IntroductionWelcome| 00:00 | Hi and welcome to Getting Started
with OpenOffice 2 Draw, the free graphics
| | 00:05 | application that's part of the
OpenOffice.org suite of applications. As you may
| | 00:10 | already know OpenOffice 2 is the leading
open source software suite for graphics
| | 00:15 | as well as word processing,
spreadsheets, presentations, databases and more.
| | 00:20 | Even better the whole suite is
available in a number of different languages and
| | 00:25 | it will work on almost any computer
whether PC or Mac. It stores all your data
| | 00:30 | that is everything that you create
with it in an International Open Standard
| | 00:34 | format, great for compatibility. However,
it can also read and write files from
| | 00:38 | other common software packages. Best of
all the entire suite can be downloaded
| | 00:43 | and used completely free of charge. So
tell everyone you know, your friends,
| | 00:48 | family, co-workers and make all the
copies you need. Download it more than one
| | 00:53 | machine at home or even the office.
It's all free. Now in this title we focus
| | 00:57 | on the graphics application known as
Draw. We will cover all the basics to get
| | 01:02 | you up and running. I will be working
in a Windows Vista environment on a PC
| | 01:06 | for this title but you can follow
along from any environment. So without
| | 01:10 | further delay let's get
started with OpenOffice 2 Draw.
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1. Draw FundamentalsVector vs. bitmap graphics| 00:00 | In this first chapter we are going to
cover many of the fundamentals of working
| | 00:04 | with an application like OpenOffice Draw.
We will be launching the application,
| | 00:09 | touring the user interface to get you
comfortable in your surroundings. We will
| | 00:12 | be creating new files, opening existing
files, looking at saving techniques but
| | 00:17 | before we get to any of that in this
chapter, it's important that we understand
| | 00:22 | what we would use OpenOffice Draw for.
What are some of the types of projects
| | 00:25 | we will be creating with an
application like OpenOffice Draw? And to better
| | 00:29 | understand that you will need a good
handle on the difference between a vector
| | 00:32 | and a bitmap image, because OpenOffice
Draw is primarily a vector based drawing
| | 00:39 | application. Meaning when you create
your own drawings or illustrations they
| | 00:44 | will be vector based in nature to
start with. You can save to other formats and
| | 00:49 | most of those other formats are what we
would call bitmap or raster images. So
| | 00:54 | here you can see I have actually opened
up a file in OpenOffice Draw and on the
| | 00:58 | left side I have got an example of a
vector graphic and on the right side
| | 01:03 | a bitmap. Now you probably recognize the
bitmap type graphic as a photo, an image
| | 01:09 | you might take with a digital
camera for example. Here are some of the
| | 01:12 | characteristics. First of all it's
rectangular in nature and it always will be,
| | 01:17 | even if there are transparent areas
in an image, it will be rectangular in
| | 01:22 | nature because an image that is a
bitmap image is made up of tiny little
| | 01:27 | squares, they are known as pixels. And
some times when you zoom too far into an
| | 01:31 | image or you get an image of low
resolution, you will see those pixels will
| | 01:36 | start to blur and you can see the
little squares which each other own color
| | 01:40 | when put together make up this
rectangular image known in this case as a
| | 01:44 | photograph. Over here on the left
is some thing that was created using
| | 01:48 | OpenOffice Draw and this is a vector
based graphic. So we don't have pixels
| | 01:52 | with a vector graphic. Instead we
have lines and curves and mathematical
| | 01:57 | calculations that determine their
shape and size and so on. So the very big
| | 02:02 | difference is when we zoom into each
of these types of graphics I am going to
| | 02:05 | do that right now by going to the zoom
tool and clicking my little plus sign. I
| | 02:10 | am going to zoom into my sun over here.
And I am going to just click and drag a
| | 02:13 | tiny little square, so I can zoom into
this area. And you can see the yellow is
| | 02:18 | a solid yellow, the black is solid,
very smooth line, the only jag in this you
| | 02:22 | are going to see is as a result of
your own screen resolution and my
| | 02:26 | resolution, same thing over here. I am
going to zoom back out. And I am going
| | 02:32 | to zoom into my bitmap image now. So
back I go to the little plus sign here. I
| | 02:36 | am going to zoom in to an area here at
the whale's tail, very small square and
| | 02:41 | look at all the little squares, it is
very blurry to start and it's a bunch of
| | 02:45 | little pixels that are creating the
overall image. So you can see that once we
| | 02:50 | zoom in, we lose a lot of the quality
in this image whereas we didn't with a
| | 02:54 | vector graphic because it was created
using lines and curves and mathematical
| | 02:59 | equations. I am going to zoom back out.
