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.

Chapter 1: Installation

An introduction to WebPainter, the system requirements and how to install the program into your Macintosh computer.

Chapter 2: WebPainter Tutorial

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.

Chapter 3: Tools, Palettes & Documents

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.

Chapter 4: WebPainter Menus

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.

Chapter 5: Document Settings

You will learn about WebPainter's color capabilities and how to use them in your Web graphics creation.

Chapter 6: Basic Web Concepts

Shows basic Web concepts such as HTML (Hyper-Text Mark up Language) and various data transfer mechanisms on the Web.

Appendix

A list of shortcuts and keyboard modifiers for WebPainter.





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