<html><head><base href="x-msg://1102/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>About how to get the drawing out of Etoys:</div><div><br></div><div>Drag-and-drop it into the Sugar Frame's clipboard, or just press Ctrl-C when its halo is showing.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">- Bert -</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><br></font><div><div>On 02.10.2009, at 04:30, Alan Kay wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">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.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><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="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; 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><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Caroline Meeks <<a href="mailto:caroline@solutiongrove.com">caroline@solutiongrove.com</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">To:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Alan Kay <<a href="mailto:alan.nemo@yahoo.com">alan.nemo@yahoo.com</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Cc:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>iaep <<a href="mailto:iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org">iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Sent:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Thursday, October 1, 2009 6:41:26 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Subject:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [IAEP] Any ideas how to make an image with a transparent background inSugar?<br></font><br>Thanks Alan,<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Where should I look to figure out Etoys paint. I'm stuck and there is no kid here to teach me!</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span><a target="_blank" href="http://screencast.com/t/4lvde8qWV2pD">http://screencast.com/t/4lvde8qWV2pD</a></span><br><br><div class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Alan Kay<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><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><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Paint it in Etoys, save as a .PNG picture<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Alan<br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; 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><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>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><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>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><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Thursday, October 1, 2009 6:28:22 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Subject:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[IAEP] Any ideas how to make an image with a transparent background inSugar?<br></font><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "></div><div class="h5" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br><span><span><a target="_blank" href="http://screencast.com/t/K0lH5L7tsBU">http://screencast.com/t/K0lH5L7tsBU</a></span></span><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I am trying to make a new character for cartoon builder. The video explains my goals.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Basically I want to take a picture and cut out just the caterpillar and have it be cropped/transparent background.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">thanks,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Caroline<br clear="all"><br>--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Caroline Meeks<br>Solution Grove<br><a href="mailto:Caroline@SolutionGrove.com">Caroline@SolutionGrove.com</a><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>--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Caroline Meeks<br>Solution Grove<br><a href="mailto:Caroline@SolutionGrove.com">Caroline@SolutionGrove.com</a><br><br>617-500-3488 - Office<br>505-213-3268 - Fax<br></div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br><a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a></div></span></blockquote></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span> </div> <br></div></body></html>