aseprite/data/tips/tips.en

# Allegro Sprite Editor tips
# Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008  David A. Capello

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\palette ase.pcx
\image ase.pcx

Welcome to ASE 0.6

READ THIS!

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

Website: http://www.aseprite.org/

Report bugs to: aseprite@googlegroups.com
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Use the <1>, <2>, <3>, <4>, <5> and <6> keys to set the zoom in the
current editor's viewport.

\image zoom.pcx
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You can get a color from the sprite using the <9> or <0> keys to
set the left or right color respectively.
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\image sprprop.pcx

You can modify the quantity of sprite's animation frames using the
"Sprite/Properties" menu or pressing <Ctrl+P>.
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Move through the frames with the arrows keys

\split
Left = go to previous frame

Down = go to first frame
\next
Right = go to next frame

Up = go to last frame
\done

Enter = play animation
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You can add new animation frames pressing <Ctrl+Shift+N> or using
"Frame/New" menu.
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Do you want edit layers, frames and cels?  Use the film editor:

\image filmedit.pcx

Go to "Tools/Film Editor" menu or press TAB when you are
editing a sprite.
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You can use the onionskin feature to edit animations (press <C> key to
see the "Tools Setup" window):

\image onion.pcx

Remember that only the current layer is used as onionskin, also, it's
useful only when this layer has the mask color as background.
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When you apply some effect (like Convolution Matrix, or Color Curves),
you can choose the target channels:
\split
\image tar_rgb.pcx
* R: Red channel
* G: Green channel
* B: Blue channel
* A: Alpha channel
\next
\image tar_gray.pcx
* K: Black channel
* A: Alpha channel
\next
\image tar_indx.pcx
* R: Red channel
* G: Green channel
* B: Blue channel
* Index: Use directly the index
\done

Also you will be able to specify to what images apply the effect:

\split
\image tar_1.pcx
Current frame in current layer
\next
\image tar_2.pcx
All frames of current layer
\next
\image tar_3.pcx
Current frames of all layers
\next
\image tar_4.pcx
All frames in all layers
\done
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\image colcurv.pcx

In the "Color Curve" window, you can use the <Ins> and <Del> keys to
insert or remove vertices respectively.  Also, if you press in a
vertex with the right mouse button, the "Point Properties" window (to
change the coordinates manually) will be appears.
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\image minipal.pcx

Select a color in the color-bar using the <Ctrl> key will show you
this mini-palette.
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\split
\image nodither.pcx
A RGB image without dithering.
\next
\image dither.pcx
Ordered dithering method.
\done

See "Tool/Options" menu or press <Ctrl+Shift+O>.
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\image lua.pcx

Do you want to write Lua scripts to generate images or create
repetitive tasks?  You can find the documentation in
"docs/scripts/README.txt".  Also you can look for "data/scripts/gens/"
directory for some examples.
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\palette sprite.pcx
\image sprite.pcx
And remember look for updates in:

http://www.aseprite.org/

Copyright (C) 2001-2008 by David A. Capello