"Learing Your Icons!"

Hello, My name is Miss Frieda and I am the teaching Fairy
here in the Realm. I am responsible for teaching all the
wee ones their fairy lessons..

M'Lady has asked that I come here to help you humans learn
how to do something that she is always being asked how to do
in her messages to you..

Okay.. Lets get started..

First off you need to know what all the icons represent.
We will visit each of them as we progress!
(I haven't even used them all - so this will be a learning process for us both!!)

These are the icons you should see across the top of your page.

And these will be down the left hand side of your page.

Your colour and texture charts are on the right.

You should always make sure you have a colour chosen before you start to play around.

To start making a totally new image you need to click on the "new" icon.

This table will then appear.

Here you can define the size of the image and the background colour.
(I usually go for transparent and then add colours later.)
Click "OK" and your new blank canvas will appear.

At this point it's good to make sure you have some good toolbars open.
If you right click on any of the side icons you will see this list of available toolbars - I find it good to have the ones with the red stars open!

(I put the stars there - don't go looking for them!!)

Now I suggest you play for a while with the tools - here are a few examples of the stuff they do:-

The airbrush.

Floodfill. (Good for adding background colours later!).

Eraser.

While you're playing with that I will be making your next tutorial! LOL!
Ah-ha - but you don't get off that easily!!!!

Before I send you the next tutorial I would like for you to make a picture for me using as many of the tools you can.
If you then feel you need me to go over each tool in detail let me know! OK!

So - you know where to find me.....

It can be as basic or as flouncy as you like.
As we haven't covered layers yet I realise there's not much you can do - but play around and see what you can come up with! :o)

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