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1. ol dud d 21 A A Remember to look in your Stamp Browser for a images you can easily add to your background Stamps Saving an Image as a Background You can use any of the pictures you draw or pictures you have saved on your computer as a background this means that art tools such as the Erasing tool will not work on your image Select your picture using the rectangular round or custom selection tool and drawing a shape around the entire picture or press the CTRL gt A keys on your keyboard With your picture selected right click your mouse A dropdown menu will appear Go to Use as Background pop out menu will appear with these options Center Fit Resize and Tile Save Selection As Alt F2 Transparent Ctrl corefx Creative ACTIVITY GUIDE l R Rectangular Selection LE Round Selection R Custom Selection Choose Resize to have your background fill the page Now your image is the background Even if you clear the page using the Clear picture feature your image will remain the background You can now complete your picture by adding other elements drawing objects adding stamp images or adding text to it You can also save your su image as2. a closed polygon or the A 4 Anti aliasing Put the Transparency slider near the right end of the palette and do several strokes on top of each other until the right tone is obtained To make the dark tone choose the opposite complementary color very transparent and go over the base color color will leak into the Surrounding areas 3 Use the Zoom tool to find Q where the holes are Zoom Transparency Slider At this stage things often look quite good and you can stop there if you wish Draw a seated figure from the side so that you can see how the legs and arms are arranged Then try a seated figure from the front All the measurements will the same as the standing one except for the thighs Because these now make a horizontal Shape they will appear much shorter than in the standing model This effect is called foreshortening and happens wherever you are looking across a horizontal form Areas of Foreshortening c s 6 6 9 9 o 6 o o o de o o e corefx Creative ACTIVITY GUIDE 14 Light and Color Using Tones and Blending Reflected light defines the form of three dimensional objects A circle by itself could be a hole you can look through a flat disc or a solid sphere After shading is
3. Once you have your basic background you can start adding the other elements Use a variety of shape tools and art tools to experiment If you want something to appear in the distance such as mountains draw them next Place them on the horizon the line where the sky and grass meet You can make them appear farther away by drawing them smaller or closer by drawing them the same size 527 mm t 1 44 1 4 4FI B l gt 1 f Continuous Curve ee INAI ee ee eee ee ee ee dee tee ce Filled Ellipse or Circle RRL le gt Now add features to your sky perhaps some clouds the filled circle or free hand drawing tools are great for this the sun or some birds Bop dede OP Fi BE HE HE S quu ain d dU do de FE a EB 5H n gt a m J hepi aii nm corefx Creative ACTIVITY GUIDE Next add some trees or a road Complete your drawing however you wish adding elements that you do not want to have changed such as flowers cars birds etc Level 5 core ative ima 2 1074 Im Edd We Fuld emule L Ex Piel D 1 B
4. AL Core Learning gt C ative Complete 0015 for All Ages amp Experience 4 11 P 2 eE BENA we PAI 2 191 Learning www core learning com Introduction to corefx Creative Draw amp Paint Activities Activity 1 Activity 2 Activity 3 Activity 4 Activity 5 Activity 6 Activity 7 Activity 8 Activity 9 Take a Line for a Walk Introducing Draw and Fill Tools Exploring Color Basic and Complementary Colors Creating a Background Image Saving an Image as a Background Using and Transforming Stamps Imaginary Animals Using Stamps and Patterns Human Figure Advanced Drawing and Coloring Features Light and Color Using Tones and Blending Landscape Light and Color in Nature Activity 10 Perspective Vanishing Points and Horizon Lines Photo Artwork Activities Activity 1 Activity 2 Activity 3 Activity 4 Activity 5 Activity 6 Activity 7 Photo Edit Removing Imperfections FX Tools Coloring FX Tools Smearing FX Tools Lightening amp Darkening Photo Art Fun Frames Photo Art Invitations amp Cards Photo Art Planners amp Calendars Animation Activities Activity 1 Activity 2 Activity 3 Activity 4 Activity 5 Moving Image Moods Emotions and Feelings Simple Animation Email Signature Web Banner Table of Keyboard Shortcuts
5. Add text and images Insert a new Frame item and continue adding elements until completed Adjust the time delays to the appropriate speed for each frame item to appear Save as gif Here are a few techniques that you could use 1 Scrolling text Choose the text tool Type your full message and position it off the paper to the left right top or bottom Add a new frame click the text tool again it will remember what was last typed and position the text showing slightly more of the message Continue adding frames and the same text until the whole thing is showing or until it has left the image area Welcome to Welcome to corefx Crea 2 Welcome to corefx Creative ome to corefx Creative corefx Creative ACTIVITY GUIDE 39 2 Flashing text images copy and paste the text images that you want to flash onto every other frame if you are doing a ERF simple flashing image such as a New button you only need to have 2 frames one with the text image and one with just your background image When you hit play forward they will appear to flash on and off the screen Frame 1 100 100 3 Rolling banners create frame items with the same Organizer we background but change all the images and text on each 0 frame Adjust the time delay to ensure that each message is fame visible long enough to read short messages should have a LTS Sake 5 delay bet
