Thanks Alan and Bert!<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://screencast.com/t/MH1XZmd27s">http://screencast.com/t/MH1XZmd27s</a><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 3:26 AM, Bert Freudenberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bert@freudenbergs.de">bert@freudenbergs.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><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 style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">- Bert -</span><div>
<span style="font-size:12px"></span><font face="Helvetica"><br></font><div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div>On 02.10.2009, at 04:30, Alan Kay wrote:</div><br></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><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;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div>
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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> </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> </span>Caroline Meeks <<a href="mailto:caroline@solutiongrove.com" target="_blank">caroline@solutiongrove.com</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b><span> </span>Alan Kay <<a href="mailto:alan.nemo@yahoo.com" target="_blank">alan.nemo@yahoo.com</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc:</span></b><span> </span>iaep <<a href="mailto:iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b><span> </span>Thursday, October 1, 2009 6:41:26 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b><span> </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 href="http://screencast.com/t/4lvde8qWV2pD" target="_blank">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> </span><span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:alan.nemo@yahoo.com" target="_blank">alan.nemo@yahoo.com</a>></span><span> </span>wrote:<br>
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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> </span>Caroline Meeks <<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:caroline@solutiongrove.com" target="_blank">caroline@solutiongrove.com</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b><span> </span>iaep <<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b><span> </span>Thursday, October 1, 2009 6:28:22 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b><span> </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 style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><br><span><span><a href="http://screencast.com/t/K0lH5L7tsBU" target="_blank">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> </span><br>Caroline Meeks<br>Solution Grove<br><a href="mailto:Caroline@SolutionGrove.com" target="_blank">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> </span><br>Caroline Meeks<br>Solution Grove<br><a href="mailto:Caroline@SolutionGrove.com" target="_blank">Caroline@SolutionGrove.com</a><br>
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