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Tutorial 1 - Logo related scripts  
 
In this tutorial I introduce usage of some logo related scripts.

I created the black & white "Blue Sea" -logo. Background is totally white (Red 255 Green 255 Blue 255) and logo is using totally black (Red 000 Green 000 Blue 000) color.

I load it in and for a start I needed some workspace around the picture, so I run the AddSpace-script. It's asking the background color of the extra area. I usually let it be "Guess". It means that script check color values of bottom right corner of the picture and uses it as background. Simple AI, but works great. 20 pixels around picture is enough with Visual Logo.

New picture window will pop up, so I may close the old one. If you are dealing with large logo, then you should set zoom-level. In AGA-machine things get too slow, when there's many large picturewindows on screen at once. Zoom14 -script sets zoomlevel of active window to 1:4. Setting some hotkeys for different scripts might be a good idea, too.

It's a good idea to use GaussianEdge before using Visual Logo. That way edges of that b&w-logo are more smooth. Try "High" with value of 5. It seems more fatter now.

Keep this new window activated and run VisualLogoDemo-script. "Raised"-effect is the only included effect. In full version there would be more things to adjust, like offset of shadow. All the adjustments made also are saved to a configfile, so you wouldn't have to write things on paper, just for not remembering them. Ok, Raised effect will return two new pictures. Difference between these two is, that other one have only light outline. If you wish so, you can leave it as it is.. or you could try to do more.

Load a tileable texture. To this texture use Visual TextureB -script and effect number 1. Non B-version is ment for affecting multible files at once.

Mark this affected texture as SECOND(ARY). You have opened Infobar-window from Project-menu, haven't you? Activate original b&w-logo. Run LogoTexture-script. You now have logo with surface of this texture.

This textured logo has razor sharp edges. Something must be done. Use GaussianFeather -script to it. Much better.

Ok, almost in goal.. Mark this smooth edged textured logo as SECONDARY and activate Raised-logo. Now choose menuitem "Alpha/Composite". Choose Method of Multiply and set offsets as you like.

CloseAll-script purpose is surprisingly to close all picturewindows on screen. But, there's an extra feature. Mark a window as ALPHA. It helps to have Infobar-window opened (Project/Infobar Window). All the other windows expect that one marked as ALPHA will be closed. Be careful with this one.