6. Next we will rotate the image Double click on the image to have the selection handles turn into circles or right click and choose rotate Drag one of the corners in the direction you want to turn your image corefx Creative ACTIVITY GUIDE To skew your image double click the image again to have the corners turn into triangles or right click and choose skew Drag one of the handles to skew your image Skewing an image turns it in a way that can show the appearance of movement You can further adjust the stamp by right clicking on the it You can choose to transform your image by preset values expand shrink flip horizontal flip vertical or rotate 90 180 or 270 Right clicking also let s you restore your image to the original settings if you don t like the way it appears Define Selection Load Selection Save Selection As Alt F2 Transparent Ctrl Restore to Original Flip Horizontally Flip Vertically Stretch to 50 Expand to 20095 Rotate by 902 Rotate by 180 Rotate by 270 OOOO corefx Creative ACTIVITY GUIDE 10 Imaginary Animals Using Stamps and Patterns Look at someone s eye or your own in a mirror It has a white part a colored part called the iris and a small black circle called the pupil in the middle The surface of the eye is always moist so there is nearly always a little light reflection in it which is called
7. Reverse Order Ctrl R Transform Alt T cerota Level 5 covet Creative image 1 preview Talaka jiti Jn dn Jone Jone unt dani done Jani cM 4 e u 4 4 245 4b 40 4 gt 2 08 x 3 x E 7 w I z dg i H j i B B E ame corefx Creative ACTIVITY GUIDE ta ipa ipo ion make an image appear to move across the screen change the position or direction of it in each frame The series of frames below show re positioning of the ladybug in each frame When this animation is played you will see the ladybug move as the signature is done 1 4t IT 38 Web Banner Web banners are used on web sites to advertise or highlight items of interest This activity will teach you how to create a web banner The following is a list of standard web banner sizes measured in pixels available in corefx Creative Full Banner 468 x 60 Leaderboard 28x90 Skyscraper 160 x 600 Choose View gt Paper Properties to select a banner size from the drop down menu Before you start plan out what the banner will look like Images and messaging and what it will do have text move across screen have text or images flash have multiple messages rotate through etc Always start by filling the background with a color or choosing a Stamp image to use as a background Then layer your text and images on top
8. and sketches go to give a rough idea of what the piece will contain and where the major changes in the story occur It would be a good idea to think about the faces you want to express and do sketches of what happens to the eyes mouth eye brows and color In the Activity Folder there is a template called Storyboard rna to help you plan your animation corefx Creative ACTIVITY GUIDE When you have decided what you are going to do draw the main versions of the face as set out in your storyboard Work out how many frames will be needed between each and add that number of frames Z New Frame After Onion Skin For instance select the first frame and click on the New Frame After button as many times as you want new frames Turn on the Onion Skin so you can see the shadow of the previous frame to help you draw 33 Stamps Fill z Look in the Stamp browser and load the list called Cartoon Elements In it you will find various facial features which you may be able to use Drag one into your frame and resize it as necessary You can also use the Rotate and Skew tools while it is in Selection mode But the easiest way to see what facial expressions are like is to pull a face in a mirror You can color the face For instance you could make it turn red as it comes to anger or fury Choose a mid red from the palette and m
9. BN 1 15 19 23 24 25 26 27 28 30 31 33 39 37 39 41 Images needed for the activities in this Guide can be found by opening the My Paintings gt Activities folder in corefx Creative 2011 Core Learning Inc and Logotron Limited Introduction to corefx Creative corefx Creative is an easy to use digital art program with tools for drawing painting creating animations and photo editing You can create original images add text or import images into the program The features of corefx Creative include twelve realistic art tools for drawing and painting animation tools photo FX tools images in the Stamps browser motifs and textures to add artistic effects text functions Learn About corefx Creative Features There are four documents found in the Resources Menu to help the you become acquainted with the program features and tools They include are 1 Program Tours are a self running demos how corefx Creative works 2 Activity Guide is the document you are currently reading It contains activities to help learn digital art techniques 3 User Manual contains a complete discussion of features of the corefx Creative program Many opportunities for creative expression are explained It will assist users teachers tutors and parents in learning how to use the program tools and functions The activities use many images that have been included with the program When the Activity Guide re
10. Stories Stories Pirates Templates Calendars Cards Invitations Planners Templates Templates Templates Templates Transport Transport Transports L1 99 Borders E eo 6 8 6 TEKE E se SB HE TENEN EE NE MEME LN MEN EM LJ I saPatyl Next add a photo by either opening the photo copying and pasting it on top of your invitation or you can save your photos in the Stamps folder and then add the stamp photo 84 to your work 4 9999 Now add the text details such as Date Time Place RSVP Choose the Text tool and click on the screen where you want the text to go Choose a font size and color and then type your message Before closing the Text tool window move the text where you would like it to be on your invitation Continue to add text until you have all the information you would like B 85285852 8 8 ee i t s a Party S um pn imum Jj ai it er ou BENI Time 4 Place My House You can also create your own invitations easily Open a blank template Place a photo you would like to use for your invitation either open it in corefx Creative and copy and paste it onto your invite or bring it in from your Stamp folder E corefx Creative ACTIVITY GUIDE 28 You can also crea
