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1. Length 4 S x g Figure 124 The use of the split tool the initial image is on the left image after splitting image after applying stitching image after applying merging is on the right 9 14 FINDING A REPEAT IN AN IMAGE As the name suggests the Find repeat function helps you to find repeat if there is any in an image It is mostly usable on scanned designs from books or on images you get from other sources There are two variants of the function Find repeat and Fine exact repeat The former is used to find a repeat in scanned images usually in jpeg format where repeats have similar appearance but pixels are not necessary exactly of same color The later is used to extract the repeat from Jacquard cards or images that were already prepared for weaving but for some reason contains more than one repeat Program finds the repeat only if all pixels of each repeat are exactly the same Figure 125 shows the design we got from a design book which consist from more than one repeat Figure 125 Four repetition of design show that it doesn t repeat To reduce a design to only one repeat choose Tools gt Find repeat If the program finds a repeat it will draw a selection line around it SS www arahne si 22 ArahPaint 57 User Guide Figure 126 A selection line around the repeat After cropping to selection use View gt Repeat to check if a design repeats correctlly Figure 127 Viewing four repe
2. Figure 170 After despeckling with parameter set to 5 13 14 RUBBER ArahPaint s rubber tool is variant of averaging It works on the user defined circle area It takes pixels from a wider circle Average diameter in tool s options calculates the most popular color and draws that color into smaller circle s pixels E I BS EEEEEE Ree sarpieerer H Figure 171 Rubber tool in 8 bits per pixel color mode In true color mode it works in a slightly different way It takes pixels from wider circle calculates the average color and draw that color into smaller circle s pixels Figure 172 Rubber tool in true color mode 13 14 1 BORDER CLEANUP Border cleanup changes various color pixels into one of two adjacent colors If the smooth option is on it will also make border regular SS www arahne si Draw diameter 4 olo Average diameter 7 X Border cleanup X Smooth eae t ArahPaint User Guide Figure 173 Rubber options with border cleanup and smooth options on L4G PRINTING A PICTURE Select the Print picture command from the File menu to open the Print picture dialog A repeat of the image starts from the bottom of the printout area drawing area in the window Top of the window displays the currently selected printer printer mode and density see Chapter 14 1 how to change them If you have several printers connected to the computer you can change the prin
3. Figure 131 Rectangle and ellipse drawn with brush 10 2 4 SPRAY Spray can be also used with a brush 11 INSERTING TEXT To insert text into image click on the text icon button T keyboard shortcut T and you will get the font selection dialog The procedure consists of four steps 1 Enter the text to be inserted 2 Choose a font from the Font scrolled list 3 Choose astyle from the Style scrolled list 4 Choose a size from the Size scrolled list The size of the text in pixels is displayed above the inserted text If you click OK the program will display desired text on the screen as a layer Text will be drawn in the foreground color and background will be in the background color You may set background color to Transparent if you wish If you have more lines you can set the alignment You can still change all these settings after you have placed a text layer into a picture The number of different fonts styles and sizes depends on the operating system you are using i Font Selector Style Forgotten Futurist Shadc Normal Fluoride Beings 5 Forgotten Futurist Fragile Bombers FreeMono FreeSans FreeSerif Frozen Dog Treats v l ap Effects Background Script C Strikeout Transparent Latin C Underline Color BEee Input text Size 378 x 96 AranPaine 4 le _Z Figure 133 Inserting text 60 apera www arahne
4. zie x Rotate image Angle 0 5 Deg Filter ox Reset crose Figure 105 Drawing alignment line The program rotates the picture and informs you about rotation angle so the line which you have drawn red line in Figure 105 becomes straight To confirm alignment click the Close button in the Transform window 0 ArahPaint 4 0s home toni data img scan png 945x1044 50 File Edit Colors Tools Filters View Help points 0 100 200 300 400 500 ise ole 3 00 paler oa DUK IKE SONG spiral E us A00 5 x lt eer N lt D Filter ok e Figure 106 Preview of aligning the image 9 5 DUPLICATE TOOL The duplicate tool enables you to repeat an image or part of an RR Horizontal image in a fast way All duplicate tools except Mirror X 1 and RG Mirror X Alt Diamond work as Drawing in repeat if the New picture option is RG Mirror X 1 enabled tool RK Mirror Y RY Mirror XY RR Halfdrop Ctrl RA Halfdrop Mirror X RP Halfdrop Mirror Y RY Halfdrop Mirror XY 5 Diamond Figure 107 The Duplicate menu 50 Chapter 9 www arahne si SBS Transform tools You can use it in a horizontal Image gt Duplicate X or vertical Image gt Duplicate Y direction Figure 108 Original image and image after mirroring using the duplicate tool inX and Y direction 9 5 1 Mirror X 1 Dupticate The mirror X 1 fu
5. apera www arahne si LZS Drawing in the repeat Figure 137 Drawing across the borders of repeat 12 3 CONVERTING IMAGE OF SEVERAL REPEATS INTO A SINGLE IMAGE After the individual repeat is drawn to a level where it perfectly joins with the others check the New picture toggle button in the Drawing in repeat window After confirmation the new picture will be formed of all repeats according to current settings From this point on the whole picture is treated as one big repeat and drawing operations will no longer be repeated 13 USING FILTERS A filter is a special kind of tool designed to take an input layer or image apply a mathematical algorithm to it and return the input layer or image in a modified format The filter functions in ArahPaint keep the repeat and respect protected colors Except for the top two items of the Filters menu Averaging Despeckle all the X 40 a l ons A l Yi20 Filter menu entries use the Measure tool options to change the Filter Valuel100 properties The Filter properties are set in three fields Value X Y Depends on gt the type of filter one two or all three values control the filter behavior There are aly also three additional options not all three are applicable for all filters use all N leis ASIA e W colors from the palette x normally only the foreground color is used use Figure 138 The filter
6. e ArahPaint 5 Figure 93 Repeat dimensions dialog In ArahPaints you set the repeat dimension density in the Resize image dialog Er Resize image Original width 600 9 Piels Height 360 Width 600 Height 360 Width 93 75 gt aly aly a A mm 4 Height 90 00 Pq Threads cm Filter None 7 ok Reset close Figure 94 The density section of the Resize image dialog Both images in Figure 95 show the same image viewed at a different density Figure 95 Vertical density weft is lower than horizontal density warp density is the same SQ IES www arahne si 9 1 2 RESIZING THE IMAGE ARAHPAINT 4 Once you have scanned or imported an image you may want to adjust its size The Image gt Resize image Shift T toolbox icon 4 command lets you adjust the size of the image Width means the number of hooks necessary to weave the design while height means the number of wefts You must know how many hooks are available on the machine which will weave the fabric and set the width parameter accordingly Make sure that Resize contents is selected Otherwise only the picture size will change cutting off parts of the image or adding extra space in background E ArahPaint 45 User Guide EI Transform Resize image 1672 1403 1200 Original width Height New width Height 540 px X Resize content
7. 6 2 4 DEFINING TRANSPARENT AND PROTECTED COLORS Transparent and protected colors are used in layer placement and drawing operations A transparent color means all areas of this color in the layer will become transparent to show the design below the layer Protected colors are colors that can never be overridden by layer placement or drawing operations Let s say the layer contains a figure surrounded by some white space Pasting such layer will inevitably erase some undesired areas of the main picture By making the white color transparent only the main figure will be placed on the picture Figure 45 Normal layer ontop of Figure 46 Grey color in the layeris Figure 47 Grey color in the layer is background picture transparent transparent black color in the background is protected Setting transparent colors Double click on a color tab in the color palette window will draw a check pattern in that tab it means that color is transparent in Figure 48 white color and red color are transparent color palette shows the colors in layer 2 Setting protected colors additional double click on transparent color will change it into protected It will draw a little lock on the color tab in Figure 48 the protected colors are light blue green and orange Clear transparent protected colors additional double click on protected Figure 48 Transparent and color tab will change it into normal color There is also function in the Co
8. Color Area C Line Position 280 Position 2830 Before D After ae Before QC After Number of pixels 1 iS LN Number of pixels 1 Ss ok Close OK Close Figure 114 Inserting an irregular area The newly inserted area is in foreground red color 9 8 3 INSERTING LINE OR AREA The inserted area is by default in the color of the current foreground color but you can also insert the area from the image itself It works in two modes Area it inserts chosen area determined by Position and Number of pixels Line it duplicates chosen line Position Figure 115 shows an image where we inserted 48 pixels of foreground color which followed freehand drawn line Obviously in this case it doesn t make a lot of sense it would be better to use the Line option or Area option mi ZS www arahne si ArahPaint 53 User Guide Position aS Before After Number of preis as _ JE Figure 115 Inserting an irregular space the Color mode Figure 116 shows inserting of the area which is a duplicate of 48 pixels below the drawn line x A Color Position Before After Number of pixels 48 Figure 116 Inserting an irregular space the Area mode The inserted area in the image in Figure 117 the left side is 48 times see the Number of pixels field repeats of the Line xA O Color Area Position Before After Figure 117 Inserting an irregular space the
9. blue and green are protected on the far right image 13 6 Marele The marble effect is similar to ikat The difference is that the shifting of lines or columns is correlated every next line jumps just for one pixel to the left or right so direction is random but the move is just one pixel Beside value there is another parameter you can change to get different effects X for vertical filter and Y for horizontal filter With this setting the direction of shifting is not random anymore it will have same direction till it reaches the Y or X number Then it will change the direction the right side image in Figure 151 Figure 151 The original image the same image after applying the marble filter with Value 20 Y 0 and the same image after applying the marble filter with Value 20 Y 15 13 7 ZIGZAG The Zigzag filter creates a zigzag pattern from the image The number and height of zigzags depends on the settings of filter options X Y and Value and the direction Horizontal Vertical Horizontal and Vertical Averaging Shift M Despeckle SS Noise pie et j 4 Zigzag Horizontal Wave Vertical Color shorter inside Horizontal and vertical ae gt Color shorter outside Mix iis a iae lt k aii al iae iie aii oN ra 2 198 lA 1 Active layer Figure 152 Using the Zigzag filter 68 Sre
10. 2400x2528 PNG 5 Colo 600x480 PNG 2 Colors 600x360 PNG 2 Colors 2400x1400 PNG 4 Colot 1200x600 PNG 3 Colors 400x240 PNG 7 Colors 1200x800 PNG 4 Colors 22 0ct 2013 16 33 22 0ct 2013 16 33 22 0ct 2013 16 33 22 0ct 2013 16 33 22 0ct 2013 16 33 22 0ct 2013 16 33 22 0ct 2013 16 33 22 O0ct 2013 16 33 File name None v gt B None v gt All color depths x None vil gt 7 fo H None vil gt fio H All formats z Sort File name gt x Repeat X Filename Suffix X Size C File size x 2 Figure 9 Image browse window Do one of the following to open the image in ArahPaint e Double click an image file e Select an image file and then click OK or press Enter The meaning of icons in the toolbar is described in the table below One directory up Reload Default directory p gt Q Rename image it aa Delete image as 3 Open image in a newArahPaint window D5 The Filter option allows you to search for particular images by size x size y date of creation file name file format and color depth The program will interactively change the display to show you only pictures which match the search filter In this way you will find your image very quickly CAT Load picture Found 8 208 ACAS E43 R home capdam data img rambler flower2 ample foris e A 1200x460 PNG 4 Colors 1200x360 PNG 4 Colors 1200x672 PNG 8 Colors 1200x800 PNG 2 Colors 1200x600 PNG 3 Colors 1200x800 PNG
11. 96 Figure 51 Sorting by similarity to the selected color 6 2 8 FINDING FOREGROUND COLOR IN THE IMAGE Due similarity between colors in the image or there are just a few pixels of a particular color sometimes is difficult to find individual color in the image If you can t find the color in the image choose that color as a foreground color from the palette and press Enter The pixels of that color will blink If you press Enter Shift the program will position the first pixel of foreground color to the top of the program window 6 3 HIGHLIGHTING FOREGROUND COLOR This function highlights the foreground color so it is easy to find if the repeat is correct or to find isolated pixels of a particular color or just to check the color distribution ee GZS www arahne si z3x ArahPaint User Guide To highlight the foreground color press the asterisk key on a keyboard Highlighting depends on the lightness of the foreground color if it is in the light part then the rest of the image becomes darker if the color is in the darker part of the specter the rest of the image becomes lighter Highlighting lasts for around 2 seconds then the image reverts to its original state Figure 52 Highlighting gt the yellow is the foreground color the image on the right side shows the highlight view 6 4 CHANGING THE NUMBER OF COLORS WEAVES A scanned image will have more colors then what you need in a jacquard f
12. Basic operations 4 8 DELETING FILES FROM ARAHPAINT If you want to delete a file or image file choose File gt Browse select a file you want to delete and press Delete button on your keyboard or click lt icon in the toolbar You will be warned before the file is actually deleted but once you do it there is no way back 4 9 IMPORTING vecTOR SVG PDF imaces INTO ARAHPAINT 5 ArahPaint5 supports importing of Scalable Vector Graphics images svg and svgz extension and images documents in Portable Document Format pdf extension To import a vector image into ArahPaints choose File gt Import vector image In the Load picture dialog the correct filter Files of type is already set to svg pdf and svgz file types so only files in these three formats will be displayed in the dialog Then choose a file which you want to import and click Open In the Import vector image dialog the preview of the image is displayed next to the Width and Height field Enter the width and height in pixels If you break the chain by clicking on it b you can change the Width and Height separately Er Load picture EP Import vector image Look in S nomertoni data img vector_samples N gt home toni data img vector_samples rambler flower svg Width 2400 Points P gt aweave quickjacquard EN pdf a ME Height Points gt Math svg gt National_Park_Service_sample_pictographs svg rambler
13. You can also edit a brush in a new ArahPaint window select a brush in the palette and click the Open with ArahPaint icon i in the Brush palette toolbar It does exactly Figure 128 Brushes what it says on the icon tooltip new ArahPaint window will appear with selected palette brush opened Now you can edit it save it and load again in the previous program To delete a brush from your palette select it by left mouse click and click on the delete icon x in the Brush palette toolbar or press Delete on the keyboard 10 2 DRAWING OPERATIONS WITH BRUSHES You can use the selected brush to modify the behavior of drawing operations By combining them you can achieve powerful effects You can also use transparent colors on the brush and protected colors in the drawing area 10 2 1 FREEHAND DRAWING Freehand draw with a brush will fill the drawn area with brush instead of foreground color Figure 129 shows a line drawn with brush from the Brushes palette in Figure 128 line width 5 10 2 2 STAMP MODE Freehand draw has the Stamp option If you click on the image the program will draw the brush at that position The program also moves the brush along with your mouse so you will know precisely where it 4 will be drawn even before you click the mouse Figure 130 Drawing in stamp mode GZS www arahne si 10 2 3 DRAWING FILLED SHAPES You can easily draw motifs in repeat using brush E ArahPaint 59 User Guide
