About this Document

N-Paint is a digital painting and 2D animation package. A wide variety of color correction, filtering, and other image-processing tools can be applied using a brush, an arbitrary shape, or to an entire canvas.

This chapter will help you to recognize and understand some of the style conventions used in this document to enhance the readability of the text.

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Contents of This Document

• Chapter 1, "Overview"describes the basic terminology and underlying principles of N-Paint.
• Chapter 2, "Configuring N-Paint" describes how to define some of the Setup menu items that govern N-Paint's behavior.
• Chapter 4, "Managing Elements in N-Paint" describes how to save and load images and other elements to and from memory, the canvas, and a file system.
• Chapter 3, "The Tools Menu" describes how to use the Commands menu to control various N-Paint elements, including palettes and images.
• Chapter 5, "Tools & Brushes" describes the brushes and shape tools in the default toolbox and how to build your own custom paint tools.
• Chapter 6, "Inks" describes the various inks that can be applied through shapes to a subregion of the canvas or to the entire canvas.
• Chapter 7. "Color Reduction" describes how to use N-Paint to produce color-mapped versions of full-color images.
• Chapter 8, "The VRAM Editor" describes how to use N-Paint to manage Sony Plasystation VRAM. You can create TIM image files, and map images and CLUTs to Playstation VRAM.
• Chapter 9, "3D Paint Mode" describes the basic features of N-Paint 3D, a powerful tool for creating texture maps or painting directly on objects.
• Appendix A, "File Formats" describes the file formats supported in N-Paint.

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Document Style Conventions

Notes

Note. Notes provide information that is important enough to demand special attention. The information may be relevant to the current discussion but awkward to include without disrupting the flow of information.

Mouse and Keyboard Notation

Menu Notation

Using the Tablet and Mouse

Note: To use the middle and right mouse buttons, you must have Use Mouse Buttons enables in the N-Paint setup menus. For more information about configuring N-Paint for use with a mouse or tablet, see the N-Paint Installation Guide, and "Use Mouse Buttons," on page 2-4 of this guide.

Note. Using the tablet too close to a monitor may cause interference with the tablet itself. If the tablet seems to have trouble responding to your input, try moving it a bit further away from your monitor.

Tablet and Mouse Command Equivalents

Table 2 Tablet and mouse equivalents

Tablet	What you do	Mouse	What you do
(CLICK)	Click the pen on the tablet.	(CLICK-L)	Click the left mouse button.
(CTRL-CLICK)	Hold down the CTRL key and click on the tablet.	(CLICK-M)	Click on the middle mouse button.
(ALT-CLICK)	Hold down the ALT key and click on the tablet.	(CLICK-R)	Click on the right mouse button.
(SHIFT-CLICK)	Hold down the SHIFT key and click on the tablet.	(SHIFT-L)	While holding down the SHIFT key, click on the left mouse button.
(SHIFT-ALT-CLICK)	Hold down the SHIFT and ALT keys at the same time, and click on the tablet.	(SHIFT-R)	Hold down the SHIFT and ALT keys at the same time, and click on the left mouse button.
(HOLD)	Click and hold down the pen as you move it across the tablet.	(HOLD)	Click and hold down the left mouse button as you move it.

Any commands available only for the tablet are prefaced by the word tablet:

• (TABLET-ABORT)
• (TABLET-EXIT)

and so forth.

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