11. Try setting your delay to 200 for all frame items and then Play Forward jn 1nn again This will provide a more realistic movement of the butterfly e Creer Edit A ane tion To save your image as animation choose the gif file format under the Save As drop down menu corefx Creative ACTIVITY GUIDE 36 Email Signature Emails are a popular way of communicating Like handwritten Add the rest of the letter and repeat the steps select copy letters and notes emails close with a signature You can use add new frame item paste and draw Repeat the steps as corefx Creative to create a moving signature or to add a many times as you need to finish spelling you name When moving graphic to enhance a typed signature completed click on the play forward button and watch as your name writes itself on the screen To create a signature that appears like you are writing it ee E wae chose an art tool and a color On the first frame item write part of the first letter of your s Select the drawing using the selection tool and copy it Now i Ja ee n insert a new Frame item and paste the drawing The pasted drawing will appear in the exact same position as it was copied from Jan ee nes 1 ES corets Uri S covet Creative mage C gt aM ati 55 0 4 gt 4 o z E 5 0931 9 g
12. a highlight Different animals have different shaped eyes and the shapes inside them can be quite different too corefx Creative ACTIVITY GUIDE If you look at pictures of dinosaurs in a book you are seeing them as someone else has imagined them You can work out the size and shape of the animals by studying the bones but you have to imagine the other details For instance ears do not have many bones in them so their shapes have to be imagined or left out Of course you do not know what color the ears were Most animals today share many features with each other and the dinosaurs They have eyes a mouth a nose legs and a head but not tails or crests on the tops of their heads In the same way you could look at the feet on your cat or dog They have the same number of toes that people do but their feet are a very different shape Animals such as sheep cattle and horses have hooves Large animals such as elephants and rhinos seem to have toenails but no toes Birds too have several different sorts of feet 11 Which animals have these patterns Long ago imaginary animals appeared quite often in fairy tales Have you ever heard of a dragon or a unicorn They weren t real animals nor were the sphinx or the griffin The sohinx was a mixture of a woman s head and a lion s body with wings added A griffin also had the body of a lion but the head of an eagle These mythical creatures were mixtures of two or
13. by double left clicking on the image For even more transformation options when an image has a Selection box around it right click on the image to open a menu of transformation options In addition to the resize rotate and skew options you may also flip the image expand by pre set amounts or use the image as a background Add color textures motifs stamps or text to complete your framed art zi My Pumpkin Patch 21 Photo Art Invitations amp Cards The program contains a variety of templates for creating Invitations and Cards To use a template open the Stamp Browser and choose the Templates Invitations Choose one of the template images You can add the template image to your page like you would a regular stamp The best way Is to click and drag it onto the screen This will provide you with a selected stamp Surrounded by a Selection box You can pull on the square parts of the Selection box to resize If you right click on the image other transformation options appear such as rotation skew and flip o LLL LOL It s a Party LI EE E E LO LM LL LO LO LOL LO LS Li Outdoors Outdoors Patterns Patterns Patterns Tessellations Photos Animals Photos Landscapes Photos People Presentations Arrows Presentations Flow Charts Religion Shapes Space Space2 Stained Glass Stained Glass
14. drawing over your image It will make it appear faded change the color of an entire image but not completely black and white Similar to applying photo filters on cameras F 1 Open a photo A 2 Select black as your color Choose the Filled Square or Rectangle and the Coloring FX tool 4 Draw a square or rectangle over your entire picture You could also make a photo black and white and then add color to certain parts of the image the eyes and mouth for a nice visual effect You now have a black and white image Try applying this technique using a variety of different colors Alternatively you can use the Color Replacer tool 4 to recolor pixels that the exact same color with one simple click of the mouse Choose the Color Replacer tool and a color Now click ona color you want to change You can change the transparency setting on the Color Chooser to keep the color being replaced as realistic looking as possible corefx Creative ACTIVITY GUIDE 24 FX Tools Smearing Sometimes we like to make fun pictures out of photos The Smearing FX tool is an excellent effect to create some fun images of a person Choose the Smearing FX tool The Smearing FX tool takes the pixels and blends blurs them together Open the Pumpkin Girl photo or use your own photo gt Choose the Continuous Curve tool and a Nib size and experiment add
15. more different animals or humans and animals A A A Paint your own animal invention Look at different animal and human features in pictures or in real life Put some of them together to make your new creature Perhaps you can find things to use in the Stamp browser See the Dinosaurs and Line Art Animals stamps or load the Mythical rna files from the Activities folder Stamps corefx Creative ACTIVITY GUIDE Heads tails hair feathers noses and teeth come in a great number of varieties The colors and patterns on fur and hide can be even more varied some are brightly colored some dull some have patterns some have stripes some have long hair some have short and some have scales 12 Human Figure Advanced Drawing and Coloring Features When people think of skeletons they nearly always think of dead ones but most of the skeletons we know are alive inside us They give us our bodies their basic shape The proportions of the human body are usually worked out in terms of the height of the head actually the face from the chin to the hairline Roughly an adult male will be 7 5 heads high Em An adult woman will be ST 7 heads high LM at NY 52 Y V i aut A VAND A young child about RE 6 years of age will be about 5 heads 2 high Ai AN hi Is this skeleton male or p JA x female An
