Basic Concepts
- Setting the opening screen
- Creating documents
- Opening and closing documents
- prmporting documents
- Looking at the e-Picture work area
- Editing documents
- Using views
- Magnifying and reducing views
- Arranging open windows
- Working with panels
- Using the toolbox
- Using the Color panel
- Adjusting monitor gamma
- Using plug-in modules
- Setting preferences
- Quitting e-Picture
Working
with
Objects
- About e-Picture
objects
- Using the Tool
Inspector
- Creating objects
- Drawing outside the canvas
- Drawing with a transparent stroke or
fill
- Drawing with a solid color
- Drawing with a gradient
- Drawing with a pattern
- Setting line attributes
- Drawing with the paintbrush tool
- Drawing with the Bezier tool
- prUsing the text tool
- Selecting objects in the document window
- Moving and aligning objects
- Resizing and rotating objects
- Converting an object to a selection area
- Cropping to a bitmap selection
- Selecting areas
- Editing objects with the Tool Inspector
- Editing objects with the Objects
panel
- Flattening
objects
Working
with Layers
- About layers
- Using the Layers panel
- Adding and deleting layers
- Changing layer opacity
- Hiding and showing layers
- Duplicating layers
- Changing the stacking order of layers
- Applying filters to layers
- Applying effects to layers
- Applying composite methods to layers
- Converting a layer to a selection area
- Flattening and merging
layers
Animating
GIF files
- Designing GIF animations
- Creating an animation
- Using the Animation panel
- Adding and deleting frames
- Displaying and hiding frame properties
- Moving from frame to frame
- Copying and replacing frames
- Controlling animation with key frames
- Editing layer properties
- Editing object properties
- Playing animations
Saving and Exporting files
- Saving documents
- Exporting documents
- Information options
- Generic options
- Individual file format options
- Color reduction options
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