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15. 144 Rectangular self avoiding motifs The last three tools in the menu horizontal mirror E vertical mirror A and flip work in different way when you choose a motif shape the program draws shapes in the image but when you choose one of the mirror operations it applies mirroring on the randomly selected image parts of the image The size of parts is determined with X and Y parameters in the filter options and the number of parts is defined in the Value field it is randomly placed in the image In order to work the image must have some pattern already because on single color image Usually this function as many other filter functions is just a first step in the design preparation Combined with other functions like protected colors function a contour tool and other filter tools you can achieve interesting effects in a matter of seconds 13 3 RANDOM MOTIFS This filter works uses same interface shapes and values as self avoiding motifs As the name indicates instead of self avoiding algorithm it uses random placement of motifs SS www arahne si a ArahPaint 4 2d New picture 600x540 100 modified File Edit Colors Image Tools Filters View Help at ArahPaint User Guide Value 120 KICZ t s Figure 145 Random placement of motifs 13 4 PLACE MOTIFS The Place motifs filter fills a color surface with selected motif in such a way that one motif never touche
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17. 76 Adding contours only in one direction left of light red on the border with white a ONTOUP ow mi E a 1 Figure 77 Adding contours between two colors light red and white 7 4 THICKENING CONTOURS It increases the contour width by user defined number of pixels You have to set the following parameters Contour color in our example blue Size number of dots to be added in our example 2 Direction in our example to the left right up and down 36 i a www arahne si SBS Working with contours T Contour operation Thicken Direction Ei epa Thick lines Size GE _ Repeat last operation ok cose Figure 79 Thickening contours in one direction You can combine this function with protected colors to ensure that thickening does not affect the colors which you want to keep unchanged 7 5 REMOVING CONTOURS This operation will remove the contour and replace it with the neighboring colors Normally it is used after filling the image with colors and the contour is no longer needed But it can be used simply to remove particular color from the image To use it choose Tools gt Selected colors gt Remove Figure 80 Before and after removing of contour color 8 USING LAYERS When you create or load an image in ArahPaint the image consists of a single layer
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19. Curtain png 0 Interlace png __ _ pied de poule_variant png _ Stripes2 png j dandelion png leaf1 png _ Plate png 0 Stripes3 png 0 Faces png _ leaf2 png _ polki png 0 Stripes4 png 4 al gt 0 Puzzle png rambler flower rosegray png sample png _ simple png _ small_flo png 0 square png StoneOrnamer File name File type All Files Figure 5 File selection dialog on Linux ArahPaint 4 Caer pied de poule_variant png ae leaf4 png S lt a leaf3 png leaf2 png or leaf1 png EE i A cat a eaf pn a i eat png lt gt v L open a Eicma Figure 6 File selection dialog on Linux ArahPaint 5 Ope www arahne si SAS Bas c operations E p KA 22 My Pictures img Organize New folder k Favorites E Desktop Recent Places J Downloads zee 3colorScratches I Libraries d b Documents Music Pictures a Videos Curtain a8 Homegroup i Computer amp T130890900B C Local Disk D Microsoft Office Cli Network kranssikl leaf A flowerl File name All files M Figure 7 File selection dialog on Windows 7 ArahPaint 5 LOOG Load picture lt gt s2 oo EEB E demo Q FAVORITES E All My Files E Desktop fet Nova Applications ha Documents Downloads DEVICES E NG SHARED B Mus
20. File gt Load recent The menu of the recently used files is divided into two sections one displays recently saved files the other displays recently viewed files New picture Ctrl N gt Load picture Ctrl O Load recent r i home capdam data img demo mills png Browse Ctri Shift O PNG 1200x1352 15 Apr 2010 13 06 Save picture Ctrl S amp Save as Ctrl Shift S home capdam data img demo interlace png EVE ieee Ctrl U NG 3606x3606 15 Apr 2010 13 05 Pool eM ols am home capdam data img tutorial11 01 png ED Load recent So Be PNG 2400x1400 15 Apr 2010 13 01 E Browse layer CtrisShitH gt G r home capdam data img demo Faces png gt PNG 1800x1598 15 Apr 2010 13 01 Print picture Ctri P OS o Exit program Ctri Q home capdam data img demo flower png E PNG 1200x840 15 Apr 2010 13 00 sake iisi home capdam data img demo flo5 png PNG 1200x2400 17 Sep 2004 13 21 ex ck s nome capdam data img demo flower2 png cog PNG 1200x1260 15 Feb 2010 11 55 Figure 13 The load recent menu with file icons The number of recently used files is set in the Number of recent files field in Save setup gt Appearance in ArahWeave To open a list of the directories that you most recently accessed through the Load picture Save as or Browse dialog boxes click the arrow at the right side of the Location bar These directories are sorted by access time with
21. The color of each pixel is computed as the average color of the eight closest pixels in the original image This usually gives the best result but it naturally takes more time Use it when you are rotating images in true color mode OK will confirm the settings and rotate the image without closing the dialog so you can continue adjusting the settings and Close will close the dialog box 9 3 CHANGING THE IMAGE SIZE ARAHPAINT 5 You can access the Resize image dialog in FEBA different ways Resize image Original width 1200 e From the main menu Image gt Resize image Height 480 e By clicking the tool icon in the Toolbox Nes widtn 1200 f2 oy Height 480 e By using the Ctrl T key combination New width 187 50 H a Height 120 00 The Resize dialog of ArahPaints is divided into Density New width 64 00 E qa Tessas four parts Density Height 40 00 4 gt 4 gt 4 gt e At the top of the window is information about the current image size sf af amp Filter ok Reset Close e The main section where you change the dimension in pixels or in physical size in length units mm cm inches or percents of original size and change the density dpi of the image If the associated linking chain is broken you can change the Width and Height separately Figure 98 The Resize image dialog in ArahPaints e Section where you choose either you will sc
22. all colors which lie between foreground color and background color in the current color palette Figure 161 The color gradient which uses all colors between foreground color and background color The gradient filter also works on images in true color mode Figure 162 Gradient in true color mode You can modify the angle of the gradient effect by entering the parameter in the Value field in the Filter options For instance if you enter 45 you will get the gradient line from lower left corner to top right corner of the image z LS www arahne si s ArahPaint User Guide Figure 163 Gradient at value 20 45 and 90 13 12 THe CONTOUR FILTER This filter allows you to create contours around color ares Every time you repeat the operation new contour is added to the previous one Protected colors are kept intact As with other filters click the Measure tool icon A to access the option fields e Xand Y determines the width in pixels of the whole contour area marked as A in Figure 164 If you want that the width is the same after every step then set both X and Y to that same number if X and are different the width varies between value X and value Y e Value determines the width of the contour marked as B in Figure 164 If the variable size option is disabled H 1 then the width of contour is the same all the time otherwise it varies from 1 to the number set in the Value field If checked all c
23. and Figure 59 You can choose Selected colors white you can adjust the threshold value remaining colors from the current palette Picture will be transformed to black and white picture using by loading colors from another palette the threshold value Every color in picture is first converted to gray and depending on its gray value it is either converted to black or white If its gray value is lower than the threshold value it will be converted to black otherwise to white You can play with the threshold value until the desired effect is achieved 30 Chapter 6 www arahne si SBS Working with colors GREE Reduction type J Color Black _white Threshold 129 ae Re a B D Se Pe OK J Preview Close E ee number RA Reduction type 4J Color Black _white Threshold 129 Le aa OK Undo Close Reduction type lo Color Black _white Threshold 199 k E cat a aT eee sey i Figure 60 Black and white color reduction using threshold Both modes have the Preview button highly recommended 6 4 3 COLOR REMAPPING Color remapping is another way to decrease the number of colors This time we will define both colors which will remain in picture and which colors which will be mapped to these colors Chose Colors gt Color remapping The window is split into two areas In the left one the Colors in selection table all colors of the selected a
24. area 57 m in the toolbox This indicates the presence of the selection in the image Figure 25 shows layer size of 94 pixels by 76 pixels while the layer s left bottom corner is at pixel x 72 Move Paste y 50 o ot os E ap TE Y 50 c Active layer 2 g a e Layers gt Selection Background Figure 25 The size and position of layer 4 21 CROPPING TO SELECTION Using the Crop to selection command from the Image menu you can remove the areas that fall outside of the current selection Figure 26 Before and after cropping 4 22 TRIMMING PICTURE OR LAYER Using the Trim command from the Image menu you can trim off the area which consist only from pixels of background color The remaining area is a rectangle whose sides touch the outermost pixels of non background colors Figure 27 After applying the Trim command on the layer the selection area is shrunk to the rectangular area that covers all non background color pixels 16 Se ae www arahne si SS Basic operations 4 23 DESELECTING A LAYER If the selected area selection is no longer needed and you want to put it back into background image do one of the following e Click in the toolbox e On keyboard press Ctrl D e Click with the right mouse button outside selection on the background layer one of selection tools should be active The selection will be drawn into the
25. curve Press right mouse button to finish the curve Figure 34 Handles 5 10 Fit This tool fills a particular area of the pointed color with the foreground color or brush pattern Filling stops when it cannot pass through groups of dots of different color from the pointed one or when the borders of the selection are reached Ti A Click the fill icon or use keyboard shortcut K 20 Chapter 5 www arahne si SBS Drawing operations 1 Move the mouse pointer inside the selection and point to a color which should be replaced with the foreground fill or a pattern Pattern fill works if the brush option is on and you have selected a brush pattern 2 Press left mouse button After a few moments the filled area is displayed 3 Repeat the steps 3 and 4 as many times as desired and change the foreground color if necessary 5 10 1 FILL OPTIONS e Fill to border is used for cleaning scanned images It fills all pixels no matter L Fill ta border which color they are until it hits the background color border J ways C Whole image e Whole image means that the operation works on the whole color area in the TA 0 a picture no matter if the pixels are connected to each other or not Fill joo A e Threshold defines how similar in color a pixel must be to be filled Values can l l l o Figure 35 Fill options range from o to 127 A low tolerance fills pixels within a range of color values very similar t
26. e Click the Delete layer icon x at the bottom of the Layers palette e Press Delete on the keyboard 8 3 5 LOADING LAYERS FROM LAYERS PALETTE F The Load layer command is also accessible from Layers palette click on in the palette s toolbar to open file selection dialog or click 5 to open Browse window or al to open the New layer dialog box 8 3 6 VISIBLE LAYERS In the Layers palette you can control whether a layer is visible or not To show or hide a layer in the Layers palette click the eye icon A next to a layer to hide that layer The icon will disappear Click in the column again to redisplay the layer 8 4 CuT COPY A SELECTION First make a selection then use the command from the Edit menu e Cut Ctrl X to cut out the selected area into the buffer The selected region in the picture will be filled with the background color e Copy Ctrl C to make a copy of the selection without changing the contents of the picture Cut copy paste also works between several ArahPaint programs In ArahPaints copy paste works also for files copied from other Desktop programs office web browser ee SS www arahne si wes ArahPaint User Guide 8 5 PASTING A LAYER To paste a layer choose Edit gt Paste Ctrl V ArahPaint positions copy of a layer on the top left area of the drawing window You can move the layer to a desired location 8 6 FLATTENING THE IMAGE In a flattened image al
27. flower svg tiger1 pdf tiger1 svg tiger2 paf gt Times_New_Roman_sample svg Warning svg Cancel E Open Files of type Any files svg pdf svgz x Q Cancel Figure 15 Importing vector image into ArahPaints Filename rambler flower svg After clicking the OK button the image appears in the main ArahPaints window If you import a PDF file the Import vector image dialog is slightly different because a PDF file can consist of several pages You can select more pages of the image document for importing which are then opened as layers in ArahPaints Also you can set the density and size of the imported image Er Import vector image nhome toni data img vector_samples aweave quickjacquard EN pdf Select all Density x 72 00 poe Threads Density y 72 00 Width 842 29 70 Points cm Height 595 20 99 Figure 16 Importing a PDF file into ArahPaints 4 10 CLEAR IMAGE You can get a new image from the previously loaded one Use Edit gt Clear and all colors in the image change into currently selected foreground color The difference to the New image function is that you keep colors Sap SBS www arahne si cas ArahPaint User Guide from the old image in the Color palette If you use the New image function you get sixteen random colors in the Color palette 4 11 Unpo Repo We want you to be able
28. l Add color to color palette if you need a new color in the palette press this icon LJ Remove color from color palette will remove last unused color from the palette If all colors are used you must use color reduction tools instead of this instrument The underline number in the color swatch indicates that a color is used in the image The number in italic indicates that a color belongs to a grayscale Red Green and Blue values of that color are equal 6 2 2 EXcHANGING COPYING COLORS You can also exchange or copy colors in the image by using the color palette First click with left mouse button to select a color in the color palette then point to another color in the palette and use e Middle mouse button to exchange colors e Right mouse button to copy color 23 24 Chapter 6 Working with colors www arahne si LBS Note that when you copy one color to another you have two swatches of same color in the Color palette You can still modify each of them But once you use Remove duplicate colors all pixels in the image with the same color will be reduced to one color and there will be only one color swatch per color in the color palette 6 2 3 CHANGING THE POSITION OF THE COLOR IN THE PALETTE To change the position of two colors in the palette click the color in the palette move the cursor to the color you want to exchange the position with press the Ctrl key and click with left mouse button
29. mouse button on the destination color left column in the Color remapping table in Figure 62 and select Remove in the pop up menu 6 4 4 INVERTING COLORS Color inverting means changing each color in an image to its inverse on seen to Ctri the color wheel For example applying the function to a blue object R o creen G o B 255 changes the color to yellow R 255 G 255 B 0 To invert A me colors choose Colors gt Invert and select the color channel you want to verw invert from the menu sii ace Figure 63 The invert colors menu Green Original S All Magenta Cyan vellow If there is a selection in the image then the Invert function works only on the selection Figure 65 Before and after inverting colors in the selection 32 Chapter 6 www arahne si SAS Working with colors 6 5 SWAPPING COLORS Color palette 8 bit RPed gt Green Blue Red s Fed Blue gt Green Red RPed lt Green Ped lt gt Blue Green lt Blue Saturation lt Lightness To access the Swap function choose Colors gt Swap and select a desired mode from the menu The swap colors function has three different modes Figure 66 The swap colors menu e Color palette 8 bit exchanges colors between different color areas colors in the image remain the same just position is changed Figure 67 Images with same color palette e True color mode enabl
