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1. isse Wacky Stampimator Digital Puppets de Kid Pix Studio Deluxe Menus 67 67 ECE IMENU 74 100211077 VI 75 79 SpeechyMENU 89 Wacky Brushes and Electric Mixers 93 All About Rubber Stamps 105 Frequently Asked Questions 119 How to Contact Technical Support 123 Credits and Sources 125 te I love 1 Welcome to Kid Pix Studio Deluxe Every child is an artist The problem is how to remain an artist once he or she grows up Pablo Picasso Kids love to create pictures and stories starting with their very first scribbles That s why Kid Pix was created with kids in mind and it has become the world s most popular art program for kids Kid Pix Studio amp Deluxe now brings you all the wacky fun of the original Kid Pix but with new projects that combine animation video special effects photos music and more With each of the six art projects in Kid Pix Studio Deluxe you can create a differ ent kind of art or animation Kid Pix is a drawing and painting pro
2. Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE MENUS A picture of your movie will appear over your Kid gt Pix picture Lj When you have the movie where you want it click once to paste it into your picture Lect SH mus Use the Kid Pix tools to paint around the movie Soe NS T OE to make it look like part of your picture _ Play Movie Kid Pix only gt Use this command to play movie you have pasted into your picture Click Play Movie sp siumo The movie will play in your Kid Pix picture If you have drawn over or erased the first frame of the movie it will be restored when the movie plays e save your Kid Pix picture so that the movie be played again the next time you open your picture click Save QuickTime Movie with Picture in the Save a Picture dialog box EN Record Sound Use Record Sound to add sounds to your Kid Pix picture Select the Record Sound command to create a sound to go with your Kid Pix picture The sound recording dialog box will appear You must have a microphone for your computer to record sound e Click Record and make some noise Click Stop to end the record ing Click Save to add your sound to your picture Click Cancel to go back to Kid Pix without adding the sound you recorded 9 Play Sound Use Play Sound to hear the sound you added to your Kid Pix picture e Select Play Sound to play the sounds attached to pictures e DrawMes and s
3. DELUXE MENUS 91 92 de Chapter 5 Wacky Brushes and Electric Mixers Kid Pix Wacky Brushes Tray 1 Leaky Pen Fuzzer Zig Zag Magnifying Glass Dots Spray Paint Bubbly Pine Needles Pies p 3 D Echoes Kaleidoscope Northern Lights Drippy Paint n 9 Wacky BRUSHES AND ELECTRIC MIXERS ABC 1 Connect the Dots Alphabet Text Swirl Invert Geometry Fractal Trees Caterpillars 94 e e ES 71 EB x Wacky Brushes Tray 2 Splatter Paint The Looper Roll the Dice Galaxy Tic Tac Toe Deck of Cards Shapes Wacky BRUSHES AND ELECTRIC MIXERS Kid Pix Wacky Brushes Tray 3 Bugs b Pyramid zi Metroline Bounce Y Hands Gel No Rings 6 Mathmagics Balls Buttons and Bows 5 95 Wacky BRUSHES AND ELECTRIC MIXERS ix Wacky Brushes Tray 4 Window Box Pine Tree Kid P Bricks f Log Cabin Glass Panel Glass Brick French Door Wooden Door E cs 96 Rainbow Wacky BRUSHES AND ELECTRIC MIXERS Kid Pix Wacky Brushes Tray 5 Macintosh only A Star Heart Hat Worm lt gt Block Book fe Mirror Snake Stamp Lightbulb 97 98 Wacky BRUSHES AND ELECTRIC MIXERS Kid Pix Wacky Brushes Tray 6 Macintosh only ae i Animals Frame Music Photo Album Dotty Frame Where s
4. i r P od 3 7 je tdi ate l 3 52 Oe a E 1 Sey a mi a fi N I Aal M xil TA 110 ALL ABOUT RUBBER STAMPS Nature 6m 0 0 a WARES 111 ALL ABOUT RUBBER STAMPS Original Kid Pix Windows PR eh Y Jar uy qe 4 Combi maie ao SPYLE DONT KIE Hm ts M ts Pixies a DA vu e i i tae gt zie SAE F f hihi us T See AA eT 5 a 1 42224 c F Ke 112 RUBBER STAMPS Romantic 245 SK A TE Jg g Oi one FD Eo 113 IER ee Em nm ra i EROS ons ail ld AR REN ET a NAINA Dis LASSA 9 7222 40 114 Western ALL ABOUT RUBBER STAMPS a PESE rent pv v wv 115 116 ALL ABOUT RUBBER STAMPS Writestuff a BP EV ose curd EOD Ie 9 ARDAVAN 6 50 276 hi 0985 3 149 LT aes db e A RTA AE Tue Os WENE pl d wae Roos so Mago 442648226 RUBBER STAMPS Toonies 1 Anima
5. e Goodies menu commands help you control how your SlideShow plays and what it will look like while it plays 55 56 Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE PROJECTS SLIDESHOW SlideShow Moving Vans Each Moving Van is made up of a slide preview area the Pick a Picture Pick a Sound and Pick a Transition buttons a Time Slider and a number The slide preview area shows you a smaller picture of one slide of your slide show whether you have loaded a picture or a movie file SLIDE PREVIEW AREA PICK A PICTURE BUTTON PICK A TRANSITION BUTTON PICK A SOUND BUTTON Use the Pick a Picture button to load a picture or movie Use the Pick a Sound button to add a sound effect to your slide or to control which sound is played during the SlideShow if there is a sound attached to the pic ture loaded in the van Use the Pick a Transition button to select an effect for the change from one slide to the next during your SlideShow If you want to change the order of your slides click the slide you want to move Drag the van to the place in your SlideShow where you want the slide to be Use the Time Slider to control how long a slide plays during your SlideShow Note All the pictures and movies you want to use in your SlideShow should be together in one folder e Double click the Moving Van for a full screen preview of your slide includ ing any sounds and any transition effect you add e Click again to end the preview STUDIO D
6. eh u n s x u u i Day and Night Strobelight Rain Shower Throbber Slip and Slide Pattern Maker Eg N EHE W 5 5 ie Splash Dance Flip Down Flip Side to Side Halo Fade Away Zap Up Close Stop It 103 104 ALL ABOUT RUBBER STAMPS 6 All About Rubber Stamps In Kid Pix Studio Deluxe there are 2016 Rubber Stamps and 336 Animated Rubber Stamps On the following pages all the Rubber Stamps and Animated Rubber Stamps that Kid Pix Studio Deluxe includes are shown by set e _ When you use the Rubber Stamp tool in Kid Pix you get a static stamp that doesn t move You can edit this stamp in the Stamp Editor With the addition of animation in Kid Pix Studio the Animated Stamp was born a four frame animation made up of four separate stamps that work together as a mini animation for stamping in Moopies and Stampimator e When you use the Rubber Stamp tool in Moopies Stampimator you get Animated Rubber Stamp You can edit this stamp in the Animated Stamp Editor f you swap a set of static Rubber Stamps into Moopies or Stampimator you can animate the stamps automatically by choosing from preset animated effects e Changes made to regular Rubber Stamps in the Animated Stamp Editor cannot be saved Macintosh Users All Kid Pix Studio Deluxe compatible stamps file names start with My Stamps followed by the name of the individual
7. To the right of the drawing area are the Cast Boxes These four boxes hold your Stamp Actors Change the Stamp Actor in the Cast Box and the Stamp Actor on the drawing area changes To select a Stamp Actor first click a Cast Box The selected box will turn red Select a Rubber Stamp by clicking the Rubber Stamp tool on the toolbar then clicking a Rubber Stamp in the Options tray The Rubber Stamp will appear in the selected Cast Box Above the Cast Boxes is the Firecracker tool Use the Firecracker to remove Stamp Actors from Cast Boxes by clicking the Cast Box you want to clear then the Firecracker tool To the right of the Cast Boxes are the Path and Behavior buttons Use these buttons to control how your Stamp Actors move along the paths you create for them Above the drawing area is the Timer Bar The Timer Bar is a visual indicator of the amount of time your path is taking in your Stampimation The Timer Bar starts to fill up when you start creating a path for a Stamp Actor When the Timer Bar fills with red you have used up all the time available for the path you are creating For a step by step example of creating a Stampimation see page 40 37 38 Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE PROJECTS STAMPIMATOR Stampimator Tools Drawing Tools Stampimator has many of the same drawing tools as Kid Pix Use them to create a background for your Stamp Actors to use as a stage set e the Drawing Tools to create a background
8. Undo Guy If you change your mind about something click the Undo Guy Firecracker Unload a van by clicking it then clicking the Firecracker tool Play Click Play to make your SlideShow play through one time Play Looped Click this looped arrow to play your SlideShow over and over Macintosh Users Press the space bar to pause your SlideShow while it is playing Double click the mouse or press Control period to exit a SlideShow while it is playing Click once to jump to the next slide while the SlideShow is playing If you are playing a movie in one of your Moving Vans Press the Shift key to slow down the movie Press the Command key to speed up the movie Windows Users Press the space bar to pause your SlideShow while it is playing Double click to exit a SlideShow while it is playing Click once to jump to the next slide while it is playing If you are playing a movie in one of your Moving Vans Press the Shift key to slow down the movie Press the Ctrl key to speed up the movie 63 64 Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE PROJECTS SLIDESHOW Background Sound Macintosh only Macintosh Users You can select a sound to play in the background while your SlideShow plays e Click the Background Sound button at the bottom of the screen The Pick a Background Sound dialog box will appear J Pick a Background Sound amp Per zaam amp 0 e Cli
9. User s Manual 2000 Mattel Inc and its licensors All rights reserved The Learning Company and Kid Pix are registered trademarks and Kid Pix Studio is a trademark of Mattel Inc Quick Time and the Quick Time logo are trademarks used under license Quick Time is registered in the U S and other countries All other trade marks are the property of their respective owners QuickTime Please do not make illegal copies of this software The software you are using was produced through the efforts of many people designers artists producers programmers distributors retailers and other dedicated professionals The costs of developing this and other software programs are recovered through software sales The unauthorized duplication of personal computer software raises the cost to all legitimate users This software is protected by Federal copyright law Copying software for any reason other than to make a backup is a violation of law Individuals who make unauthorized copies of software may be subject to civil and criminal penalties The Learning Company supports the industry s efforts to fight the illegal copying of personal computer software Report copyright violation to SPA 1730 M Street NW Washington DC 20036 202 452 1600 The Learning Company Table of Contents IV Vil IX Welcome to Kid Pix Studio Deluxe 5 Getting Started m 7 Kid Pix Studio Deluxe Projects
10. on page 67 Apple Windows Help Eo Re RO He Ped Runen 67 File NOW ie abut 67 Open a 68 Save 5 69 Save Tor SlideSh W zat css um dou DEED EE 69 Save as 69 Import Pictur sorelle aor SL 71 Ret rni to Picker si coke ie D ERR a os 73 Edit s coins eh o rennen 74 GU MC IDE 74 sob he eee oie Sede ad 74 Paste 74 Clear oraque pr alas Sale EUER bald dod ed i s date eles 74 Toolbox Edit 5 20 oh ded and ov eters bad 76 Tool Sounds e RE VE Ui RE Een Rabe e EA 77 Goodies Pick a Stamp Set 3 i RIAL en MER 80 Pick a 83 Pick a Sound ra Aaa ea tee eid cals 82 Play Stop Soutid esi as er ease pEXPEETUET 85 45 46 Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE PROJECTS DIGITAL PUPPETS Digital Puppets MENU BAR TIMER BAR PUPPET Goodies TI CONTROL BUTTONS Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE PROJECTS DIGITAL PUPPETS Digital Puppets are on screen marionettes that you control with the keys on your keyboard i
11. and the menu bar The drawing area is in the middle of the screen All of the Kid Pix tools can be used in this area To the left of the drawing area you ll see the Kid Pix toolbar Select the drawing tool you want by clicking it with the mouse Kid Pix tools let you choose how you want them to draw These choices are called Tool Options Look beneath the drawing area for the Tool Options tray Click the option you want to use to select it Some tools have more than one tray of options Click the arrows at the right end of the Tool Options tray for even more choices At the top of the screen you ll see the Kid Pix menu bar The menus available in Kid Pix are File Edit Toolbox Goodies and Speech The File menu lists commands for opening and saving files for print ing and for returning to the Studio Picker screen The Edit menu lists commands for making changes to your picture Commands from the Toolbox menu control how Kid Pix works Goodies menu commands give you more ways to use the basic Kid Pix tools like Pick a Stamp Set which gives you more Rubber Stamps Use the Speech menu to hear text you have added to your picture read aloud For more details about Kid Pix menu commands read chapter 4 Kid Pix Studio Deluxe Menus on page 67 11 12 Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE PROJECTS PIX Kid Pix Tools Click the Wacky Pencil to draw free form lines
