PICTURE MENU The Picture menu lets you save,load,and print your pictures,as well as allowing you to make various global changes to the color palette,screen resolution,and page format. The Picture menu contains the following menu items: LOAD Displays the Load Picture requester. To load a file from disk: Click the button for the drive you want to load from(for example,df1:). Point to the name of the file you want to load,click with the left button,and then click Load.(If you click a subdirectory name you will see all the files in that subdirectory.) When you load a picture,the loaded picture replaces any existing picture. If you have multiple frames,the loaded picture replaces the current frame. Clicking the listing "/Parent(DIR)" moves you into the parent directory in which the curent subdirectory resides,which may be the root directory. If you swap disks while the Load Picture requester is displayed,DeluxePaint read the new disk's directory but does not display it until you click the drive button. If there are more items in the directory but does not display it until you click the drive button. If there are more items in the directory than there is room in the window,you can scroll through the directory by clicking the up and down arrow keys,as appropriate,or by dragging the scroll box up and down. Click Load to load the selected file,or Cancel if you change your mind. LOAD PICTURE SPECIFY DRIVE DRAWER LO-RES FILE DF0: DF1: RAM: # OF FRAMES: 1 LOAD CANCEL FIGURE 9.14 Load Picture requester The # of Frames edit field near the bottom of the requester lets you load multiple pictures at one time as frames of an animation. The pictures must all be in the same format. If you already have animation frames,those frames are discarded and DeluxePaint creates new frames as you load.(If you want to add picutes to your animation without discarding it,you must load the picture one at a time.)DeluxePaint loads the pictures starting with the picture you selected in the requester and continuing alphabetically down the listing to load the number of frames you requested. This option basically does the reverse operation of the Frames:_to_fields in the Save Picture requester. SAVE Displays the Save Picture requester. This requester works almost identically to the Load Picture requester,except that it saves the file to disk rather than loading it. To save a picture: Choose Save from the Picture menu. In the Save Picture requester,click on a disk button(df0:,df1:,ram:,etc.)to choose the disk you want to save to. Click on the subdirectory you selected appear in the Drawer edit field.)Click in the File edit field and type a name for your picture. Finally,click Save to save the file. You can save in a particular subdirectory by clicking in the Drawer gadget and typing in the subdirectory name,or by clicking the subdirectory name directly from the displayed file names. When you type in either the Drawer or File edit fields,you can erase the existing type by clicking at the end of the existing name and Backspacing,or by clicking at the beginning of the name and Deleting. You can move over the text without deleting it by using the arrow keys. You can save a picture under an existing file name by clicking that file name in the file listing,or you can enter a new file name(up to 29 characters long) by clicking the File edit field and typing the name. Whenever you save a picture under an existing name,DeluxePaint displays a requester for you to confirm that you want to overwrite the existing file. Pictures are saved and reloaded with all their attributes,such as palettes, stencils and perspective information. Pictures are saved and reloaded with all their attributes,such as palettes, stencils and perspective information. SAVE PICTURE SPECIFY DRIVE DRAWER LO-RES FILE DF0: DF1: RAM: SAVE CANCEL FIGURE 9.15 Save Picture requester If you have multiple frames when you display the Save Picture requester,the bottom portion of the requester will contain Frames edit fields for you to specify which frames of your animation you want to save. You enter a file name and specify a drawer just as you would when saving a single picture. When you click Save,the frames are saved as separate pictures with a number added to the end of the file name. For example,if you enter 5 to 10 as the frames you want to save,the frames are saved as Filename005 through Filename010. DELETE Displays the Delete File requester,allowing you to delete a file from the disk without leaving the program. This function is useful if you find that your data disk is full and you need to delete a file before you can save your work. The Delete File requester works just like the Load and Save requesters described above. You can enter a file name by clicking