| Paint
BBS Tutorial |
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This is the all too familiar PaintBBS
interface. The functions on each button along the side can
be changed by clicking them. Here's a very quick overview
of the functions, |
| 1.Solid3 functions
Solid - draws solid lines
Watercolor - draws watercolour lines
Text -creates text box. Type text and press enter to place
onto canvas. |
2.Halftone4 functions
halftone - creates half-tone effect with opacity controlled
by opacity slider.
Blur - intensity controlled by pixel slider
Light - brightening tool (like dodge tool) intensity controlled
by opacity slider
Dark - darkening tool (burn tool)intensity controlled by opacity
slider |
| 3.Rect4 functions
Creates solid or line rectangles and oval shapes
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4.Copy4 functions
copy -copies area selected and move to differnt location of
canvas
layerunite -used to combine an area of colouring on the two
layers onto a single layer
AntiAlias -blurs selected area on both layers
Flip Horiz-flips selected area horizontally
Flip Vert-flips selected area vertically
Rotate-Rotates selected area 90degrees |
5.White3 functions
White-Eraser tool used like the drawing tool, intensity determined
by opacity slider
White Rec-Erases selected area, intensity controlled by opacity
slider
Clear-completely clears the canvas |
6.Freeline3 functions
Freeline-allows freeform drawing
Line-draws in straight lines
Belsizer-draws smooth lines by determining two connecting
points |
| 7.Normal5 functions
Normal-default mode where one colour will colour another
Mask-will exclude chosen colour, useful for keeping solid
lineart and colouring
Remask-will only colour over chosen colour
And-excludes shades darker than chosen colour
Div-excludes shades lighter than chosen colour |
8.Colour Palette
14 different colour blocks that you can create the colours
you will work with |
| 9.RGB slider
Creates colour by adjusting the red, green and blue levels
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| 10.Opacity slider
Determines the opacity of the lines/eraser. 255 being completely
opaque and lower numbers are more transparent.
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11.Pixel slider
Determines the size of the brush ranges from 1 to 30px in
size.
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12.Layers
PaintBBS uses only 2 layers, so it has it's not as flexible
as OekakiBBS that allows you to have many more. Generally
lineart is on the foreground layer(layerFG/layer1) and colouring
on the background layer (layerBG/layer0) |
13.Zoom out |
14.Zoom in |
15.Redo |
16.Undo |
17.Fill
fills layer with selected colour
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18.Send
Submits the picture to oekaki board and will then take you
to the comments page to add title and comments. |