12. live uh 74 Paste acne onere Eee Ws a 74 Clear aS ates TTE 74 Toolbox menu Edita Stamp cad cetacean ER RET 76 Tool Sounds x 2 eee dome ques 77 Goodies menu Pick a Stamp Sets o 3 etr 80 Pick a 83 Picka S nd a 34 82 Stop Play 85 35 Stampimator MENU BAR TIMER BAR FIRECRACKER TOOL Edit Tonbos Goodies N 9 PATH TOOLBAR BUTTONS A 4 1 wl BUTTONS 7 N h gn OES SS n Es 9 e COLOR PALETTE TOOL OPTIONS TRAY 36 Pix 5 DELUXE PROJECTS 5 de In Stampimator animated stamps move across the screen along paths that you draw The Stampimator screen has a lot of buttons and controls Here s a brief intro duction to the tools you ll use for your Stampimator project e The drawing area is in the middle of the screen Your Stampimation will take place in this area Think of it as a stage empty when you start but soon full of action To the left of the drawing area is the toolbar Most of the tools are the same as in Kid Pix the big difference in Stampimator is that the Rubber Stamps are animated and there is no Electric Mixer tool e The Tool Options trays are below the drawing area
13. provw21 tmpsnds userlock usrsnds Fa Fc 4 Select the extension name for the type of file you want to load from the File Types list For saved Kid Pix pictures and other Windows bitmaps click bmp For Kid Pix ColorMes click clr For Moopies Stampimator Digital Puppets and SlideShow projects that have been saved using the Save for SlideShow command movies from the Kid Pix Studio Deluxe CD ROM or other Video for Windows files click avi For QuickTime movie files click mov Click the name of the picture or movie you want to load The dialog box will go away In the Moving Van slide preview area you ll see the picture or movie you selected STUDIO DELUXE PROJECTS SLIDESHOW Pick a Sound gt Once you have loaded a picture into a Moving Van you can add sounds to your slide Using the Pick a Sound options you can Choose one of 16 prerecorded sounds by clicking an icon the Pick a Sound dialog Record your own sound microphone required e Use a sound from the Kid Pix Studio Deluxe CD ROM sounds library or a sound saved to your hard drive from another source by clicking the More button Use sounds saved with Kid Pix pictures like DrawMe instructions or sounds you recorded with your picture Hear Typewriter text from your Kid Pix picture read aloud Note If you loaded a movie the Pick a Sound button will be grayed out When the slide plays you will
14. will appear each time the CD ROM is inserted into the CD ROM drive If the Kid Pix Studio Deluxe startup window does not appear automati cally on screen e Begin at the Windows 95 desktop e Click the Start button point to Programs and then Broderbund Software e Click the Kid Pix Studio Deluxe menu item to start the program Windows 3 1 Users After successfully installing the program a program group titled Broderbund Software will be created in the Windows Program Manager It will contain an icon labeled Kid Pix Studio Deluxe e Double click this icon to begin playing The Picker Screen The Picker screen is the first thing you see when you start to use Kid Pix Studio Deluxe There are six buttons on the Picker screen one for each Kid Pix Studio Deluxe project e To choose a project click the name plate or the button on the Studio Picker screen You will hear directions for using the project the first time you open each project e Wait a few seconds while the project is loaded e Roll up your sleeves it s time to get creative File Edit Toolbox Goodies Speech DRAWING TOOLS 9 EN E COLOR PALETTE 2 Lz OF IST TOOL OPTIONS TRAY 10 3 Kid Pix Studio Deluxe Projects Kid Pix gives kids lots of easy to use tools for making pictures with the computer The basic parts of the Kid Pix screen are the drawing area the toolbar the color palette
15. Fun House Checkerboard e Click the Undo Guy to remove the effect you have added 29 30 TOOLBAR COLOR PALETTE MENU BAR DRAWING AREA File Edit Toolbox Goodies 27 E EX 1 Es SUN E re TOOL OPTIONS TRAY Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE PROJECTS Moopies is our special name for moving pictures Creating animated pictures with Moopies is a lot like creating Kid Pix pictures The Moopies Animated Wacky Brushes Rubber Stamps Electric Mixer effects and Alphabet Stamps start moving as soon as you lift your finger from the mouse As you draw you ll see your Moopie come to life and start wobbling whirling and wiggling The basic parts of the Moopies screen are the drawing area the toolbar the color palette and the menu bar e drawing area is in the middle of the screen All of the Moopies tools can be used in this area e left of the drawing area you ll see the Moopies toolbar Select the draw ing tool you want by clicking it with the mouse e Moopies tools let you choose how you want them to draw These choices are called Tool Options Look beneath the drawing area for the Tool Options tray Click the option you want to use to select it Some tools have more than one tray of options Click the arrows at the right end of the Tool Options tray for even more choices e At the top of the screen you ll see the Moopies
16. Kid Pix Choose this command to make changes to a Rubber Stamp e Select the Rubber Stamp tool e Click on the Rubber Stamp you want to change e Double click the Rubber Stamp in the options tray or choose Edit a Stamp from the Toolbox menu You ll see a bigger version of the stamp you selected in the editing area An actual size preview of the stamp is shown on the right The stamp editing tool palette and a color palette are along the left side of the Stamp Editor dialog box Stamp Editor Restore Original Cancel There are some special tools available only in the Stamp Editor Rotate Ky Choose the Rotate tool to turn your stamp 90 degrees Flip Choose the Flip tool to flip your stamp from left to right Restore Original Choose Restore to get the original stamp back Cancel Click Cancel to return to Kid Pix without saving changes you made to the stamp OK When you re finished making changes click OK 75 76 Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE MENUS Edit a Stamp Moopies Stampimator Choose this command to make changes to your Animated Rubber Stamps Select the Animated Rubber Stamps tool Click on the stamp you want to change Double click the stamp you selected in the options tray or choose Edit a Stamp from the Goodies menu The Animated Stamp Editor dialog box will appear In the Animated Stamp Editor you can change all four frames or steps of the
17. Moving Van Magnet options that you can resize yourself To use regular Moving Van options e the Moving Van option that is the size and shape you need e Position the van over the section you want to move e Click the mouse button and hold it down while you move the mouse The selected part of your picture will move e Let go of the button when the section is where you want it 19 Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE PROJECTS KID PIX To use Magnet options e Click the Magnet option that you want to use Windows users have only one Magnet option e Drag the cursor around the area you want to select e Click with the magnet icon to pick it up and drag the selected area around your picture e Use the Cut Copy Clear or Paste commands under the Edit menu with the area that you have selected Macintosh Users To copy a section and then paste the selection in your drawing hold the Option key down and move the mouse To paint with your selection hold the Command key down while you move the mouse To paint with your Moving Van selection hold down the Ctrl and Shift keys while you move the mouse The Lasso option will shrink to select the first change in color it encounters To make the Lasso option select exactly the area you have surrounded by dragging with the cursor hold down the Option key Windows Users To copy a section and then put the section in your drawing use the Magnet option then hold the Ctrl k
18. Read Text Aloud e Ifyou have more than one Text Box in your picture the boxes will be read in order from top left to bottom right p Pick a Voice T Choose a voice for the computer to use for speaking e Select Pick a Voice The Pick a Voice dialog box will appear with a pop up list of names Each of these names is a voice character Click one e Click Preview to hear how the voice sounds e Click OK when you have selected the voice you want to use 89 90 Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE MENUS How to Pronounce Tell the computer how you want it to pronounce specific words e Select How to Pronounce The How to Pronounce dialog box will appear Type the 50 characters Hear riginal cough Type How to Pronounce It e the text that you want to have the computer pronounce in a new way in the Type the Word text box the phonetic spelling of the way you want the word nounced in the How to Pronounce text box For example the let ters ph sound like f so the phonetic spelling of telephone would be telefone e Click Hear Original to hear the word pronounced the way it is orig inally spelled e Click Preview to hear your text pronounced according to the pho netic spelling you have typed in the How to Pronounce text box e Click OK when you have finished or click Cancel to return to Kid Pix without saving your changes Kip Pix 5
19. There are two sets of pencil options giving you square or circle shaped pencil points You can also choose the width and pattern for your Wacky Pencil lines The Tint a option creates a translucent effect perfect for color ing in black and white pictures without covering up the lines e Mystery option creates a rainbow effect Line Choose the Line tool to draw straight lines When you do you ll see options for line widths and patterns e The Mystery 92 option creates surprise effect e To draw angles press the Shift key while using the Line tool Rectangle Choose the Rectangle tool to draw rectangles with various patterns e Choose a pattern fill from the Tool Options tray The Mystery option produces a rainbow filled rectangle Macintosh Users To draw a rectangle without a border press the Control key while using the tool To draw a perfect square press the Shift key while using the tool To draw a rectangle with a thicker border press the Option key while using the tool Pressing both the Option and the Command keys draws an even thicker border Windows Users To draw a perfect square press the Shift key while using the tool Pix 5 DELUXE PROJECTS de Oval Choose the Oval tool to draw ovals in various patterns Ei e Choose a fill pattern from the Tool Options tray The Mystery 92 option produces rainbow oval Maci
20. Time Slider gives you control over the amount of time for each slide If the Moving Van contains a picture The slider will show 3 seconds when you click it unless the sound chosen for the Moving Van is longer The Time Slider indicator will move to show how many seconds are needed for the whole sound to play A slide can play anywhere from 0 seconds up to 30 seconds You can change the length of time that any of your slides will play in your SlideShow by adjusting the Time Slider If the Moving Van contains a movie The Time Slider bar will change into a film strip icon Click on the film strip icon The Movie Options dialog box will appear QuickTime Options This movie is 4 seconds long Control the length of time the movie Sere Loop this movie times plays in your SlideShow by entering in or the number of times you want the e movie to loop amp regular display size double display size Macintosh QuickTime Options Macintosh Users only You can also enter the number of seconds you want the movie to play Make the movie bigger or keep it at its original size by selecting a dis play size Click OK when you are done to save your selections Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE PROJECTS SLIDESHOW gt The SlideShow Controls At the bottom of the SlideShow screen you ll see a Control Panel With these con Lj trols edit and play your SlideShow any way you like
21. To change text in your picture Click the Typewriter Tool Click the text you want to change A dashed line Text Box will appear around the text and the cursor will appear You can change the font style color and delete add to or retype your text Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE PROJECTS KID Pix To change the font of the text Click the arrows next to the font name display below the drawing area to change to a different font Every time you click the arrow the font of the text in the Active Text Box will change To bring up the Pick a Font dialog box double click the font name in the Text Options tray Changing to a new font changes all the text in the Active Text Box To change the size of the text Click the arrows next to the font size display below the drawing area to change to a different font size Every time you click the arrow the font size of the text in the Active Text Box will change Double click the font size and the Pick a Font Size dialog box will appear Type a number between 8 and 100 for more size options Changing font size changes all the text in the Active Text Box To change the style of the text Select a style for your text by clicking one or more of the Style but tons to the right of the Text Options The three style choices are Bold talics and Underline You can use any one or all three at the same time Changing styles changes all the text in the Active Text Box To change the color