that name in the requester window, or by typing the name directly into the File edit field. NOTE You can use this option to delete any kind of file on the disk,not just pictures. Thus,you can delete brushes,animations,etc. DELETE FILE SPECIFY DRIVE DRAWER LO-RES FILE DF0: DF1: RAM: DELETE CANCEL FIGURE 9.16 Delete File requester PRINT Displays the Print Picture requester. Before you start to print a picture,make sure you have selected the correct printer driver from Preferences,and that your printer is connected and turned on. See your Amiga Users Guide for information on printer preferences. PRINT PICTURE ASPECT: IMAGE:+- SHADE: B&W GREY COLOR PLACEMENT: % DOTS %WIDE:100 %HIGH:0 LINE FEEDS: 0 COPIES:1 FORM FEED: NO YES CANCEL EXIT PRINT FIGURE 9.17 Print Picture requester The Print Picture requester provides the following options: ASPECT:This lets you specify the orientation of the picture on the paper,either Normal,the default,or Sideways. Click the Up-arrow button for Normal or the Left-arrow button for Sideways. IMAGE:This lets you specify whether the printout will be a positive or negative image. Click the Plus button for positive or the Minus button for negative. SHADE:This lets you specify whether the printout will be in color,in shades of grey,or in black and white. Make sure the setting is appropriate for your printer. If you are using a single-color ribbon,click B&W. If you want to translate your image's colors into shades of grey,use the Grey setting. To print in full color,click Color. PLACEMENT:This option lets you specify whether the picture should be printed against the left margin of the page or centered on the page. %/DOTS:The % option lets you control the size of the printout by specifying the % width and % height of the printout paper. The Dots option lets you specify the size of the printout in terms of the actual printer pixels. If the % option is active then the following parameters can be specified: % Wide and % High: These let you change the aspect ratio(the ratio of height to width)of the picture by setting the percentages for each. The default values are 100% Wide and 0% High. 0% is a special case and tells the printer to maintain the same aspect ratio as the screen version of the picture. To change the aspect ratio,leave the % Wide at 100 and enter a new % High value. You can use this feature to compensate for elongated squares and circles that result when you change screen formats. If you just want to shrink the picture while maintaining the same aspect ration,change the % Wide value and leave the % High value at 0. To change either value,click the appropriate gadget,Backspace or Delete over the existing value,and type in the new one. If the Dots option is active you can set only the printout width and height in dots. LINE FEEDS:Lets you set the number of line feeds you want to insert after a picture is printed. This way you can easily print two pictures on the same page with a specified amount of space in between the pictures. COPIES:Lets you specify how many copies of the picture you want printed. FORM FEED:Lets you set whether or not you want the printer to move to the next sheet of paper before printing each image. This lets you easily print a single picture per sheet of paper. CANCEL if you don't want to print and don't want to save any new settings. Click Exit if you don't want to print,but want to save your settings to print later. Click Print to print the current picture,or once you start printing,you can stop at any time by pressing the Stop button that appears while printing is in progress. FLIP As its name implies,Flip lets you flip a picture about its x-ory-axis. If you have multiple frames,you can flip one frame,a range of frames,or all frames of your animation. The following secondary menu items are available under the Flip option: HORIZ Flips the current picture about the horizontal or x-axis. VERT Flips the current picture about the vertical or y-axis. CHANGE COLOR The Change Color option presents a secondary menu with options for manipulating the colors in your picture. PALETTE(Keyboard Equivalent:p) Displays the Color Palette requester. You can also display the Color Palette requester by clicking the Color Indicator(between the palette and the Toolbox) with the right mouse button. This is the master color control panel,which you use to adjust colors,create spreads of color,and define cycle ranges. You can move the Color Palette requester around on the screen by pointing to the bar at its top,pressing the left mouse button,and dragging it to the new location. COLOR PALETTE R G B H S V 15 12 8 4 0 SPREAD EX COPY RANGE: 1 2 3 4 5 6 SPEED CANCEL UNDO OK FIGURE 9.18 The Color Palette requester To select a color,use the left mouse button to click the color either in the requester or anywhere on the page(including the Palette at the bottom right of the screen). The selected color is displayed in the small box in the upper right area of the requester. Use the RGB(for Red,Green,and Blue)or HSV(for Hue, Saturation,and Value)sliders to change the color.