Thanks Alan and Bert! I have made progress. My next problem is that my caterpillar is too big! Even when I resize cartoon builder still wants to make it full sized.
http://screencast.com/t/MH1XZmd27s On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 3:26 AM, Bert Freudenberg <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >> >> -- >> Caroline Meeks >> Solution Grove >> [email protected] >> >> 617-500-3488 - Office >> 505-213-3268 - Fax >> >> > > > -- > Caroline Meeks > Solution Grove > [email protected] > > 617-500-3488 - Office > 505-213-3268 - Fax > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > > -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove [email protected] 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax
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