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-<title>First Steps</title>
-<para> Lets create something
-so that we can tweak with it. Now that you have a new composition open
-and the properties dialog is out of the way, go over to the toolbox and
-click on the circle tool(If you don't know which one it is, just mouse
-over them until you find the one with the tooltip that says "circle").</para>
-
-<para>The second you click on the circle tool, you should notice that the tool
-options tab changed. But we'll get to that later.
-
- <footnote><para>Some laptop users might experience trouble where click-drag on
- the canvas when using the circle tool doesn't seem to do anything
- or produce insanely huge circles. The problem is that Synfig has
- detected the touchpad and enabled that device (incorrectly!) To fix
- this: click File->Input devices... In the resulting dialog window,
- select 'Disabled' for your touchpad device. After this change,
- your external mouse and the touchpad will work as expected.</para></footnote>
-</para>
- <para>With the circle tool selected, you can now create circles in the
- canvas window. This pretty much works exactly as you might expect
- it to. Go ahead and create two (or more, if you fancy) circles. If
- by accident you just clicked on the canvas instead of clicking and
- dragging(with mouse button pressed) to draw the circle, you end up
- creating a circle with 0 radius and it is effectively invisible! No
- need to worry, you can easily fix this. In the Params dialog, you
- can change the parameters of the selected object. If you just made
- a 0 radius circle, it should be the current selected object. you can
- change its radius to some value other than 0, say 10, and manipulate
- it to your liking with the canvas ducks later.</para>
-
- <para>Now go back to the toolbox and click on the normal tool (the blue
- circle with the arrow on it). After you do this, click on one of your
- circles. You will then see a bounding box(which is kinda useless
- at this point in time, but I digress), a green dot at the center,
- and a cyan dot on the radius. Those dots are called ducks. If you
- want to modify the circle, grab a duck and drag it around. Easy!</para>
-
- <para>So you can select a layer by clicking on it. If you want to select
- more than one layer, hold down CONTROL while you are clicking--this
- works in both the canvas window and the layer tab. Try it!</para>
-
- <para>You can also select multiple ducks. You can do this in several
- ways. First, you can hold down CONTROL and individually click the
- ducks that you want selected, but this can be tedious. However, there
- is a much faster method--just create a selection box by clicking the
- mouse and dragging it over the area of ducks that you want selected.<para>
-
- <para>Go ahead and select two circles, and select all of their ducks. With
- several ducks selected, moving one duck will move all of the
- ducks. This behavior is dependent on the normal tool. Thus, a
- more descriptive name for this tool might have been the "move" or
- "translate" tool.</para>
-
- <para>The Rotate and Scale tools work much like the Normal tool, except in
- the case where you have multiple ducks selected. It is much easier
- to just try it than read about it. Select a few circles, select all
- of their ducks, and try using the rotate and scale tools.</para>
-
- <para>Note that, unlike the normal tool, the other duck manipulation tools
- DO have options associated with them. If a particular tool isn't
- doing what you want, take a look in the tool options tab to see if
- it is set up like you want it.</para>
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