22. button to choose a new movie to show in your Wacky TV Goodbye Click this button to return to the Picker screen Stop Click this button to stop the movie showing on your Wacky TV Play Click this button to play your movie The movie will start again each time it ends Step by Step Click on this button to advance your movie one frame at a time Rewind Click this button to rewind to the beginning Volume Control Use the Volume Control to control your movie sound levels Macintosh Users Use the slider to turn the volume of the sound up and down Windows Users Click to turn movie sounds off and on Paste Jar If you opened the Wacky TV in Kid Pix the Paste Jar appears below the Volume Control For instructions on using the Paste Jar button see page 22 Adding a Movie to a Kid Pix Picture Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE PROJECTS Wacky TV de Electric Mixer Choose the Electric Mixer button on the Wacky TV to make your Wacky TV show even wackier e Click the Electric Mixer button to add special effects to your movie viewing experience The Electric Mixer options will appear along with the Undo Guy under the TV screen e Click an option to add that effect to the movie while it is playing There are eight effects to choose from The effects buttons will appear below the TV screen when you click the Electric Mixer button el E a NI EEPIY Stroboscope Zoomer Speedo Splash Origami
23. chapter we ll describe each menu and the commands listed it Not all menus or menu commands are listed each Kid Pix Studio Deluxe project About Kid Pix Studio Deluxe Kid Pix SlideShow and Wacky TV only See the names of the people who brought you Kid Pix Studio Deluxe and copyright information about the program Choose Help for quick introduction to each project Macintosh Users These features are under the Apple menu Windows Users These features can be found by clicking the Kid Pix Studio Deluxe icon in the upper left corner of the screen New Choose New to start a new picture or project Open Open a Picture Kid Pix only Use the Open Picture command to open saved Kid Pix pictures any PICT for Macintosh or BMP for Windows file Select Open a Picture The Open a Picture dialog box will appear e Click the name of the picture you Preview Open a Picture want to open Mac HD castlet 3 dinosaur dolls A preview of the gsm dots z picture will appear amp me 1 Rotate De in the preview box en as 5 the left Oscaieto rit egret elephant cutout 1 love chocolate Center Upper Left Scale Manually X Show Preview 67 68 Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE MENUS gt You will see a list of options for placing the picture you want to
24. face cursor on your picture Some Electric Mixer effects happen when the mouse is clicked once others happen while the mouse is held down Some effects change your whole picture others just change a part of it Macintosh Users Try holding down the Shift Option Command and Control keys for extra Electric Mixer effects Windows Users Try holding down the Ctrl and Shift keys for extra effects with some Electric Mixer options Eraser There are two kinds of Eraser tools the first four Erasers work like pencil erasers Click with the mouse to erase a part of your picture Other Erasers erase your whole picture with one mouse click Click the Eraser tool to select an eraser The Mystery option offers a special surprise When you scrub away at your picture a Hidden Picture is revealed You can pick different sets of Hidden Pictures by selecting the Pick Hidden Pictures command from the Goodies menu Click the Mystery 2 option for a new Hidden Picture from the set you have selected Talking Alphabet Stamps Use the Talking Alphabet Stamps tool to stamp letters numbers and punctuation marks on your Kid Pix picture Click the Talking Alphabet Stamps tool Select a letter by clicking with the mouse Each letter or number in the options tray will call out its name Click the drawing area to stamp with the letter you selected Bi gt Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE PROJECTS PIX Typewriter Adding tex
25. for your Stampimation Cast Boxes The four boxes to the right of the drawing area show the Rubber Stamps that are used as Stamp Actors in your Stampimation e Click a Cast Box to select it e Select a Stamp Actor by clicking one of the Animated Rubber Stamps in the options tray Firecracker Use the Firecracker tool above the Cast Boxes to get rid of Stamp Actors you don t want in your Stampimator e Click the Cast Box for the Stamp Actor you want to remove e Click the Firecracker tool and the Cast Box will be cleared Behavior Buttons Use the Behavior buttons to the right of the Cast Boxes to control the motion of your Stamp Actors during the Stampimation Ping Pong Choose Ping Pong to make a Stamp Actor move back and forth along the path you have created Mirror Motion Choose Mirror Motion to flip the Stamp Actor at the end of the path Note This Behavior button only works if you have also selected Ping Pong button ET Always Move If you click once with an Animated Rubber Stamp and do not create a path the Stamp Actor will not animate Choose Always Move to make your Stamp Actor animate when it is standing still Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE PROJECTS STAMPIMATOR To use the Behavior buttons e Click a Cast Box Click the Behavior you want to add to the selected Stamp Actor Click the button again to turn that Behavior off Path Buttons There are five Path buttons beneath the three Behavior butto
26. open in the Kid Pix drawing area Click Fill Screen to make the picture you have selected fill the whole Kid Pix drawing area Click Scale to Fit to make the picture you have selected fit into the drawing area Click Center to put the picture you have selected in the middle of the drawing area Click Upper Left to open the picture in the upper left corner of the drawing area Macintosh Users only Click the Rotate button to turn the pic ture one quarter turn Click Open when you have made your selections The file you have selected will appear in the Kid Pix drawing area Open a Moopie Stampimator Digital Puppet or SlideShow Open animation projects you have saved Select Open a project name The Open a project name dialog box will appear Click the name of the project you want to open A preview of the project will appear in the preview box on the left Click Open when you have made your selections The file you have selected will appear Save Kid Pix Select Save a Picture to create a PICT Macintosh or BMP Windows file that you can open in Kid Pix import in Moopies Stampimator Digital Puppets or load into SlideShow Type a name for your project Click Save to save the file Kid Pix will save files to the My Pix folder on your hard drive unless you navigate to a different folder Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE MENUS If you have added a sound to your Kid Pix picture either by record ing a sound o
27. recorded until you select New from the File menu e bottom row of keyboard keys Z through will activate mouth movements for your puppet Use them to lip synch your Puppet Show 52 Pix STUDIO DELUXE PROJECTS DIGITAL PUPPETS de Digital Puppets Menus For more about Digital Puppets menu commands see chapter 4 Kid Pix Studio Deluxe Menus on page 67 Apple Windows menu Help x re a shen deck Pie aot 67 File menu New Zutaten lowe hel ed Baa ood ed oles 67 Open a Puppet 45 2 lt ace aa a Rn 68 Save 70 Save for SlideShow 70 Save as 70 Import Picture man 71 Return to 73 Goodies menu Pick a 85 Pick a 83 Pick a Sound 82 Play Stop 5 85 53 54 SlideShow MOVING VAN Goodies MENU BAR CONTROL BUTTONS SCROLLING ARROWS Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE PROJECTS SLIDESHOW Here s your chance to display the sensational art you ve produced Add transition and sound effects and the result is a spectacular multimedia presentation On the SlideShow screen you ll see the Moving Vans ready to load You can link together as many
28. the Point Antique Scroll Open Window Square Bubble Wow Bubble Idea Bubble A Speech Bubble Thought Bubble Night and Day Splatter Checkerboard Wallpaper Venetian Blinds Outliner Shadow Boxes d Pix Electric Mixers Tray 1 4 Wacky BRUSHES AND ELECTRIC MIXERS Zoom In Broken Glass Picture in a Picture The Highlighter Pattern Maker E A 2 Wrap Around Snowflakes and Raindrops 99 Wacky BRUSHES AND ELECTRIC MIXERS Flip Side to Side Flip Top to Bottom Vet Spin Wash Out Wacky Colors Wave Picture Shrinker 100 x Electric Mixers Tray 2 Coloring Book Newspaper Soften Quilt E Warp and Woof Spread Wacky BRUSHES AND ELECTRIC MIXERS Moopies and Stampimator Wacky Brushes Tray 1 TEM Itch and Scratch Twinkle Twinkle Moving Lights Subway Pompom iym Dancing Trees Color Coins Pulsar Dog Bones Confetti Stripes Dancing Disks Pyramid Neon Tube 101 Wacky BRUSHES AND ELECTRIC MIXERS Moopies and Stampimator Wacky Brushes Tray 2 Flames Bead Snake Fantail String of Beads String of Fluffs EI d Chunky Rain Rows pt Wild Strings Tic Tac Toe Patchwork Triangle Toss Spiral Swoop Letters Mystery Wacky BRUSHES AND ELECTRIC MIXERS
29. why would do that One use for the Import and Export commands is to use pictures created on one computer platform like the Macintosh on a different platform like a PC running Windows 95 or Windows 3 1 For example if you have created a Kid Pix picture on a Macintosh computer and want to bring it to a friend who has Kid Pix Studio Deluxe for Windows you can export your Kid Pix picture as a JPEG or GIF file using the Export a Graphic menu command This format is readable for both Macintosh and Windows computers What is a Photo CD file In Kid Pix Studio Deluxe for Windows you can import Photo CD files into your Moopies Stampimator and Digital Puppet pictures as backgrounds You can take any roll of film to a Kodak film development facility and ask for it to be developed onto a Photo CD Your pictures will be stored in a digital format on the CD the way Kid Pix pictures are stored on your hard drive These pictures can be opened as graphic files on your computer 119 120 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Why can t import more sounds If you try to save a sound and get an error message that says you can t save a sound try using the Firecracker to remove some old sounds you aren t using in order to free up memory Importing Sound is only available in the Moopies Stampimator and Digital Puppets Pick a Sound dialog box Windows Users Note Imported WAV files must in 8 bit 22k format If you import a WAV file that is not
30. 05 120 Magnet Options 20 Manual Advance 84 85 Manual Button 72 Maps 88 Moopies 5 30 33 57 69 71 76 77 80 82 83 129 130 INDEX Moopies Electric Mixers 103 Moopies Menus 35 Moopies Wacky Brushes 101 102 More 60 More Pictures 23 MOV files 22 27 58 Movie Options 55 62 Moving Van Tool Kid Pix 19 34 Moving Van SlideShow 56 62 Mystery 12 14 32 New 52 67 Open 57 67 68 71 86 88 127 Open a Picture 23 67 68 Oval Tool 13 32 Paint Can Tool 13 33 Paint Text to Background 18 78 Paste 20 71 74 77 Paste Jar 22 28 86 Path Buttons 39 Photo CD 70 71 119 Pick a Background 40 50 83 Pick a Background Sound 64 Pick a ColorMe 23 86 Pick a DrawMe 23 81 Pick a Font 17 Pick a Font Size 17 Pick a Movie 22 27 86 Pick a Picture 55 58 Pick a Puppet 49 52 85 Pick a Sound 40 50 55 56 59 60 82 83 Pick a Stamp Set 11 41 79 80 105 Pick a Transition 55 56 61 Pick a Voice 89 Pick Hidden Pictures 14 81 Pick More Pictures 23 87 88 Pick More Sounds 60 Picker Screen 8 27 31 47 55 73 79 PICT files 57 68 70 71 Play 28 51 63 85 Play Movie 87 Play Once 84 Play Looped 63 84 Play Sound 85 87 Preview 59 61 64 83 89 Print 72 Printer Setup 72 QuickTime 22 27 60 70 87 Read Text Aloud 89 Record 51 60 Record a Sound 60 82 87 Rectangle Tool 12 32 Return to Studio 31 73 R
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32. 640x480 display 256 colors Windows compatible sound device Printer support Works with most popular printers monochrome and color supported by Windows MACINTOSH CD ROM Macintosh and PowerPC System 7 0 or higher 25MHz 68030 or faster 3 5MB RAM free Minimum 39MB hard disk space 2X CD ROM drive or faster 640x480 display 256 colors Printer support Works with most popular Macintosh compatible printers mono chrome and color System Configuration May require minor adjustments to the configuration of your operating system and or updates to the hardware component drivers Installing Kid Pix Studio Deluxe Detailed instructions for installing Kid Pix Studio Deluxe are listed on the Installation Instructions card in the package At Ease users Special installation instructions for using Kid Pix Studio Deluxe with At Ease are listed on the Installation Instructions card GETTING STARTED TE GETTING STARTED Running Kid Pix Studio Deluxe Once you have installed Kid Pix Studio Deluxe here s how to get things running Macintosh Users After installing the program to your hard drive e Locate the Kid Pix Studio Deluxe folder on your hard drive e Double click the folder to open it e Then double click the icon labeled Kid Pix Studio Deluxe to launch the application Windows 95 Users After successfully installing the program click the Run button at the startup window to start the program The startup window
33. Click the Goodies menu and select Pick a Sound The Pick a Sound dialog box will appear Fick a Sound import sound Oplay once all the time record sound Fi hardly ever e Click the scrolling arrows to the right or left of the preview icons to move through the many choices e Select Worldbeat then click OK 50 Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE PROJECTS DIGITAL PUPPETS 5 Start the Action Click the red Record button in the frame below the puppet The sound you have selected will start to play and the Timer Bar at the top of the frame will start to fill up Start pressing keys to make your puppet move Try your phone number a friend s email address or the name of your favorite kind of ice cream Press the Stop button when you re done The recording will stop auto matically if you run out of time A red bar appears at the top of the screen to tell you how much time you have to drag the stamp around When the bar fills up with red you re done Click the Play button to play your show The Digital Puppet will act out your directions exactly as you typed them You have created your first Digital Puppet show Congratulations 51 Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE PROJECTS DIGITAL PUPPETS Digital Puppets Tips e Ifyou have already recorded some movements for one Digital Puppet and used the Pick a Puppet dialog box to select a new puppet the new puppet will follow the directions that you have
