User manual ULEAD GIF ANIMATOR 5

[. . . ] March 2001 First English edition for GIF Animator version 5, March 2001. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or storing in a retrieval system, or translated into any language in any form without the prior written permission of Ulead Systems, Inc. Software license The software described in this document is furnished under a License Agreement which is included with the product. This Agreement specifies the permitted and prohibited uses of the product. [. . . ] So, you can apply the same painting technique to erasing colors. Once you're done, trim the object again to optimize its size. Attribute Toolbar - Eraser Tool Fill Tool Fill Tool changes colors by making part of or the whole object filled with the foreground color. It's another way to create a special effect such as creating a background color behind an object. Attribute Toolbar - Fill Tool To use the Fill Toll: 1 Select an image object. If you want to fill a color to part of the object only, create a selection area. 3 Customize the options on the Attribute Toolbar. For example, higher similarity value fills more area. 4 If you want to change the foreground color, click Foreground Color in the Tool Panel. 5 Move the mouse over the area you chose in step 1 and click to start filling. You might need to click continuously to achieve the desired effect. Before (original) After An example of using the Fill Tool The original bat image object has a white background. Then, The new color fills the area using the options depicted in the above Attribute Toolbar. Tip: To use the Fill Tool in a transparent area, select the Allow painting on transparent areas option on the Attribute toolbar. 28 WORKING WITH OBJECTS Eyedropper Tool Eyedropper Tool lets you precisely select a foreground or background color in the workspace. So, later you can use the color in Paintbrush or Fill Tool. To select a color with the eyedropper: 1 Click Eyedropper Tool in the Tool Panel 2 Move the mouse over the spot containing the color you want and click it to select a new foreground color. Instead, rightclicking it selects a new background color. 3 The color you selected is displayed in the Tool Panel immediately. Note: As you move the mouse, the RGB and HSB values of the current color are displayed on the Attribute Toolbar accordingly. Tip: Use Zoom Tools as needed to easily find a particular color. Attribute Toolbar - Eyedropper Tool (Example of color values) Foreground/Background Color GIF Animator provides two color options: foreground color and background color. The foreground color is the one utilized when the Paintbrush and Fill Tools are being used in the project. The color of text objects are determined on the Text Attribute toolbar. The background color, meanwhile, is used for many different functions. The background color is important especially if objects in the animation have transparencies applied to them. The background color is one of the colors that can be used as the matte color of the transparent area. Also, the background color can fill the transparent area of the animation that some filters (see page 38) or video effects (see page 39) do not support. Lastly, when pasting transparent objects copied from GIF Animator into an image editor (e. g. Ulead PhotoImpact 6), the transparent areas of the object will be filled using the background color. Tip: To quickly exchange the color between the foreground color box and the background one, click the Swap Color button (a two-arrow icon under the Background Color square in the Tool Panel). To change the color of either the foreground color or background color, simply click one of the color boxes and select a new color in the Ulead Color Picker dialog box. [. . . ] So, it's strongly recommended that you save the original palette as a backup before modifying it. To edit color palettes in Index Editor: 1 Select a frame in the Frame list. (Open a GIF file first if you're using the Index Editor as a stand-alone program. ) 2 Click any color cell in the color palette for selection. (Use [Shift] or [Ctrl] for multi selection as you would in Windows Explorer. ) The color(s) you select is circled in red in the color palette. 3 Use the palette control buttons on the right for modification. [. . . ]