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Additional Information on the Features
brush stroke and
the
color of the pixels in the damag-
ed area and pamt It m. Then,
FILL
the area with the
new
color again. Remember
to
select
DRAW
or some
other appropriate function before fixing the hole
.
.
A line of a single color can be filled as long as the
lme consists of vertically or
horizontally
adjoining pix-
els of the same color. This
lets
you change
the
color of
a border around you picture.
FRAME
Touch the
stylus
to the tablet
surface to select a
starting point
and
push
a
control button,
then
slide the
cursor on
the Touch Tablet
surface.
The
"rubber
band" lines mark out the proposed rectangle
as
you
draw on
the tablet
surface.
This is
especially helpful
when enclosmg an object or fitting a frame
into
a
desired space.
Press a control button to
"lay" the
rec-
tangle
in.
BOX AND DISC
Brush
style
has no
effect on a box or
disc drawn.
Unlike FILL,
you can
use
the
BOX
and
DISC
features
to
fill a solid color
over a
pattern. These features are
helpful for erasing areas
of
the
screen,
because the
color within a
box
or
disc
covers everything within
the
perimeters of
the
figure drawn
.
to
erase an area
,
choose the background color as your current
color,
then enclose the area to be erased with a box or disc.
ERASE
This
feature erases
the
entire electronic canvas.
Make sure you've SAVED everything you don't want
erased.
See BOX AND
DISC
,
above
,
for the way to erase
part of a screen.
STORAGE
.
To
store your pictures to an
ATARI Disk Drive,
the
dIsk drIve
must
be
turned
on before your computer is
turned on.
ThIS
IS not true for storage to the Atari
Pro-
gram Recorder. See page 18 for
full
details.
To
store and
retrieve
your pictures on
diskette
or
cassette,
use
your stylus and a control button
to
choose
Storage
or
press
S on your
computer
keyboard. This
produces the
storage
menu.
Although some of
the letters
in
this
menu appear
on
the mam
menu,
they
work
in this
function only after
you've
selected
Storage on
the
main
menu. All
of
the
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