34. ELUXE PROJECTS SLIDESHOW de Pick a Picture for Macintosh Users When you start SlideShow the first Moving Van will be selected for you If you want to load a different Moving Van click the van you want to load Click the Pick Picture button below the slide preview area The Pick a Picture dialog box will appear Pick a Picture Slide 1 i David s picture and eggs i homework i lobster 1 Mommy and i wow ject Desktop Click the name of the picture or movie you want to load Select any Moopie Stampimator Digital Puppets or SlideShow pro ject that has been saved using the Save for SlideShow command any QuickTime movie including the movies on the Kid Pix Studio Deluxe CD ROM or any PICT file to load into a Moving Van Click Open The dialog box will go away In the Moving Van slide preview area you ll see the picture or movie you selected 57 58 Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE PROJECTS SLIDESHOW Pick a Picture for Windows Users When you start SlideShow the first Moving Van will be selected for you If you want to load a different Moving Van click the van you want to load Click the Pick a Picture button below the slide preview area The Pick a Picture dialog box will appear Pick a Picture Filename ud Directory c kpsdlux Files Directories mlovesk bmp mplusk bmp ereg rainbows bmp my_pix
35. Marketing Tina Lanese Marketing Manager Heath Ames Kyle Hart Andrea Scarnecchia Woods amp Woods Package Design Quality Assurance Broderbund Software David Jensen Alex Taylor Rich Fielder Ben Hendricks James Isom James Nicholini Shanea Thompson Barbara Walsh Eric Wilder Tarn Yost Documentation Services Anne Sete Sangeet Duchane George Marsh Barbara Patterson Special Thanks Jeffrey Blain Sara Brown Mario Magliocco Keith Jordan Kirk Roulston Jeffrey Pooley Mike Sobieski Matthew Thomas Lauren Utigard Pat Walkington Allan Young and children everywhere 125 126 CREDITS AND SOURCES Sources Many talented people contributed wonderful artwork to Kid Pix Studio Deluxe The movies backgrounds stamps and sounds that they created can be collaged into your own masterpieces Backgrounds Photographs by Craig Hickman Rebecca Knievel Amanda Thomas Bull Antique children s book illustrations from the book collection of Ursula Davidson including Oh Poor Amelia Jane by Kathleen Ainslie Abroad by Thomas Crane Flowers from Shakespeare s Garden Flower Wedding and A Masque of Days by Walter Crane Green Willow amp Other Japanese Fairy Tales and Folk Tales of Bengal by Warnick Goble La Convalescence de Bebe by L Lormel Kids of Many Colors by Grace D Brylan and Ike Morgan The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley Smith Les Musiques de la Guerre unknown Grimm s Fairy Tales by Arthur Rackham Rubber Stam
36. Pix Moopies Stampimator Digital Puppets SlideShow Kid Pix Studio Deluxe tools make sounds while you work with them Even the colors make sounds when you click to select them To turn the tool sounds off click Turn Tool Sounds Off located under the Toolbox menu The sounds will stop until you click Turn Tool Sounds On again 77 78 ABOUT Pix STUDIO DELUXE MENUS Switch to Spanish Cambiar al ingl s Kid Pix only Switch between English and Spanish Talking Alphabet Stamps menus and Help text e Select Switch to Spanish to switch menu items and dialog boxes to Spanish from English e Select Cambiar al ingl s to switch menu items and dialog boxes to English from Spanish Paint Text to Background Kid Pix only Select Paint Text to Background to make Text Boxes part of your Kid Pix picture You will see two options Paint Active Text Box Only which paints only the Active Text Box the one with red dots in the corners Paint All Text Boxes which paints all the Text Boxes in your picture Once text has been painted into the Kid Pix picture you can use any Kid Pix tool on it It can no longer be clicked on to make changes using the keyboard and cannot be read out loud by the Speech menu options after it has been painted to the background Goodies Menu HS Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE MENUS Small Kids Mode Show Menus Kid Pix Studio Deluxe Picker Screen only Parents and Teachers S
37. anima tion of any Animated Stamp 8222 6058 fal You ll see a bigger version of the stamp you selected in the editing area An actual size preview of the stamp is shown on the right The stamp editing tool palette and a color palette are along the left Across the top of the screen are each of the four frames of the Animated Stamp To edit an Animated Rubber Stamp Once you have selected a stamp to edit and opened the Animated Stamp Editor dialog box follow these steps Click one of the miniature pictures along the top You will see the frame you selected in the larger work area ABC 4 Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE MENUS de The following tools are available in the Animated Stamp Editor Eyedropper Click the Eyedropper tool to grab any color you want to choose from the current stamp The color you click will appear instantly in the selected color box En Snapshot Takes a picture of the highlighted frame Use this button to make a copy of one frame of an Animated Stamp to paste into another frame pm Paste Click Paste to paste a frame that you have copied using the Snapshot button Note Edits of regular Rubber Stamps made in the Animated Stamp Editor cannot be saved Alphabet Text Kid Pix only Enter new letters numbers or symbols to paint with the Wacky Brush Alphabet Text option the new letters numbers or symbols in the box e Click OK Turn Tool Sounds Off On Kid
38. as 99 Moving Vans loaded with Kid Pix pictures Moopies Stampimator Digital Puppets and SlideShow animations saved for SlideShow pictures and digital movies from other sources or a mixture of all of these e Each Moving Van is numbered to show you the order in which they will play To reorder your slides click a van and drag it to its new spot in the show e Each van has a slide preview area which shows you a preview of the picture or movie you have loaded in that van e Load up your Moving Vans using the three buttons under the slide preview area Pick a Picture Pick a Sound and Pick a Transition Under the slide preview area you can see the Time Slider bar If you have loaded a Kid Pix picture use the Time Slider to control how long this slide will play during the SlideShow If you have loaded a movie like an animated project that you have saved using the Save for SlideShow command the Time Slider bar will turn into a film strip icon Click the film strip icon to see the Movie Options dialog box This dialog box gives you control over how many times the movie will play during the SlideShow and how big it will be while it plays e At the top of the screen you ll see the SlideShow menu bar The menus avail able in SlideShow are File Edit and Goodies e The File menu lists commands for opening and saving files and for returning to the Picker screen e Edit menu lists commands for making changes to your project
39. ck an icon to select it e Click Preview to hear the sound you selected e Click Select to add the selected sound to your SlideShow e To turn off the Background Sound click the No Sound button then click Select Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE PROJECTS SLIDESHOW de Slideshow Menus For more about Slideshow menu commands see chapter 4 Kid Pix Studio Deluxe Menus on page 67 Apple Windows menu About 51 67 ena E 67 File menu New xi eid en 67 Open a 5 5 68 Save a SlideShOw xo en oras 70 Save as QuickTime an 70 Save as 6 70 Return to 73 Edit menu UndO eto ce e at eoe cedi tis 74 ae uu dt 74 COPY A aae ota at a tee E er LE 74 P ste sa acre ame aie dcs Oe Pee Ren 74 een en ee 74 Goodies menu nee en 84 een eo 84 Clean Up sev owe wis DES 84 Tool Sounds rer t rette edes 77 Pick a Background 84 Turn Manual Advance 84 65 66 Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE MENUS Kid Pix Studio Deluxe uses the standard Macintosh or Windows interface In this gt
40. creen where you can either pick a new project or quit Kid Pix Studio Deluxe 4 73 Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE MENUS Edit Menu Kid Pix Moopies Stampimator and SlideShow lt Undo Select Undo to make the last thing you did go away AC Cut Select Cut to remove a selection from your project The selection moves to the Clipboard Use Paste to bring the selection back Kid Pix Moopies Stampimator only Use the Moving Van tool s Magnet option to select a section of your drawing to cut Copy Select the area or item you want to copy Click Copy to paste that sec i 168 tion to the Clipboard Kid Pix Moopies Stampimator only Use the Moving Van tool s Magnet option to select a section of your drawing to cut Macintosh Users Press the Option key to move a copy of any Moving Van selection Windows Users Press the Ctrl key to move a copy of any Moving Van selection Paste Use the Paste command to stick a selection into your drawing um Click Paste cursor will turn into hand and the selection you want to paste will appear in the drawing area Use your mouse to move the section where you want it Click the mouse button and your selection will be stuck in place Q Clear Use the Clear command to remove a selection from your project Clear does not put your selection on the Clipboard to be used later it just makes it go away 14 Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE MENUS Toolbox Menu a Edit a Stamp
41. croll through the sets by clicking arrows the right Highlight the stamp set you d like to use by clicking it with the mouse or use the arrow keys to move the highlight up and down If you pick a regular set of Rubber Stamps into Moopies or Stampimator you can control the way the stamps will animate still Stamps won t move spin Stamps rotate in four clock wise turns flip horizontal Stamps flip left and right flip vertical Stamps flip top to bottom e Click one of the buttons in the lower left corner that tells your stamp how to move If you don t choose a motion command your stamp will automatically spin e Click OK to use the Stamp Set you selected or Cancel to keep the Stamp Set you have been using Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE MENUS de Pick Hidden Pictures Kid Pix only Hidden Pictures are pictures that you create by undrawing using the Hidden Pictures eraser tool Click the Mystery option in the Eraser Tool Options tray then start scrubbing Each time you click the Mystery tool a different Hidden Picture from the set can be revealed e Click on 12 again to change the Hidden Picture Macintosh Users The Hidden Pictures sets are Celebrations City Home Nature Original Thrills amp Chills and Wonderland Windows Users The Hidden Pictures sets are Home MishMash Nature Original Party Thrills and Transit To pick a set of Hidden Pictures e Choose Pick Hidden Pictures Macintosh Us
42. ction to each of the six projects that make up Kid Pix Studio Deluxe Kid Pix Studio Deluxe Projects tells you all about each of the six projects that make up Kid Pix Studio Deluxe Kid Pix Studio Deluxe Menus takes you through all the menu commands in Kid Pix Studio Deluxe and describes these features in detail Putting It All Together takes you step by step through the process of creating a SlideShow project using all the projects in Kid Pix Studio Deluxe Wacky Brushes and Electric Mixers and All About Rubber Stamps list the tools and Rubber Stamps sets that are available in Kid Pix Studio Deluxe The Troubleshooting Guide can help you when you get stuck How to Contact Technical Support explains what you will need to get the most from The Learning Company s Support resources Credits and Sources lists all the people and organizations that contributed to mak ing Kid Pix Studio Deluxe Use the Index to find more references to specific topics throughout this manual Note This manual is designed for both Macintosh and Windows users of Kid Pix Studio Deluxe Where the versions of the program are significant ly different specific information for each platform will be listed separately 2 Getting Started What you will need WINDOWS CD ROM Windows 3 1 or Windows 95 486 or faster recommended 4MB RAM for Windows 3 1x 8MB RAM for Windows 95 Minimum 32MB hard disk space 2X CD ROM drive or faster
43. downloaded from the Internet in GIF or JPEG format Select the Import a Graphic command from the File menu to bring them into your Kid Pix picture Add silly hats moustaches horns or antennae to pictures of your friends and loved ones with Rubber Stamps and Wacky Brushes For more details on using the menu commands in Kid Pix read chapter 4 Kid Pix Studio Deluxe Menus on page 67 23 Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE PROJECTS PIX Kid Pix Menus The Kid Pix menu commands are listed below with the page number for a detailed description given in chapter 4 Kid Pix Studio Deluxe Menus on page 67 Apple Windows menu About Kid PIX jee uim acre ald eae DA 67 Help iis cube oe a EE ae Meee 67 File menu aus scene unm a eee a ee aan 67 Open a Plct rge oec ede Lr ERE Lamas aes eae ee 67 Import a 70 hE 68 Export GraphiC b pe km 73 oahu eee ea a 72 Printer Setup Windows 72 Return to 73 Edit menu Undo e me me RS DES rea e dE ann 74 dV PPM DP 74 IU 74 Paste ced rere eta e ean HERE EP ze 74 Gl als ton tod eoe cote ard ents Pre xe 74 Too