30. ported the program to Windows and Mac OS X as native application does not require Xquartz to run The new version has some special features like import of vector images pen preview during drawing redesigned image resize dialog system wide cut and paste native file selection dialog But since the program is relatively new it is also slightly slower less reliable and uses more memory For this reason we have decided to keep the development of ArahPaint4 until ArahPaints becomes better in all areas and increased memory usage becomes irrelevant by the increase of computing power In this manual you will find sections marked with ArahPaint4 or ArahPaints this means that the feature is only available on that version But 90 of the functions are the same shortcuts are the same so transition from one version to the other is very easy Programs also share information about the recent files and brushes 2 PROGRAM APPEARANCE After starting the program by clicking on the Arahpaint s icon on the KDE Desktop Figure 1 the main window is displayed on the screen Except the File Edit and Help menu all menus are inactive until you create a new image or load an old one 1 Suaprer 2 www arahne si SBS Program appearance PPAS ArahPaint 5 0 512 TTY File Edit Colors Image Tools Filters View Help el xls PIGIGIESE miala i Beh ao Figure 1 ArahPaint 4 on KDE Desktop Figure 2 explains the components of Arahpaint
31. proper scanning accuracy This is measured in dpi dots per inch and for modern scanners it ranges from 50 to 2400 dpi The bigger the dpi the better the accuracy But a better way to calculate the accuracy is to set the proper dimensions of a scanned drawing The user usually knows in what quality the design will be woven A particular design will be woven on jacquard looms with 1344 hooks This means the scanning width in pixels shall not exceed 150 of the hooks used This means 1344 1 50 2016 pixels of scanning width Dividing the drawing width on paper in inches by scanning width in pixels will give us the dpi Again for our example let s suppose the drawing is 15 cm wide Thus 2016 15 2 54 341 3 dpi By using this simple formula the user can calculate the accuracy and or scanning width whichever can be set in the scanning software 4 Set the proper saving format For importing an image in ArahPaint you can use PNG GIF JPEG TIFF PCX or BMP graphic file format If you have the image in a different format you can use the program Gimp to convert the image into one of the supported formats 5 Save the drawing into desired directory 4 Basic OPERATIONS For effective use of the program you should be familiar with some basic functions like loading and saving file selecting region setting colors In this chapter we will not explain them in full detail just enough to enable you to work with the program You should understand t
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33. si LZS Drawing in the repeat 12 DRAWING IN THE REPEAT Often the picture consists of one or more building blocks layers which are placed in columns or rows and some of them can be mirrored horizontally or vertically Of course user may draw one layer and then place it several times with paste functions described in Chapter 8 8 However when layers are regularly placed it is easier to set the repeat pattern first then draw edit one layer while the computer will repeat the operations for all the other layers The advantage of this method is that you can interactively modify the building block and immediately see how every drawing operation will affect the whole repeated image The proper sequence of steps is the following 1 Setting the repeat parameters building block size repeat type and mirroring information about each element 2 Drawing editing the picture 3 Converting image of several repeats to a single image 12 1 SETTING THE REPEAT PARAMETERS First use the Drawing in repeat command Ctrl D in the Image menu and the following window will appear Its content is similar to multiple paste window Mls evar with some modifications On the top is a graphical configuration of the repeat pattern each repeat is displayed as an Preview PEN ul 4 arrow It can assume four different positions which decide the mirroring of the repeat Repeat mode oH omm Ont Horizont
34. the density the width and height values change too 4 Close the chain again so that the width and height will be calculated in the proportion to the density Lock the density it means that it will remain same when you will change other parameters yo ArahPaint 5 0 345 beta scan1 png 892x999 100 modified File Edit Colors Image Tools Filters View Help V4 CK L Pro Resize image a x Original width 892 Height 999 Width 571 6 o Height 219 W Px Width 89 20 Jag m Q Height 99 90 gt J system Density Width 64 00 4 Threads cem v 1 Density Height 22 00 Q 1 O E E ARE Z Filter None v OK Reset Close SSS NS rx Figure 101 Before changing the width and height 5 Set the new width dimension in pixels usually it matches the number of hooks Accordingly the height is changed as well as physical dimensions you can choose different units from the drop down menu S O ArahPaint 5 0 345 beta scan1 png 892x999 100 modified File Edit Colors Image Tools Filters View Help AN y PM Resize image _oxX Original width 892 Height 999 Width 2400 Height 920 s A Width 375 00 Height 41998 lt gt Density Width 64 00 a Threads cm v Density Height 22 00 OK Reset Close Figure 102 Setting the new width 6 If the calculated number of pixels in height doesn t exactly match the size of the weave you want to use in your
35. the selected area 8 1 2 FREEHAND SELECTION You can select the area of any shape in the picture The procedure is very similar to freehand drawing 1 Click icon keyboard shortcut L 2 Move the mouse button to the place where the freehand selection should begin 3 Press the left mouse button and drag the mouse to draw a freehand selection border As the mouse moves the dashed line follows the mouse pointer 4 To draw a straight selection border release the button and click where segment should end You can switch between freehand and straight line selection border as you draw it 5 To stop drawing selection click right mouse button The program automatically connects first and last point by line Figure 81 Three modes of freehand selection freehand vector and combined mode 8 1 3 USING THE MAGIC WAND TOOL The magic wand tool lets you select a consistently colored area without having to trace its outline You should specify Threshold color range before using the magic wand To use the magic wand tool 1 Select the magic wand tool sy 2 For Threshold enter a range of pixel values ranging from o to 255 Enter a low value to select colors very similar to the pixel you click or enter a higher value to select a broader range of colors for instance Treshold 55 3 In the image click the color which you want to select All adjacent pixels within the threshold range are selected If the Whole image opt
36. variable size of effect 2 use a filter as a gradient x options With some filter operations you get satisfactory result only if you repeat them several times To do this use Filters gt Repeat last operation or use keyboard shortcut Ctrl F 13 1 Noise The noise filters add noise to the image or to the active layer The image noise is the random variation of color information in images It is generally regarded as an undesirable but sometimes it produces interesting effects in the fabrics To access function choose Filters gt Noise and then you have three different options directions e Horizontal and Vertical e Horizontal e Vertical To change the Noise parameters click the Measure tool icon A The noise related parameters are X and Y There are several ways of using it Noise with parameters x 0 y o default values 7 makes a single pixel noise using all unprotected colors from the Color palette If you use it in the geia or horizontal direction you get 1 pixel wide color ee SS www arahne si ws ArahPaint User Guide stripes Since the stripe distribution is completely random sometimes there are 2 or more pixels wide stripes But if you change either x or y to 1 then ArahPaint takes care about the repetitions so that line width remains 1 all the time while the colors are always alternating Figure 139 Horizontal vertical vertical and horizontal noise at x 0 y 0 If you change x and y v
37. 4 Colors 1200x600 PNG 3 Colors 22 0ct 2013 16 33 22 0ct 2013 16 33 22 Oct 2013 16 33 22 0ct 2013 16 51 22 0ct 2013 16 33 22 0ct 2013 16 33 22 Oct 2013 16 33 File name SizeX 7 7 Colors 7 lt 7 Pod Color map z CoS oo oO eeo e e e la PNG J Sort x Repeat X File name Suffix X Size File size X n2 x Directories Figure 10 Filter option Another useful function of the image browser pressing a first letter of a directory or a file name in the image browser positions selection on a directory file which filename starts with that letter 7 8 Chapter 4 www arahne si KAS Basic operations i 7 09 4 3 1 BROWSING SUBDIRECTORIES ArahPaint s browser has a capability of showing files in subdirectories It is very useful when you search for a file but you don t know in which directory you have saved it If there are subdirectories in your parent directory then the Image browser displays the leafless tree icon at the top right corner of the window in the same line as a directory path To display all files from subdirectories click the tree icon It changes to the tree with a Which means that the Image browser shows all files from the parent directory and its subdirectories If an image was found in a subdirectory then the name of subdirectory appears in the image icon leaves and fruits icon 4 4 OPENING IMAGE FROM DESKTOP OR FILE MANAGER You ca
38. 5 shows a design created with the Drawing in repeat tool starting with a blank image then setting a half drop repeat and loading and pasting a motif into image Program draws the delimiter lines between individual repeats if you enable View gt Draw delimiter lines Alt G Be SS www arahne si 28 ArahPaint 1 User Guide W ArahPaint 4 1d work ArahPaint half_drop2 png 253x300 50 o e File Edit Colors Tools Filters View Help mle x points O 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 PALATA A Drawing In repeat CZ a Horizontal Vertical Width Height Paste tme E Paste times Gis _ New picture Figure 135 Example of a half drop design 12 2 DRAWING EDITING THE PICTURE IN THE REPEAT MODE First change the view type with the command Repeat R from the View menu Perform drawing operations Every operation is repeated on every repeat which forms the image You can draw over the border of repeat Some contour operations require the Repeat view in order to be correctly applied across the border The most common usage of drawing over the borders of repeat is when you correct the transition between right and left or top and bottom of the repeated image Figure 136 shows design repeated two times Red circles mark mistakes at the junction of the repeat Cn nn Figure 136 After scanning usually there are mistakes on the repeat borders You can simply draw across the repeat and correct mistakes 62
39. AIGHT LINES Use the icon button wa keyboard shortcut I to activate this tool Then move the mouse pointer to a line starting point in the picture and press the left mouse button Drag the mouse until the line is of the desired length and angle Then release the mouse button Tool options are Thick lines use this option when you want to have diagonal pixels connected it works only at line width 1 The line on the left is normal the one on the right is thick Figure 29 Normal line and thick line mi LZS www arahne si re ArahPaint 17 User Guide Keep aspect if your image density dpi ratio is different from 1 the physical size of horizontal and vertical lines drawn with same pixel width is different By using keep aspect option the pixel width of one of the lines that one which would be thicker is reduced to be similar as thinner one In Figure 30 lines and circle which are drawn in normal mode line width is set to four pixels in blue lines drawn while the Keep aspect option is on are in red color Figure 30 Drawing in aspect drawing Brush option to draw by brush you have to select a part of the image which you want to use as a brush and place it in the brushes palette or choose a brush from the brushes which are already in the palette or load it to the palette from the image brush browser more about brushes in Chapter 10 5 2 DRAWING PERFECTLY HORIZONTAL VERTICAL OR DIAGONAL LI
40. AVERAGING WITH PARAMETER Sometimes the color surfaces get jagged edges after image resizing or color reduction To make edges regular set the parameter of averaging from 2 to 7 higher number means a stronger degree of averaging Set the parameter in the Line width field If the image consists only from line and edges you have to color the surfaces since the algorithm distorts or even removes single pixel wide lines Figure 166 Before and after averaging with parameter 4 13 13 3 DESPECKLE The despeckle option works in a similar way as averaging but you can set the neighbor parameter and have control over the pixel removing You set the neighbor parameter in the line width field The parameter value of the isolated pixels they don t have any neighbor is 1 For every neighbor which touches the pixel in the diagonal direction the parameter increases for 1 and for every neighbor which touches the pixel on the straight edge the parameter increases for 2 The program removes all pixels which neighbor value is less than the parameter setting You can apply the despeckle function to the all colors in the image Filters gt Despeckle gt All or only on the foreground color Filters gt Despeckle gt Selected SAS www arahne si E ArahPaint 73 User Guide Figure 167 explains the neighbor parameter value If you set the line width to 1 then the program removes isolated pixels which don t have an
41. Al to access the option fields and set the value to something like 500 or more Select Filters gt Corals and from the menu choose the coral type Each type uses different criteria to attach the points Normally you would need to repeat operation few times Filters gt Repeat last operation keyboard shortcut Ctrl F Figure 156 The corals menu Color of corals Color of the coral growing area Figure 157 Corals drawn with foreground color around background color value set to 9000 Figure 158 explains the six types of corals in ArahPaint All corals in the image grow from the center point and were drawn at same value settings 1 ae IE 2 ee 3 Figure 158 Six types of corals 70 Capa a www arahne si LZS Using filters 13 11 GRADIENT This filter tool fills the selected area with a gradient blend of the foreground and background colors In the menu you can choose the direction either vertical either horizontal Figure 159 The color gradient between foreground white and background color blue Figure 160 shows the result of gradient filter using same settings as in the previous image except that we have used the bidirectional mode In one repeat gradient goes from foreground color to background color and back We get a seamless repeating image Figure 160 The color gradient bidirectional mode oO If you enable the All colors option x then the gradient uses
42. E E i E w Be ich a Ol E icy the option explains how layers are laid DEI olal Ol JO Z Y Y down OK Preview Close e Distance mode The top right icons ee ee eer determine the value of the Distance field In case the left icon is selected default zj lt the distance parameters sets the distance between two consecutive layer placements If the distance value set is bigger than the layer size this can be aligned inside the virtual frame determined by Figure 90 Repeat layer window the distance parameter When the rightmost icon is selected the distance parameter sets the distance between the two nearest borders of two consecutive layers as depicted on the icon In this mode the Alignment parameter has no meaning and therefore it is not visible e Horizontal Vertical The window is separated into two identical parts the layer s width height are displayed at the top e Paste times Enter the value how many times you want to repeat the layer in each direction e Offset sets for how much every row column of pasted layers is shifted with respect to its predecessor Offset can be relative or absolute In the first case it can be only fraction of the repeat width height 1 2 1 3 1 n in the second case you can change the offset value in pixels Offset setting depends on the ce 43 GZS www arahne si uaz ArahPaint User Guide repeat mode when block repeat is selected offsets are disabled while with b
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44. La a sa eens a an Lh P e a fe ee E m Figure 147 Placing motifs using protected colors 13 5 IkaT Ikat is a type of weaving where the warp weft or both are tie dyed before weaving to create designs on the finished fabric If you want to get a similar look on an ordinary jacquard fabric you have to draw distorted image To use the automatic ikat function which will randomly Averaging Despeckle gt AS Noise sH Self avoiding motifs gt et Random motifs in Place motifs w z move lines or columns of an image for the E Ikat diana a t ertica determined value press the measure tool icon Horizontal and vertical _ _ set the offset in the Value field in pixels of Figure 148 Setting the value and choosing the ikat direction the Measure tool and use Filters gt Ikat from the menu You can choose between Horizontal Vertical and Horizontal and vertical direction You can repeat the operation as many times you want Bhu ikti thi Figure 149 Before and after applying the Ikat effect the image in the middle with the value of 5 and image in the right hand side with the value of 12 If you have protected colors in the image the program will not create the effect on that color The Ikat filter supports usage of protection on the colors SS www arahne si 22 ArahPaint 67 User Guide Figure 150 Before and after applying the ikat effect
