Re: [IAEP] Any ideas how to make an image with a transparent background inSugar?
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 carol...@solutiongrove.com To: Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com Cc: iaep iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org 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 alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote: Paint it in Etoys, save as a .PNG picture Cheers, Alan From: Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com To: iaep iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org 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 carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Any ideas how to make an image with a transparent background inSugar?
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 b...@freudenbergs.dewrote: 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 carol...@solutiongrove.com *To:* Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com *Cc:* iaep iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org *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 alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote: Paint it in Etoys, save as a .PNG picture Cheers, Alan -- *From:* Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com *To:* iaep iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org *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 carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[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 carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
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 alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote: Paint it in Etoys, save as a .PNG picture Cheers, Alan -- *From:* Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com *To:* iaep iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org *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 carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Any ideas how to make an image with a transparent background inSugar?
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 carol...@solutiongrove.com To: Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com Cc: iaep iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org 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 alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote: Paint it in Etoys, save as a .PNG picture Cheers, Alan From: Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com To: iaep iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org 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 carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
