Appleworks Paint

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Appleworks Paint

• Lets get started

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With Appleworks Paint, you can create

• Objects produced by changing pixels (or bits)
• Only one layer - like a painter's canvas
• Only one layer - only one object
• Can edit graphic one pixel or bit at a time
• Requires large amounts of memory

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Appleworks Paint

• In this program, you only have one layer which
  means that every part of the screen is tracked by
  the computer.
• If you draw a red circle, the computer doesn't
  know you drew a circle - all it knows is that
  some pixels are red, the others are white.

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Menu Bar

• This is the menu bar and will be used quite
  frequently in these programs.
• This can always be found at the top of your
  screen.

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Page View

• This controls your drawing and painting windows.
  Located at the bottom of your page, this controls
  your zoom and tool bar for editing. You can
  either click on the icons or change the number.

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Starting at the top, the tools available are

• Arrow pointer
• this selects objects and frames
• The line tool
• this is used to draw lines
• to keep at vertical horizontal or constrained
  angles, hold down the shift key
• The rectangle tool
• to draw a rectangle click and drag the pointer
• to draw perfect squares hold down shift

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Using the line and rectangle tools

• I teach lessons involving
• One and two point perspective cities
• One and two point perspective interior spaces
• Graphic Name designs

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Perspective Drawings
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Name Designs

• Lets try making one of these on our own using
  the line tool.
• Go to FilegtNew
• Save this as NameDesign.cwk onto your desktop (we
  will be using this again later)
• Challenge yourself by overlapping the letters and
  only using straight lines.

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• The Rounded Rectangle Tool
• click and drag to create the rectangle
• to set the radius of the corners double click on
  this tool
• The Oval Tool
• click and drag
• hold shift to create a perfect circle

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• The Arc Tool
• click and drag pointer diagonally
• to create a circular arc, hold down shift as you
  drag
• The Polygon Tool
• this is used to draw irregular polygons click
  to set a starting point then draw and click and
  each angle of the polygon
• double-click to end the polygon

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• The Freehand Tool
• use this to draw curving or irregular lines
• Appleworks automatically smoothes the lines
  sharp edges
• The Bezier Tool
• used to draw Bezier curves
• double click to end the curves this one takes
  some getting used to!

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• The Regular Polygon Tool
• double click this tool to set the number of sides
• The Eyedropper Tool
• this picks up an objects pen and fill attributes
• in plain English it picks up the colors and
  applies them to your toolbar

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• The Selection Rectangle Tool and the Lasso Tool
  are used to select certain areas of your image
• To leave out the white space when using the
  Rectangle Selection Tool, hold down the apple key
  as you drag over the image

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• The Magic Wand Tool
• this selects everything of a chosen color in one
  area
• The Paintbrush Tool
• works like a real brush
• use for thicker lines
• The Pencil Tool
• draws thin lines
• The Paint Bucket Tool
• fills all of any particular closed areas

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• The Spray Can Tool
• this paints a flow of dots in the current fill
  color
• double click to edit spray size
• The Eraser Tool well erases!
• Double clicking clears the entire document

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Almost anything can be done using the tools we
know so far

• This is a lesson that involved students drawing a
  self portrait. She only used the paintbrush,
  fill, pencil, and spray can tools.
• Can you think of any ways to use these tools in
  your subject area to reinforce something you have
  recently taught?

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Lets try using these new tools we have learned

• Create a drawing of something you plan to do this
  summer.
• Dont worry about how it looks, this is not about
  the art it is more about trying out the tools and
  getting more familiar with this program!

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Dont get frustrated!! If my kids can do this in
Appleworks, you can try it too!
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• This is your color palette in order to have
  more access to this area go to the Window Menu
  and choose Show Accents this will separate your
  palette from the toolbar

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Inside the Show Accents Toolbox

• This allows you MUCH more freedom in your fills.
• This will help you to make a simple drawing look
  much more realistic.

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Color Picker

• The first option is just a color picker. This
  has many hidden choices also.
• If you are making items to be used on a webpage,
  you can choose web safe colors by choosing 16-bit
  color from the palette drop down menu.
• This also has many other options, one I use
  frequently is the earth tones to get great skin
  colors!

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Patterns

• This allows you to use patterns to fill rather
  than a color.
• You can choose a pattern and then select a color
  and the pattern will adopt that new color.

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Textures

• This can be used to add textures to anything.
  These can be modified but the effect is not as
  satisfying as you would like it to be.
• This is used by choosing a texture and filling
  using the paint bucket into a closed space on
  your painting.

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Gradient Fills

• Inside the Show Accents toolbox you can click
  on the gradient tab and double click on any of
  the gradients to change the color, type,
  direction, and number of colors.

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Gradients continued

• This gives you much more control over the use of
  gradients
• When using a gradient fill, make sure you want it
  there because it is very hard to undo.
• Each layer of color is saved in rows and to try
  to paint it back to white (or any color) is very
  time consuming.

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Line Widths

• In the Show Accents toolbox you can click on
  the last tab and control line width (this only
  changes the LINE TOOL)
• This will also allow you to change the line to an
  arrow for easy diagrams

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Accents in use

• Lets go back to the name design we started and
  fill in the spaces using the paint bucket.
• Try using
• Colors
• Textures
• Patterns
• Gradients

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Options Menu

• Using the options menu, you can edit
• brush size
• spray can sizes
• Patterns
• Wallpaper
• Gradients
• This is a great way to get more control over what
  you are trying to accomplish with Appleworks
  Painting Program

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Transform MenuThis menu has all sorts of neat
tricks that can be used.. Here are a few

• Using the selection tool (rectangle or lasso),
  select and area of your artwork.
• Using the transform menu you can
• Slant, Stretch, Resize, Rotate, Flip, Invert,
  Blend, Tint, Lighten, and Darken

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Lighten and Darken tools

• This image would be much flatter and more boring
  without the extensive use of the lighten and
  darken tools.

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Good use of Gradients

• This image gets its attitude using the gradient
  tools along with the lighten and darken
  attributes.
• The trick is NOT TO OVERUSE a gradient tool. (In
  my opinion) these should be used very selectively.

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These are some of the best tricks in Appleworks
and I use these most frequently with my Computer
Art classes.

• Lets take a moment to go through the Transform
  menu and try each option.

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Now we will break into groups and discuss lesson
ideas

• I would like you to be group into 4 people
• Today you will come up with at least two lesson
  ideas with examples of ways you will incorporate
  the Appleworks Painting Program into your
  curriculum.
• I will be moving around the classroom to assist
  you in this process.
• Save your work and be prepared to share your
  information at the end of class.