UG: Paint (Rev #3, changes)
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Paint tutorial
Start Paint
(Remove “Note” paragraph about changing the mode; this no longer seems to be necessary)
Create a new sprite
3. (Remove bold from “Width” and “Height” as the components are no longer explicitly named)
4: (Change “Mask” to “Transparency mask”)
(Add two new steps)
5. Change the number of colours to 16.
6. Choose Colour palette.
7. (Renumber from “5” to “7” “7”) and use image “Overview”)
Create the second flower
4. (Remove “light blue” from “A light blue rectangle”)
Trace around the petals
2. (Change “Clear pixels” to “clear pixels” to match casing of actual app)
Turn the sprite into a backdrop
(Replace entire section with)
You’re now ready to wallpaper your screen with your flower sprite.
1. Click Menu over the desktop background.
The Pinboard menu will appear.
2. Choose Configure from this menu:
(Use image “Pinboard”)
3. Drag your sprite file (called Flower) from its directory and drop it on the Custom image box.
(Use (Copy the “Pinboard setup” image “Configure” from page 105 if desired, or I can take a new screenshot on request))
4. Make sure that Tiled is selected then click Set.
5. Your whole screen will now be tiled with your sprite:
(Page is unfinished… more to come!)
Paint reference section
Creating a new sprite
(In the table, make the following changes)
Row 2, column 2: Change “Mask” to “Transparency mask”.
Row 3, column 2: Change “Width and Height” to “width and height” (ie. remove bold and capitals as the boxes no longer have labels).
Row 3, column 3: Change “resize arrows at the bottom of the window” to “resize arrows next to the boxes”.
Row 6, column 2: Change the three bold entries to Colour palette, Mono palette and No palette respectively.
Footnote: I’m not sure whether this is still an issue. Remove if not.
Manipulating sprites within a sprite file
(Add new entry to table)
To: Select all sprites within a sprite file
Do this: Click Menu over the sprite file window and choose Selection/Select all.
Notes: You can also hold Select and drag a rectangle around multiple sprites to select them.
Handling JPEG images
(It might be worth removing the third bullet point as it’s not so relevant on modern systems. If you wish to keep it then I suggest changing “it will be loaded” to “it will [normally/usually] be loaded” as ChangeFSI may not be set as default)
Taking screen snapshots
(In the table, change the “Camera” image to “Snapshot”)
Saving Paint features in a Desktop boot file
(Rename section to “Saving Paint application preferences”)
(Keep first paragraph, but replace the other two with:)
See Built in application options on page 523 for details of how to achieve this.
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