45. Line mode 9 9 UNSKEW TOOL Using the unskew tool lets you fix the geometry of a layer which is distorted by perspective The tool is explained on next three figures This is useful for pictures where you could not use the scanner Make a rectangular selection you want to unskew Click the Unskew tool icon A around the object which Figure 118 Make a selection 54 Chapter 9 www arahne si SAS Transform tools Drag the corners of selection to the corners of distorted part of the image Click OK in the Unskew dialog box The selection becomes normal rectangular layer Figure 120 Unskewed selection 9 10 CHANGING THE START OF REPEAT Sometimes after the picture is put into repeat it is desirable to move the starting point of the repeat up down or left right This function is accessible through icons and in the toolbox The first tool moves the starting point in horizontal direction while the second in vertical direction The procedure is 1 Select one of the icons 2 Move the mouse pointer to the new starting point in the selected direction The cut point is the middle of the mouse pointer not its edge 3 Press left mouse button 9 11 SHIFTING THE IMAGE OR LAYER To access the Shift tool click the Measurement tool icon Al Among others there are four icons with arrows which determine the direction of shifting For shifting left or right enter the number of pixels
46. N PAPER Drawing a design on paper is usually simpler and easier for a designer than drawing it directly into the computer Therefore a design can be drawn by hand on paper using traditional drawing techniques The drawing can be black and white or colored It is easier to color regions using Arahpaint s flood fill tool instead of doing it by hand For shaded designs however hand coloring may be a better choice The design does not need to be drawn in 1 1 scale because the computer can resize the image to any size A design on paper does not need to exceed a size of A4 format In this way an A4 scanner will be enough to import the picture into the ArahPaint program 3 2 SCANNING THE DRAWING On Linux system there are variety of scanning programs under the graphic menu You will also need to configure your scanner using the Linux system administration tools On OpenSUSE Linux this tool is called YAST Please read scanner s manual before scanning Regardless of the scanner type you should take care that 1 The image is aligned with the scanning area which will reduce the need to rotate the drawing later on 2 The unnecessary white space should be cut out from scanned picture By using preview mode available with most scanning software you can see the size of the drawing in correspondence to the scanning area Use the bounding rectangle to limit the scanning area to the area actually covered by the drawing 3 Choose a
47. NES Drawing straight lines has powerful extension if you double click the Straight line icon it changes to gt Now you can draw horizontal vertical or diagonal lines If you move a mouse horizontally it doesn t need to be perfectly straight the drawn line is horizontal If a mouse line exceeds the angle of 23 degrees the drawn line will be diagonal at 45 degrees If you move the mouse toward horizontal the line will be drawn as a horizontal line Figure 31 Drawing straight lines 5 3 FREEHAND DRAWING To activate freehand draw one of the most frequently used tools click the icon keyboard shortcut P Simply move the mouse pointer to a starting point in the picture hold the left mouse button and drag the mouse as if a pencil would be in your hand To stop release the mouse button It has one more option than drawing of straight lines the Stamp tool see Chapter 10 2 2 5 4 POLYGON DRAWING The polygon is a series of straight lines whose ends are connected so that the ending point of one line is the starting point of the next line It is useful for drawing figures which will be colored later with the fill area tool Since lines are connected coloring the figure will not leak out of figure s boundaries Polygon drawing is different from line drawing 1 Select the een amp 2 Move the mouse pointer to the starting point and press left mouse button 3 Move not drag the mouse to
48. Rs ArahPaint Users manual THE EUROPEAN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PRIZE Winner egiiinced for inte S CORE mage Software Partner Member of the Intel Software Partner Program Arahne d 0 0 1992 2015 X Window System is trademark of The Massachusetts Institute of Technology UNIX is a registered trademark in the USA and other countries licensed exclusively through X Open Company Limited Postscript is a trademark of Adobe Systems Epson is a trademark of Seiko Epson Corporation The Graphics Interchange Format is the Copyright property of CompuServe Incorporated GIF sm is a Service Mark property of CompuServe Incorporated JPEG image format support 1991 95 Thomas G Lane The Independent JPEG Group TIFF image format support 1988 1997 Sam Leffler 1991 1997 Silicon Graphics Inc PNG image format support 1995 97 Guy Eric Schalnat Group 42 Inc zlib compression 1995 96 Jean Loup Gailly and Mark Adler of zi i LZS www arahne si z ArahPaint Table of Contents Table of Contents LINO GU TION e EE E 1 1 1 ArahPaint4 versus Arai QMS sesaiheccoseciicccieitiieslicion denice ta sianawelsoenls tie oh slovaict seedteldiodiwoeeicdealedeceetaadnaseaneaplacnsniaasdcladeboade 1 2 Frogram ap OG al AN CG wisicicicaccacaasamiasunesawtessammastesuani as test antaet er uaesenderiauaceiendsememdensaneseneeteuaautensea 1 DA UMN UV VAMC WY ease ope EE settee deserts Seep ety escent
49. Used colors OK Preview Figure 174 Print picture window 14 1 CHANGING PRINTER SETTINGS To change the printer and its settings press Amm the Setup button to open the Setup dialog Figure 175 stylusDX6400 gutenprint StylusR800 gutenprint Stylus B 300 gutenprint Stylus B 500DN gutenprint Stylus Photo P50 T50 gutenprint Stylus Photo T60 gutenprint e Printer type gutenprint You can change the following parameters Jeb Gah True color Black amp white Printer Print mode Density y Density x s Printer mode Stylus Photo P50 T50 gutenprint True color 1440 1720 Print to file tmp 7 rubberborder1 png e Printout quality e Printing to file OK Cancel Figure 175 Printer setup window 75 76 APE www arahne si LZS Printing a picture Their values are shown in the boxes below respective scrolled lists First select a printer by clicking its name on the list Then select the print mode which depends on the selected printer There are at most three different printing modes e True color e Color dithered e Black amp white Please note that color pictures cannot be printed with black and white mode selected In such case ArahPaint will issue an error message The quality of the printout is defined by dot density dpi dots per inch The higher the density the better
50. a ima fond png 1200x841 50 o File Edit Colors Tools Filters View Help 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000 x Transparent move _ Transparent paste lale 2 9 A Active layer 1 Figure 88 Normal layer merging 41 42 rane 8 www arahne si SBS sing layers Figure 89 shows same layer merged with the background image in the transparent mode We got 6 new colors in the image ArahPaint 4 0 suse10 homeltoni data ima fond png 1200x841 50 File Edit Colors Tools View Help points 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 a 1100 o e eo e e a 2 x 0 H Active layer 4 Figure 89 Transparent layer merging 8 8 REPEATING A LAYER The purpose of Repeat layer is to lay down many copies of a single layer selection In this Repeat mode ene way you can fill the entire picture with layers laid in a particular order Choose Tools gt Repeat layer Ctrl Shift V ArahPaint will 1 open a window described below Width 112 Height 100 Let s explain every element of this rather Paste times 4 Paste times 3 complex window Offset EA e Repeat mode There are three different Offset in pixels repeat modes possible block ES brick Distance 112 E Distance 100 E T HH Alignment Alignment and pillar FU Picture beside each of B 7 T 7 Se i
51. ability allowing you to quickly correct undesired modifications to the picture The topics of this manual are arranged in a similar way to the sequence in design preparation procedure The reader should be familiar with graphical user interfaces since its basics selection with a mouse double click buttons file selection boxes text entry and editing etc will not be explained here ArahPaint is aimed at designers who have some knowledge of the weaving process Namely the manual does not contain complete instructions to develop a design into a fabric ArahPaint contains many tools to assist a textile designer but they cannot replace the skills and knowledge of a professional textile designer We hope you find ArahPaint a powerful designing tool which will help you in the everyday work We are always open to comments and suggestions so please send them to our address and we will do our best to improve the program 1 1 ARAHPAINT4 VERSUS ARAHPAINTS ArahPaint is available in two versions ArahPaintg and ArahPaints The version 4 is older and lacks some features but we continue to develop it and keep it on pair with ArahPaints whenever possible Why do we keep two versions Development of ArahPaint4 started on Linux in 2003 In the long development time we have made it into a powerful fast and reliable tool But many optimizations work only on Linux We wrote ArahPaints with a newer version of user interface toolkit and we
52. abled in ArahWeave then the Load file command opens the Browse images dialog and not the Load picture dialog Er Load picture Places B Home Network MBRot Trash 5 data 5 img E fabrics 147 9 GiB Hard Drive 20 0 GiB Hard Drive 20 0 GiB Hard Drive 10 0 GiB Hard Drive 51 7 GiB Hard Drive 30 0 GiB Hard Drive 25 1 GiB Hard Drive 150 0 GiB Hard Drive 92 2 GiB Hard Drive 60 0 GiB Hard Drive 25 0 GiB Hard Drive 180 0 GiB Hard Drive a home arahne server on 1 a_ 976 0 MiB Removable Me gt 4 Cu gt home gt capdam gt data gt img gt demo ZER small_flo png waat SERO simple png pepita maze png Pea sample png SEa pastel png amp rosegray png SS rambler flower2 png 7 OPart png x a paisley png TZ mills png Puzzle png lt P polki png lili png Plate png gt leaves png lt Name Filter All files W Load picture Look in 3 home capdam data img demo elle Bel E 0 flo3 png _ leaf3 png 3colorScratches png flo4 png _ leaf4 png arahne png flo5 png _ leaf png _ astra png _ flower3 png leaves png barok1 png _ flower png j lili png _ blanket png _ flowers png J mills png j border png garden png OPart png J bordure png J helmi png paisley png 0 Cards png 0 Hexamaze png _ pastel png 0 striped flowers classic png img02 png pepita maze png _ Stripes1 png
53. abric Number of colors in the picture determines the number of different weaves For most fabrics twenty colors are more than sufficient There are two ways of decreasing the number of colors used by the picture e automatic decreasing increasing function e user defined reduction of number of colors 6 4 1 AUTOMATIC DECREASING INCREASING OF NUMBER OF COLORS 6 4 1 1 TRUE COLOR 24 BIT IMAGES It is available through command Colors gt Set number of colors The Number of colors in the palette field displays the fa Ryans number of available colors 256 You can change the number by typing or by arrows at the right side of the number Number of colors in the palette Used colors True color 24 bit Click the Preview button to display a preview of the changes when you like the result click the OK button Pace 0 _ Color dither By default ArahPaint reduces the number of colors according to the presence of a particular color Colors which cover OK Preview Close smaller areas of the picture will be converted to the most similar from the remaining ones most frequently used colors Figure 53 Set number of colors window on true If enabled the Color dither mixes the pixels of the available color image 24 bits per pixel colors to simulate the missing colors 27 28 Chapter 6 www arahne si SBS Working with colors Figure 54 Original image in true color mode image with number of colors reduced to 7 im
54. adding or removing and direction you should check one of the four Type icons in the Insert or remove area dialog a adds area vertically tdi e Color Area e adds area horizontally Position 874 l2 aE Before E gt remove area vertically Number of pixels 1 Er i e remove area horizontally OK You have two possible ways to define adding or removing Figure 112 Insert or e By straight line default area is rectangular remove area dialog e By freehand line MS added area follows freehand drawn line You have three different choices to determine an appearance of the added area e Color inserted area is in currently selected foreground color default e Area inserted area is a duplicate of the area determined by Position and Number of pixels e Line inserted area is in the color of the horizontal or vertical line can be straight or freehand drawn at chosen Position 9 8 1 INSERTING OR REMOVING RECTANGULAR AREA You can insert or remove the rectangular area in two ways e By entering parameters 1 Set the pixel position where you want to add or remove space 2 Decide whether the space will be added before or after pixel position 3 Number of pixels that you want to add or remove 4 Click OK e By drawing with mouse 1 Place the mouse pointer on the position where you want to add or remove the area 2 Click with left mouse button and drag the mouse The number
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56. age with number of colors reduced to 7 using a dithering algorithm The Noise option helps to reduce sharp borders between colors It has 12 levels This option is not available if the Color dither option is on Scaling dithered images by certain factors introduce numerous artifacts so it is essential to apply dithering after you have scaled the image to its final size Figure 55 Dithered image on the left and same image after resizing it to 90 of its original size you can notice the artifacts caused by scaling 6 4 1 2 8 BIT COLOR IMAGES The Set number of colors window Figure 56 is slightly different when Faea E you reduce the number of colors in the color palette indexed mode The Noise and the Color dither options are not available Number of colors in the palette Used colors a OK Preview Close Figure 56 Setting number of colors on palette image 8 bit per pixel 6 4 2 USER DEFINED COLOR REDUCTION If you want to manually control removal of colors from the picture use the command Color gt Reduce number of colors Alt C The appearance and function of the Reduce number of colors dialog depend on the color depth of the image that you want to process eae SAS www arahne si re ArahPaint 29 User Guide 6 4 2 1 TRUE COLOR 24 BIT Enables you to reduce the number of colors to predefined palette A color S bes uns TTE palette is actually normal image in indexed color mode 8 b
57. al Width p no mirroring of the repeat Vertical Height 614 Paste times 2 N horizontally mirrored repeat 396 Paste times 2 vertically mirrored repeat Reset New picture Random im horizontally and vertically mirrored repeat To change the mirroring type place a mouse pointer over the arrow that you want to change and press the left mouse button The arrow will jump to the next mirror type Since there are only 4 mirror types you will get what you want in maximum 3 clicks If you press the right mouse button it will put the arrow to the default orientation Figure 134 Drawing in repeat window e Repeat mode allows three different types of repeat alignment block aH brick E and pillar HH e Offset is active only when brick or pillar mode is selected It can be either fixed fraction of width height of repeat like half drop or absolute where you input the offset in pixels e Paste times Number of repeats in a row column e Distance Distance between two subsequent repeats in a row column e The number below Horizontal and Vertical displays the total size of the picture Two exclamation signs beside the number denotes picture size mismatch due to the wrong offset e New picture Program will create a new picture made of repeats according to parameters set in this window This is usually the last step in the process of creation of a compound image Figure 13
58. ale the whole image or just add extra space in the foreground color to it Le Eh 9 3 1 SCALING THE IMAGE SIZE TO MATCH THE NUMBER OF HOOKS AND FABRIC DENSITY Scaling the image size to match the number of hooks and fabric density can be done in few steps in the Resize image dialog 1 Load the image and open the resize image dialog 4g O ArahPaint 5 0 345 beta scant png 892x999 100 modified File Edit Colors Image Tools Filters View Help y Ls p Go Resize image J f Original width _892_ Height_999 Width 892 Height 999 Width Height Density Width Threads in v Density Height O E FW amp ES Fiter None x OK Reset AAN mm Figure 99 The default state of Resize image dialog 2 Before setting the warp and weft density break the chain by clicking on it i It changes to the broken chain m icon ti Now you can set each density independently SS www arahne si 22 ArahPaint 47 User Guide 3 Set the unit of the density Threads inch Threads cm and the density of the fabric 4e O ArahPaint 5 0 345 beta scan1 png 892x999 100 modified File Edit Colors Image Tools Filters View Help SS a CIN 1 Er Resize image Original width 892 Height 999 Width 571 Height 219 System Density Width 64 00 9 a Threads cm v 1 Density Height 22 00 fe 1 oie la esa OK Reset Close Figure 100 As you set