16. the pop out list This will now be the background for each new Frame added Y quU m Hm me T 5 Now let s start your animation by adding an image For this example use the butterfly image found in the Animals category of the Stamp Browser Click and drag the stamp image onto the screen E Position it near the bottom 00000 right hand side of the screen corefx Creative ACTIVITY GUIDE 35 Continue to add the same butterfly image on multiple frames reducing the size of the image and the distance from the starting point on each frame Once you have 6 or 7 frames and your butterfly is small and near the top left side of the page press the Play Forward button to see your butterfly fly across the screen Play Forward The default delay speed of movement is 100 which means a tenth of a second per frame This makes the butterfly move rather quickly Note Setting the delay to 1000 will give a speed of one second per frame You can change the speed of the whole animation by using the Set Delay feature on the Animation menu You can also manually change the speed of each frame Click on the number below the frame and type in the new number The larger the number the slower the speed To change multiple frames at once to the same speed select all the frames and then right click Select Animation gt Set Delay and then type in a new number Click OK
17. a background TER See msn by saving it as a Stamp File gt Save As gt My Computer gt Local Disk ea T C Program Files gt corefx so Creative Stamps Dive F Backgrounds gt your Flesch eb filename rna This will M store your background for ace E New Builds 3 later use When you use the stamp you will have to right click the mouse again to have the Use as Background options appear Using and Transforming Stamps Stamps are a collection of images found in the corefx Creative Stamp Browser for use in your drawings New images can be drawn and saved in the Stamp folder for easy access Open the Stamp Browser Choose the Dinosaurs category Select a dinosaur stamp You can apply stamps to your picture in two ways First you can select the stamp then click on the page to stamp it on your picture This is the quickest way to add stamps However you can also click and drag a stamp onto the screen This will create a selected stamp which will allow your to resize rotate and skew it 8 Size Space 100 lt lt resize click and drag of the corners or sides Dragging on the corners will scale your image proportionately evenly in all directions Dragging the sides will distort your stamp stretch or shrink it in the direction you are dragging
18. added the type of object immediately becomes obvious This sphere is standing on a flat surface It casts a shadow where light does not fall The object is reflecting light creating tones or shading Look at this hollow cylinder which is lit from one side to see how reflected light affects the inside and outside Surfaces and how the shadow is cast To see the shades more easily use white objects and only one light source The brighter the light the higher the contrast will be between dark and light tones Shading Look at the color wheel on the next page There are more variations of each color Red yellow and blue are the Primary colors When mixed together in pairs they make orange green and purple which are the Secondary colors The colors between these are what you get from mixing a Primary and its opposite Secondary color These are called Tertiary colors corefx Creative ACTIVITY GUIDE 15 Now use a sphere that is the same color all over such as an orange This time the different tones apply to a color If you have a white light source getting a lighter version of your color is add a little white If you use black your color will soon be overwhelmed by it and the picture will look muddy To add tones to any colored object try mixing in some of the opposite color a little at a time It will darken the object color so it will appear less vibrant where the light does not rea
19. adult or child corefx Creative ACTIVITY GUIDE Start by trying to draw a standing figure that you are looking at from the front Estimate or measure how many heads tall your subject is Measure on your model where body parts such as the waist hips knees elbows and ankles come in terms of head measurements from the top of the head down See if you can find out how wide the shoulders waist and hips appear to be in head measurements Here is a tip if you stand upright and press your wrists to the sides of your legs you will find they coincide with the joint at the top of your leg A viewfinder grid might be a useful tool for helping to see the proportions 5 When you have decided what the measurements F are turn off the Anti aliasing and sketch in the limbs like a stick person using the Continuous 7 7 A Curve tool Draw the general shape of the person Choose a different color to fill out the body on top of the stick person Red is shown here Continuous Curve To erase the stick person choose the Erasing tool You may need to Zoom in to do this 13 To color your figure choose a mid If you want to add tones to the drawing you can use tone for each color The easiest transparent white to lighten the basic color way to do this is to use A the Fill tool Make sure Make sure that Anti aliasing is F each shape is
20. ays events holidays etc corefx Creative ACTIVITY GUIDE 30 Moving Image When you go to the movies what appears to be a moving picture is a series of still pictures shown in quick succession In order to make a cartoon all you have to do is make a sequence of drawings each with a little change from the previous one Originally all cartoons were made from thousands of drawings These were then put together by filming them with a cine camera Computers help us to do this much more quickly now using software like corefx Creative 7 Start a new page and use Paper Properties to set the screen to 128 x 128 pixels Choose LT the Organizer from the View Menu to open the ewens Organizer Window at the bottom of the screen Your first frame will be visible to the left corefx Creative ACTIVITY GUIDE 31 The strip of pictures which appears contains the next frame eight drawings of a little man and five of a little dog Drag the top one of the dog into your page Click on the Onion Skin icon and the contents Position it in the middle and make sure that its nose and tail do not go outside the frame of the first frame will appear in pale gray the new frame Drag the next dog into the new frame Go to the Stamp Browser and choose Animation Now click on the New Frame After button to get New Frame After Stamps Onio
