Digital Images

A Quick Guide for Etoys on the OLPC XO

Guides about topics in EToys Help screens for the OLPC XO machine. NavBar    Keep Find Projects    Choose a Language Paint    Brushes    Color Palette    Bucket Tool    Straight Line Tool    Ellipse Tool    Rectangle Tool    Polygon Tool    Color Picker    Stamps Tool Halo    Make the Handles Show    Viewer of Script Tiles    Size Color Copy    Move and Pick Up    Rotate Handle    Trash    Arrow at Center    Center of Rotation    Menu Tools    Make a Script Tile    Collapse    Color Property Sheet Supplies    Object Catalog    Text    All Scripts    Joystick Control    Sound Recorder ObjectCat    Slider Bar    Grab Patch Tool    Lasso Tool    Digital Images    Maker Button Books    Top Border Icons    Expanded Controls    Working with Layers    Navigation Tiles ScriptTile    Forward by    Turn by    Bounce Motion    X and Y Tiles    Pen Use    Playfield Trail    Stamps    Heading    Scale Factor    Hide and Show    World Input    Sound Category    Random Numbers    Exact Location    Width Length    Foward and Turn    Tests Category Menu    Normal Ticking    Viewer Icons Set    Scriptor Icons Set    Button Fires a Script    Grab Me Reveal Me    Watchers    Playfield Graph Paper

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Squeak Etoys is a "media authoring tool"-- software that you can download to your computer
and then use to create your own media. You can write out your project and share it with others.
Etoys runs on any Mac or Windows machine, as well as on the OLPC XO machine.
It is free.    Find out about Etoys.

Text of this guide (for searching): Object Catalog: Digital Images in Etoys Projects. Open the Journal and copy a digital image to the clipboard. The clipboard is on the left edge of the frame (XO only). From the clipboard, drag the photo into your Etoys project where it becomes just another object with a halo of handles. Open its Viewer to make a script. If the image is too big, use its yellow halo handle to make it smaller. Or . . . Click on its geometry category to change the scale factor. Or . . . Use the Grab Patch or Lasso Tool to copy the part you want to include in your project and discard the rest. Digital images use a lot of storage space on your computer. A Grab Patch or Lasso copy in a project uses less space than the original image. Sometimes tracing part of a photo with Paints from the Navigator Bar is a way to include details you want.