(See Tutorial One in Chapter Six:Painting Tutorials for an explanation of color mixing in RGB or HSV.) The Copy button lets you copy a color from one position to another: Click the first color,click Copy,the click the position you want to copy into. The Ex button lets you exchange the position of two colors in the palette: Click the first color,click Ex,then click the second color. If you use Ex to rearrange the colors in your Palette,the resulting screen image will likely be in the wrong colors. You can correct this by choosing Change Color>Remap from the Picture menu.(Note that you should remap immediately after you change the color arrangement in the palette. If you modify the palette a second time without first remapping,you will not be able to remap to the original palette.) The Sread button helps you quickly create a spread of shades between two colors: Click the first color,click Spread,and then click the second color. DeluxePaint creates a uniform spread of colors,taking into account the beginning and ending shades and the number of colors in between. DEFINING RANGES You use the Range button to define ranges of color for the color cycling, gradient fill,Shade,and Blend features of DeluxePaint. Click one of the six numbered range buttons to choose the range number you are defining. Click the color you want at one end of the range,click Range,then click the color at the other end of the range. Once you have defined a range of colors,selecting any of the colors in the range selects the entire range for the features that use ranges. The Speed slider lets you control the speed of color cycling for each range. Drag the Speed slider to the left(slower)or to the right(faster). By holding the button down on the slider you can monitor the color cycling right on the page,even if Color Cycling is turned off. You can control the cycle direction for each range by clicking on the Cycle Direction Arrow at the bottom right of the Color Palette requester while that range is selected. This arrow also sets the direction of the range when it is used as a gradient. You can reverse the last change you made in the Color Palette requester by clicking Undo. USE BRUSH PALETTE When you load a brush from disk,DeluxePaint continues to use the current picture palette,even though it may be different from the one the brush was created with. Use Brush Palette switches to the brush palette,and includes any information about color cycling that was saved with the brush. If the newly loaded brush uses more colors than the current picture,Use Brush Palette switches to the brush palette and reduces the number of colors to that of the picture palette. It does so by recomputing the palette to match the original as closely as possible with fewer colors. After choosing Use Brush Palette,you can still revert to the original picture palette by using the Restore Palette command(see below). Compare Use Brush Palette with the Remap command in the Brush menu;this command lets you keep the current picture palette,but maps the brush to the picture palette to match the original brush palette as closely as possible. RESTORE PALETTE This option returns you to the palette you were using before the current palette. Thus,if you load a picture with a different palette,Restore Palette reverts to the palette in effect before the load. See Use Brush Palette,above, and Default Palette below. DEFAULT PALETTE The default palette is the palette DeluxePaint always uses when you first start the program. The Default Palette command replaces the current palette with the default palette. Note that the palette contains range and cycle speed information as well as the color settings,and all of these settings are replaced when you select Default Palette. CYCLE(Keyboard Equivalent:Tab) Toggles color cycling on/off. Color cycling uses the color ranges you define in the Color Palette requester.