WebPainter 1.0
Welcome to the Totally Hip WebPainter program-an extraordinary color Web paint/animation and player
software for the World Wide Web. Whether you are a novice or an expert at creating Web page graphics
and animation, the Totally Hip WebPainter program offers you the tools you need to get professional-quality results.
You'll find that WebPainter excels as a Web page art production tool. WebPainter is ideal for Art Directors,
Electronic Publishers, Web Page Designers or anyone who wants to add flair to their web site.
Before using WebPainter, you should have a working knowledge of the Macintosh¨ and its operating
conventions. You should know how to use a mouse and standard Macintosh menus and commands. You
should also be familiar with operations such as opening, importing, exporting, saving, and closing files.
If you need to review these basic techniques, see your Macintosh User Guide.
About This Manual
This User's Guide is designed to be your everyday reference tool for working with WebPainter and Sizzler.
This guide provides detailed information about WebPainter's tools and commands as well as Totally Hip's
Sizzler media players for Web Browsers and Sizzler JAVA Applet.
The WebPainter User's Guide is organized according to the tasks you most commonly perform when creating
images and animations.
An introduction to WebPainter, the system
requirements and how to install the program into your Macintosh computer.
A tutorial section designed to teach you the basics of WebPainter by creating a simple blue ball animation
and inserting it into a Web page.
This chapter will cover WebPainter's Tool Palettes and Document Window describing the features
of each tool and how they work, alloowing you to quickly gain the necessary information to create
graphics and animations for the Web.
A description of the WebPainter Menus and each menu item. You will learn how to create new documents,
open saved documents, import static and animated content, export animations in a variety of formats,
add new cels to a document, delete cels, duplicate cels, manipulate graphics with the selection tool,
and show and hide palettes.
You will learn about WebPainter's color capabilities and how to use them in your Web graphics creation.
Shows basic Web concepts such as HTML (Hyper-Text Mark up Language) and various data transfer
mechanisms on the Web.
A list of shortcuts and keyboard modifiers for WebPainter.
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