CHAPTER TWO: GETTING STARTED This chapter briefly describes the contents of your DeluxePaint package and what computer hardware and software you will need to use DeluxePaint. Then it shows you how to: Organize your disks. Install DeluxePaint on a hard drive. Start DeluxePaint. Open a file. Quit the program. SOFTWARE Your DeluxePaint package contains three disks: The Program Disk contains the DeluxePaint III program and Preferences. The Art Disk contains images you can use in your work. These images are stored in drawers,labeled according to screen format or contents. The Animation Disk contains a few animation files and animbrushes to give you some ideas of what you can do with DeluxePaint III's animation features. It also contains a Player program for playing your animations outside of DeluxePaint III.(You'll find information about the Player in Appendix C). Finally,it contains a ReadMe file. THE README FILE Before you do anything else,read the ReadMe file on your Animation disk. This file contains information about the program that was not available before the manual went to press. To read the ReadMe file: Double-click on the ReadMe icon. This opens a text window that,at a minimum,lists the title,version number,and copyright information about the program. If you need help using the ReadMe file press h on the keyboard to see a screen of keyboard commands. To exit the ReadMe file: Press q on the keyboard. HARDWARE To use DeluxePaint you will need an Amiga,at least 1 megabyte of random access memory,a monitor,and extra diskettes for saving your work. Finally,if you intend to print the files you create,you will need a color printer. Consult your Amiga Users Guide for information about connecting printers and other peripherals to the Amiga. NOTE: If your Amiga has only one disk drive,we recommend that you don't double click on file icons to start DeluxePaint and load a file. Instead,start DeluxePaint and then load the file by choosing Load from the appropriate menu. ORGANIZING YOUR DISKS We assume that you already know how to initialize disks,copy disks,delete files and move files from one disk to another. If you are not familiar with all of these activities,we suggest you consult your Amiga Users Guide before going any further. Before you use your DeluxePaint disk,you should make one or more working copies of it to reduce the chance of anything happening to the original. Also make sure you have one or more blank initialized disks handy for saving your work. INSTALLING ON A HARD DISK If you own a hard drive,you will probably want to install DeluxePaint. The following steps assume that you started the computer with a standard Workbench that has been configured properly to support a hard disk. If you wish to install the program using some other method,feel free to do so. Create a Drawer named DeluxePaint on your hard disk. (Click the Empty Drawer icon to select it. Choose Duplicate from the Workbench menu. In a moment,a new drawer is created called "copy of Empty." Click the "copy of Empty" drawer to select it. Choose Rename from the Workbench menu. Press Del several times to erase the drawer name. Type "DeluxePaint" and press Return. You now have a drawer named DeluxePaint.) Insert the DeluxePaint program disk into a disk drive. Double click the program disk icon to view the contents of the disk. Click the DeluxePaint icon. Then hold down the Shift key and click the other icons. You now have the contents of the program disk selected. Hold down the Shift key and drag the icons so that the one you are pointing to is directly over the DeluxePaint drawer icon. Release the mouse button. Now the Workbench copies the three programs into your hard disk drawer. Replace the program disk with the DeluxePaint art disk. Double click the art disk icon to view the contents of the disk. Select all of the icons on the art disk just as you did with the program disk. Drag the icons onto the DeluxePaint drawer icon on your hard drive the same way you dragged the program icons above. Replace the art disk with the animation disk and drag the icons on the animation disk over to the DeluxePaint drawer just as you dragged the program icons above. You now have copies of the DeluxePaint program and the art and animation drawers on your hard disk. POWER UP When you are ready to begin,just follow these instuctions: Turn on your computer and monitor.