44. ds KID PIX e Click the Kid Pix icon to hear the sound you saved with your gt picture when your SlideShow plays To hear Kid Pix Typewriter tool text If you typed text into your Kid Pix picture using the Typewriter tool and did not choose to the Paint Text to Background command you can hear your text read aloud in SlideShow lt abe e Click the Hear Typewriter Text button to hear your Typewriter tool text read aloud in SlideShow The Pick a Voice dialog box will appear e Select a voice for the computer to use when reading text 60 STUDIO DELUXE PROJECTS SLIDESHOW de Pick a Transition Transition means change In SlideShow a Transition effect is the way one slide changes into the next one Slideshow will automatically use a Transition effect between slides until you choose a different transition effect e Click the Pick a Transition button The Pick a Transition dialog box will appear Pick a Transition E B e Click a Transition effect icon to select it e Click on the Preview button to see a demonstration of the effect e When you find the transition you want to use click Select You will return to the SlideShow screen The Pick a Transition icon will be colored in to show you that a transition effect is loaded for the slide 61 62 Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE PROJECTS SLIDESHOW Time Slider The
45. e Import Picture command to use pictures from Kid Pix other programs or other computer platforms as backgrounds e Select Import Picture The Import Picture dialog box will appear Macintosh Users only Select the file type you want to import PICT includes saved Kid Pix pictures JPEG or GIF Windows user only Select the file type you want to import BMP includes saved Kid Pix pictures JPEG GIF or PCD Photo CD pictures e Click the name of the picture you want to import A preview of the picture will appear in the preview box on the left 71 72 Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE MENUS e Click Fill Screen to make the selected picture fill the whole Kid Pix drawing area The picture may get distorted e Click Scale to Fit to make the selected picture fit into the drawing area without stretching e Click Center to put the selected picture in the middle of the draw ing area at its original size e Click Upper Left to open the picture in the upper left corner of the drawing area at its original size e Click the Rotate button to give the picture one quarter turn Click Open when you have made your selections The file you have selected will appear in the project drawing area Print Kid Pix only Use the Print command to print your Kid Pix pictures Send them to your grandparents and other people who love you e Select the Print command Macintosh Users You have several print options Select one of fou
46. e plate in the middle of the dialog box below the icons To import a sound e Choose import sound to use a sound file from another source e Select the sound you want to import Macintosh Users You can import AIFF and SSND format sound files Windows Users You can import WAV format sound files An icon will appear in the Pick a Sound dialog box sound icons pre view bar To record your own sound e Choose record a sound to record your own sounds or music You must have a microphone for your computer to record a sound e Give the sound a name and an icon will appear in the sound icons bar 82 Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE MENUS When you record or import a sound an icon is added to the Pick a Sound library This way if you add a sound in Stampimator you can use it in Moopies by clicking its icon in the Pick a Sound dialog Firecracker e Highlight the icon you want to remove e Click the Firecracker button To preview your sound selection e Click preview sound to hear the sound you have selected To control when your sound plays Select one of the three options in the box at the right side of the window to control how often you would like the sound to play during your animated project play once means the sound will play through only one time all the time means the sound will repeat over and over hardly ever means the sound will play off and on To add sound to your project e When you ve selected the so
47. e scrolling arrows to the right or left of the preview icons to move through the many choices e Select Farmyard then click OK Fick Sound muzum all the time record a sound ri hardly ever 40 Pix 5 DELUXE PROJECTS 5 3 Choose Your Actors Click the Goodies menu and select Pick a Stamp Set e Click Toonies 1 then click OK _ flip horizontal flip vertical e Click the Animated Rubber Stamps tool and select the Flying Piggie Notice how the Rubber Stamp shows up in the first Cast Box on the right side of the screen with a red background to tell you it is selected ee E E pe 3 Sey 45 41 42 Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE PROJECTS STAMPIMATOR 4 Start the Action Click the Stampimator screen and drag the piggie across the screen while holding down the mouse button IMPORTANT Hold down the mouse button while you drag A red bar appears at the top of the screen to tell you how much time you have to drag the stamp around When the bar fills up with red you re done Tw E c 4 MPR SATE RSS Let of the mouse button The Stamp Actor will move along the path you have drawn for it when you were dragging the mouse Click the Back and Forth Behavior button at the top of the stac
48. e suggestions for getting started with Kid Pix Like to color ColorMes are like pages coloring book but the ColorMe files on the Kid Pix Studio Deluxe CD ROM never get used up Select Pick ColorMe from the Goodies menu DrawMes are super silly suggestions of pictures to create Select Pick DrawMe from the Goodies menu to hear a wacky idea for a picture Want something to make with your artwork after printing it Select Open Picture from the File menu Navigate to the Cutouts folder on the Kid Pix Studio Deluxe CD ROM for projects like paper dolls viking helmets and finger puppets that you can color in on the computer or print out and color by hand If you like to use Rubber Stamps Stampscapes are full screen full color habi tats for Rubber Stamp creatures people and buildings Select Open Picture from the File menu Navigate to the Stampscapes folder on the Kid Pix Studio Deluxe CD ROM Backgrounds can be opened like Stampscapes and used with Kid Pix tools Select Open Picture from the File menu to navigate to the Backgrounds folder on the Kid Pix Studio Deluxe CD ROM Paste together a collage of pictures to create your own masterpiece Select Pick More Pictures from the Goodies menu to find clip art images to paste into your picture This folder contains all kinds of graph ics for pasting like maps photos and drawings Do you have some photos on a disk or CD ROM or images
49. electing Small Kids Mode prevents kids from accessing the hard drive when in each of the six Kid Pix Studio Deluxe projects by turning off selected menu bar commands Pick a Stamp Set Kid Pix Rubber Stamps come in sets of 112 Choose Pick a Stamp Set to change the set of Rubber Stamps available in the Rubber Stamp tool options trays See chapter 6 on page 105 All About Rubber Stamps for a listing of all the Rubber Stamps available in Kid Pix Studio Deluxe e Choose Pick a Stamp Set The Pick a Stamp Set dialog box will appear showing all the stamp sets that you have to choose from Pick a Stamp Set Kid Pix CO e Scroll through the sets by clicking the arrows on the right e Highlight the stamp set you d like to use in Kid Pix by clicking it with the mouse or use the arrow keys to move the highlight up and down the list e Click OK to swap the new Stamp Set or Cancel to keep the Stamp Set you have been using 79 80 Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE MENUS 52 Pick Stamp Set Moopies and Stampimator Choose Pick a Stamp Set to change the set of Animated Rubber Stamps available in the Animated Rubber Stamps Tool Options trays Choose Pick Stamp Set The Pick a Stamp Set dialog box will appear showing all the stamp sets that you have to choose from Pick a Stamp Set Thrills amp Chills flip horizontal flip vertical S
50. ers A menu will appear showing all the Hidden Pictures sets that you have to choose from Let go of the mouse when the set of Hidden Pictures that you want is highlighted Windows Users The Pick Hidden Pictures dialog box will appear Scroll through the sets by clicking the up and down arrows Select a set by clicking with the mouse Click OK when you have selected the set you want Pick DrawMle Kid Pix only DrawMes are hundreds of different suggestions that give you ideas for creative drawings e Choose Pick a DrawMe You ll hear and see phrases that describe a suggestion for a drawing You can draw anything you wish No rules no wrong answers And if you don t like the DrawMe you get try again You can erase the words from the screen with a Kid Pix eraser If not they become part of your picture Click the Save Sound with Picture option in the Save a Picture dialog box if you want to save the DrawMe directions The DrawMe sound will play every time you open your picture 81 Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE MENUS ka Pick a Sound Moopies Stampimator Digital Puppets Choose Pick a Sound to add music or sounds to your project Pick a Sound import sound fal all the time EN hardly ever e Click the arrows on either side of the preview bar to check out the wide variety of choices e Click a sound icon to select it The name of the sound will appear in the nam
51. estore 75 105 Rewind 28 Rotate 72 75 Rubber Stamps 19 37 106 117 Rubber Stamp Editor 19 76 77 Rubber Stamps Tool 37 75 105 Running Kid Pix Studio Deluxe 8 Save 60 68 Save a Moopie 69 Save a Movie 70 Save a Picture 22 68 81 86 87 Save a Puppet 70 Save a Slideshow 69 70 Save a Stampimator 69 Save as StandAlone 69 70 Save for SlideShow 22 57 69 70 120 Save Movie with Picture 69 Save Sound with Picture 69 81 Scale Manually 71 Scale to Fit 68 71 72 Select 59 61 64 SlideShow 5 54 55 57 63 79 Slideshow Controls 63 Slideshow Menus 65 Small Kids Mode 79 Snapshot 77 Speech Menu 11 19 78 89 SSND files 60 82 Stamp Actors 43 Stampimator 5 36 37 40 42 57 69 71 76 77 80 82 83 105 Stampimator Menus 45 Stampimator Tools 38 Stampimator Wacky Brushes 101 102 Stampscapes 23 Step by Step 28 Stop 28 51 60 Stop Sound 85 Style Buttons 17 Switch to Spanish 78 System Requirements 7 Talking Alphabet Stamps Tool 14 Text Box 18 Text options Time Slider 62 Timer Bar Tint 12 Toolbox Menu 11 18 19 31 75 Turn Tool Sounds On Off 31 77 Typewriter Tool 15 17 33 60 89 Undo Guy 21 29 34 63 74 Upper Left 68 71 72 Volume Control Wacky TV 27 28 Wacky TV 5 22 26 28 86 69 Wacky TV Tools 28 Wacky Pencil Tool 12 32 Wacky Brush Tool 13 32 WAV files 60 82 What you will need 7 Windows 7 13
52. ey down while you move the mouse Eyedropper Use the Eyedropper tool to select a color from your picture e Click the Eyedropper tool e Then click on a color in your Kid Pix picture The color you click on will appear in the selected color box at the top of the Color Palette You can paint or draw with that color using any of the other Kid Pix tools 20 Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE PROJECTS Pix de Undo Guy Choose the handy Undo Guy whenever you do something you don t want e Click this button and your last action will be undone Color Palette The Color Palette offers 112 colors for you to choose from The currently selected color is shown in the box at the top This is the color that most tools will draw with e Click on the color you want to use to select it EB e Click one of the two arrows at the bottom of the Color Palette to scroll through the sets of colors for more choices Macintosh Egret and Cape Buffalo from the PS Medley folder in the Clip Art folder in the Pictures folder on the Kid Pix Studio Deluxe CD ROM Windows Snowyegr Ram and Capebuff from the Medley folder in the Clipart folder in the Pictures folder on the Kid Pix Studio Deluxe CD ROM 21 22 Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE PROJECTS KID PIX Adding a movie to a Kid Pix picture Select the Pick a Movie command from the Goodies menu and you can paste a movie into your Kid P
53. frame el Click the Record button to record your puppet s movements begin playing a sound chosen the Pick a Sound dialog box n Click Stop to stop recording your puppet s movements Click the Pause button to pause the action E Click the Play button to play back the actions you ve recorded The Digital Puppets Garden Sal Shelley Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE PROJECTS DIGITAL PUPPETS Digital Puppet Show Demo Follow these steps to make your first Digital Puppet show 1 Pick a Puppet e the Goodies menu to choose a different puppet e Select Pick a Puppet The Pick a Puppet dialog box will appear Pick a Puppet e Scroll through the puppets by clicking the arrows at either end of the puppet icon bar e Click Shelley to select her The name of the selected puppet appears in the name plate in the middle of the dialog box e Click OK Shelley will be displayed in the Digital Puppets frame 49 Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE PROJECTS DIGITAL PUPPETS 2 Get to Know your Puppet e Click a few letters on your keyboard Spell your name and watch Shelley follow your directions 3 Set the Stage e Click the Goodies menu and select Pick a Background The Pick a Background dialog box will appear e Click the scrolling arrows to the right or left of the puppet icons bar to move through the many choices e Select Ocean Waves then click OK 4 Choose a Soundtrack e
