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[bill]

Fine business on your "mtPaint - Simple paint tutorial"don570 ! ,which I use both mtpaint and Gimp in trying to make small pictorial "How to" files for doing
basic functions in Puppy. This to my way of thinking is the way to go to inform
those like myself who are less informed on the ins and outs of Puppy Linux.Keep up the good work ! cheers

[don570]

I'm working on a tutorial to show how to put the head in a polygon.
I'll make a video with this script.

[don570]

A small change is all that is needed to make the star's color a color gradient.

Make sure that a radial gradient is chosen.
Color a red Color B yellow

To show the transparency as checkerboard pattern---> copy and
choose from the menu....

Edit > Paste in New Layer



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[don570]

To make a crude polygon border a scaling can be used rather than cutting
a selection. Here's how I did it...

- open an image document
-make a star pattern with polygon selection tool
-copy the clipboard (Ctrl-C)

-Make a new layer

Layers > New Layer (from Clipboard)

Channels > Edit Selection

To remove jagged edges do a gaussian blur of one or two
Return back to editing the image
Channels > Edit Image
Set all (Ctrl-A)
-copy the clipboard (Ctrl-C)

Edit > Save Clipboard > 1


Scale the image to be bigger by going to the menu...
Image > Scale

To remove jagged edges do a gaussian blur of one or two
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Return back to editing the image by going to the menu...
Channels > Edit Image


To make the polygon region bigger

Image > Scale Canvas


Right-click the paintbucket icon. Set tolerance to 200.
Using paintbucket tool fill document with a color (or gradient color)
by clicking with paintbucket tool in yellow area.
Load the previous smaller polygon by going to the menu...

Edit > Load Clipboard > 1
You may move the selection if desired.
Make sure that selection is dropped in document.



Select all (Ctrl-A)
-copy to the clipboard (Ctrl-C)
Make a new layer by going to the menu...
Edit > Paste to New Layer
Important note: Do not use the layers' menu

Save this layer to a file (PNG format with no transparency).

Now open the file in another paint program that supports PNG.
and transparency is shown by checkerboard pattern around the polygon region. Final result...

[bill]

@don570 :don ,for some reason I can't load a clipboard ? Can you explain what my problem may be.Thanks

[don570]

I've never seen that error message. I don't use that puppy interface.

However when I try to paste a 24bit color clipboard into a 256 color
document it doesn't occur. There is no error message for me.
The mtpaint handbook briefly mentions this.

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[don570]

I have just discovered the wonderful tracing feature. it has been in
mtpaint since at least 3.40 but I didn't know about it

To start the tracing , load a photo into mtpaint.
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Tip: create a new palette that will help reproduce the original flesh tones.

Palette > Create Quantized

This palette can be save to disk and used in other layers as well.
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Next go to menu...
View > Tracing Image ...

Settings should be
Image
Offset about negative 200 pixels (i.e. move copy to the left)
Scale one
Tick box to see the result
Click the apply button to see a second copy image appear to left of original

Adjust the offset values to show the second image properly.



Create a second layer by selecting from menu

Layers > New layer

Layers Settings: Make black the transparent color and click
'Show all layers' box so image underneath can be seen.



Start painting with paint brush. Dab on some flesh colors
and use smear brush ( see image)



Paint with the color black to make the lower photo poke through.

Here is the top layer that has been saved . The transparent region
will allow the man's suit to show.



For a more interesting background use the paint brush with the gradient
turned on.
Note : Gradient settings--->
Length = 50 Type = Linear Color A = blue Color B = white

Save composite file . Here is final image...

[bill]

Thanks don570 for the info.I am still searching for the anomalies of the "clipboard" difficulties.After doing a fresh install of RSHs Lazy Puppy 202 ,and it's resident mtPaint 3.44.03 ,still no joy can I find I guess I will be required to continue using a combination of Gimp and mtPaint for "layering" as in simple tutorials like : [/url]http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=94701[url] but no worries as there are many roads to a destination cheers

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=94701

[jamesbond]

I'm running the latest mtpaint 3.44.78.
Questions:
1) does the "create arrow", as documented in the manual, still work? If yes, how to do it? I activated the ruler tool, click to start the line, and then what to do? I pressed "A" (or "a") and nothing seems to happen.

2) the manual also talks about a cool feature of using the undo-buffer to capture multiple screenshots and save them in one go. How exactly to use this feature (if it still works in the latest mtpaint)?

Thank you.

[bill]

Ah 007,I doubt if Ms.Moneypenny knows the ins and outs to your questions This does however validate my belief that "user friendly" tutorials could be a Godsend to Puppy users if we could solicit folks "in the know" to post some.This is no small task and since Puppy is totally about "choice" then ??
Look like we need to ping on these developers but whether or not they have the time or inclination to respond is the question? cheers

[CatDude]

Hi

@ jamesbond

[wjaguar]

[jamesbond]

[wjaguar]

[bill]

Thanks wjaguar : Just for clarification this is Lazy Puppy K2.6.33.2 from a fresh
install.I haven't been able to save/load a clipboard.