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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