54. gram designed especially for kids Kids from 2 to 92 can make one of a kind pictures just by clicking and dragging with the mouse Moopies takes the Kid Pix tools into the world of animation In Moopies the Wacky Brushes Rubber Stamps Alphabet Stamps and Electric Mixer effects move Stampimator is a theater stage inside your computer where animated Rubber Stamps are the actors and you re the director Select a stamp click and drag with the mouse and the stamp will move along the path you ve created Digital Puppets are computer marionettes that you control with your keyboard Type your name or your phone number or your best friend s dog s favorite kind of ice cream and the Digital Puppet will come to life The Wacky TV is a movie viewer that you can use to watch digital movies This includes files that you have saved for SlideShow Add Electric Mixer effects and see what happens SlideShow is where everything comes together You can add Kid Pix pictures and projects you have saved for SlideShow using Moopies Stampimator Digital Puppets and SlideShow to tell a story or to show off your finished masterpieces WELCOME TO STUDIO DELUXE About This Manual Welcome to Kid Pix Studio Deluxe introduces you to the projects described in this manual and describes how the manual works Getting Started tells you how to install and run Kid Pix Studio Deluxe Working with Kid Pix Studio Deluxe gives you a quick introdu
55. hear whatever sound is part of the movie ES Click the Pick Sound button The Pick a Sound dialog box will appear d Pick a Sound e Click the icon for the sound you want e Click Preview to hear the sound you have selected e When you decide which sound you want click Select to load the sound You ll return to the SlideShow screen 2 The hole the note of the Pick Sound button will now be filled to show that you have added a sound to that slide If the picture you selected to include in your SlideShow already had sound recording the empty note icon will automatically change to a filled note 59 Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE PROJECTS SLIDESHOW To record your own sound You need a microphone for your computer to record sounds e Click the microphone icon EN The Record a Sound dialog box will appear e Click the Record button Make noise e Click Stop when you are done Click Save to save your recording To find more sounds e Click the More icon to use sound files from the JAN Kid Pix Studio Deluxe sound library or other sources Eq x EA e Pick More Sounds dialog box will appear e Select a sound to use from the Kid Pix Studio Deluxe sounds library or select a sound from your hard drive e Click Select when you are done Macintosh Users You can import AIFF and SSND format sound files Windows Users You can import WAV format sound files To use Kid Pix picture soun
56. id Pix Text from the Typewriter tool sits above your Kid Pix picture until you use the Paint Text to Background menu command to paint it into your picture Typewriter Text will sometimes disappear when you use a Kid Pix tool but will always come back Why can t I hear any text If you selected the Paint Text to Background command under the Toolbox menu the Text Box contents from the clear plastic layer get painted onto the white paper layer Now that they are part of the picture they cannot be edited moved read out loud etc You can add more Text Boxes to your picture at any time by using the Typewriter tool Why does Moopie so fast when erase or use the Moving Van Moopies animates by flipping very quickly between four different versions of your picture When you make a change to the picture all four versions of the picture get changed at once How do I stop speech once it starts If you selected the Read Text Aloud command and want to stop the computer from speaking before it reads all the text in your picture click with the mouse How can I get my animated tools to work faster Turn off the Tool Sounds by clicking Turn Tool Sounds off and all your animations will run more quickly What order will the text boxes read Text will be read from top to bottom and from left to right 121 122 8 How to Contact Technical Support If you have worked through these troubleshooting suggest
57. ions and still need assis tance see the Customer Information Card in the front of this binder It will be very helpful if you can tell us your computer make and model and the brand names of both the video card and sound card you are using If possible have the computer both positioned near your phone and turned on Please also be prepared to give us a detailed description of what happens when you try to run the program 123 CREDITS AND SOURCES 124 9 Credits Design Craig Hickman Additional Design Leslie Wilson Roland Gustafsson Lucinda Ray Programming Presage Software Technical Director Ed Murphy Macintosh Lead Programmer Joe Neufeld Jon Benton Chris De Salvo Windows Lead Programmer Christine Legge Steve Ohmert Broderbund Software Kent Daniels Fred Campbell Roland Gustafsson ImageBuilder Software Product Management Lucinda Ray Product Manager Amanda Thomas Bull Bobbi Keene Trisha Svaib Laurie Strand Graphics Peter Babakitis Shirley Cochran John Goebbel Daniel Goodwin Bob Gotsch Maureen Gilhooly Lydia Haggerty Avril Harrison Craig Hickman Barbara Lawrence Shang Ing Liau Cheryl Middleman Michelle Shelfer Eben Sorkin Juliana Wade Lloren Amer Cat Sound Jonelle Adkisson Tim Keanini Ralph Marsh Greg Rahn Tom Rettig Gary Schwantes Casey Stober Haroon Tahir Rebecca Wells kulberg michie music Manual Amanda Thomas Bull Kallman Communications Steve Bromberg
58. ix picture Use this special feature to bring your animation projects into Kid Pix by selecting the Save for SlideShow command for your Moopies Stampimator Digital Puppets and SlideShow projects To paste a movie into your picture e Select Pick a Movie from the Goodies menu The Wacky TV will appear over your Kid Pix picture e Use the Pick a Movie dialog box options to select a movie Select a movie from the Kid Pix Studio Deluxe CD ROM or choose a project you have saved for SlideShow Macintosh Users You can view QuickTime movies Windows Users You can view QuickTime MOV format and Video for Windows AVI format movies e Click the Paste Jar button The Wacky TV will disappear and the first frame of your movie will appear in your Kid Pix picture e Drag the movie to the spot where you want it pasted e Click the mouse button once to paste the movie into your picture e Choose Play Movie from the Goodies menu to play your Wacky TV movie in your Kid Pix picture Macintosh Users To save a Kid Pix file with a movie in it select Save a Picture from the File menu Select the Save QuickTime Movie with Picture option Window Users To save a Kid Pix file with a movie in it select Save a Picture from the File menu Select the Save Movie option then save your picture See page 27 for more details on using the Wacky TV Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE PROJECTS PIX Kid Pix Art Starters lt gt Here are som
59. k of three buttons to the far right of your screen The piggie will now go back and forth across the path you have created Click the Mirror Motion Behavior button in the middle of the stack of three buttons to the far right of your screen This makes the piggie flip to face the opposite direction when it heads back across the path You have created your first Stampimation Congratulations Pix 5 DELUXE PROJECTS STAMPIMATOR To add more Stamp Actors Click a Cast Box to select it The selected Cast Box will fill with red Click Rubber Stamp to select it The Rubber Stamp will appear in the selected Cast Box To change a Stamp Actor Click the Cast Box of the Stamp Actor you want to change Click the new Rubber Stamp that you want to use in your Stampimator new Stamp Actor will follow the path created for the old Stamp Actor To change the path of a Stamp Actor Click the Cast Box of the Stamp Actor following the path you want to change Click the drawing area and drag while holding down the mouse button To get rid of a Stamp Actor Click the Cast Box of the Stamp Actor you want to get rid Click the Firecracker tool 43 44 Pix STUDIO DELUXE PROJECTS 5 Pix 5 DELUXE PROJECTS 5 de Stampimator Menus For more about Stampimator menu commands see chapter 4 Kid Pix Studio Deluxe Menus
60. l only paint the Text Box that is currently selected to the back Paint All Text Boxes ground Paint All Text Boxes will paint all the text in your picture to the background Click OK when you have made your selection Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE PROJECTS KID Pix To hear text read aloud Kid Pix can read text aloud anything you can type it can say Use the Speech menu commands to tell the computer to speak to pick a voice for the computer and to tell the computer to pro nounce words differently from the way they are spelled For more on using the Speech menu commands see page 89 in chapter 4 Kid Pix Studio Deluxe Menus Ex Rubber Stamps Choose the Rubber Stamp tool for a selection of colorful stamps to add to your Kid Pix picture edit a Rubber Stamp double click the stamp you want to edit in the Options tray or select Edit a Stamp from the Toolbox menu The Stamp Editor dialog box will appear Macintosh Users Hold down the Shift Option and Shift Option keys to make your Rubber Stamps bigger Windows Users Hold down the Ctrl and Ctrl Shift keys to make your Rubber Stamps bigger Moving Van Choose the Moving Van tool to pick up and move a section of your picture to another spot in your picture or to copy a section of your picture to paste in a different picture There are two kinds of Moving Vans regular Moving Van options that come in different shapes and sizes and
61. lay button 85 86 Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE MENUS I Pick ColorMe Kid Pix only If you like coloring books you ll love ColorMes ColorMes are black and white drawings that were made for Kid Pix Color them in on screen or print them out and color them by hand Choose Pick ColorMe a list of ColorMe libraries will appear on the screen Click one and click OK to open it Select a ColorMe picture and open it by double clicking its name or clicking Open The ColorMe you have chosen will be displayed Use the Kid Pix tools to color your picture Save your picture by selecting Save a Picture from the File menu and then type in a name for the drawing Don t worry you can never color over the original ColorMe pic tures The next time you want to use that ColorMe you ll find it is still waiting for you in the Pick a Color Me dialog box ready to be used over and over again Pick a Movie Kid Pix only Use the Wacky Kid Pix to paste movie into a Kid Pix picture al jl Click Pick a Movie The Wacky TV will appear over your Kid Pix picture The Pick a Movie dialog box will appear over the Wacky TV Select a movie using the Pick a Movie dialog box You can use movies on the Kid Pix Studio Deluxe CD ROM any project you have saved for SlideShow or even digital movies from other sources Click the Paste Jar at the bottom of the toolbar to paste the movie into your Kid Pix picture
62. lbox menu Edit Stamp man etes etur Aeg A ee ne eons 75 Alphabet Text Gia nat caw nee 77 Turn Tool Sounds 77 Switch to Spanish Cambiar al ingl s 78 Paint Text to Background 78 Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE PROJECTS KID Pix Goodies menu Pick a Stamp Set 2 2 Re E 79 Pick Hidd n Pictures o 422 22 Rs pees dak wk woe do 81 Pick a 81 6 E Ara 86 Pick More 87 Record lunes le eI e ae 87 Play sound tpa a t op etie aote Cem 87 iuum rw IS E 86 Play Movie dr LE od Su dde dd b ERES 87 Speech menu Read Text Aloud RE uA 88 PICK as VOICG sr Pata iet kee NT HER 88 How to 89 Dinosaurs Prince and Elephant projects from the Cutouts folder in the Pictures folder on the Kid Pix Studio Deluxe CD ROM 25 26 File Edit Goodies ____ CHANNEL CHANGER TOOLBAR TV SCREEN ELECTRIC MIXER Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE PROJECTS Wacky TV The Wacky TV is not your usual television set it s an on screen digital movie pla
63. lick the Wacky Brush tool then select tool option to paint variety of animated ways E Kip Pix 5 DELUXE PROJECTS MooPiES de Paint Can Click the Paint Can tool on an area to fill your picture with glorious colors and fun patterns Animated Electric Mixer Click the Electric Mixer tool then select an effect from the options tray to mix up your Moopie Eraser The first four options erase part of your Moopie The last two options erase the whole screen e Click the Eraser tool to erase some or all of your picture Dancing Alphabet Stamps Use the Dancing Alphabet Stamps tool to create words that move e Click on the letter you want and stamp it into your Moopie Typewriter Text in Moopies becomes part of your picture as soon as it is typed so it cannot be edited after it is typed and cannot be read aloud In Moopies you can choose the color and font for your text e Click the Typewriter tool and the tool options tray will show you all the fonts you can use e Click a letter from the options tray to select a font Animated Rubber Stamps Use the Animated Rubber Stamps tool to place moving pictures in your project e Click the Animated Rubber Stamps tool e Click on the options tray to select an Animated Rubber Stamp You can also use the Animated Stamp Editor to create or change your Animated Rubber Stamps e Double click any Rubber Stamp or select Edit a Stamp from the Toolbox
