example the image will "Wipe IN" with 08 and "Wipe OUT" with 09,
- below is a list of all the video wipe codes.
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- 00 = Shape to screen (IN)
- 00 = Clear screen (OUT)
- 01 = Centre to 4 corners
- 02 = 4 corners to centre
- 03 = Left to right
- 04 = Right to left
- 05 = Top to bottom
- 06 = Bottom to top
- 07 = Left & right to centre
- 08 = Left to right & right to left
- 09 = Top & bottom to centre
- 10 = Top to bottom & bottom to top
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- Other points to note are:-
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- PREFIX ....... Vid.01.pic-name.04.08.09
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- Your picture MUST have this prefix.
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- SEQUENCE ..... Vid.01.pic-name.04.08.09
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- First picture in sequence.
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- WAIT ......... Vid.01.pic-name.04.08.09
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- Wait approx 4 seconds.
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- BACKGROUND ... Vid.01.pic-name.04.99.99
- ^^ ^^
- Set both wipes to 99 on
- background pictures.
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- These quick docs have been cobbled together by Phil of SaddleTramps PD on a
- very VERY hot day in August, please don't blame Portia Software if I've got
- it a bit wrong. Belles Paint is a great little paint package with that bit
- extra added which makes it stand out from the crowd, I've not been able to
- do justice to the pattern feature so please don't be afraid to experiment a
- little.
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- If you enjoy using Belle's Paint v1.0 then get ready for a treat, 5DL are
- proud to announce the release of Belle's Paint v2.0.
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- Belle's Paint v2.0 is an easy to use paint package which contains many
- innovative ideas. Originally designed for children the program as now
- grown to include a "Dot2Dot" module, an entire image processing suite,
- enhancements to the video titling system, plus many other refinements. The
- interface is simple to operate with no dropdown menus, making it suitable
- for all age groups.
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- There are eight specially prepared Dot2Dot pictures included, which are not
- only fun to do but educational too. Load in a Dot2Dot picture, connect all
- the dots in the correct sequence, and if you like colour in the completed
- picture. Extra Dot2Dot data disks are planned for the future.
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- Belle's Paint v2.0 now includes a complete suite of image processing
- buttons to allow you to transform your pictures. A total of 31
- predetermined effects are included, but by using different combinations
- hundreds of special effects can be created, your mind is the only limit.
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- ** Requires an Amiga with a minimum of 1MB chip ram and WorkBench 2 **
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- Main Features:
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- Fully printed manual (not photocopied).
- Over 30 built-in image transformers.
- Uses colour and IFF fonts.
- Links pictures for titling with screen wipes.
- Contains 8 Dot2Dot pictures.
- Large selection of standard painting tools.
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- Price £5.99 +P&P
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- Please order by sending a cheque or postal order made payable to:
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- SaddleTramps PD
- 1 Lower Mill Close
- Goldthorpe
- Rotherham
- South Yorkshire
- S63 9BY
- England
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- Tel/Fax 01709 888127
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- E-Mail phil@ware5d.demon.co.uk
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- All amounts must be in UKP and payable into a British bank account.
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- Postage costs are:
- UK = £0.50
- Europe = £1.00
- ROW = £1.50
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- STOP PRESS
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- Return this version of Belle's Paint and order Belle's Paint v2.0 for only
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- *** £5.00 +P&P ***
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