Using Painting Tools
Use Kid Pix Painting Tools for a dazzling array of realistic and
out-of-this-world painting effects. Choose from Paintbrushes, Sound Art, and
Spray Cans. Each tool has two modes.
To paint: 
·
Click the Painting Tools button.
·
Click the Paintbrush, Sound Art, or Spray Can
tool.
·
Choose a size (not all tools have sizes).
·
Choose a painting mode. When you pick a mode, the
options change.
·
Choose a painting option.
·
Click in the drawing area and hold down the mouse
button. Move the mouse around to paint.
Paintbrushes
Click the Paintbrush and choose a brush size and painting mode.
Realistic mode paints like a real brush.
Paintbrush Sizes Realistic Paint Options Paint Mode
Paint Mode Paint Options
Sound
Art
To use Sound Art, talk, sing, or play music into a microphone attached
to your computer. Mouse-move lets you direct the painting with your mouse.
Hands-free lets the sound do the painting.
Spray
Cans
Moving
Paint mode sprays balloons, bubbles, and creatures that dance, fly, hop, or
wiggle.
Using Fill Buckets
Fill buckets let you fill up an area of your picture. There are three
Fill Buckets. Solid fills an area with one solid color or a single-color
pattern. Blend fills an area with a blend of colors. Pattern fills an area with
a multi-color pattern.
To fill an area:
1. Click the Fill Bucket button to see the
Fill Buckets tray. The tray looks different, depending on the tool and mode you
pick.
Solid
The Solid Fill Bucket uses the current color in the Color Picker.
Choose solid or a single-color pattern.
The Blend Fill Bucket doesn’t use the current color in the Color
Picker.
The Pattern Fill Bucket doesn’t use the current color in the Color
Picker. You can pick a multi-colored pattern.
Using Electric Mixers
Electric mixers mix up your picture. You can mix up the whole painting
with a mega-mixer, or just parts of the painting with a mini-mixer.
To mix things up:
Using Rubber Stamps
Use the Rubber Stamp tool to stamp animals and other shapes onto your
picture.
To use Rubber Stamps:
Folders Size Stamp Rubber
Stamps Editor
Choose a folder.
Scroll through the stamp choices.
Click the size for your Rubber Stamp.
Click a Rubber Stamp, then click your
picture.
Editing
Rubber Stamps
You can edit Rubber Stamps and create your own.
To edit rubber stamps:
1.Click
the Rubber Stamp button to see the Rubber Stamps tray.
2.Click
the stamp you want to edit.
3. Click
the Stamp Editor (pencil) to see the
Rubber Stamp Editor.
Pencil Fill Bucket
Use these tools to change your stamp:
• Use the Pencil to draw on the stamp.
• Pick a color in the Rubber Stamp Color Picker and
use the Fill Bucket to recolor the stamp.
• Click Undo to reverse your last change, or click
Restore Original to go back to the original stamp.
• Use the Firecracker to erase the whole picture so
you can start from scratch.
• Click Flip to turn your stamp over from left to
right.
• Click Rotate to turn your stamp 90 degrees each
time you click.
4. Click
OK when you’re finished.
Using Paper Texture
You can change the background texture of your Kid Pix picture. Then,
when you draw with the Crayon, Marker, or Chalk, a pattern will show through
under your drawing.
2. Scroll through the paper textures in the tray.
3. Click the texture you want.
You can see the texture you selected next to the Paper Texture button.
4. Draw with the Crayon, Marker, or Chalk to see the
texture.
Using Erasers
The
Big Eraser erases your whole picture. Any paper texture or sound you added to
your picture is still there. You can also click the Firecracker to erase your
whole picture. The Little Eraser erases where you drag with the mouse, leaving
white space.
You can’t erase stickers, animations, movies, or text boxes. (To erase
these, select them and then press the Delete key.)
To erase your whole picture:
2. Click
the Big Eraser.
3. Click
your picture.
To erase part of your picture:
1. Click the Eraser button. The Erasers tray
appears.
2. Click
the Little Eraser.
3. Click
a size for the eraser.
4. Pick
one of these:
• To erase with a round outline, click the circle
setting.
• To erase with a square outline, click the square
setting.
5. Pick
an eraser option.
6. Drag
where you want to erase.
Using The Undo Guy
Click
the Undo Guy whenever you do something to your picture that you don’t want to
keep. Click again to redo what you just undid.