(See Palette,above). If a color is not included in any range,it does not cycle. See "Animation with Color Cycling" in Tutorial One of Chapter Six:Painting Tutorials. BG->FG Changes all pixels that use the current background color to use the current foreground color. This provides an easy method of changing colors globally--all pixels in the current background color in the picture are changed to the current foreground color. The change occurs on-screen only and does not affect the order of colors in the color palette. Undo does not reverse this change. BG<->FG Swaps all pixels in the current background color with the current foreground color. This is similar to the Bg->Fg option above,except that the change occurs in both directions. The change occurs on-screen only and does not affect the order of colors in the color palette. Like Bg->Fg,above,Undo does not reverse this change. REMAP When you create a picture,DeluxePaint "remembers" each color on the screen by remembering its location in the palette. If a picture on the screen was created with a palette other than the current palette(for example,if you have modified the palette since loading the picture),Remap finds the locations in the current palette of the colors it used in the original palette and "tells" the picture to look there for its colors. Bg->Fg and Bg<->Fg,above,are special cases of Remap. See also Remap in the Brush menu,below. Undo does not reverse this change. SPARE The Spare option presents a submenu with options that apply to the spare page feature in DeluxePaint. The following secondary options are available under the Spare option: SWAP(Keyboard Equivalent:j) Displays the spare page. When you first call it up,the spare page is the standard screen size. If you wish to use a larger page size on the spare page, you will need to make the appropriate selection from the Page Size option(see below). Note,however,that you can increase the size of a page only if you have sufficient memory available. Note also that a spare page uses up memory,even if there is nothing on it. COPY TO SPARE Copies the picture on the current page to the spare page. This lets you experiment with your picture on the spare page without fear of losing anything. If you do not have sufficient memory for a spare page,save the image to disk if you wish to experiement with it. If you copy to the spare from a page that is larger than then spare,only the visble portion of the page is copied. If you copy to a spare which is larger than the screen,a copy is made to the spare at the location in the spare that was visible when yu last viewed it. MERGE IN FRONT Merges that spare page in front of the current page. When the spare page is brought forward,all pixels matching its current background color will appear transparent,allowing images on the current page to show through. MERGE IN BACK Merges the spare page in back of the current page. When the spare page is put behind the current one,all pixels which match the current page's background color will appear transparent,allowing images on the spare page to show though. DELETE THIS PAGE If you no longer wish to have memory allocated for a second page,use the Delete this Page command to delete the current page(the one currently showing on the screen)and to deallocate the memory set aside for it. Be sure you have saved a copy of the picture you are deleting if you think you may need it later. When you select Delte this Page,DeluxePaint asks you to confirm the deletion,and then switches you to the other page. PAGE SIZE Displays the Page Size requester. You can select the page size(in pixels)you wish to work on. Standard is the normal Amiga display size for the selected resolution. SET PAGE SIZE TYPE IN SIZE: WIDTH: 320 HEIGHT:200 OR SELECT ONE: STANDARD 320 X 200 FULL PAGE 320 X 340 OVERSCAN 352 X 240 CANCEL OK FIGURE 9.19 Set Page Size requester Full Page gives you a full printed page image(8 1/2 by 11 inches)on most printers. Overscan gives you a full screen display,thereby letting you create picutes that fill the entire screen. This is particularly useful if you wish to videotape your images. In order to paint on the edges of a full video screen you need to scroll the image around using the cursor keys or the n key unless you set the Screen Format to Overscan(see Screen Format,below). Alternatively, you can view the entire screen by selecting Show Page(see below). Clicking one of the three settings automatically sets the height and width in the corresponding edit fields. You can also type in any other side you wish by clicking the appropriate edit field,Backspacing or Deleting over the existing value,and typing in the new size. Although DeluxePaint will recognize page sizes up to 1008 x 1024,you would need to reduce the number of colors in your palette to create a picture this large. SHOW PAGE(Keyboard Equivalent:Shift-S) Displays your current page in its entirety in a reduced format -- for example, in 640x400 page size in Lo-Res,it shows only every other pixel. Pressing any key or either mouse button returns you to the current page. SCREEN FORMAT This option displays the Screen Format requester. If you select a number of colors that will exceed your available memory,DeluxePaint will retain the format you have selected but use