<<< THE PICTURE PACKER : STOS PAINT >>> Original Program by Ralph Effemey Revised by Jeff Prieb For 3 Resolutions Shareware Version 2.41 Copyright 1992 About the Program: STOS Paint V2.41 is a simple graphics editor that is included within The Picture Packer to allow you to edit or create pictures before converting or compressing. STOS Paint has been revised to work in all three resolutions but can only be accessed if in the same resolution as the picture in memory. Full docs for the rest of the program can be found in the file PIC_PACK.DOC. Descriptions of the Menu Options: Choice menu This menu contains 16 options from which the main art functions can be found. All drawing commands behave in the following way: * Select a function from the choice menu * Use the mouse to position the drawing pointer * Press on the left mouse button to begin the drawing procedure * Keep the left mouse button pressed and move the mouse around. Doing this will, in most cases, allow you to decide the final appearance of the chosen shape/line * Release the left mouse button and your shape/line will be plotted * In all drawing operations the right button will escape out of the function and return back to the menu * Pressing the UNDO key after a shape has been plotted results in that operation being removed The functions available are as follows: Circle: Draws the circumference of a circle, the colour of which can be selected from the Colour menu. Disc: Operates the same as Circle but the whole area is filled in with the current fill pattern. Frame: Draws the perimeter of a rectangle. Box: Draws and fills a rectangle Fill: An area of colour can be changed with this option. The colour and Fill pattern are selectable from their relevant menus. Line: Draw a straight line from point to point Draw: For single pixel plotting. Constant movement will produce a free-hand style of writing. Brushes: These are shapes which can be selected for painting with. Choose your brush with the cursor - repeatedly clicking on the left mouse button will increase the size, shown in the large window. Ellipse: Similar to Disc but in this case there are two radii, one for the X-axis and the other for the Y-axis. Erase: Any size of the screen can be cleared with this option. Select the top left section you require to delete and then drag a box over the total area to delete. Remember UNDO if you erase something by mistake! Palette: The RGB values of each colour can be altered here. Colour menu When you pull down this menu, you'll be confronted by a display of 2, 4, or 16 bars, each one representing an element of the palette. Selecting one will set the current drawing colour to the one of your choice. Note that if you were using a drawing operation like Fill, after you select a colour the program goes into the Fill option again. This is so that you can mingle colours quickly when using a specific feature. Line menu From this menu you can alter the way in which any future lines are drawn. Continuous: This type of line is always solid but has a selectable width and the ends of the lines can be rounded, arrowed or squared. Any future lines drawn after selecting this will have these characteristics. Broken: Lines from this option can only be one pixel wide but you are presented with a selection of line types to choose from. Extras menu Choose fill: The pattern used for the Disc, Box and Fill commands can be changed from this option. Mirror >: Allows an area to be reverse mirrorred from left to right. Use the rubberband rectangle to choose the area to mirror. Then position the mouse pointer on the top left- hand corner of where you wish to postion the new area. Mirror ^: Flips an area of the screen from top to bottom. Works the same as the above mirror only in up-down direction. Airbrush: There are three sizes of airbrush available to you via this option. An airbrush slowly fills in a circle full of dots. If you move the mouse while 'spraying' with the airbrush it gives an effect similar to an aerosol can. Cut/Paste: Similar to copy, the difference being that the image is removed from screen as it is 'cut'. You can then paste it back as many times as you like. Magnify: This will allow you to pixel edit easily and quickly. Use the left/right cursor keys to change the colour of the pointers and hence your drawing. Bell indicates that the colour has been changed. As before, left button plots a pixel, right exits. Quit: Allows you to exit out of STOS Paint and back to the Picture Packer menu. You have the option to save your current picture.