21. ch You can also select your color from the Color Chooser at the top of the screen and use the slider below it to make colors transparent Moving to the right makes them paler Moving to the left makes them darker This gives more control over the color s tone Experiment with this technique Choose a kind of paint and select the base color of your object Dab it into the opposite complementary color on the mixing palette and choose the intensity you want When you paint with it it will be transparent Go over an area several times to get a darker color SERENAN Ni SHE 55 m w A A A A N A Load the file Mixer rna from the Activities Folder We started with red and darkened it bit by bit with green e amp S E e e until we got brown Pick a color yourself and use the clear blocks to experiment with creating your own blends corefx Creative ACTIVITY GUIDE 16 Landscape Light and Color in Nature Landscape in Art is how we show outdoor scenery The art may include natural objects such as plants trees and water human made elements such as buildings fields and roads or the space around them 7 T ss del E i ai iy i us i y CaN En T4 S En Hing 4 LU Ni pe ela rn ae qn MUR AA 4 ds i N ACUTIS Wat CS Each species of plant has its vine own shape color and texture The differences b
22. d ones Try putting the dark ones together and adding a pale one to them corefx Creative ACTIVITY GUIDE 5 Creating a Background Image A background is an image that creates a setting that appears behind your main images It provides a scene for your images There are many different types of background that can be used They could be beaches shopping centers parking lots classrooms kitchens deserts rainforests and much more Think about different backgrounds you have seen in different pictures What type of backgrounds could you use as a starting point for your picture Think of the type of image you 9 o corefx Creative ACTIVITY GUIDE are trying to create Is it indoors or outdoors Day or night Real or imaginary A room a place or a location Once you have chosen a theme for your image you can start to build a background Think of a background in layers Decide what features will be needed on the entire drawing and then build on them Start by drawing the main elements of your background such as the sky and grass You can use the filled rectangle or square Filled Rectangle or Sqaure E Eor Level 5 conefz Creatber Image T 10042768 PED x Edi dew Fert iain Aes L iB 3 127 5950 TESE B pJ ig haire v LEES E Pub d A dE A 2 I E d i j E d M s he
23. e top of one of the vertical lines 4v Where this cuts the receding lines draw the horizontal line for the far edge of the box Center of Vision Center of Vision Horizon or Eye Level Base line Plan view Straight lines which are parallel to each other in reality appear to meet at a point in a perspective view Lines which are parallel to the ground have a Vanishing Point on the Horizon or Eye Level Because of this lines lower than your eyes will go up towards the Horizon and lines above your eyes will down as they go further away from you Plan view To draw a box when you are looking at a corner instead of a face draw a plan view and measure the angles the sides make with the Base Line Plot these angles onto the Eye Level from the Base Line Start with the vertical edge of the box nearest to you and draw in the perspective lines as above In the Activities Folder you will find the file Space City rna Try to complete this picture of a city in the future using the two points of perspective i iyiyi corefx Creative ACTIVITY GUIDE 22 Photo Edit Removing Imperfections In this activity you will learn how to use FX tools to touch Continue to fill each pixel that contains the red or reddish up photo imperfections by zooming in and making small color until they are all filled with the new color Zoom out The adjustments in color improving the way a picture looks red eye is no lon
24. etween an oak tree and a birch tree are obvious Even Buildings are nearly always made with simple geometric forms Most are box shapes and prisms Linear perspective COSE a RUE TRUM influences how they are depicted Things seem to get smaller 2 bt EM although they as they get further away from you a p seem to be until you look closely Water nearly always appears as a reflection like a mirror if it is still but broken up if it is moving In the photograph the water surface is moving just enough to blur the reflection of the trees and bridge EES corefx Creative ACTIVITY GUIDE 17 The most important aspect of depicting landscapes is how to show the three dimensional space The combination of distance and light affects the appearance of the tones and colors as they get farther away from the viewer Objects in the distance look paler and slightly bluer The contrast between the lightest and darkest tones also is less One way 2 to achieve this effect in art is to make the colors rather more vivid than they appear and then to stroke over them with very transparent white or blue Watercolor Use the Watercolor Brush for this exercise At the bottom of the Color Chooser is a transparency slider Move the arrow on it to the right end with your cursor Any color you paint with will now be transparent Look up into a clear blue sky Can you see the difference be
