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Creating a colorful and attractive
picture
with your
ATARI
Touch Tablet
and
AtariArtist
program really IS
easy-just follow these step-by-step
illustrated
instruc-
tions to draw the sample picture shown at right on
this
page.
Don't be concerned
if
your final artwork
looks
slightly different than
the
sample
drawing.
You'll find
it virtually impossible to duplicate exactly the outline
of the
mountains,
placement of the sun, and
length
of
the cloud streaks. And your picture will be in color,
not black and white.
After you've finished, don 't be afraid to ex-
periment-add a rainbow, if you like
,
or change the
color of the mountains, put
trees
in the foreground
(triangles are perfect) or birds
in
the sky.
Then,
just
for
practice,
save the pIcture to
a
.
d iskette
or cassette
,
if you have one. Reload the PIC-
ture and add something else-a stream flowing down
the mountain side, for example.
Use your
imagination,
and you
'll
soon discover
the
almost unlimited artistic resources that AtanArtlst puts
at your disposal.
, ,
NOTE: Make
sure your AtariArtist program
IS m
its original
(i.e.
default)
colors
before
you begin.
To
e
nsure you're using
the
right colors,
use
your stylus
and a control button to select the Color
Menu,
then
select D)
Default
Colors with either the stylus and a
control button or your computer keyboard.
Then
return
to
the
main
menu (lift
the
stylus from the
tablet
surface and press a control button or the space bar).
Creating a Sample Drawing
1.
Use the stylus to place the cursor over the
K-LINE
box,
then press a control button to highlight K-LINE
.
2.
Use
the stylus and a control button to select either
the
regular cursor (the crosshairs-shaped one) or
the brush stroke next to it on the brush-stroke lme
3.
Lift
the stylus
from
the
tablet
surface, then press a
control button or the space bar
to
move to your
"electronic canvas."
4.
Select a spot on the tablet surface to begin
draw-
ing the
outline of
the
mountains, then place
the
stylus on that spot and press a control button.
Move the
stylus
to
form one
mountain
peak (you'll
see the "rubber band
"
line stretch as you
sllde
the stylus across the tablet) and press a control
button.
Then
,
without lifting
the
stylus, move It to a
"valley
"
then to another peak
,
etc., pressing
the
control 'button as necessary
until
you 've
drawn
the
outline of the
entire
mountain range.
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