Adding Text
There are three ways to add text:
• Draw a text box and type the
text.
• In Small Kids Mode, add
rubber stamp letters to the picture.
• Use the ABC Text feature to
paint wacky text onto your picture.
Drawing
Text Boxes
When text is in a text box, you can check its spelling and make your
computer read it out loud.
To add text:
1. Click the Text button.
The Text tray appears.
Formatting Editing Text
Options Options to Speech Voice
2. Click your picture where you want the text.
3. Start typing. The text box grows as you fill it
up.
Text
in Small Kids Mode
In Small Kids Mode, adding text is like using a rubber stamp. Letters
become part of the background. You can’t check spelling, change the text
appearance, or make your computer read the text out loud, but Kid Pix says the
letters’ names when you click them in the Text tray.
To add text in Small Kids Mode:
2. Click
any letter in the tray to hear its name.
To see more letters and numbers, click the scrolling arrows on the
Text tray.
3. Click
a letter to add it.
ABC
Text Tool
ABC Text becomes part of the background. You can’t change it after you
add it to your picture.
To use the ABC Text tool:
1. Click the Toolbox menu.
2. Click Edit ABC Text.
3. In the ABC Text dialog box, type the text.
4. Click OK.
5. Click the Paint button.
6. Choose Wacky mode, click the ABC Text brush, and
start painting to see the text.
ABC Mode Text Brush
Working with Text Boxes
You can resize a text box, move it, or delete it. Start by selecting
the text box in Grab mode.
To change a text box:
2. Click
the Hand.
4. Do any
of these things:
• To move a text box, click the box at the top of
its frame and drag it.
• To change the size or shape of a text box, drag
its handles. The text wraps around inside the new shape.
• To delete a selected text box, press the Delete
key on your keyboard.
• To flatten text so it’s part of the background,
click the Toolbox menu and choose Flatten Text.
Text
Box Tips
• You can drag text boxes
almost all the way off the page without deleting them. This lets you play text
out loud without having text boxes appear in the picture.
• If you drag a text box
partially off the page, it won’t get bigger when you type. A sound will tell
you when you run out of room to type in new letters.
Changing the Way the Letters Look
You can choose a text size, color, and style for the text in any
selected text box. In Small Kids Mode, try painting the letters.
To change the look of all text in a text box:
1. Click the Text button to see the Text
tray.
2. Click
the text box you want to change.
3. Do any
of these things:
• To change the font, click the arrows next to the
Font box.
• To make text bigger or smaller, click the arrows
next to the Font Size box.
• To change the style, click the Bold, Italic, or
Underline buttons.
• To line up text to the left, right, or center,
click an Alignment button.
• Use the Color Picker to change the color of text.
Checking Spelling
When Kid Pix checks your spelling, it checks all the text boxes on
your page. You can’t check spelling for rubber-stamp text.
To check your spelling:
1. Click the Toolbox menu.
2. Click Check Spelling.
3. If Kid Pix finds a word it doesn’t know, you can
do any of these things:
• To change the word, click a word in the
Suggestions list or type a word in the Change To box and click Change.
• To continue checking spelling without changing
the word, click Skip.
• To add the word to your personal dictionary (so
Kid Pix will recognize it as correct from now on), click Learn.
4. When
you’re finished, click Done.
Reading Text Out Loud
You can play the picture to hear all the text boxes, top to bottom and
left to right. You can’t hear rub-ber-stamp text, except when you click the
letters in the Text tray.
To hear one text box read aloud:
1. Click the text box you want to hear.
2. Click the Controls menu and click Turn
Text-To-Speech On.
If the menu says “Turn Text-To-Speech Off,” don’t click it—it’s
already on.
3. Click
the Read Text button in the Text tray.
To hear all text boxes read aloud:
1. Click the Controls menu and click Turn
Text-To-Speech On.
2. Click
the Play button.
Changing
the Voice
Use the Voice box in the Text tray to change the voice that reads the
text.
To change the voice that reads the text:
1. Click the Text button.
The Text tray appears.
2. Click the Voice box and pick a different one.
3. Click
the Read Text button in the Text tray.
Teaching
Kid Pix to Pronounce
Kid Pix might not know how to say people’s names, or other special
words.
To change the pronunciation:
1. From the Toolbox menu, choose Say It This Way.
2. In the Original Word box, type the word that Kid
Pix is pronouncing incorrectly.