64. menu and you ll see the Animated Stamp Editor 33 34 Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE PROJECTS MooPiES Moving Van Choose the Moving Van tool to move a section of your Moopie Eyedropper Use the Eyedropper tool to select a color from your picture Undo Guy Choose the handy Undo Guy whenever you do something and then change your mind Color Palette The Color Palette offers 112 colors for you to choose from The currently selected color is shown in the box at the top This is the color that most tools will draw with e select the color you want to use click it with the mouse e Click the arrows at the bottom of the Color Palette to scroll through the coordinated sets of colors for more choices Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE PROJECTS For instructions on using the menu commands in Moopies see the following pages in chapter 4 Kid Pix Studio Deluxe Menus on page 67 Apple Windows menu Help Ur eer hot ded leo aes 67 File menu NEWS are Gav hea eb een oles 67 Open a 68 Save a 69 Save for SlideShow 69 Save as 4 69 Import een 71 Return to 73 Edit menu Undo cedente Ede 74 Luka phages slew a hed d Ls nes neti eds 74 COPY ieee asian
65. menu bar The menus avail able in Moopies are File Edit Toolbox and Goodies e File menu lists commands for opening and saving projects and for returning to the Picker screen e Edit menu lists commands for making changes to your project e Select the Toolbox menu to Edit a Stamp or Turn Tool Sounds On or Off e Goodies menu commands help you find more Rubber Stamps background pictures and sounds to add to your Moopies project 31 32 Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE PROJECTS MooPiES Moopies Tools Wacky Pencil Choose the Wacky Pencil when you want to draw free form lines Line Click the Line tool to draw straight lines Choose line widths and patterns from the Tool Options tray option draws rays from a center point The Mystery 92 option produces rainbow effect draw angles press the Shift key while using this tool Rectangle Choose the Rectangle tool to draw rectangles with various patterns The Mystery option produces a rainbow filled rectangle draw perfect square press the Shift key while using this tool Oval Click on the Oval tool to draw ovals in various patterns Mystery option produces a rainbow oval draw perfect circle press the Shift key while using this tool Animated Wacky Brush There are 28 wiggly Wacky Brushes When you finish painting with a Wacky Brush effect it will animate before your very eyes C
66. mport PICT includes saved Kid Pix pictures JPEG or GIF Windows Users only Select the file type you want to import to see the available files BMP includes saved Kid Pix pictures JPEG GIF or PCD Photo CD pictures 70 Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE MENUS e Click the name of the picture you want to import A preview of gt the picture will appear in the preview box on the left Lj e Click Fill Screen to make the selected picture fill the whole Kid Pix drawing area The picture may get distorted e Click Scale to Fit to make the selected picture fit into the drawing area without stretching e Click Center to put the selected picture in the middle of the draw ing area at its original size e Click Upper Left to open the picture in the upper left corner of the drawing area at its original size e Click Scale Manually to import a graphic and resize it by hand If you selected Scale Manually To resize the graphic move the cursor over one of the blue dots It will turn into a ring of arrows Click the dot and drag To move the graphic move the cursor over the imported graphic until it turns into a hand Click the picture and drag To paste the graphic into your Kid Pix picture DO NOT use the Paste command Instead click any tool on the toolbar Click Open when you have made your selections The file you have selected will appear in the Kid Pix drawing area Moopies Stampimator Digital Puppets Use th
67. ns Choose one of these to change the path that your Stamp Actor follows Original Path Your original path will be stored in memory and you can always return to it by clicking the Original Path button Circle Path Choose this Path button to make your Stamp Actor move in a circle size of the circle depends on the length of the path Smooth Path If your original path is very bumpy or jerky choosing this button will make it smoother Bounce Path Choose this Path button to make your Stamp Actor bounce This works best if you have created a long path Gravity Path Choosing this Path button will make your Stamp Actor drop down as it A E moves across the screen as if it weighs a ton e Click a Cast Box to select it e Click the Path button you want to use e Reselect the Cast Box and click again on the Path button to remove its effect from the Cast Box selected 39 Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE PROJECTS STAMPIMATOR Stampimator Example There s no right or wrong way to Stampimate but here s an example you can follow step by step to get things started 1 Set the Stage e Click the Goodies menu and select Pick a Background e Click the scrolling arrows to the right or left of the preview icons to move through the many choices e Select Red Barn then click OK Pick a Background Pictures 2 Add a Soundtrack e Click the Goodies menu and select Pick a Sound e Click th
68. nstead of strings Even the youngest kids can have fun making animated projects just by pressing keys and watching the puppet jump mumble or wave The Digital Puppets project screen looks like the other project screens but instead of using drawing tools to create a picture or animation you control the on screen puppet using your keyboard You can choose ten Digital Puppets for your project The puppet appears in the frame in the middle of the screen Use the buttons at the bottom of the frame to record puppet move ments play your show or stop or pause your show when it is playing The Timer Bar at the top of the frame tells you how much time you have been recording your puppet movements When the bar fills with red your time is up The Digital Puppets menu bar is at the top the screen menus available in Digital Puppets are File and Goodies The File menu lists commands for opening saving projects importing graphics and for returning to the Picker screen Goodies menu commands help you find more puppets add ground picture sounds or music to your project or turn the sound off For a step by step example of creating a Digital Puppets project see page 49 47 48 Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE PROJECTS DIGITAL PUPPETS Digital Puppets Buttons You have four buttons to help you make your Digital Puppets production You ll see them at the bottom of the Digital Puppets
69. ntosh Users To draw an oval with no border press the Option and Control keys while using the tool To draw a circle press the Shift key while using the tool To draw a circle with a thicker border press the Option key while using the tool Windows Users To draw circle press the Shift key while using the tool Wacky Brush The Wacky Brush tool options offer you choices for painting spirals bugs or pyramids to name just a few There is a listing of all the Wacky Brush tool options starting on page 93 e Click the Wacky Brush tool then select an option from the tool options tray e Click once or click and drag the Wacky Brush cursor to paint in wild and wonderful ways Macintosh Users Try holding down the Shift Option Command and Control keys for extra Wacky Brush effects Windows Users Try holding down the Ctrl and Shift keys for extra effects with some Wacky Brush options Paint Can The Paint Can tool fills all or part of your picture with glorious colors and fun patterns e Click the Paint Can tool then select a fill pattern from the tool options tray e Click an area of your picture to fill with the selected pattern 13 14 Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE PROJECTS PIX Electric Mixer Click the Electric Mixer to transform your drawing Click the Electric Mixer tool then select a tool option When you select an Electric Mixer tool option the cursor will turn into a face Click the
70. of the text Select a color from the Color Palette to colorize your text Choosing a color changes all the text in the Active Text Box To add more text to your picture Select the Typewriter tool Click another spot in your picture and start typing 17 18 Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE PROJECTS PIX To To To To remove text from a Text Box Click on the Text Box you want to remove A dashed line Text Box will appear around the text and the cursor will appear in the Text Box Press Backspace or Delete until all the text is gone move a Text Box around Click on the text you want to move A dashed line Text Box will appear around the text and the cursor will appear Drag the Text Box to the spot where you want it reshape or resize a Text Box Click on the text you want to reshape or resize A dashed line Text Box will appear around the text and the cursor will appear Click one of the red corner dots Drag the dot to make the box bigger or smaller paint the text into your picture Text boxes sit on a layer above your Kid Pix picture To use any of the Kid Pix tools on the text like the Electric Mixer you need to make the text part of your picture layer Click the Toolbox menu to select it Select Paint Text to Background from the Toolbox menu The Paint Text to Background dialog box will appear giving you two options Paint Active Text Box Paint Active Text Box Only wil
71. ome ColorMes be saved with sound Select Play Sound to hear the sound attached to these pictures 87 88 ABOUT Pix STUDIO MENUS E Pick More Pictures Use Pick More Pictures to add graphics to your picture Select the Pick More Pictures command The Pick More Pictures dialog box will appear Double click one of the four folders to open it Backgrounds Windows Backgrnd contains more background pictures like those in the Pick a Background dialog box The back grounds in this folder all have a blue border Clip Art Windows Clipart contains a variety of smaller images like pictures of historical figures and scenery drawings of animals decorative elements and flags Cutouts contains arts and crafts projects like paper dolls masks hats and finger puppets that you can either color in with Kid Pix and print out to play with or print out and then color by hand Maps contains scale maps of all the countries in the world and all 50 of the United States Double click a file name to open it or click Open The picture you selected will appear in your Kid Pix picture ABOUT Kip Pix STUDIO MENUS de Speech Menu Kid Pix only Kid Pix can read aloud any text typed with the Typewriter tool using the Speech menu options T lt gt Read Text Aloud a i Use the Typewriter tool to hear the text in your picture read aloud See page 15 for instructions for adding text using the keyboard e Select
72. our project Pick a Background Color SlideShow only You can pick a background color to use when elements of your SlideShow are smaller than the entire screen Turn Manual Advance On Off SlideShow only If you want to move through the slides in your SlideShow one at a time you can turn on Manual Advance e Select the Turn Manual Advance On menu command to move through your slides by clicking with the mouse Select Turn Manual Advance Off to let your SlideShow play Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE MENUS 3 Play Sound Stop Sound 7 Moopies Stampimator Digital Puppets e Choose Stop Sound to turn off the music or sound that you have added to your animated project 2 e Choose the Play Sound command to turn the tunes back on 443 Macintosh Users In Kid Pix when playing an attached sound hold down the Control key to lower the sound one octave Hold down the Option key to raise the sound one octave D S Pick a Puppet Digital Puppets only VEL Choose Pick a Puppet to select a different character Select the Pick Puppet command The Pick a Puppet dialog box will appear Pick a Puppet Click either of the preview bar arrows to see all ten puppets When you ve selected the puppet you want for your project click OK to start work on your creation If you have already recorded movements for one puppet your new puppet will move to the recorded movements for the previous when you click the P
73. ps Genies and Pixies Rubber Stamp sets and Stampscapes by Peter Babakitis Teeny Toons by Shang Ing Liau Toonies 1 and Toonies 2 by Eben Sorkin Maureen Gilhooly Digital Movies Craig and Company by Craig Hickman Alan Hashimoto Robin Kilgore Shang Ing Liau David Shadle Wild Weird amp Wacky movies by WPA Film Library 5525 West 159th St Oak Forest IL 60452 Wonderful Waterfowl courtesy of AXIA International Inc from Know Your Water Fowl CD ROM Suite 510 Atrium 2 840 6 Avenue S W Calgary Alberta Canada T2P 3E5 and Bob Kinderchuk of Ducks Unlimited Babakitis Flybys by Peter Babakitis ImageGarden P O Box 1956 San Anselmo CA 94979 Sounds Songs in Pick a Sound by kuhlberg michie music p o box 784 fairfax CA 94978 Additional Graphics Fractal Backgrounds and some color patterns created with Kai s Power Tools KPT V2 0 designed by Kai Krause and published by HSC Software Wacky Brush characters from Print Shop Deluxe Comic Characters by Lloren Amer Cat ARTimage S A 127 128 Index About Kid Pix Studio Deluxe 67 Active Text Box 16 18 78 Adding a Movie Kid Pix 22 AIFF files 60 82 Alphabet Stamps 14 Alphabet Text 77 Alphabet Text Wacky Brush 77 Animated Electric Mixer 33 Animated Stamp Editor 76 Animated Rubber Stamps 33 41 76 Animated Wacky Brush 32 AVI 22 27 58 70 99 Background Sound 64 Backgrounds 23 88 Behavior buttons 38 39 BMP file
