Setting Paint Window Preferences; Compressing Bitmaps - MACROMEDIA DIRECTOR MX 2004-USING DIRECTOR Use Manual

Setting Paint window preferences

You can use Paint window preferences to modify the settings of several tools and drawing
methods in the Paint window.
To change Paint window preferences:
Select Edit > Preferences > Paint.
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Note: If you are using a Macintosh OS X operating system, select the Director menu, instead of
the Edit menu, to access Preferences.
To make tools remember the last color or ink used, select the following options:
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Remember Color
next time you use the Brush or Airbrush tools.
Remember Ink
time you use any tool.
To control the way colors cycle when you draw with Cycle ink, select one of the following
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options:
Repeat Sequence
and then repeat from foreground to destination.
Reverse Sequence
and then from destination to foreground.
To set a line width that is thicker than the widths available in the Paint window, use the Other
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Line Width slider to enter a value.
The width you set is the width that appears when you draw a line after selecting Other
Line Width.
To set the opacity of a color when using the Blend ink effect in the Paint window, use the Blend
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slider to enter a value.
You can vary the blend value between 0 and 100%.
To set the rate at which artwork changes when you use the Darken or Lighten effects in the
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Paint window, use the Lighten or Darken slider to enter a value.
To determine how colors are used when using Smooth, Lighten, Darken, or Cycle effects, select
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one of the following Interpolate By options:
Color Value ignores the order of the colors in the palette and produces a continuous blend of
the foreground and destination colors.
Palette Location
colors.

Compressing bitmaps

If you plan to distribute your movie over the Internet, you can compress your bitmap images to
ensure faster downloading. Director lets you compress images at the movie level and for
individual cast members. Bitmap compression set at the cast member level overrides compression
settings at the movie level.
remembers the last color used with a tool, which remains selected for the
remembers the last ink used with a tool, which remains selected for the next
causes colors to cycle from the foreground color to the destination color
causes colors to cycle from the foreground color to the destination color
uses all the colors in the palette between the foreground and destination
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