Bert, ah, now there are guides for lasso and grab patch. What else would you like to see there? Kathleen
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Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 10:02:04 +0200 From: Bert Freudenberg bert@freudenbergs.de Subject: Re: [Etoys] Smaller onion skin for painting To: Etoys lists etoys@lists.laptop.org
On Oct 1, 2007, at 6:40 , Scott Wallace wrote:
On Sep 30, 2007, at 9:01 PM, Juliano Bittencourt wrote:
... But, the idea of creating a tool where children can cut
parts of a drawing and transform them in objects sounds very interesting. This would make possible to the child to paint an entire scene, and after that decide what is an object and what is background.
It bears mentioning that the "lasso" and the "grab patch" tools (found in the Graphics category of the Objects catalog) allow the user to designate areas on the screen to be "grabbed"; the result of such a grab is the creation of a new "sketch", just as if the area designated had just been painted.
These provide a way that multiple smaller objects can be derived from a single initial painting without having to redo the artwork.
I always wondered how these "tools" could be made more discoverable ... I know many people who used etoys for a long time but never discovered and used them.
Maybe it was simpler when we still had two flaps, the "tools" and the "supplies" flap. Sigh, screen real estate again ...
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Right, that should be very helpful and I am glad we have them.
I still would like things to offer more "affordance" in Don Norman's sense.
- Bert -
On Oct 1, 2007, at 14:39 , kharness@uiuc.edu wrote:
Bert, ah, now there are guides for lasso and grab patch. What else would you like to see there? Kathleen
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Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 10:02:04 +0200 From: Bert Freudenberg bert@freudenbergs.de Subject: Re: [Etoys] Smaller onion skin for painting To: Etoys lists etoys@lists.laptop.org
On Oct 1, 2007, at 6:40 , Scott Wallace wrote:
On Sep 30, 2007, at 9:01 PM, Juliano Bittencourt wrote:
... But, the idea of creating a tool where children can cut
parts of a drawing and transform them in objects sounds very interesting. This would make possible to the child to paint an entire scene, and after that decide what is an object and what is background.
It bears mentioning that the "lasso" and the "grab patch" tools (found in the Graphics category of the Objects catalog) allow the user to designate areas on the screen to be "grabbed"; the result of such a grab is the creation of a new "sketch", just as if the area designated had just been painted.
These provide a way that multiple smaller objects can be derived from a single initial painting without having to redo the artwork.
I always wondered how these "tools" could be made more discoverable ... I know many people who used etoys for a long time but never discovered and used them.
Maybe it was simpler when we still had two flaps, the "tools" and the "supplies" flap. Sigh, screen real estate again ...
- Bert -
etoys-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org