3. In the Pronounce As box, type the
phonetic spelling of the word.
For example, the letters “ph” sound like “f,” so the phonetic spelling
of “Stephan” would be “Stefan.”
4. Click Pronounce to hear the new
pronunciation.
5. When the word sounds right, click Enter.
Moving, Copying, Cutting, and Pasting
In this chapter, you’ll learn about:
•The
Grab Tool
•The
Scissors Tool
The Grab Tool
Use the Grab tool to pick things up and move them, or cut, copy, and
paste them.
To move things around:
1. Click the Grab button. The Grab tray
appears.
2. Click
the Grab tool (the hand).
3. Click a sticker, animation, movie, or text box in
your picture.
4. Do any of these things:
• To move the thing you clicked, drag it. Click to
release it.
The Scissors Tool
Use the Scissors tool to cut out part of your picture and paste it
someplace else.
Stickers
Stickers are pictures you “stick” onto your picture. Stickers don’t
become part of the background unless you flatten them.
Animations
Animations come to life when you play them.
To add an animation:
Playing
Animations
You can play animations in a loop or frame-by-frame.
To play an animation in a loop:
1. Click
the animation.
2. Click
the Play in a Loop handle.
3. To stop playing the animation, click Play in a
Loop again.
To play an animation frame-by-frame:
1. Click
the animation.
2. Click the Frame-by-Frame handle.
Each click advances the animation one frame.
Animation
Tips
• When you print your picture,
the animation frame you see is the one that prints. You can play the animation
step-by-step and stop at a different frame.
Sounds
You can add a sound from the Kid Pix Sounds library, import one, or
record your own. When you record or import a sound, it’s added to the My Sounds
folder in the Sounds library.
To add a sound from the library:
2. Choose a folder.
3. Scroll through the sounds.
4. Click a sound to hear what it sounds like.
The sound keeps playing until you click somewhere else on the screen.
5. Drag the sound you want onto your picture to add
it.
You can hear the sound when you click the Play button.
To remove the sound from your picture:
1. If you’re playing your picture, click the Stop
button.
2. Click the No Sound button in the Sound tray.
Remove sound from library Record sound
No Sound
To import a sound:
1. Click the Add menu and click Import Sound.
2. Find the sound file to import and click it.
If you use Windows, choose a WAV file. If you use Macintosh, choose an
AIFF file.
3. To add this sound to the My Sounds library, check
the Add to Library check box.
4. Click Open to add the sound to the picture.
To record a sound:
1. Click the Microphone in the Sounds tray.
2. In the Sound Recording tray, click the red
button to start recording. Record Playback Close tray
3. Click
the blue button to stop recording.
4. Click the green arrow to hear your sound.
5. Click the Save button to save your sound.
Give your sound a name so you can find it again in the My Sounds
folder.
6. Click the microphone to go back to the Sounds
tray.
To delete a sound in the My Sounds folder, click it and click the
Trash Can in the Sounds tray.
Adding Stuff to Your Picture
In this chapter, you’ll learn about:
•Adding
Pictures from Other Programs
•Adding
QuickTime Movies
Picture
Tips
• To use a picture as a
background, see
“Importing Backgrounds” on page 46.
• If you don’t have your own
movies, you can use the ones in the QTMovies folder on the Kid Pix Deluxe 3 CD.
• To make Kid Pix pictures or
SlideShows into QuickTime movies, see “Exporting Your SlideShow” on page 89.
• When you print your picture, the
movie frame you see is the one that prints. You can play the movie
frame-by-frame and stop at a different frame.
• You can use the handles on
the movie to resize it.
Playing, Printing, and Emailing
In this chapter, you’ll learn about:
•Playing
Your Picture
•Printing
Your Picture
•Emailing
Your Picture
Creating and Opening SlideShows
You can make a SlideShow with your pictures. Load pictures into your
SlideShow and put them in order. Add transition and slide advance options. Then
save, play, print, or export your SlideShow.
Starting
a SlideShow
You can create a brand new SlideShow or open an existing one.
To create a new SlideShow:
1. Click the New SlideShow button in the SlideShow
tray at the bottom of the screen.
2. Type a name for your SlideShow.
The name of your SlideShow appears at the top of the screen and a new
SlideShow icon appears in the SlideShow tray.
To open a SlideShow:
• Double-click the icon for the
SlideShow you want in the SlideShow tray at the bottom of the screen.