25. fers to the Activities folder you can locate this by choosing File Open My Paintings gt Activities The program automatically opens in the My Paintings folder when you choose File gt Open so you should just have to locate the Activities folder in there The Activity Guide also refers to images in the Stamps folder You can access the images from the Stamp Browser located on the right side of the interface if not displayed click the R on the toolbar to show the sub folder names If you wish to add an image to the Stamp Browser you have to save your images in the program Stamps Folder You can do this by choosing Save As gt C gt Program Files gt corefx Creative gt Stamps You can choose a folder to add them to create a new stamps folder category or save in the open folder unlabelled folder at the top of the drop down list in the Browser Save to the Stamps folder and not a named sub folder Now when you open your Stamp Browser in the program your stamp images will be easily accessible OOOO corefx Creative ACTIVITY GUIDE Take a Line for a Walk Introducing Draw and Fill Tools You may be able to draw well with a pencil or crayon but you may find it difficult using a mouse Even if you have a graphics pad it is not easy to start with Although the drawing tool is like holding a pencil the picture appears on the screen not on the surface on which you are pressing The following exercise will help y
26. ger visible Color Open the file Pumpkin Girl red eye found in the Activities folder Make sure that the Color Chooser with the Palette color model is visible Select the zoom tool or use your Q scroll ball on your mouse and zoom in on the red part of the eye Zoom in until you are able to see the individual pixels the tiny squares that make up a photo You can use this same method to recolor any other imperfections such as freckles blemishes and scratches Choose the Coloring FX tool and a nib size Use the Color Picker to select the eye iris color On the A You can also use the Color Picker to recolor Jp Color Chooser adjust the Transparency slider to imperfections Select the regular skin color using the the desired colour intensity The midpoint on the Color Picker and then apply it to the imperfection transparency slider is usually a good place to start using the Coloring FX tool If you don t adjust the slider the color will fill the pixels with solid color This isn t very realistic looking When you make the color a little transparent it allows the color to be applied slightly see through making it more natural looking I NEES corefx Creative ACTIVITY GUIDE 23 FX Tools Coloring As mentioned in the previous activity you can photo Another technique to try is adjusting the transparency slider using the Coloring FX tool You can also before
27. ing some curls to the hair of your picture Click on the subject s hair and start moving your mouse in a circular motion You could also use this tool to hide imperfections as it blurs the pixels together Try to soften your picture by filling a section with the Smearing FX tool You will see pixels become less defined You could use this to make objects in the background unidentifiable or to make some silly faces with pictures of friends and family o y 331 corefx Creative ACTIVITY GUIDE 25 FX Tools Lightening amp Darkening Sometimes when we take photos they turn out too light overexposed or too dark underexposed You can use the Lightening FX and Darkening FX tools to adjust these issues Open a photo and choose the Lightening FX tool Choose the Filled Square or Rectangle tool and then draw over the shape of your image This will lighten the entire picture If your image is still too dark repeat this action until you have the desired saturation If there are only some areas that are too dark you can use the Continuous Curve tool with an appropriate nib size to draw over the area that you want lighter You can use any shape tool with this FX tool to create a variety of different effects If your image is too light choose the Darkening FX tool and apply the same technique to make it darker _ Think of adjusting a picture to make it
28. look like night fall day time or that a storm is coming corefx Creative ACTIVITY GUIDE 26 Photo Art Fun Frames Open a photo you would like to frame Drag a frame Template found in the Stamps folder and resize to fit your image When a Stamp is dragged to the workspace a Selection box automatically appears around the Stamp image The initial Selection setting is in resize mode You can cycle through 2 other settings by double left clicking on the image Skew mode double left click to turn the circles on the Selection box to diamonds Left click and drag a diamond to skew slant the image Resize mode the Selection box has squares at the corners and the midpoints Left click on a square and drag in or out to shrink or enlarge the image Dragging from the corners resizes the object equally without distortion Dragging in or out from a center square will stretch or shrink the image in only one direction Rotate mode double left click to turn the squares on the Selection box to circles Left click and drag a circle to rotate the image corefx Creative ACTIVITY GUIDE While dragging a stamp image to the work area will automatically have the image surrounded by a Selection box you can create or import any image and use the Selection tool to place a Selection box around the image The initial setting will also be in resize mode You can cycle through to the rotate and skew modes
29. n skin using the Onion Skin line up the backbones Get another frame and repeat this pattern until all five drawings have been inserted Click on the Play Forward button to see your dog running along Play Forward Start a new file File gt New or Ctrl N and repeat the exercise with the little man s eight frames Color in his head hands and feet E E Try doing your own drawings of a simple movement If you want to erase something use the Erasing tool The shortcut to this is to draw with the right hand Eraser mouse button instead of the left Note that if you draw with white paint and use the left hand button you will not be able to see the Onion Skin drawing of the previous frame corefx Creative ACTIVITY GUIDE 32 Moods Emotions and Feelings You are going to show in an animation how emotion can change a face as circumstances change Before you start you need to get in your mind a little story which you are going to depict It could be near the end of a race and your favorite athlete is half a pace behind the leader Can they make up the distance before the finish line You can finish the story yourself but the tension and final outcome are only expressed by the agonies or joy on the face of the spectator The normal planning tool for animations and films is the storyboard This is a grid into which a mixture of words