59. alues to anything different from o or 1 and use Horizontal and vertical noise you get rectangles of different colors with preset x and y dimensions Figure 140 If you use only Vertical or Horizontal Noise you get lines with length between x and y value Figure 140 Horizontal vertical vertical and horizontal noise at x 8 y 4 value 1 13 2 SELF AVOIDING MOTIFS This function adds color motif which avoid each other in the image for the Fain bli maximum possible distance To use it choose Filters gt Self avoiding motifs and select a motif shape from a menu You can select the square rectangle diamond circle ellipse triangle line cross and the diagonal cross Figure 141 The self avoiding motifs shapes To set the amount and size of added motifs click the Measure tool icon ES to access the option fields In the X field enter the size of shape in pixels in horizontal direction in the Y field enter the size of shape in pixels in vertical direction and enter the number of motifs in the Value field If the both X and Y fields are set to o program adds single pixels to the image Figure 142 Self avoiding motifs options 63 64 Sree www arahne si SAS Using filters a ArahPaint 4 2d New picture 600x540 100 modified File Edit Colors Image Tools Filters View Help 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 EJE wla lal we PIS AI Figure
60. ated or loaded a layer chose Image gt Rotate image Shift R or press on the toolbox and a rotation dialog will pop up Figure 97 A Transform Rotate image Rotating an image turns it around its center point while flipping an image inverts it across its horizontal or vertical axis Angle 45 To rotate a layer selection or image do one of the SS eee e eee following Filter None hi e Move the pointer outside of the bounding border and then drag the mouse while pressing the left OK mouse button Reset Figure 97 Setting a rotation angle e Specify an angle of rotation in the degrees field e Change the position of the angle slider e Click one of the fixed angle rotation buttons 45 degrees 90 degrees The Filter option works in the same way as during image resize chapterg 1 2 When an image is rotated an interpolation method is used to calculate the new rotated image The more sophisticated the method the more details of the original image are preserved The interpolation method is set on the Filter cascade menu e Resizing without any filter None is the fastest but least precise method 46 Chapter 9 www arahne si LZS Transform tools e Bilinear is the medium quality method The color of each pixel is computed as the average color of the four closest pixels in the original image This gives a satisfactory result for most images and is a good compromise between speed and quality e Bicubic
61. ation and not only for long floats control To use the stitch tool click on its icon ked in the toolbox or use shortcut Shift K and click on the color area where you want to add stitching points If you add stitching points in the ground you should work in the repeat mode ArahPaint al User Guide H Eke SAS www arahne si Below tool bar there are different stitch options e Direction left right left right up down up down determines which shape should the stitch line follow e Length is the distance between two points in the chosen direction Length E x gil e Plain weave if you enable it then there will be a plain weave pattern gill instead of connected pixels in the stitch line Figure 39 shows the usage of the stitching tool all images were made with the Figure 38 The stitch tool Length of 7 pixels You can choose the direction of drawing the lines depending of the options shape of the motif and the desired effect ecu ep UM tS Ul xa om xm o gt xa o x OF x x Figure 39 Stitching points all possible combinations 5 12 SPRAY Spray tool draws many randomly distributed of dots in foreground color around the mouse pointer As with analogue spray dot density diminishes from the center of the mouse pointer to outside 1 Select the icon fe lor use the keyboard shortcut J 2 Set the dot size shape By default the d
62. background layer If you are simply retouching the image you don t have to create new layers But if you plan to add different designs to your image layers will make your task a lot easier Layers allow you to work on one element of your image without disturbing the others Until you merge the layers each layer remains independent You can get layers into the image by loading them they are actually normal images or by selecting a part of the image thus transforming it into a layer GSS ERS IS www arahne si fa ArahPaint User Guide 8 1 SELECTING The selected area is indicated by a dotted selection border The area outside the selection border is protected while you move copy paint or apply any other tool to the selected area In Chapter 4 20 we have learned how to make a rectangular selection But often we need to make a more complicated selection ArahPaint allows you to make freehand selection selection by color a magic wand and inverted selection 8 1 1 ELLIPTICAL SELECTION To use the elliptical selection tool double click the rectangular selection icon EJ which changes to the elliptical selection icon cE Drag the mouse from the center of the selection After you release the mouse button you can still move the selection boundary by moving the mouse pointer to the border of the dashed ellipse from the inside out until the mouse pointer shape changes to double arrow Now drag the mouse to change the size of
63. cked points determine the curve between those three points Follow these steps to draw the curve 1 Select the icon er 2 Move the mouse pointer to the starting point and press left mouse button Move not drag the mouse to the next point and press left mouse button again Repeat step 3 until the desired curve is drawn n p Y Press right mouse button to stop curve drawing 5 9 BEZIER TOOL It allows you to create a complex object quickly and simply Combination of linked bezier curves are commonly called a path The path consists of two components straight and curved segments To draw the b zier curves select the B zier tool from the toolbox then click in the image to create the first point To draw a straight line click where you want to end it Move the mouse to a new point and left click the mouse to create another point linked to the previous point The blue circles are anchor points two green squares are control points sometimes referred as handle associated with the selected anchor You can change appearance of curve by moving the anchor points handles or curve itself click and drag the curve to move it INAN NEN Figure 33 Drag anchor point handles or curve to change the appearance of it If you click close to the anchor point both handles are at the same anchor Clicking somewhere between curve s anchor points draws one handle at each point With middle mouse button you can add new anchor points to
64. design you have to change it Broke the chain so that you can change the height independently and type in the new value Click the OK button 48 Chapter 9 www arahne si SBS Transform tools Sg O ArahPaint 5 0 345 beta scani png 892x999 100 modified File Edit Colors Image Tools Filters View Help L ET G Original width 892 Height 999 PT O Width 2400 Aoo EnD n AN Width 375 00 Y mm oe Height 409 09 Density Width 64 00 V a Threads cem v Density Height 22 00 Filter None v _ciose Figure 103 Correcting the height number of wefts in design 7 The final result is re sampled image to the new size Er ArahPaint 5 0 345 beta scan1 png 2400x900 30 modified File Edit Colors Image Tools Filters View Help Figure 104 The resulting image of resizing 9 4 ALIGNING THE IMAGE After scanning you should check whether the image is aligned horizontally and vertically to window borders If not you should rotate the whole image to achieve alignment To do this choose Edit gt Rotate Image Draw a line which follows the orientation marks could be a line two crosses etc in the image SS www arahne si 22 ArahPaint 49 User Guide EA ArahPaint 4 0s home toni data img scan png 945x1044 50 File Edit Colors Tools Filters View Help points 0 100 200 300 400 500 KANONIE Ameoa i O oO E w i x lt wo W
65. e www arahne si SBS Using filters X determines number of zigzags that filter creates in the image in horizontal direction actually up or down to get zigzag up and down you need to set the number to 2 or it should be the even number Images in Figure 153 were made with value 8 it creates 4 peaks e Y determines the number of zigzags that filter creates in the image in the vertical direction left or right e Value is the peak to peak amplitude in pixels If the value is set to o program takes the whole image height as the amplitude value Figure 153 Initial image image filtered with value of o image filtered with value of 20 13 8 Wave The wave filter is similar to zigzag it creates waves in the image As with the zigzag filter click the Measure tool icon a to access the option fields e X determines the number of waves that filter creates in the image in the horizontal direction actually up and down Images in Figure 153 were made with value 4 e Y determines the number of waves that filter creates in the image in the vertical direction left and right e Value is the peak to peak amplitude in pixels If the value is set to o program takes the whole image height width as the amplitude value Figure 154 shows the wave filter effect the second and third image were made by using the value of amplitude 8 and x and y value 12 The last image is just a repeat view of the third one showing that filte
66. e from the menu shortcut CTRL J toggles between the True color and the Color palette mode When converting from true color mode to color palette mode ArahPaint builds a color palette which contains the list of the colors used in the image If a color in the original image does not appear in the table the program chooses the closest one or simulates the color using available colors 6 2 COLOR PALETTE Figure 44 shows the appearance of the color palette It will always display the colors of the active layer If the active layer or image has true color 24 bits per pixel depth then the palette will not be shown If you want to see the color palette of a different layer you have to select that layer in the Layer palette or in the Active layer field this is faster since you don t need to switch a view to the Layer palette Figure 44 shows a color palette of a second layer 6 2 1 COLOR PALETTE TOOLS Active layer 2 Color palette tools are located at the bottom of the palette area _ amp Show used colors if you press this icon the program will underline colors which are actually used in the image re amp Remove unused colors will remove all colors from the palette which are not used in the image light brown 14 blue 15 light violet 16 A Remove duplicate colors use this command after you copied one color to another and you don t want to treat them as separate colors Figure 44 Thecolorpalette a
67. e guides 330 f 7 _ KI baii aTe 270 240 Figure 21 Double click in the ruler creates a guide 4 16 Measure TOOL Measure tool lets you measure the distance between two pixels in the image To use it click ES icon in the Toolbox shortcut Shift I draw a line between two points and the program will display the length in points cm and inches sn ART ims i mre m r Figure 22 Measure tool displays distance in points cm and inches The measure tool has additional tools beneath it Split Merge Move Tilt and several parameters for each of these tools Value x and y are also used for some of the Filter tools Chapter 13 4 17 CROSS HAIR CURSOR The cross hair cursor helps you drawing or checking the picture more precisely To switch it on use View gt Crosshair cursor or more convenient use the keyboard shortcut Z A Figure 23 The crosshair cursor mouse pointer at zoom 100 and at zoom 500 14 Chapter 4 www arahne si SBS Basic operations 4 18 PAN TOOL To pan the image move it while holding the middle mouse button down When you press the button and during moving the cursor pointer changes to four arrows shape ogo 4 19 USING THE TOOLS Some tools in the toolbox let you select edit and view images other tools let you paint draw and type Toolbox Yo
68. es RGB Red Green Blue and HSL Hue Saturation Luminance in two modes Color palette mode 8 bits per pixel also known as Indexed mode is the default mode for new ArahPaint images This mode allows up to 256 colors The Grayscale mode is special case of Color palette mode This mode uses up to 256 shades of gray Every pixel of a grayscale image has a brightness value ranging from o black to 255 white Grayscale values can also be measured as percentages of black ink coverage 0 is equal to white 100 to black GZS www arahne si eas ArahPaint User Guide True Color mode 24 bits per pixel uses the RGB color model to specify an intensity to each pixel ranging from o black to 255 white for each of the RGB components in a color image RGB images use three color channels to reproduce up to 16 7 million colors 256x256x256 16 7 million Color values inside ArahPaint are mostly of informational value They give the designer the overall look of the picture dominance of particular colors etc The final colors of the fabric will be set in ArahWeave and will depend on the colors of the yarn and weaves selected Some color related functions are available in the Color palette window while others are located in the Colors menu of the main ArahPaint window 6 1 CONVERTING IMAGES FROM ONE MODE TO ANOTHER To convert an image from one mode to another use command Color gt Convert and choose either 24 gt 8 8 gt 24 or Grayscal
69. es exchanging two or more color channels in the picture Figure 68 From left to right original and results after applying the swap by color channels function e Swaping saturation and lightness 4 Figure 69 Swapping saturation and lightness 6 6 CONTRAST STRETCH This tool increases the contrast in the image It maps the input pixels with the lowest value to black 0 and the ones with the highest to white 255 ee LZS www arahne si ws ArahPaint User Guide Figure 70 Before and after contrast stretch 7 WORKING WITH CONTOURS You can access three of the Contour operations Remove Thin Prune from the Selected colors of the Tools menu while adding and thickening of contours have more options thus they are controlled through the Contour dialog Tools gt Contour When you apply any of the contour operations ArahPaint uses currently selected foreground color as the color of the contour Note that contour operations will work over the borders of repeat only if the View mode is set to Repeat 7 4 THINNING Thinning serves for reducing the contour line width to one point while keeping the continuity of the lines Eliminated contour dots are replaced with the color of its neighbors We want to keep the continuity and connectedness of the lines since we will later fill the picture with colors and we do not want the fill operation to leak To use thinning chose Tools gt Selected col
70. he basic operations before continuing with the other chapters GZS www arahne si mi z ArahPaint User Guide 4 1 CREATING NEW IMAGES The New picture command from the File menu Ctrl N lets you create a bia blank image In the pop up window you can set the following parameters e Size Width this will usually be equal to the number of pattern hooks on your jacquard head and Height this will usually be equal to the number of wefts picks in your design e Color depth for jacquard you will mostly need color palette images which enable you to work with up to 256 colors e Fill type of the new image 7_ OFX New picture size Pixels Width Color palette 8 bit True color 24 bit O Foreground O Background White Cancel 4 2 LOADING IMAGES INTO ARAHPAINT To open a file choose File gt Load picture keyboard shortcut Ctrl O In the Load picture dialog box select the name of the file you want to open The appearance of the File selection dialog depends on operating system you are using The program can load pictures in PNG GIF PCX BMP TIFF and JPEG graphic file formats Also most of the jacquard specific machine formats TIS Grosse Staubli Bonas Schleicher and some competitors Sophis EAT are supported as well Additionally ArahPaints imports some vector formats SVG PDF and SVGZ If the Hide load menu use browse option is en
71. he selection by 10 points instead of 1 If you need your selection to be placed at a specific location observe the layers coordinates above the palette see Figure 25 8 1 9 PLACING LAYER TO PREDEFINED AREA If one of selection tools is selected and there is e a selection in the image you can A 2 Y 389 143x229 1 196 move the selection to the edge of the image or to the center of the image using X Transparent move J if icons in the option area There are three icons for vertical placement top H Transparent paste bottom center Ca EIRA Active layer right center Figure 85 Option area with selection positioning icons 8 2 LOoADING SAVING A LAYER Selection can be saved as a layer so you can reuse to use it in different pictures Saving layer is identical to picture saving with the obvious exception that it only saves the selected area layer Use the command Save layer as in the File menu and use the same procedure as in chapter 4 6 Loading a layer is only slightly different from loading a picture Use the Load layer command keyboard shortcut Ctrl Shift L in the File menu After you add layers to an image use the Layers palette to manage them 8 3 LAYERS PALETTE The Layers palette lists all layers in an image starting with the topmost layer 39 4 0 Chapter 8 CSS www arahne si LBS Using layers 8 3 1 ORDER OF LAYERS The order of layers in the Layers palet