The SlideShow tray shows SlideShows in your My SlideShows folder. To
open a SlideShow in a different folder, use Open on the File menu.
Loading Pictures
Each slideholder in the SlideShow can contain a Kid Pix picture.
Once you load the pictures, you can move them into any order you like.
If you leave spaces blank, the SlideShow will skip those spaces when you play
your SlideShow.
To load a picture:
1. Click
the Load button for the slideholder where you want the picture to appear.
Hold the mouse over a slideholder to see the Load button below it.
2. Click
the picture to load.
3. Click
Open.
Editing
Pictures
To change a picture you loaded or create a new picture, go back to the
Paint Zone.
To go back to the Paint Zone:
• Click the Paint Zone button
in SlideShow or choose Go To Paint Zone from the Controls menu.
Moving Pictures Around
SlideShow plays pictures in the order they appear. (The slideholders
are numbered so you can tell the order.) Drag or move pictures into the order
you want.
To move a picture by dragging:
1. Click
the picture to move.
2. Drag
it to the new location.
If you drop a picture on a filled slideholder, the old picture moves
over to make room for the new one.
Customizing Your SlideShow
You can set slide advance options, visual transition effects, and
sound effects.
Slide
Advance Options
Slide advance options tell SlideShow when to move from one slide to
the next. You can have a different slide advance option for each slide. You can
tell SlideShow to move to the next slide after a certain number of seconds, or
to wait until the text on the slide is read aloud, or until you click the mouse
or press a key on the keyboard.
If you don’t set any slide advance options, each slide will show for 7
seconds.
To set slide advance options:
1. Click the My SlideShow button.
2. Click
the Advance Settings button for the slide you want to change.
3. Do one
of these things:
• Choose Timer and type the number of seconds to
wait between this slide and the next one. If you want to export your SlideShow
later, choose this option. See “Exporting Your SlideShow” on page 89.
• Choose Mouse Click to tell SlideShow to wait
until you click the mouse before the next slide displays.
• Choose Key Down to tell SlideShow to wait until you
press any key on your keyboard (except Escape) before the next slide displays.
• Choose Read Text Done to tell SlideShow to read
any text on the slide and then display the next slide.
4. Click
OK.
The customizing options appear.
Transition
Effects
You can set up special effects between slides, including Cut, Wipe,
Dissolve, and Iris. Each effect has a sound associated with it. You can change
the sound for any effect.
To set transition effects:
1. Click the My SlideShow button. The customizing
options appear.
2. Click the red Transition Effects arrow in front
of a slide to change the transition into that slide, or click the arrow after
the slide to change the transition out of that slide and into the next one.
The bottom list scrolls to show you the sound for that visual effect.
4. Leave the sound as it is, click a different
sound, or click No Sound to make the transition silent.
No Sound is at the end of the list.
5. Click Preview to see how the transition will look
and sound.
6. Click OK.
Audio
Options
Audio options tell SlideShow which sound to play for each slide.
To set audio options:
1. Make sure that Text to Speech and Play Attached
Sounds are on in the Controls menu.
2. Click the My SlideShow button.
The customizing options appear.
3. Click the Audio Options button for the slide you
want to change.
4. Tell SlideShow what to do while this slide plays:
• Choose Play Sound to tell SlideShow to play the
sound attached to this picture.
• Choose Play Text to tell SlideShow to read the
text on this picture out loud.
• Turn both options off to tell SlideShow to be
silent.
5. Click OK.
Background
Color
Slides in a SlideShow appear against a solid color background. You can
pick the color.
To choose the background color:
1. Click the Toolbox menu and click Pick Background
Color.
2. Pick a color and click OK.
Playing Your SlideShow
You can play a SlideShow to see all your effects.
To
play your SlideShow:
1. Click the Play button.
2. If your slide advance options are set to wait for
a mouse click or a keyboard key, click or type a key to advance the slides.
3. To stop playing before the SlideShow ends, press
the Escape key.
Switching
to Manual Advance
Switching to Manual Advance keeps your other transition and sound
settings in place, but lets you advance the slides manually.
To switch to Manual Advance:
1. Click the Controls menu and click Turn Manual
Advance On.
2. Play the SlideShow by clicking the Play button.
3. Click the mouse or press any key on your
keyboard (except Escape) to advance.
1. Click the Drawing Tools button. 
