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About
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This Activity allows users to create paintings or drawings. It can also
be used to edit images created by other Activities and the images it
creates can be imported into some Activities.
Using
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Starting
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You can start a new project or open an existing Paint project in the
Journal. You can also edit other images, in the Journal use the 'Start
with' menu item for images made with Record etc.
Primary tool bar
================
1. secondary toolbar - display or change the name of the image that is
saved in the Journal
2. secondary toolbar - edit
3. tool properties
4. brush tool
5. erase tool
6. flood-fill tool - fills an enclosed area with the color selected in
tool properties (if the shape you try to fill has gaps then the
whole screen may fill)
7. color-picker tool - click on the screen to set the drawing color
8. stamp tool - select an area with the select tool, then copy it with
the stamp tool
9. select tool - drag to select a rectangular area of the screen, drag
again to move the selection. Also use with the edit toolbar (copy,
paste, clear), with the stamp tool or with the image toolbar
(rotate, mirror, scale, invert colors)
10. secondary toolbar - shapes
11. secondary toolbar - insert text, set bold, italic, size, and font
12. secondary toolbar - image
13. stop - quits the Activity
Secondary tool bar - Edit
=========================
1. undo
2. redo
3. copy area selected with the select tool to the clipboard (use this
to crop images, select the area you want, copy to the clipboard and
then select 'Keep' on the clip item on the left border of the
screen. The original image is unchanged and a new 'Image clipping'
item is saved in the Journal)
4. paste from clipboard (the image is pasted in the top left, use the
select tool to drag to the desired place)
5. clear the selected area
Tool properties
===============
Changes the properties of the brush tool or the stamp tool
When the brush tool is selected, changes the color, size and shape of
the brush tool. Also affects the shape and text tools.
When the stamp tool is selected, changes the size of the stamp
Secondary tool bar - Shapes
===========================
1. Shapes properties - set the fill color, aspect ratio, the number of
sides of stars and polygons (the border is set in brush properties)
2. Ellipse (hold down shift for circle)
3. Rectangle (hold down shift for squares)
4. Line
5. Free form
6. Polygon (number of sides set in Shapes properties)
7. Heart
8. Parallelogram
9. Arrow
10. Star (number of points set in Shapes properties)
11. Trapezoid
12. Triangle
Secondary tool bar - Images
===========================
1. Insert image from Journal
2. Rotate selected area left
3. Rotate selected area right
4. Horizontal mirror selected area
5. Vertical mirror selected area
6. Scale selected area height
7. Scale selected area width
8. Convert selected area from color to gray
9. Rainbow
10. Invert colors in selected area (white -\> black, red -\> blue etc.)
Applying
========
Paint is a versatile Activity with many uses such as:
- creating drawings or paintings
- creating images for inserting into Write documents
- creating slides for a Portfolio Activity slide show
- creating images for using in other Activities including Turtle
Blocks and many more
- editing and cropping images made by other Activities including
Turtle Blocks and many more
- editing and cropping screen shots (take screen shots with Alt-1)
- editing and cropping photos taken with the Record Activity
Sharing
=======
Paint does not support sharing. You can use Turtle Blocks for
collaborative drawing.
Extending
=========
- take a photo of an animal with Record, crop the image with Paint,
use as a custom turtle in Turtle Blocks
- start a school newspaper, take photos with Record, crop with Paint,
import them into Write
- do a portfolio of your schoolwork, get screenshots (Alt-1) crop with
Paint and add explanatory labels then make a slideshow in Portfolio
Activity
- create a custom Memorize Activity Activity game, create the images
in Paint
- create custom cards for the Dimensions (Visual Match) Activity
- create custom foods for the Nutrition Activity
- create custom images for the Labrynth Activity (mind maps)
- create a web page with images from Paint
- take photos of plants or animals, crop the photos, label them
- take the output of SimpleGraph and use the flood-fill tool to make a
multicolored graph
Developers' information
=======================
**History**
Oficina (the Paint Activity) was developed and adapted to the XO using
Python for the team NATE-LSI (Integrated Systems Laboratory), in the
Polytechnical School at University of São Paulo, Brazil.
**Resources**
[Sources](https://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/paint)
[Sugar Activity Library
page](http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4082)
Where to report problems
========================
In [http://bugs.sugarlabs.org](http://bugs.sugarlabs.org), component
Paint.
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