74. r by picking a DrawMe you can save the sound when you Save your picture e Click the Save Sound with Picture option before saving If you have used the Wacky TV to paste a movie into your Kid Pix picture you can save the movie with the picture e Click the Save Movie with Picture option before saving e Click the Create Custom Icon option before saving Macintosh Users only You can create a custom icon for your saved Kid Pix picture This icon will show a little preview of your picture on the Desktop and in the Open dialog box so you can tell what your picture looks like before opening it Moopies Select Save a Moopie to create a Moopies file that you can open and edit in Moopies Select Save for SlideShow to save your Moopie as a digital movie file to add to a SlideShow project You will not be able to make changes to a file saved for SlideShow Select Save as StandAlone to save your Moopie as a self running Moopie animation You will not be able to make changes to a file saved as a StandAlone Stampimator Select Save a Stampimation to create a Stampimator file that you can open up and edit in Stampimator Select Save for SlideShow to save your Stampimation as a digital movie file to add to a SlideShow project You will not be able to make changes to a Stampimation saved for SlideShow Select Save as StandAlone to save your Stampimation as a self running Stampimator animation You will not be able to make changes
75. r sizes for your printed picture e Enter the number of copies you want to print Click OK when you are ready to print Windows Users Your Kid Pix picture will print automatically Printer Setup Kid Pix Windows only Use Printer Setup to choose a printer Macintosh Users The Macintosh operating system will handle your printer setup for you If you would like to change the automatic settings click the Manual button in the Print dialog The settings you choose will remain in effect until you quit and restart Kid Pix Studio Deluxe Windows Users Use the Printer Setup command to select your printer ub Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE MENUS de Export a Graphic Use the Export a Graphic menu command when you want to save a Kid Pix picture for use with a different computer program or on a dif ferent computer platform For example if you created a Kid Pix picture on a Macintosh and want to open it on a Windows computer export the picture as a GIF or JPEG file on one computer and open it on the other computer You can also use JPEG format files with most Web page applications e Select Export a Graphic The Export a Graphic dialog box will appear e the name that you want to give to the file e Select the file format you want to create from the pull down menu at the bottom of the dialog box e Click Export The file will be created for you Return to Picker Choose this to go back to the Picker s
76. s 58 68 70 71 Cambiar al Ingl s 78 Cancel 75 Cast box 38 Center 68 71 72 Channel Changer 27 28 Clean Up 84 Clear 20 74 Clip Art 88 Color Palette 21 34 ColorMes 23 86 Contacting Technical Support 123 Copy 20 74 Create Custom Icon 69 Credits 125 Cut 20 74 Cutouts 23 88 Dancing Alphabet Stamps 33 Digital Puppets 5 46 48 57 71 77 82 83 Digital Puppets Buttons 48 Digital Puppets Tips 52 Digital Puppet Menus 53 Digital Video 69 70 Drawing Tools 10 14 32 34 38 DrawMes 23 Edit a Stamp 19 31 33 75 76 42 Edit Menu 11 20 31 55 74 Electric Mixer Tool 14 18 33 37 Electric Mixer Wacky 27 29 Eraser Tool 14 33 Export a Graphic 73 119 Eyedropper Tool 20 34 77 File Menu 11 22 23 31 47 52 55 67 86 Fill Screen 68 71 72 Firecracker 37 38 43 63 83 Flip 75 GIF files 70 71 73 Goodbye 28 Goodies Menu 11 14 22 23 31 40 41 47 49 50 55 76 79 Hidden Pictures 14 81 Hear Typewriter Tool 60 Help 67 How to Pronounce 90 Import a Graphic 23 119 Import a Picture 71 Import a Sound 82 Installing Kid Pix Studio Deluxe 7 JPEG files 70 71 73 Kid Pix 5 11 22 37 60 67 68 75 77 80 Kid Pix Art Starters 23 Kid Pix Electric Mixers 99 100 Kid Pix Menus 24 25 Kid Pix Wacky Brushes 93 98 Line Tool 12 32 Macintosh Users 7 12 14 19 22 27 28 57 60 62 64 71 72 74 80 82 85 1
77. sampled at this rate it may sound funny How many sounds can a Kid Pix picture have With Kid Pix you can record a 30 second sound with your Kid Pix picture AND paste a digital movie with sound in your picture The recorded sound will play first then the digital movie All attached sounds will play when the file is used in Slideshow saved my animated project but can t see it in the Pick a Picture dialog box SlideShow can only see picture and movie files To use your animated projects with SlideShow you must use Save for SlideShow to convert your project into movie format Macintosh Users Kid Pix Studio Deluxe uses the QuickTime format for digital video data files Windows Users Kid Pix Studio Deluxe uses the AVI format for digital video data files saved my Digital Puppet for SlideShow but now can t open it in Digital Puppets Moopies Stampimator Digital Puppets and SlideShow projects saved using the Save for SlideShow command under the File menu can be loaded in SlideShow played in the Wacky TV and used by any other application that supports digital video FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS de Why are my files so large Saving digital video files can take up a lot of hard disk space Save your Kid Pix Studio Deluxe creations for SlideShow only if you plan to use them in SlideShow Saving them in their original format will use up much less space on your hard disk Why can t erase my text boxes K
78. set Kid Pix Studio Deluxe can only use stamps with this prefix All stamps will be installed into one place on your hard drive If you relocate the stamps Kid Pix Studio Deluxe will not be able to find them for swapping To make a custom set of Rubber Stamps On the Desktop click a My Stamps file in the Kid Pix Studio Deluxe fold er to highlight it and select Duplicate under the File menu Rename the copy you created making sure to keep the My Stamps at the beginning of the file name Use Pick a Stamp Set to use the stamps file you created Edit the stamps as you wish Remember if you choose Restore the original stamp will show 105 ALL ABOUT RUBBER STAMPS Adventure is 54 9 exe e Sree em T ri ENS 8 29 S oz AY ee 106 ALL ABOUT RUBBER STAMPS ie B s mer E XT AE 25 m TET E gU Eat 7 107 108 ALL ABOUT RUBBER STAMPS Fantasy OETAN ES Ds Lech a NET COR EET AR TIME CREE AYMA CELES Wigs EI m ZR A C ACRI S ETE saw a Sue Wie Pu BE GA UO ES ETC SN Ey C E I Hodgepodge Jumble eer a E 8 dii E xy 109 ALL ABOUT RUBBER STAMPS Horrific 4 iE e e D 4
79. t to your Kid Pix picture using the Typewriter tool gives you some exciting options e Edit the text without changing your Kid Pix picture e Hear the text read out loud Drag text around the screen or resize or reshape it e Draw under text without erasing it How does this work exactly Think of your Kid Pix drawing as a piece of white paper on your com puter desktop All your drawing tools show up on that white paper and Mixer Effects and Erasers only work on the paper Now think of a sheet of clear plastic sitting on top of your Kid Pix pic ture This clear plastic layer is where your Text Boxes are so that you can see the text sitting on top and your Kid Pix picture underneath To add text to your picture e Click the Typewriter tool to select it The Typewriter tool options will appear below the drawing area You can choose a font change font size and add text styles cnica Fa E 15 16 Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE PROJECTS PIX E Na E Click the spot in your picture where you want to add text A Text Box will appear with a blinking cursor inside This is the Active Text Box Only one Text Box can be active at a time The Active Text Box will have a dashed line and red dots at the corners Any other Text Boxes you have created will have a box around them with a plain line to show you where they are Type your text love Kid Pix chicago 24
80. ted ary aI iru a Od al vc a 2 88 b SEJ EZ zh 3 VJ El anh N i 11 Aa 1 m i do lel aha 1 N Salze east 117 118 7 Frequently Asked Questions Here are some frequently asked questions and answers to help you if you get stuck What does Import a Graphic mean Computers today can store and use graphics in many different formats Kid Pix Studio Deluxe gives you tools to use different graphic format files in your projects Kid Pix Use the Import a Graphic menu command in Kid Pix to open bitmaps PICT format for Macintosh BMP format for Windows JPEG and GIF files and PCDs PhotoCD format files Windows only Moopies Stampimator and Digital Puppets The Import Picture menu com mand gives you access to bitmaps JPEG and GIF files and PCD files Windows only Use these picture files as backgrounds for your animated projects Macintosh Users Note Some JPEG and GIF files are not formatted in a way that can be read by all Macintoshes To use these files in Kid Pix Studio Deluxe projects first use the Import a Graphic menu command in Kid Pix to open them and then export or save the Kid Pix picture with the image you want to use Use the Import Picture command in the animated projects to bring the Kid Pix version of the image in as a background Export a Graphic
81. to a Stampimation saved as a StandAlone 69 Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE MENUS Digital Puppets f e Select Save Puppet to create a Digital Puppet file that you open and edit in Digital Puppets e Select Save for SlideShow to save your Digital Puppet as a digi tal movie file to add to a SlideShow project You will not be able to make changes to a Digital Puppets project saved for SlideShow e Select Save as StandAlone to save your Digital Puppet as a self running Digital Puppets animation You will not be able to make changes to a Digital Puppets project saved as a StandAlone SlideShow e Select Save a SlideShow to create a SlideShow file that you can open and edit in SlideShow e Select Save as QuickTime Macintosh or Save an AVI Windows to save your show as a digital movie file to add to a different SlideShow project Use movies created with SlideShow in the Wacky TV Note If you have loaded any movies into your SlideShow it can not be saved as a movie e Select Save as StandAlone to save your show as self running application that can be played on a compatible computer even without Kid Pix Studio Deluxe Import a Graphic Kid Pix Use the Import a Graphic command to add pictures from other pro grams or other computer platforms to your Kid Pix picture Select Import a Graphic The Import a Graphic dialog box will appear Macintosh Users only Select the file type you want to i
82. und you want for your project click OK to start work on your creation Pick a Background Moopies Stampimator Digital Puppets The Pick a Background command is the way to choose from almost one hundred ready made backgrounds for your animation projects e Select the Pick a Background command The Pick a Background dialog box will appear Pick a Background 83 Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE MENUS e Click the arrows on either side of the preview bar to check out the wide variety of choices e Select the background for your project by clicking the icon e For more options click the More Pictures button to import back ground from the Kid Pix Studio Deluxe CD ROM or other sources Click OK to add the background to your project Play Once SlideShow only Start your SlideShow by clicking on the Play Once command It will play through once from beginning to end Play Looped SlideShow only Click on the Play Looped command to play your project in a continu ous loop It will play through over and over again until you double click to stop it Clean Up SlideShow only When editing your project you may move things around in such a way that you end up leaving one or more of the moving vans empty If you play your SlideShow with the empty vans in place the program will skip over the empty frames so that the sequence of your presenta tion will not be interrupted e Select Clean Up to remove empty Moving Vans from y
83. yer gt with built in special effects The basic parts of the Wacky TV are the TV screen the wa toolbar and the Electric Mixer The TV screen is in the middle of the Wacky TV The toolbar is to the right of the TV screen At the top of toolbar is the Channel Changer At the bottom of the toolbar is the Volume Control Below the TV screen is the Electric Mixer options tray Using the Wacky TV e the Wacky TV icon or name plate from the Picker screen The Wacky TV will appear followed by the Pick a Movie dialog box listing movies provided on the Kid Pix Studio Deluxe CD ROM e Double click a folder to see the movies inside e Select a movie by clicking its title The Kid Pix Studio Deluxe CD ROM holds lots of movies to get you started or you can also use movies from sources such as bulletin board services and the Internet You can also watch Moopies Stampimator Digital Puppets and SlideShow projects that have been saved for SlideShow Macintosh Users Wacky TV plays digital movies in QuickTime format only Windows Users Wacky TV plays movies in either MOV QuickTime or AVI Video for Windows format e Click Open to watch the movie you have selected 27 28 Kip Pix STUDIO DELUXE PROJECTS WACKY Wacky TV Tools On the Wacky TV toolbar you ll notice some buttons The buttons are a lot like the ones on a VCR or cassette tape player K lt lt Channel Changer Click this

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