30. of a grid pattern The angle of the diagonal is 45 The diagonals are parallel to each other so will have the same Vanishing Point To find this plot an angle of 45 from the Base Line and Center of Vision to the Horizon Line This cuts three of the receding lines showing where the corners will be Draw horizontal lines through these points and you will see the first three rows of the grid appear in perspective Now draw from the left of the farthest row to the 45 Vanishing Point and you will cut the receding lines in several more places from which you can draw more rows in Center of Vision yp Horizon Eye Level y5 vp Center of Vision Field of View 90 VP Horizon or Eye Level If you look at the first few rows of tiles they appear distorted This is because the Base Line represents the feet of the viewer and is an area which you cannot see if you are looking at the horizon It is generally taken that if you draw an angle of 15 from the Center of Vision on the Base Line to the Horizon Line and then draw a circle centered on the 90 Vanishing Point what is within the circle is what lies within the vision of the viewer Base line corefx Creative ACTIVITY GUIDE 21 To draw a box on one of the squares draw a square from the front corners and draw in the receding lines to the Center of Vision Now draw a diagonal perspective line to the 45 90 VP Horizon or Eye Level 450 VP Vanishing Point from th
31. ou to practice Choose the Marker and a color and take a line for a walk as Paul Klee a famous Swiss painter from a hundred years ago used to say Keep to straight lines perhaps in line with the edges of the surface using the Continuous Curve tool Continuous Curve Fill in some of the shapes with colors These could be one light color and one dark one or perhaps they could be colors that are all light or all dark You could put them in shapes that do not touch each other or shapes that only touch at the corners 5 Fill corefx Creative ACTIVITY GUIDE 2 If you have left a background that surrounds these shapes try filling that in with a light or dark color to see what effect it has on the main part of the picture When you are happy with the mouse or graphics pad drawing you have done see if it suggests anything you recognize When you can see something the picture make this your new subject and complete the picture as you wish using other colors and tools to draw in any other details you need You could find things in the Stamp browser to add to it too If you want to erase something right click the mouse Perhaps you could draw a line for your friend to finish or your friend could draw you a line to turn into a picture continuous curve Alternatively load the Lines rna files from the Acti
32. ove the transparency slider about two thirds of the way to the right Color in all the faces in this sequence with the Fill tool Click once in the first face twice in the second three times in the third and so on till you have done all of them Changing Face Frame 1 corefx Creative ACTIVITY GUIDE Rotate One of the earliest animated films or cartoon films was called Skeleton Jangle in which some jolly skeletons dance round a graveyard Use the Skeleton rna file from the Activity folder to try and make your own skeleton dance 34 Simple Animation In this activity you will learn how to Now add another Frame Turn the Onion Skin make an image move across the a feature on This will allow you to see a shadow of screen the previous frame allowing for easier placement Tm of the next image Place another instance of the butterfly stamp on the screen more towards the center and to the left Also resize the stamp making it a little smaller Onion Skin Open a new image This will be the first Frame of your animation Start by adding a background Go to the Stamp Browser and choose the Backgrounds category Choose the image of the sky grass and tree the fifth image in the list Click and drag it onto the screen With the selection box active around it right click ne and choose Use as Background from the drop down list Choose the Resize option from
33. picture This is because our perspective lines are all parallel to the ground Center of Vision Eye Level Try finishing the drawing called Chessboard rna in the Activities folder Using the Eye Level and Vanishing Points complete the perspective view of the chessboard Eight Squares x Eight Squares and use the Line and Fill tools 19 The best way to find out about perspective is to look closely Center of Vision at the world around you A little technical knowledge about it will help you to see things a little more accurately VP Our picture of the station looks straight down the lines with the Vanishing Point VP right in the middle Look at the diagram on the right to see how you can put Vanishing Points elsewhere on the Horizon Line to make for example a road change direction Center of Vision Look at the Plan View or bird s eye view of the same x vp 90 VP Level 450 Vp road Note the angle where it changes direction Now look at the Perspective View The angles from the plan are plotted from the point where the Center of Vision and the Base Line meet The Vanishing Points occur where the angle lines cut the Horizon Line All lines parallel to those angles on the plan will go to the same pase rane Vanishing Point Plan View Perspective View corefx Creative ACTIVITY GUIDE 20 The row of squares below the Base Line is a Plan View of part
34. t 11 1 T E B BEREERBHESSENENEEN CON o P n E ee 3M 3 4 l 4 A gt eros Jane gas quac pn gd nog s dg pn gm os qnom n mn d nome dg n goa B c B T 0 7 reg 1 rem e Wm T B corefx Creative ACTIVITY GUIDE 37 The animation will automatically loop start over at the beginning and repeat all movements continuously To stop it from looping Choose the Animation gt Frame option on the Animation menu click on Loop Frames This will deselect the Experiment with different colors try making a rainbow colored name different speeds using set delay or with adding images T Level S carota Creative mage 1 875 575 PN ew Anean Remue amp E 3 9 4 4 looping feature Remember save your animation as a gif RT 11a 7 B zE a Animation Resources a ws Frame Items d Heading Mode 1 gt E EN E m Set Delay Ctrl 0 m 1 1 E Minimize Ctrl M Convert All to Frame Items d k E Blend Ctrl Generate Alt G E