(Amiga 1000 users,start by inserting Kickstart 1.2(or later)disk in the internal drive.)When the request for the Workbench disk appears on the screen,insert your working copy of DeluxePaint. The drive spins for a few seconds,and then the DeluxePaint disk icon appears at the top right hand corner of the screen. Double click the disk icon(move the pointer onto the icon and press the left mouse button twice in quick succession)to open the disk window. The disk window opens to reveal icons for the DeluxePaint program(the one that looks like a can of paint)and a number of drawers containing ready made images. STARTING DELUXEPAINT Double click the DeluxePaint pogram icon to start the application. When you start DeluxePaint,the program presents a equester(a window that require some input from you)inviting you to select a screen format. We'll be looking at some of these options later,but for now note that three of the settings are already highlighted("Lo-Res," "32" and "Load All"). These are the default settings,the ones the program automatically uses unless you specify othewise. CHOOSE SCREEN FORMAT FORMAT: NUMBER OF COLORS: LO-RES 320X200 2 16 MED-RES 640X200 4 32 INTERLACE 320X400 8 64 HI-RES 640X400 OVERSCAN PROGRAM LOADING: SWAP LOAD ALL OK Figure 2.1 Choose Screen Format Requester Click OK with the left mouse button to tell DeluxePaint to use the default settings. This last command brings you to the Painting Screen,with the painting area or page on the left and the Toolbox and Palette on the right If this is your first time using DeluxePaint,we recommend you work through the next chapter,where you will learn how to use many of DeluxePaint's tools and techniques. LOADING A PICTURE Before we leave this chapter,let's see how to load one of the pictures on your disk. Let's load the one called GORILLA. Move your cursor to the top of the sceen so that it is over the Title Bar. Whenever you move the cursor to the Title Bar,the cursor changes into a pointer. Press the right mouse button. The Menu Bar replaces the Title Bar and you see a row of menus. In addition,you see one of the menus extending down into the painting area. As you move you pointer from left to right along the Menu Bar,one after another of the menus extends down,each one displaying its selection of options. We will be looking at each menu item in detail later,but fo now we just need to use the first two options on the leftmost menu,the Picture menu. With the right button held down,move the pointer all the way to the left on the Menu Bar to produce the Picture menu options. With the button still held down, move the pointer down to Load,the first item on the list of options,and release the button. This displays the Load Picture Requester. LOAD PICTURE SPECIFY DRIVE DRAWER lo-res FILE DF0: DF1: RAM: # of Frames: 1 LOAD CANCEL Figure 2.3 Load Picture requester Insert the Art disk in any disk drive and click the button in the Load requester to look at the contents of that disk. For example,if you have a two-floppy system,put the Art disk in your second drive and click the df1: button to read the contents. The message "Specify Drive" is replaced by a listing of the contents of your disk. You'll notice that the first item in the list is / Parent(Dir),which indicates that there is a directory(or drawer)level above the one you are in. DeluxePaint automatically opens the drawer for your current display mode the first time you use the Load Picture requester. Notice that the edit field beside Drawer in the middle of the requester shows you are looking at the contents of the lo-res drawer. You can scroll through these file names(not all of them are always visible at one time)by dragging the scroll box(the white rectangle within a dark vertical column on the right side of the requester)up and down. Just point to the scroll box,press the left mouse button,and drag it up or down. As soon as you release the button,the new file names appear in the window. You can also scroll through the file names one at a time by clicking the up and down arrows,or you can scroll one page at a time by clicking in the black areas above and below the scroll box. Click on the file named Gorilla. Notice that when you click on the file name the name appears in the edit field beside File. If you wanted,you could type the file name into the edit field, though it is usually easier to click it. Click Load. The disk drive spins for a few moments,and then the picture appears on the screen. QUITTING DELUXEPAINT To exit DeluxePaint,choose Quit from the Picture menu. If you have made changes to your document since it was last saved,DeluxePaint will ask whether you want to save your current changes. If you wish to save your changes before quitting, click Yes.(You'll find instructions on saving documents in the next chapter.) To exit without saving your document,click No. TECHNICAL SUPPORT If you have questions about DeluxePaint,and you can't find the answers in this manual,our Technical Support department can help. If your question is not urgent, please write to us at the following address: Electronic Arts Technical Support P.O. Box 7578 San Mateo,CA 94403-7578 Please be sure to include the following information with any correspondence: Which version of DeluxePaint you are using(You'll find this information in the About box in the DeluxePaint program.) Which Amiga model you are using(500,100,2000). Your Kickstart and Workbench version numbers. How much random access memory you have installed in your Amiga. Additional system configuration notes(for example,number of disk drives,type and make of monitor,printer,etc.) If you would like to speak to someone directly,call us at (415)572-2787 Monday through Friday between 8:30 am and 4:30 pm PST. Again,please be sure to have information about your version of DeluxePaint and your computer handy when you call. This information will help us help you more quickly.