About how to get the drawing out of Etoys:
Drag-and-drop it into the Sugar Frame's clipboard, or just press Ctrl-
C when its halo is showing.
Then either insert into the activity you want directly by drag-and-
drop or Ctrl-V (if the activity supports that), or store the clipping
in the Journal via its Frame clipboard icon menu.
- Bert -
On 02.10.2009, at 04:30, Alan Kay wrote:
Hi Caroline
I think what you want to do is to take that picture of the
caterpillar and erase all but the caterpillar?
To do that you want to "repaint" the picture (it is already an image).
First get the "halos" (which every object in Etoys will show) by
right clicking on the picture.
There is balloon help on most things in Etoys, and
each halo handle will say what it does.
For example, to duplicate your picture, drag
on the green button in the upper right corner. A duplicate copy will
drag off.
To put something in the trash, click on the
"move to trash" handle in the upper left corner.
--> To repaint, click on the "repaint" handle on the right side, mid
height.
There is help about most things in Etoys under the
"?" on the Sugar menu bar.
For doing your task, I like to choose "no color" in the paint
palette (it's the bar over the color rainbow). Then I will choose
various sizes of the circular brushes to do the work of removing the
background. The "Undo" in the paint box will undo one whole stroke.
When done, click on "Keep" in the paint box. If you want to start
over, click on "Toss".
You now have a picture of the caterpillar with transparent fill
around it.
The PNG format (a standard open source format) will allow the
picture to be filed with the transparent fill preserved.
I'm presuming that the reverse of the process you used to get the
image into Etoys will get it back to where you want to use it.
For a nice way to animate a wriggling caterpillar, you can also look
at the example in Sdenka Salas' recent book of the XO in Peru.
Don't hesitate to ask more questions.
Best wishes,
Alan
From: Caroline Meeks <[email protected]>
To: Alan Kay <[email protected]>
Cc: iaep <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, October 1, 2009 6:41:26 PM
Subject: Re: [IAEP] Any ideas how to make an image with a
transparent background inSugar?
Thanks Alan,
Where should I look to figure out Etoys paint. I'm stuck and there
is no kid here to teach me!
http://screencast.com/t/4lvde8qWV2pD
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Alan Kay <[email protected]> wrote:
Paint it in Etoys, save as a .PNG picture
Cheers,
Alan
From: Caroline Meeks <[email protected]>
To: iaep <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, October 1, 2009 6:28:22 PM
Subject: [IAEP] Any ideas how to make an image with a transparent
background inSugar?
http://screencast.com/t/K0lH5L7tsBU
I am trying to make a new character for cartoon builder. The video
explains my goals.
Basically I want to take a picture and cut out just the caterpillar
and have it be cropped/transparent background.
thanks,
Caroline
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505-213-3268 - Fax
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