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73. ic MEDIA i Music Name a Date Modified Size Kind a border png 22 Oct 2013 16 32 12 KB PNG image Photos z bordure png 22 Oct 2013 16 32 201 KB PNG image H Movies Cards png 22 Oct 2013 16 32 71KB PNG image T classic png 22 Oct 2013 16 32 58 KB PNG image E Curtain png 22 Oct 2013 16 32 136 KB PNG image _ dandelion png 22 Oct 2013 16 32 5 KB PNG image Files of type Any image png gif tif tiff New Folder Cancel Open Figure 8 File selection dialog on Mac OS X ArahPaint 5 4 3 LOADING FILES FROM IMAGE BROWSER To load a file using the Image Browser choose File gt Browse keyboard shortcut Ctrl Shift O Thumbnails of image files are displayed to identify each image gxi ZS www arahne si we ArahPaint User Guide Yo gt e s e F ee leaves lili mills paisley ee 1200x460 PNG 4 Colors 1200x888 PNG 3 Colors 1200x1352 PNG 12 Cok 2400x1800 PNG 2 22 0ct 2013 16 33 22 0ct 2013 16 33 22 0ct 2013 16 33 22 0ct 2013 16 33 94 W T SNe au OF oMi AY ea A Pe a mee fN i i ist i 4 x POK Se Ye gt ample imple E quar striped flowers superimpose z d 640x220 PNG 5 Colors 2400x2400 PNG 3 Colo 1680x2100 PNG 4 Colo 16 33 22 O0ct 2013 16 33 22 O0ct 2013 16 33 os ay os MAO 2AA D A i S Aio GON __ 0 GSA ALAALA iy a QS eo E tutorial01 tutoriali1 color viticeT warehouse ee a 700x520 PNG 7 Colors
74. ic colors this color will become your selected color 4 e Drag cursor in and i to define the color in the color space A Colors Basic colors EEEE SE pa EEEn E B EE ugn g pa ef 8 8 8 ee EER n E Custom colors hue 58 Red 34 Saturation 234 Green 227 Lightness 234 Blue 19 OK Cancel Add to custom colors Figure 49 Colors window 6 2 7 SORTING COLORS After color reduction the colors are sorted randomly in the Color palette You can sort colors in the color palette by different criteria Popularity Ctrl 1 Hue Ctrl 2 Saturation Ctrl 3 Lightness Ctrl 4 or Similarity Ctrl 5 To sort colors choose Colors gt Sort colors and select the sort key from the drop down menu 26 Chapter 6 Working with colors ees agaaga gagan EE co o 70 gt Fs 38 so fy A Teie Ee gags o e Eae fer oa 70 Fal fe el ee o gt www arahne si SBS adaa sfebshehape of gagan fo fs fe ps fn eo fee aI of EES gege maada felefele Figure 50 Sorting by popularity hue saturation and lightness Sorting by similarity works in the following way choose the color in the palette to which you want to find similar colors The program puts the color to position 1 in the palette and sorts the rest of the colors from most similar to most different color to the selected one gt ES oC Ss gt gt so Fal rg or ME foo 91 192 1935 ELS 195
75. image at its current location 4 24 DELETING A LAYER To delete a selection press Backspace or Delete on the keyboard To cut a selection to the Clipboard choose Edit gt Cut keyboard shortcut Ctrl X 5 DRAWING OPERATIONS No matter how well and accurately the design was drawn on paper it will still need X amp some corrections Do not be too obsessed with precision on every single pixel It is ZISic Ea unlikely that every small mistake will be visible once you insert the weaves and when Ojo Os the design is finally woven Editing is done using of drawing tools layer functions and Lare color operations valable Drawing operations are drawing tools like line freehand polygon rectangle square amp ellipses circles arc drawing fill area and eraser All these tools are accessible through 1 ay icon buttons in the toolbox Tools use the foreground drawing color to draw with left H Presh eH mouse button and background color with right mouse button If you have a brush ae eae selected and brush option is checked drawing tool lets you paint with a brush pattern cach _ Stamp mode The options for the selected tool appears below the toolbox The options area is context sensitive which means that it changes as you select different tools Some settings in Figure 28 Toolbox the options area common to several tools and some are specific to a single tool 5 1 DRAWING STR
76. in the Position field shows the position where you have clicked the blue rectangle indicates the size of added or removed space Figure 113 Number in the Number of pixels field is changing as you drag a mouse and showing the numbers of pixels you will add or remove 3 Release the mouse button new area is drawn in the selected foreground color 52 Chapter 9 www arahne si SBS Transform tools 4 AS R A V Vr D N E tr Ws Sy wW K A n it GA 1 9 Figure 113 Add area with mouse After releasing the mouse button 9 8 2 INSERTING OR REMOVING IRREGULAR AREA Sometimes it is not possible to add the rectangular area without changing the original image In this case you can draw freehand line and ArahPaint will add or remove the required number of pixels before or after drawn line After selecting Type adding or removing direction check the freehand drawing line icon XI A in the Insert or remove area window Enter the Number of pixels that you want to insert Draw the line where you want to insert area Figure 114 Before reaching the edge of the image click right mouse button so the program connects a line to the edge Click OK in the Insert or remove area window You can repeat the operation by clicking the OK button 9 W Insert or rem 2o gt lt Type oy Ss O84 O ge D 3E lt A Color Area C Line
77. in the X field and click the left or right arrow for shifting up or down enter the number in the Y field and click the up or down arrow You can repeat the operation as many times you want Figure 121 The shift tool and its parameters 9 12 TILTING THE IMAGE OR LAYER To access the Shift tool click the Measurement tool icon a The tilt tool shifts every next line of pixels set the width of line in the X field for the horizontal tilt Or set the width of the line in the Y field for the GZS www arahne si 28 ArahPaint 55 User Guide vertical tilt ty ee in the image layer for preset number of pixels in the Value field You can repeat the operation as many times you want Figure 122 shows the basic use of the tilt function Default values are set to o actually it is same as there are set to 1 You just have to click the tilt icon a An important feature of the tilt tool is that after applying it the image keeps the repeat Figure 122 The initial image the initial image after tilting for one pixel and after tilting for one pixel three times and the repeat view of the last image By seting the X or Y and Value you can change the tilting preferences to tilt a block of pixels instead of single pixel Figure 123 explains how to do it 3 Q co rs ag allalla 3 lt u E D e epee St A Bae y gt e Figure 123 First image shows the set
78. ion is on all pixels within the threshold range in the whole image are selected 37 38 Chapter 8 www arahne si SBS Using layers 4 You can select 8 ways which adds adjacent pixels which are connected on the corners to the selection Normal Magic wand mode could also be called 4 way fill since it only checks 4 points top left right bottom 5 If the selection does not cover the desired area undo the operations or press Delete to delete the selection adjust Threshold and try again ae Seo oes eee E LIL fae E Z m OE E LEE aes Figure 82 Magic wand selection green line indicates selection s border 8 1 4 THE WHOLE IMAGE OPTION If the Whole image option is on all pixels within the threshold range in the whole image are selected In this way you can select all areas of one color ArahPaint 4 0 New picture 600x2818 TO00 File Edit Colors Tools View Help 360 370 380 390 i L fo an N D Q O a 8 Lol E EEE a E 9 x ar F HHHH HHHH g GE N ez gt DAN ey E Ty e L Active layer 2 A Figure 83 Magic wand with the Whole image option on 8 1 5 SELECTING AREA BY COLOR You can select all pixels of foreground color using Tools gt Select by color Shift W This function only works on 8 bits per pixel images 8 1 6 SELECTING AREA OF MORE THAN ONE COLOR You can defi
79. it The Le ee program will use its colors to form the group of Selected colors To load a palette click Load or Browse button Loading or browsing work as described in Chapter 4 2 and 4 3 E Selected colors i Color dither Color palette Figure 57 Reduce number of colors dialog showing colors loaded from palette image Figure 58 The original image the image reduced to four colors from figure 57 and image reduced to same four colors with Color dither option enabled 6 4 2 2 8 BIT COLOR There are two types of the number of color reduction of the 8 bit color indexed images Color and Black and white e Color the user selects the colors which should remain in the picture Selection of remaining colors can be done in two ways e From the color palette as you click the color in the palette bia Reduce number of colors 2 2 0 X it appears also in the Selected colors section of the Reduction type 3 Reduce number of colors dialog To remove a color from O iai O Black white Selected colors click it and press Delete button on keyboard e From picture e By loading a color palette A color palette is actually normal image in indexed color mode 8 bit Color palette As you click the OK button ArahPaint converts every color from ki image to the most similar color from the Selected colors group Preview Close e Black and white the picture will be converted to black
80. l layers are merged into a background image To merge all layers at once you should SS choose one of the selecting tools and click the deselect icon L If none of the selecting tools are chosen only the active layer merges with the background image There is another way to merge only the active layer click with right mouse button outside of the picture area To merge all layers to the background image chose Tools gt Merge layers Ctrl Shift E 8 7 SUPERIMPOSING THE LAYER OVER THE IMAGE Superimposing means placing a layer over image in such a way that colors from layer and image are summed up into new colors at normal merging layer colors cover the image colors completely For superimpose to work the images must have a small number of colors The program adds M x N colors to the number of ground image colors as a result where M is a number of colors in the ground image and N is a number of colors in the layer At the end it removes any duplicate or unused colors You can use transparent and protected colors To apply superimpose enable the Transparent paste option move the floating motif to the position where you want it and paste drop it in the picture Figure 87 Image and layer Figure 88 shows placing a layer blue flower over the background image The background image consists of 6 colors adding blue from the layer we got 7 colors all together in the new image EA ArahPaint 4 Ov home toni dat
81. lect the language from the list You must restart gt Save setup WS Chinese simplified ArahPaint for the change to take effect User s manual ii Chinese traditional amp Shortcuts F Butch Fast pattern B English License Finnish Arahne fi French we About E German i i italian me Polish me Russian we Slovenian Spanish Thai E Turkish Figure 3 Setting the language 3 SUGGESTED SEQUENCE OF STEPS The process of converting a design idea into a fabric can be divided into the following steps 1 2 3 4 Preparation of the design with ArahPaint Preparing the necessary weaves in ArahWeave Combining the design and weaves into a jacquard control data with the color simulation on screen and paper Selecting the appropriate loom layout and saving the design in the desired jacquard format ArahPaint only covers the first stage preparation of the design It can be subdivided into the following steps 1 YDP Y Drawing a design on paper Scanning the design into the computer Loading the design into ArahPaint program Cutting out the color border Putting the image into repeat Scaling the image to the desired dimensions Setting the number of colors weaves 4 Chapter 3 www arahne si LZS Suggested sequence of steps 8 Cleaning the scanned picture 9 Editing the picture 10 Saving the final picture 3 1 DRAWING A DESIGN O
82. lors protected colors menu Colors gt Transparent colors gt Clear Colors gt Protected colors gt Clear which enables you to clear setting on all colors in one step 6 2 5 SETTING FOREGROUND AND BACKGROUND COLOR On the toolbox click the foreground or background color square to select which color you want to change Then move the mouse pointer inside the palette region so that the mouse pointer is inside the desired color and press left mouse button to select a new color Foreground color has Switch foreground background Background color 1 The toolbox also contains an arrow to switch between the Foreground and Background colors You can also switch colors by keyboard shortcut X mi LZS www arahne si eas ArahPaint 7 User Guide You can also select the foreground color from the image loaded in the main window move your mouse over the desired color pixel and press the Space key This way you can quickly change the foreground color without having to move the mouse pointer to the color palette window Another way to select color from image is by the Color picker Press Shift mouse pointer will change to P and click the pixel in the desired color 6 2 6 MODIFYING COLOR To modify selected color choose Colors gt Edit Space Shift or double click on the foreground or background color square on the Toolbox The Colors window will pop up You can modify a color using two different ways e Choose color from Bas
83. n open an image file from desktop or file manager by dropping the image icon over the ArahPaint program shortcut icon endnl png IEA le prng ArahWeave tendanl png EE le png Ft rear a e ArahPaint4 circle png ArahPalnt4 circle png png ee Arah Paints TUtorial10 png modern png i amp Arah Bie pe Vell png stripes png Hinga RE naal Hes tutorial O ong modern png Ing Aran Bie pe vel png stripes ong Figure 11 Opening an image from Desktop or File manager After dropping an image icon into ArahPaint s icon the program starts with that image loaded PPO arahPaint 5 0 498 Tablecloth png 4938x4445 15 File Edit Colors Image Tools Filters View Help vy a oints 0 400 800 1200 1600 2000 3200 ArahWeave tendril png TableclothCirc g EMm Elki CEA ArahPaint4 circle png Tablecloth png E ArahPaints tutorial10 png modern png a mune by RENE i a v lg L Aas d ArahDrape vel1 png stripes png Figure 12 After you have dropped a file icon over ArahPaint program shortcut a file icon moves back to its previous position and program opens with image loaded eae LS www arahne si cz ArahPaint 9 User Guide If you drag and drop an image icon into already running ArahPaint it will load it as a layer on the current background image 4 5 LOADING RECENTLY USED FILES ArahPaint remembers recently used files and directories To open one of recently used files choose
84. nction works same as norma mirrored image mirror except that last pixel of the image is omitted from the FECCCCCC et PSCC FECCCCCC CLEC FCCC PARDEE HH A 00008008 Figure 109 The original image and image after Mirror X and Mirror X 1 9 5 2 DIAMOND DUPLICATE The diamond duplicate tool rotates an image for 45 degrees and doubles the image size in the defined direction x ory Figure 110 The original image and image after diamond duplicate in x direction 9 6 SHRINKING AN IMAGE OR LAYER The Shrink function Image gt Shrink divides image size by 2 in the desired direction x or y It is alternative to image resizing but it is accessible with a single click from the menu which is faster then opening the resize image dialog and entering new size values mA Figure 111 The original image and image after shrinking 9 7 MIRRORING AN IMAGE LAYER Use button for mirroring of layer along the vertical axis or button for mirroring along the horizontal 4 axis or SE for mirroring along diagonal Non rectangular layers can also be mirrored ap SBS www arahne si ae ArahPaint 57 User Guide 9 8 INSERTING OR REMOVING AREA FROM IMAGE OR LAYER The Insert or remove area function lets you add or remove space at any position in an existing image fe BA Insert or remove To use the Insert or remove area function click l icon in the Toolbox Depending on the mode
85. ne more than one color as a criterion for selecting by setting the protected colors in the color palette After choosing Tools gt Select by protected colors all areas in protected colors will become a selection 8 1 7 INVERTING SELECTION You can invert a selection so that the previously unselected part of the image becomes selected Choose Edit gt Invert selection ee GZS www arahne si et ArahPaint User Guide 8 1 8 MOVING LAYERS To use this function one of the selection tools E J e eja S or move tool cz should be selected Move the mouse pointer inside the selection layer until the mouse pointer changes its shape into a cross with four arrows P Then press the left mouse button and drag the mouse The layer will move with the mouse pointer To stop release the mouse button While moving the layer is transparent so the correct placement is easier achieved However if you don t like this behavior just disable the Transparent move option below the toolbox Oy i Figure 84 Transparent and opaque layer move If you have several layers then the currently selected layer will have a different selection border from the other ones If you are using the move tool you can change active layer by clicking on a layer For a more precise layer placement you can use keyboard arrow keys move selection 1 pixel left right up down If you keep pressing Shift on the keyboard while using the arrow keys you will move t
