<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Hi Caroline<br><br>I think what you want to do is to take that picture of the caterpillar and erase all but the caterpillar?<br><br>To do that you want to "repaint" the picture (it is already an image).<br><br>First get the "halos" (which every object in Etoys will show) by right clicking on the picture.<br><br>                 There is balloon help on most things in Etoys, and each halo handle will say what it does.<br><br>                       For example, to duplicate your picture, drag on the green button in the upper right corner. A duplicate copy will drag off.<br><br>                       To put something in the trash, click on the "move to trash" handle in the upper left corner.<br><br>--> To repaint, click on the "repaint" handle on the right side, mid height.<br><br>                  There is help about most things in Etoys under the "?" on the Sugar menu bar.<br><br>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.<br><br>When done, click on "Keep" in the paint box. If you want to start over, click on "Toss".<br><br>You now have a picture of the caterpillar with transparent fill around it. <br><br>The PNG format (a standard open source format) will allow the picture to be filed with the transparent fill preserved.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>Don't hesitate to ask more questions.<br><br>Best wishes,<br><br>Alan<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Caroline Meeks <caroline@solutiongrove.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Alan Kay <alan.nemo@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> iaep <iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, October 1, 2009 6:41:26 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [IAEP] Any ideas how to make an image with a transparent background inSugar?<br></font><br> Thanks Alan,<div><br></div><div>Where should I look to figure out Etoys paint. I'm stuck and there is no kid here to teach me!</div><div><br></div><div><span><a target="_blank" href="http://screencast.com/t/4lvde8qWV2pD">http://screencast.com/t/4lvde8qWV2pD</a></span><br> <br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Alan Kay <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:alan.nemo@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:alan.nemo@yahoo.com">alan.nemo@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div>Paint it in Etoys, save as a .PNG picture<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Alan<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Caroline Meeks <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:caroline@solutiongrove.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:caroline@solutiongrove.com">caroline@solutiongrove.com</a>><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> iaep <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org">iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, October 1, 2009 6:28:22 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [IAEP] Any ideas how to make an image with a transparent background inSugar?<br></font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><span><span> <a target="_blank" href="http://screencast.com/t/K0lH5L7tsBU">http://screencast.com/t/K0lH5L7tsBU</a></span></span><div><br></div><div>I am trying to make a new character for cartoon builder. The video explains my goals.</div><div> Basically I want to take a picture and cut out just the caterpillar and have it be cropped/transparent background.</div> <div><br></div><div>thanks,</div><div>Caroline<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Caroline Meeks<br>Solution Grove<br>Caroline@SolutionGrove.com<br><br>617-500-3488 - Office<br>505-213-3268 - Fax<br> </div> </div></div></div></div></div><br> </div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Caroline Meeks<br>Solution Grove<br>Caroline@SolutionGrove.com<br><br>617-500-3488 - Office<br>505-213-3268 - Fax<br> </div> </div></div></div><br> </body></html>