35. t gt Cut Cut So Ctrl Z Edit gt Undo lt last change gt Undo Edit gt Delete F2 File gt Save F3 File gt Open F4 View gt Organizer F5 View gt Brushes ET View Palette F8 View gt Zoom Settings F9 View gt Preview F11 View gt Stamp Browser Stamp Browser Insert Edit gt Insert After o Shift Ctrl Z Edit gt Redo lt last change gt Redo shift Ctrl Z Edit gt Undo lt last change gt m Shift Delete Edit gt Cut Cut LA Shift Insert Edit gt Paste or Edit gt Paste After Paste ca Alt G Animation gt Generate Alt T Animation gt Transform Ctrl B Animation gt Blend Ctrl D Animation gt Set Delay Ctrl R Animation Reverse Order corefx Creative ACTIVITY GUIDE 41
36. te your own invitations easily Open a Next add your text Use different fonts colors and font sizes blank template Place a photo you would like to use for your for different parts of your invitation invitation either open it in corefx creative and copy and paste it onto your invite or bring it in from your Stamp folder ys Resize the picture to fit the invitation x Celobratall 3 PM on October 9th at the Pumpkin Farm Now you can add any design elements you wish to complete your invitation You could add shapes and lines to create unique designs or use Stamp images that apply to your Now you can add graphic elements Use the Fill tool to add invitation theme Here is a completed an example a background color Remember to explore using different art tools as they will fill with different effects ae P a X Celebrate ER i af 3 PM on October 5th Pumpkin Farm SSS at the corefx Creative ACTIVITY GUIDE 29 Photo Art Planners amp Calendars The program contains a variety of template images of planners and calendars in the Templates Calendars and Templates Planners sub folders in the Groundhog Stamps Library You Day can personalize these template images by adding your photos and other artwork Open a new page Drag and drop a Calendar or Planner template onto your page Drag the corner handles to resize Now add stamps or your photos as reminders of birthd
37. tween the color overhead and that at the horizon t A P Y Load the Landscape rna file from the Activities folder Use the transparency slider to modify the green and blue Draw in your own landscape corefx Creative ACTIVITY GUIDE 18 Perspective Vanishing Points and Horizon Lines As things get further away from you they appear to become smaller and less clear The system which artists use to help them understand and control this in their pictures is called Perspective Linear Perspective developed during the Renaissance deals with lines Aerial Perspective deals with tones and colors Look at this picture of a railway station You are looking straight down the tracks The width between the rails seems to get smaller as they go into the distance The lines of the rails and the platform seem to converge go toward each other as they recede Some of the lines seem to go to a point in the distance These lines are actually parallel to each other the railway lines cable gantries edges of the platforms and top and bottom of the fences corefx Creative ACTIVITY GUIDE The point where the lines appear to meet is called the Vanishing Point The direction in which you are looking is the Center of Vision Notice that the horizontal line on which the lines seem to meet is also the Horizon the line where the earth and sky appear to meet and is on the eye level of the figure in the
38. vities folder corefx Creative ACTIVITY GUIDE 3 Exploring Color Basic amp Complementary Colors p 5 Have you ever looked closely at the colors in a rainbow p y Look at the rainbow and at the color wheel Is your 4 k y amp favorite color there The basic colors in the circle are Blue and If you mix and together you will get and Blue make Purple Blue and make Green Look at the colors in the color wheel The colors Purple and Green come between the colors that make them corefx Creative ACTIVITY GUIDE 4 Some of these colors form families Purple Red and Orange for instance are related because they all contain Red On the other hand some colors are opposites such as Red and Green Look straight across the color wheel and see if you can find other opposite colors Opposite Colors are called Complementary Colors Some of the colors are light and some are dark P Y A Think of a good subject containing bright colors Here are a few suggestions a bed of flowers a bunch of bal loons kites flying against a colorful sky a mixture of all of these Use any drawing tool plus the Fill tool See if you can find pictures in the Stamp browser to help you or load the Colors rna file from the Activities folder In some of your pictures keep the related colors close to each other In others try putting an opposite color in with the relate
39. ween 800 and 1000 longer ones over 1000 anu 800 Field Trip 9 Oct 5th 2 4PM BAKE SALE amp 45 1955 corefx Creative ACTIVITY GUIDE 40 Table of Keyboard Shortcuts Here are standard shortcuts you can use on your keyboard with the corefx Creative program You can customize the keyboard shortcuts Some options have more than one shortcut combination Button in a toolbar Shortcut Menu option or tool window Paint gt Selection gt Transform gt Rotate by 270 Paint gt Selection gt Transform gt Rotate by 90 Alt BackSpace Edit gt Undo lt last change gt Undo x Alt F2 File gt Save As Paint gt Selection gt Save Selection As Alt F3 File gt Close Alt F7 View gt Other gt Color Chooser Alt X File gt Exit Ctrl Paint Selection Transparent Ctrl A Edit gt Select All Ctri Alt Space View gt Other gt Customize Ctrl C Edit gt Copy Copy 95 Ctrl F4 File gt Close Ctrl F7 View gt Other gt Color Settings Ctri Insert Edit gt Copy Copy 35 Ctrl N File gt New Ctrl Num View gt Zoom gt Zoom Out CtrltNum View Zoom Normal Size Ctrlt Num View gt Zoom gt Zoom In Ctrl O File gt Open Open X Ctrl P File Print Print Ctrl Q View gt Zoom gt Zoom Out Ctrl S File gt Save sae lt Button in a toolbar Shortcut Menu option or tool window _ Ctrl V Edit gt Paste or Edit gt Paste After Paste e Ctrl W View gt Zoom gt Zoom In Ctrl X Edi
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