86. o the pixel you click A high tolerance fills pixels within a broader range e Fill program fills the area with a mixture like the spray tool of foreground and background color in the preset ratio If the Whole image option is on then the program works slightly different it mixes foreground color to the current color in the area Figure 36 Initial image Fill at 60 Fill at 25 Fill at 50 whole image activated e 8 way fill also fills adjacent pixels which are connected on corners The middle image in Figure 37 shows the default behavior of fill tool if you click on the blue leaf only the leaf changes the color The image on the right shows what happens if you click on the blue leaf and the 8 way fill option is switched on a green color jumps from the leaf trough connected pixel corners to another blue parts of the flower The 8 way fill operation checks 8 points around the clicked point Normal fill could also be called 4 way fill since it only checks 4 points top left right bottom Figure 37 Click on leaf to fill Normal fill 8 way fill 5 11 STITCH TOOL The stitch tool helps you to draw points in the larger color area to prevent long floats in the fabric Normally you correct the long floats in ArahWeave but the stitch line follows the shape of the color area so it is sometimes more convenient to draw points lines in ArahPaint to prevent long floats The stitching lines can be used also as a design decor
87. olor If the All option is disabled then you get new color field With You set the With color in a same way as other contour colors by copying it from the Color palette It means that contours will be drawn only on the border between two the Around color and the With color colors The arrows adjusts the direction of adding the contours With a click you select the arrow with another click you deselect it You can have selected more directions at the same time There are three additional icons HH T i Poi P 7 to the right of the arrow icons They serve as a tool for quick selecting of contour directions all directions left right up down direction diagonal directions When you make all the settings click OK in the Contour window Figure 74 shows the original image on which we will apply some contour operations The color of contour in all examples is blue Figure 74 Original image 35 gQ c Sd D a WY C a Ww Ww lt D de bb AALA Vat GZS www arahne si EE E 5 a a KEIC Contour operation Thick lines _ a t4 Figure 75 Adding contours in all directions all around dark red Direction ontour lt 3 CG Contour operation wy Thick lines Figure
88. olors from palette are used for drawing contours Figure 164 shows the basic usage of the contour filter Contours are drawn in the foreground color cyan the width Value is set to 6 the rest of the contour area is drawn in the background color white both X andY are set to 16 pixels which means that the whole contour area will have a width of 16 pixels point 36 3 aa PlsP Is Figure 164 Top figure shows the original image the contour filter applied once the contour filter applied twice Main image shows the filter setting and the magnified area from upper image 1 71 72 Chapter 13 www arahne si SBS Using filters 13 13 CLEANING UP THE PICTURE Like other input methods scanning produces some noise which is present in the digitized image Noise is usually visible as single dots or groups of dots mainly on the border between two colors 13 13 12 AVERAGING To reduce noise on whole image choose Filters gt Averaging If you have an image with layers it will work just on the active layer The Averaging tool works in the following way it searches through the image for dots dot may be formed from more than one pixel that differ from the ones in its neighborhood and change them to predominant color in the surrounding It can be applied several times to achieve the desired result Some information will be inevitably lost in this process Figure 165 Before and after averaging 13 13 2
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90. or gt Thin f Figure 71 Original image and image after thinning 7 2 PRUNING Applying the thinning may produce some undesired contour dead ends visible as twigs This undesired side effect is more likely to occur in the corners of the original design The pruning algorithm looks for such dead ends in the image and prunes them cut them off 33 34 epee 7 www arahne si SBS Working with contours Figure 72 Before and after pruning 7 3 ADDING CONTOURS Add contour will add contour on borders of areas of different colors When you want to add a contour on borders of areas of different colors i open the Contour dialog choose Tools gt Contour Select the color contour operation ada around which you want to have contour from the Color palette and copy Colors Direction it to the Around color by right mouse click The color of contour is Arouna E Into a A currently selected foreground color with 4 All KJ d gt ote Two options give you control over contour placement 2 gt Jipa Thick lines Size 2 e Into means that contour will use border pixels of contour color in Figure 75 Into is not checked so the contour uses border pixels of the neighboring colors OK Close e All means that contour will be drawn on all borders in Figure 75 Figure 73 The Contour dialog contours are drawn on all borders of dark red c
91. oseossooseso a ROY Af SSK Offset in pixels vY SASS VOY SPL gt co Figure 92 Repeat layer in vertical half drop mode distance is smaller than layer size one layer goes into another the background color white must be transparent Q TRANSFORM TOOLS The transform tools let you modify the presentation of the image or the presentation of an element of the image selection or layer 44 Chapter 9 Transform tools www arahne si 5 La Q 9 1 CHANGING THE IMAGE SIZE 9 1 1 SETTING REPEAT DIMENSIONS Default ArahPaint image resolution is 100 dpi in both directions But fabrics have normally different warp and weft density One of the most important ArahPaint s features is ability to draw images in real size mode which means that pixels are not squares but rectangles e ArahPaint 4 To enter density information choose View gt Repeat dimensions Alt R You can set the Repeat dimensions in millimeters fa OT OCOT inches dpi dots per inch or threads per centimeter The usual way is to enter the density in threads per cm mm dpi Threads cm System Some weaves constructions require multiplying image to Width 352 941 172 72 get final image size by the number of warp and weft Height 348 387 78 74 layers You enter these numbers in the System fields Figure 93 shows system of 1 warp and 3 wefts
92. ot size is one by one pixel By changing the number in the Line width field from 1 to 6 you choose among six spray dot shapes 22 Chapter 5 www arahne si SBS Drawing operations E E he 4 5 aT S 6 Figure 40 Six different shapes of spray dot 3 Setthe number of points default is 30 it controls the speed at which the spray fills in the picture 4 Setthe radius of the sprayed area default is 30 pixels 5 As with analogue spray dot density diminishes from the center of the mouse pointer to outside the From center option enabled or can be regular across all area the From center option disabled Points jao Radius 50 X From center 6 Move the mouse pointer to the desired spot and press left mouse button Drag the mouse to other areas or leave it on the same spot if a stronger effect is desired The program will spray dots until you release the button rie i ae a a Iya uh 8 z p A ral d a foots pn wa ri Far ap o s ns Ti ae oa Ji mat d a pe oom ie as A F lb ii Aa ig Toeri Fe 5 aa J mh r ii Ap q e Fia was i ae ae 1 te iy i ah oe Hsi A S I care i Yh r t are Sere mi wd yt l Ua l DE 1 e TR mA ae es Cc P ie ab t p Figure 41 Spray with different dot size If you disable the From center option you can also simply achieve different random fill levels of a single col
93. r doesn t break the repeat if the x or y values are divisible by 4 Figure 154 Initial image wave filter applied in vertical direction wave filter applied in horizontal direction and the repeat view of former image 13 9 Mix It mixes color between two or more adjacent color surfaces You can select the horizontal or vertical mix or both Works similar to spray across the whole image Protected colors are also kept intact As with other filters click the Measure tool icon to access the option fields e X determines the width in pixels of the area between colors where the program creates the mix effect The horizontal mix filter uses the X value e Y determines the height in pixels of the area between colors where the program creates the mix effect The vertical mix filter uses the Y value ZS www arahne si E ArahPaint 69 User Guide Figure 155 Initial image horizontal mix vertical mix horizontal vertical mix 13 10 THE CORALS FILTER This filter tool emulates the coral growth You need to have some starting pixels or objects in the image from which the corals will grow You get nice results if you start with the Self avoiding motifs filter Chapter 13 2 and use these motifs pixels as the coral growing area Corals grow from the objects colored in the background color and are drawn in Corals the current foreground color As with other filters click the Measure tool icon
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95. rea are drawn see Figure 61 Colors in selection Color remapping table ugg file 7 se 3 ras fro E a 2 22 EN Preview Close Figure 61 Color remapping The right area displays the Color remapping table Its first column shows destination colors On their left are colors which are going to be mapped to destination colors see Figure 62 FO Color remapping _ Colors in selection Color remapping table OK Undo Close Figure 62 Color remapping table Procedure 1 Select destination colors from the color palette the color is shown in a first column of a new row 2 Inthe color mapping table point to the desired destination color mi LZS www arahne si ra ArahPaint 31 User Guide 3 Go to the Colors in selection area and click on every color which you want to map to a currently active destination color The color will be removed from selection color area and added to the currently active destination color row 4 Select another destination color and repeat the above two steps Colors in selection which are not in the Color remapping table will remain unchanged in the image 6 The Preview button gives you the preview of the color mapping result Undo restores to the initial condition 7 If you want to remove a non destination color from the mapping table just click on it and it will be added back to Colors in selection area If you want to erase entire mapping row press right
96. rick or pillar mode only one of the offsets can be set e Distance value determines the distance between two consecutive layer placements or the distance between the two nearest borders of two consecutive layers see above It can be also smaller than the size of the layer e Alignment sets the alignment inside a virtual frame when distance parameter value is greater than the layer size in the particular direction Preview Undo button gives the possibility to see the result of settings made without leaving the window If you are not satisfied you can change the parameters and try again OK button will confirm the values You will get new layer which you can still move to the desired place sae Ca Repeat layer GF y Repeat mode Distance mode E om eh EE oT K A 1 RI ISR Horizontal Vertical Width 260 Height 260 Paste times 3 me Paste times 3 f K Ea Offset in pixels v Distance 260 Distance hy Yo Alignment Alignment WD ZA OIZAI ole X oY ay ok Preview Close Figure 91 Repeat layer distance is equal to layer size Repeat layer Repeat mode Distance mode gt lt ANK ney H om Hi e of SFL aa mo e a Paste times 6 fy Paste times 6 gt ST oeeoscocessoeoeoso
97. s Keep width height ratio Density color Changing picture size without resize is typically used when a new empty picture is created or if you want to add an extra area to image When the Keep width height ratio toggle button is set the you can modify the width height OK value and the program will calculate the height width using the original width height ratio Filter Bicubic Averaging Reset Close Figure 96 Resizing the image The Program can use your final fabric density to calculate the new height number of wefts that will keep the image in proportion Just enter the desired number of hooks image width and press the Density button in the Transform window to get your new height When an image is resized an interpolation method is used to assign color values to any new pixels it creates based on the color values of existing pixels in the image The more sophisticated the method the higher quality and detail from the original image are preserved The interpolation method is set from the Filter cascade menu Resizing without any filter None is the fastest but least precise method The other two methods are e Bilinear is the medium quality method e Bicubic is the slowest but most precise method resulting in the smoothest tonal gradations Use it when you are resizing images in true color mode 9 2 ROTATING AN IMAGE LAYER You can rotate any selection layer around its center After you have cre
98. s Messi iesoeT if the grid view is enabled he ee eee Width 8 Black To show or hide the grid choose View gt Show Grid Ctrl G Height 8 White Grey To change the grid properties choose View gt Grid properties You can change grid color to black gray or white color Second level grid determines every how many thin lines a thicker one will be drawn Figure 17 Set grid properties 4 12 4 AnrTI ALIASING When you zoom out the picture the anti aliasing View gt Antialias smooths the jagged edges in the image by softening the color transition between edge pixels and background pixels 11 12 Chapter 4 www arahne si SBS Basic operations Figure 18 Same design viewing at zoom out 30 with antialias off and on 4 13 RULER Ruler helps you position items such as selections layers and shapes precisely across the width or length of an image When visible ruler appears along the top and left side of the main window Markers on the ruler display the pointer s position when you move it To show or hide ruler choose View gt Ruler or press Ctrl R on the keyboard It displays the length and position in pixels or in centimeters To switch between the two units click on the ruler unit indication points cm see Figure 19 If you want Se to have the ruler in inches instead of centimeters you must change the measurement unit from metric to imperial in Arahweave s Files gt Save set
99. s another motif If you repeat the operation and at some point fill all available space filter stops to work It is not limited just to the surface of one particular color you can use protected colors to control where the filter will ogy E 4 operate oe gt AD s 3 5 Seg o 0 S ROS totale A X 40 Y 15 sag S Sg aoganoag a A By ROR ENES RT ONO SRF ME AA ORS ey A E OAS Sa 09939 Pa ars XQ KO j NRL Oe oe re e2 amp KIRI NY KLS Figure 146 pen the motifs using the diamond shape variation in size from 15 to 40 pixels using all colors from the palette image at left shows result after applying the filter ones at value 300 image on right shows result after repeating operation until the all space was filled Variable effect can be achieved by using protected colors Figure 147 shows placing circles into APAINT caption First you have to protect the background color white and place circles into the caption Then protect the color of caption and the color of circles add a new color to the palette and place a motif of that color into the background At the end change the color of caption into the background color 65 o SAP www arahne si LS Using filters APAIN APAIN apa maaan an Fees BAER ECP EA eee oe PLCI Sites ge ty s ah
100. s main window 1 ey ArahPaint 5 0 498 flower png 1200x840 70 m Gab an 2 pubs a gists Lace cad ene ae ai Em 2 wt a ec Te E ere 09220 0A EO 0 8 KATAA EWP SE Le 6 L Brush m 7 8 9 w a a 3 gt 4 E l 50 E 6 RGB 160 191 101 E L Thick lines _ Keep aspect 10 E __ Stamp mode we 11 F 12 E 13 k 14 Figure 2 Main window of ArahPaint 1 The title bar displays the program name version and current design filename size in pixels and zoom level 2 Menu bar 3 Ruler optional 4 Main window is the area which displays the currently edited picture Note that first row of design is at the bottom of the picture as this is usual in weaving 5 The toolbox contains tools for creating and editing images SAS www arahne si 22 ArahPaint User Guide 6 Line width this setting sets the width of lines rectangles squares ellipses circles arcs polygons brush 7 Color indicator shows which color is the foreground and which is the background By double clicking the color indicator with a mouse the window with the color palette will pop up 8 Pointer coordinates 9 Color RGB values of the pixel under the cursor 10 Options of the currently selected tool 11 Active layer number 12 Palettes Colors layers brushes 13 Color palette 14 Palette toolbar 2 1 SETTING THE LANGUAGE To change the user interface language of ArahPaint choose Help gt Heip Save setup and se