fewer colors. Be sure to save a copy of your current screen before changing screen formats,because once you have reduced the number of colors,the original color information is lost. In addition,note that changing formats eliminates most items from memory,including the Font Directory. The Screen Format requester gives you the following options: LO-RES:This is the default setting,giving you a pixel array of 320x200. Lo-Res lets you have up to 32 colors on the screen. DeluxePaint III also supports a special 64 color mode called Extra Halfbrite. The 64 color Extra-Halfbrite is special in that the first 32 colors in the palette are customizable,whereas the last 32 color in the palette are half intensities of the first 32 and are not directly changeable by the user. NOTE Not all Amiga 1000 computers support Extra Halfbrite. The easiest way to find out whether or not your computer supports this display mode is to try it. Choose Lo Res and 64 colors in the Choose Screen Format requester and look at the Palette(make sure the pointer is not in the Menu Bar or Toolbox). If the last 32 colors are the same as the first,your computer doesn't support Extra Halfbrite. MED-RES:Uses a pixel array of 640x200. Pixels in Med-Res format are tall and narrow compated to the other screen formats. This means that if you switch between Lo-Res and Med-Res,objects will become flattened or elongated because of the different pixel shape used by each format. You can compensate for this by using the Double Horiz and Double Vert options from the Brush menu(see below). Med-Res allows up to 16 colors. INTERLACE:Uses interlace techniques to double the number of horizontal lines. This produces a flicker that can be avoided by using a high persistence monitor. The interlace pixel is wider than it is tall,so moving from Lo-Res or Med-Res to Interlace will flatten images,while moving in the other direction will elongate them. Interlace format allows up to 64 colors on the screen as in the Lo-Res mode. HI-RES:Uses a pixel array of 640x400. Because Hi-Res also interlaces the horizontal lines,it is subject to the same flicker as the Interlace format. Pixel shape in Hi-Res format is the same as that of Lo-Res. Hi-Res format allows up to 16 colors on the screen. See Appendix A for more information on memory requirements. OVERSCAN:Puts DeluxePaint's display screen into overscan mode allowing you to view and edit your image in the border area around the normal viewable screen area. If the control panel or menu bar is showing when in overscan mode,the screen is shifted down and to the left to make sure you can see the controls. If you need to adjust the position of your screen,you can do so by holding down Ctrl and using the cursor keys. This saves you the trouble of exiting the program to adjust your screen through Preferences. The Screen Format requester also give you the option of retaining the same page size or changing your current screen to the new screen size. Example #1:SCREEN--If you start in 320x200 screen format and move to 640x400 format,your image will fill only one quarter of the screen. If you go from 640x 400 to 320x200,you will only retain the upper left quarter of your image. Example #2:KEEP SAME--If you start in 640x400 format and move to 320x200 format,you will retain the entire image but you will need to scroll the screen to see all of it. CHOOSE SCREEN FORMAT FORMAT: NUMBER OF COLORS: LO-RES 320X200 MED-RES 640X200 2 16 INTERLACE 320X400 4 32 HI-RES 640X400 8 64 OVERSCAN PAGE SIZE: SCREEN KEEP SAME CANCEL OK FIGURE 9.20 Choose Screen Format requester after program start up When you first boot DeluxePaint you are presented with a slightly diffeent version of the Screen Format requester. CHOOSE SCREEN FORMAT FORMAT: NUMBER OF COLORS: LO-RES 320X200 MED-RES 640X200 2 16 INTERLACE 320X400 4 32 HI-RES 640X400 8 64 OVERSCAN PROGRAM LOADING: SWAP LOAD ALL OK FIGURE 9.21 Choose Screen Format requester at program start up The basic difference is that you need to specify how the program is loaded. Clicking on the Load All button causes the entire DeluxePaint program to load into memory,while clicking on the Swap button causes parts of the DeluxePaint program to load into memory as they are needed leaving more memory available for image data. 193 ABOUT Displays the program's About requester showing the program version number,the author's name,the copyright notice,and extensive information about the amount of available memory and the size of your animation or animbrush. ABOUT DELUXE PAINT VERSION 3.01 CREATED BY DANIEL SILVA (c) 1985-1989 Electronic Arts Memory Chip Fast Available: 257408 / 2171968 Max Block: 255464 / 1632048 Anim Size: 0 Anim Brush Size: 0 OK FIGURE 9.22 The About Box QUIT Exits DeluxePaint