101. t queue using cascade menu on the top right the menu in Figure 174 is colored blue Left Upper border Print width and Print height parameters need no special explanation Their values are in millimeters If the Setup in ArahWeave is set to imperial measurement system then the sizes will be displayed in inches Repeats in width and Repeats in height show how many repeats of the picture fit into the print width and height respectively ArahPaint calculates these values on base of picture sizes in pixels and repeat size in mm Fit to page toggle button will modify the magnification factor to a value which will fit at least one repeat on the print width and height One repeat toggle button enables to print just one repeat of the image Title enables printing of title file name on the top of the image Landscape enables changing from default portrait to landscape printing It is easy to see if the print settings are correct by using Preview AW Print picture Printer info Printer Stylus Photo P50 T50 gutenprint Print mode True color Density x 1440 Density y 720 Setup Epson Stylus Photo P50 Print size Left border mm 6 Upper border mm 6 Print width mm 150 Print height mm Full page _ 30 1 441 2 965 _ One repeat Zoom Repeats in width Repeats in height _ Fit to page Number of copies 1 _ Title Landscape
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103. te indicates the order of layers in the image Active layer 6 the topmost layer in the Layers palette is the topmost layer in the image You can 183 amp change the stacking order of layers by clicking on WF or amp in the palette s toolbar keyboard shortcuts Ctrl or Ctrl The background cannot be moved from the lt gt Layers ili png 2 bo rder png bottom of the layer list gt border2 png Shark png 8 3 2 AcTIVE LAYER leaf png l r Ring png Drawing operations only affect the highlighted or active layer You select a layer to scream png make it active and only one layer can be active at a time Active layer s border is Background different from other layers To select a layer do one of the following i DENY a e Inthe Layers palette click a layer to make it active Figure 86 Layers palette e Change the number of the active layer in the field below the palette s toolbar e You can descend through layers by holding Alt or ascend through layers by holding Alt e Select the move tool and click the selection layer in the image 8 3 3 RENAMING LAYERS As you add more layers to an image it s helpful to rename layers based on their content To rename a layer double click the layer s name in the Layers palette Type a new name for the layer and press Enter 8 3 4 DELETING LAYERS To delete a layer select the layer in the Layers palette and do one of the following
104. the most recent at the top least recent going downward on the list EB Load picture Found 121 2 4p eI A Ami 3e nomestoni data img true_color 9 home toni data img true_color nome capdam nome capdam data img textures nome capdam data img wrinkles nome capdam data img demo nome capdam data img Figure 14 Most recently used directories list 4 6 SAVING A DESIGN You can save the image under an existing name by selecting the command Save from the File menu keyboard shortcut Ctrl S In case you want to change the name of the design invoke the command Save as from the File menu keyboard shortcut Ctrl Shift S This action will bring up the file selection box where you can choose the desired directory and enter the new file name If the file with the same name already exists you are warned before saving The program gives you the option to overwrite the existing file with the new design or to change the file name The default file format for image saving is PNG You can save an image in four other formats TIFF GIF JPEG and BMP To specify the file format you have to write the proper file extension to the file name 4 7 RENAMING FILES You can also rename image files from the Browse window press the left mouse button on the name below the image s icon or SB icon in the toolbar A small window appears and you just type the new name and press Enter 10 Chapter 4 www arahne si SBS
105. the next point and press left mouse button again 18 Chapter 5 www arahne si LZS Drawing operations 4 Repeat step 3 until the desired polygon is drawn 5 Press right mouse button to stop polygon drawing or middle mouse button to erase the last polygon point 5 5 DRAWING RECTANGLES SQUARES AND ELLIPSES CIRCLES Drawing ellipses circles is very similar to drawing rectangles squares First click the desired icon button or E or or CL 1 Move the mouse pointer to the one corner and press left mouse button 2 Drag the mouse to the opposite corner of the bounding rectangle 3 Release the mouse button In the case when physical width and height of the repeat are not equal and you are drawing circles squares the program calculates the size of the circles squares to match the ratio of width to height When drawing in zoom if the ratio of the resizing factor of width to height matches the ratio of the picture s real size width to height in mm then the objects will be visible in the right proportions as well If the icon button of the selected operation is filled not empty the object will be filled as well You can toggle the fill attribute by double clicking on the same icon button for instance square The icon will be changed from mr into E and the next drawn object will be filled This works also for the Polygon drawing 5 6 DRAWING LINES ACROSS ALL IMAGE Drawing lines across all image is the e
106. the quality of the printout High values may slow down printing The printing can be redirected to a file when the printer is not available on the computer or on the network In this case check a toggle button labeled Print to file and enter a printout filename in the box below the scrolled lists 15 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Program written by Matjaz Gutenberger with contributions by Du an Peterc and Nedeljko Stefanovic Ot4 porting by Nebojsa Obradovic and Milan Miletic Manual written by Anton Gregor i based on ArahPaint2 8 manual written by Simon Weilguny Front page and shortcuts design by Ana Bertoncelj Picture credits Tessilbiella Figure 2 9 10 Arazzo Figure 9 10 Lanificio di Sordevolo Figure 45 46 47 Cyprus Kourion photo by Du an Peterc Figure 118 119 120 F Scanzio U Pedrazzo Intrecci e Strutture dei Tessuti Biella 1988 Figure 105
107. tings x 8 Value 4 A is the initial image B is the image after one click on the tilt left icon C is the image after four clicks 4x4 16 9 13 SPLITTING THE IMAGE To access the Split tool click the Measurement tool icon a The split image tool lets you split the image by divisor that you enter in the X field for horizontal splitting or in the Y field for vertical splitting The image size does not change with this operation If the divisor is set to two then the odd line of pixels are in the first half of the image and the even lines are in the second part of the image To split the image in the horizontal direction click icon y to split in the vertical direction click icon S The opposite operation of splitting is merging Normally when we split the image and do some operation on the split image we merge the image back to its original appearance To do this click icon F S for horizontal merging and icon gt for vertical merging Figure 124 shows the use of the split tool The task is to draw stitching points with the Stitch tool ia on every fourth line in vertical Y direction The fastest way is to use the Split tool In the Y field enter the divisor number 4 and click the split vertical icon The image is divided into four parts Use the stitch tool on the fourth part and then merge the image to its original form 56 Chapter 9 www arahne si SBS Transform tools
108. titions shows that design repeats correctly 10 BRUSHES A drawing tool with enabled brush option tool lets you paint with a pattern You can load the brush or create new brushes when you need and you can use part of an image to create a custom brush 10 1 BRUSHES PALETTE Brushes palette displays all stored loaded or created brushes Ones you create a brush or load it into a palette it will be stored and available for other ArahPaint programs until you delete it from the palette 58 rian 10 www arahne si SBS rushes You can use it also as a temporary storage of picture motifs to copy them from one PiE image to the other without the need to name them and save them to a file Brush To get a brush into the program click the Brush palette tab There are two ways 4 to place a brush into the palette e Open the Browse brushes window B from the Brush palette toolbar and load a brush image with a double click any image may become a brush 120x120 2 Colors e Tools gt Brush to layer e Keyboard shortcut lt e Create a layer and send it to brush palette by using Tools gt Layer to brush or Keyboard shortcut gt or by clicking D in the Brushes palette toolbar If you need to change the brush send it to the main working space either by e Clicking lt in the Brush palette toolbar offset Brush will become a layer When you finish with editing send it back to the Brush 0 9 E c palette Absolute
109. to freely experiment with the program without fear of damaging the image So you need to be able to undo the drawing operations Undo command in the Edit menu Ctrl Z 9 restores the picture to its previous state To Redo last operation choose Edit gt Redo Ctrl Y The number of undo steps is unlimited 4 12 MAGNIFYING AND REDUCING THE VIEW You can magnify or reduce your view using various methods The main window s title bar displays the current zoom level There are four ways to change zoom level in ArahPaint 1 Press the plus key to zoom in or press the minus key to zoom out 2 Press Ctrl on the keyboard and roll the mouse wheel up or down 3 Click on icon or in the toolbox i If you press any number from o 9 on the keyboard you will change zoom directly to that level 1 means 100 6 means 600 o means 1000 The program will zoom in or zoom out at the current position of the mouse You can also change the zoom level during drawing operations Another useful zoom feature 4 12 1 Fit To winDow If you want that an image fits the entire available space in the main ArahPaint window choose Fit to window from the View menu or press Ctrl 0 4 12 2 ALTERNATING BETWEEN CURRENT ZOOM AND 100 zoom Pressing the Esc key on keyboard toggles back and forth between currently selected zoom level and 100 zoom 4 12 3 GRID At zoom levels higher than 300 the program shows a grid between pixel
110. u can view information about any tool in the toolbox by positioning the mouse pointer over it The name of the tool appears below the pointer this is called the tool tip You must click on a tool s icon in order to use it The currently selected tool is highlighted or colored in the toolbox To select a tool click its icon in the toolbox or press the tool s keyboard shortcut The keyboard shortcut is displayed in its tool tip For example you can select the Magic wand selection by pressing w Foreground upper square and background color lower square are used in drawing operations _ Whole image Foreground color determines the color drawn by left mouse button and Threshold o gt background color drawn by right mouse button In this way you can contemporary draw with two colors without the need to constantly change renee drawing color This is particularly handy when you are fixing borders between two amp S color areas To change the foreground color click desired color in the color palette below Option area The first thing you should do after you select a tool is to set its options if the tool has them The options appear below the toolbox The options area is context sensitive it changes as you select different tools Some settings in the options area are common to several tools and some are specific to one tool Acti
111. up Figure 19 Ruler unit 4 14 DIsPLAYING THE RGB coLor VALUES ArahPiant displays the color RGB values of the pixel under the mouse pointer while you move it across the image If you work on __ Brush al a i x 401 Y 240 indexed color image then the color position number index is displayed next to the color RGB value _ Thick ines _ Keep aspect __ Stamp mode Figure 20 Displaying the color s position number and the RGB color value of the pixel under the pointer SAS www arahne si 2 ArahPaint 13 User Guide 4 15 Guipes ARAHPaINTS In addition to the image grid ArahPaints also gives you a Bie sea Dea pg E aad ake sso more flexible type of positioning aid guides These are T horizontal or vertical lines you can temporarily display on an image while you are working on it To create a guide simply double click on one of the rulers in the main window The guide is then displayed as a blue dashed line which follows the pointer You can create as many guides as you like positioned wherever you like To move a guide after you have created it hover a mouse pointer over the blue arrow which indicates the position of guide in the ruler The mouse pointer changes to the move guide icon e You can then click and drag a guide to a new location To delete a guide double click the blue arrow in the ruler To remove all guides at a same time choose View gt Remov
112. ve layer 4 Palettes Colors Layers Brushes To change palette view just click on one of the Figure 24 Toolbox a Palette Tabs colors tab El F6 layers tab El F5 brushes tab F7 Tools unique to each palette are at the bottom of the palette area 4 20 SELECTING A RECTANGULAR AREA OF THE DESIGN We often want to limit the area of an operation to a specific part of the image By selecting a particular rectangular region you set the boundaries of the operation The selection tool works in the following way 1 Select the rectangular selection tool by pressing the icon in the toolbox 2 Move the mouse pointer to one of the corners of the area you want to select 3 Press left mouse button and drag the mouse until the desired area will be inside the dashed rectangle By default a selection border is dragged from its corner 4 Release the mouse button If you want to change the size of the selection you can do it by 1 Moving the mouse pointer to the border of the dashed rectangle from the inside out until the mouse pointer shape changes 2 Pressing the left mouse button and dragging the mouse until the desired rectangle size is achieved aie SAS www arahne si ArahPaint 15 User Guide The selected area becomes a layer which can be moved copied pasted or saved as an fe E rus image Information about the size and position of the layer is displayed in the option
113. xtension of the rectangle tool The rectangle tool should be in the filled mode In the option bar select either you want to draw horizontal or vertical lines To draw a line just press a mouse on the image and drag a mouse till the line reaches the desired width Keep aspect X1 1166 X2 622 Y4 123 Y2 0 Width 24 Height 801 a gt ar ah aD x Horizontal Vertical Active layer 1 Mo Figure 32 Drawing lines across whole image 5 7 DRAWING ARCS An arc is a part of an ellipse or a circle It is used for drawing round shapes like flower leafs and similar round objects Three points determine an arc first and second mark the starting and ending point of the arc while the third one sets the curvature 1 Select the icon button eo or use the keyboard shortcut D 2 Move the mouse pointer to the point where the arc will start and press the left mouse button The program will draw a cross on that point 3 Move the mouse pointer to the point where the arc will end and press the left mouse button The program will draw a cross on that point 4 Now move the mouse pointer to the point of maximum extent of the arc s curve and press left mouse button 5 Drag the mouse button until the desired arc is drawn and release the mouse button Sap SBS www arahne si is ArahPaint 9 User Guide 5 8 DRAWING CURVE The curve tool lets you draw or trace curved shapes The last three cli
114. y neighbor pixel of same color i J E o e O O o O o o O e ee Ee a O a O O O o o o l M O M oO O M y BREE a a O a i a O a O S 1 4 6 2 3 8 9 10 12 Figure 167 Examples of neighbor value Figures from 168 to 170 show the despeckle function in practice PPO ArahPaint 5 0 497 P5750 png 1400x1400 600 modified Fie Edit Colors Image Tools Filters View Help 540 550 560 570 580 590 ile sO _ 4 RGB 244 163 171 __ Thick lines J Keep aspect __ Stamp mode Active layer 1 HCA Figure 168 Image after color reduction Despeckling with parameter set to 1 Figure 169 removes only isolated points there are still some mistakes on the borders between colors pe ArahPaint 5 0 497 P5750 png 1400x1400 600 modified File Edit Colors Image Tools Filters View Help 540 550 560 570 580 590 600 610 620 lirritirrilirritirriliriitarraliriitiria la Wiiralti 5 RGB 255 255 255 L Thick lines Keep aspect __ Stamp mode Active layer 1 alale Figure 169 After despeckling with parameter set to 1 Increasing the parameter to 5 and applying the function again removes the rest of the border pixels 74 Chapter 13 www arahne si LZS Using filters PPO ArahPaint 5 0 497 P5750 png 1400x1400 600 modified Fie Edit Colors Image Tools Filters View Help points20 530 540 550 560 570 580 600 610 620 2 RGB 239 130 103 i Thick lines _ Keep aspect __ Stamp mode

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