So here we can see both images side by
| | 03:04 | side. This image doesn't look too bad
when zoomed out, but what if I want to
| | 03:08 | make some adjustments, what if I want
to move this whale tail here. I can click
| | 03:12 | it because each of the images inside
the overall image is a separate graphic on
| | 03:17 | its own, graphical in nature and in
this case a vector graphic. So I can move
| | 03:22 | it around if I wanted to, up, down,
left and right just by clicking and
| | 03:25 | dragging it. If I wanted to do that
with a bitmap image, no way, it's one big
| | 03:30 | image. If I really needed to move
this whale tail it would require a lot of
| | 03:34 | work in a photo editing type
application like Photoshop, for example where I
| | 03:39 | need to use masking techniques, it
will be very difficult with all of this
| | 03:42 | spray to select the tail and move it
and fill in the gaps, because it's pixels
| | 03:47 | making up a bigger picture, very
difficult to edit. We can do things to improve
| | 03:51 | the image, the quality and special
effects. I am going to talk about some of
| | 03:54 | that in this lesson, but with a vector
graphic it's so much easier. So although
| | 03:59 | OpenOffice Draw is primarily a vector
based drawing application and that's the
| | 04:03 | type of graphics we'll be creating we
can also bring in bitmap images like I
| | 04:08 | have here, combine them in our
projects for example if we are creating a sign
| | 04:13 | where we want to have an image inside
the sign no problem. We can even do some
| | 04:17 | image editing here in OpenOffice
Draw if we want to touch up our photo in
| | 04:21 | anyway. We will be talking about some
of that later on but primarily you are
| | 04:25 | going to be creating your own
graphics, types of projects include desktop
| | 04:29 | publishing, pamphlets and menus for
example. It might also require sign making
| | 04:35 | or you might even want to create some
flow charts that you are going to use in
| | 04:38 | other applications for example if you
are going to be creating a presentation
| | 04:42 | and you wanted an org chart or a flow
chart of some kind you can create it here
| | 04:46 | and bring that image into your
presentation software. It could even be
| | 04:50 | OpenOffice Impress for example. And in
fact as we tour the user interface in
| | 04:55 | the next lesson you are going to see
a lot of similarities to OpenOffice
| | 04:58 | Impress. If you are familiar with that
presentation application you are going
| | 05:02 | to see some things that you're
probably already familiar within that
| | 05:05 | application. So hopefully understand
now the difference between vector and
| | 05:10 | bitmap. It will all come clear when we
start creating. In the next lesson we are
| | 05:14 | going to launch the application and
take a nice tour of the user interface to
| | 05:18 | get you comfortable in your surroundings
before we start creating our own files.
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| Launching Draw and touring the user interface| 00:00 | All right in this lesson it's time to
launch OpenOffice Draw and take a tour of
| | 00:04 | the user interface to get us
comfortable in our surroundings because it is the
| | 00:08 | user interface that we're going to be
using throughout the lessons in this
| | 00:12 | title. There is a few different ways
for us to launch OpenOffice Draw. You may
| | 00:16 | have the shortcuts installed on your
desktop like I do here. In a Windows Vista
| | 00:20 | environment each of the icons in the
suite looks very similar but you will see
| | 00:25 | that they all have a different logo
and a different color scheme. For example
| | 00:29 | my OpenOffice Draw icon here is
orangey yellow in color and it's got that
| | 00:34 | squiggly line drawn through it. So
double clicking this icon is going to launch
| | 00:38 | the application. But what if you
don't have the desktop icon right there on
| | 00:43 | your desktop? Well, you can down to
your Start button here in Windows Vista.
| | 00:46 | You could go up to all programs but I
prefer to use my Start Search field down
| | 00:51 | here, where you can see the flashing
cursor. All I have to do is type in the
| | 00:55 | beginnings of OpenOffice and I am going
to type it all one word. 'OpenOff' and
| | 01:01 | you can see I have already got all of
the programs listed here in the suite and
| | 01:05 | there is OpenOffice Draw right there.
So clicking this link will also launch
| | 01:10 | the application. I am not going to do
quite yet and I am going to click out
| | 01:13 | here on my desktop and just you
there is one other icon here which is our
| | 01:16 | QuickStart icon, and double clicking
this allows us to start new files in any
| | 01:21 | of these applications. It could be
a spreadsheet in Calc, it could be a
| | 01:24 | presentation in Impress or new
drawing in OpenOffice Draw. Now we will come
| | 01:29 | back to this later on because we can
also access it right from within the
| | 01:33 | application. So once we have launched
Draw we can get access to the QuickStart
| | 01:37 | from there as well. If you are on a
Mac in an Apple environment, if you don't
| | 01:42 | have an alias on your desktop that's
the other word for shortcut, you may be
| | 01:46 | able to use your spotlight icon. Go up
to the top right corner where you will
| | 01:50 | see a little spotlight icon. Give it
a click and type in 'openoff,' and you
| | 01:53 | will have the same results as I had
going to my Start button using the search
| | 01:57 | field. So however you like to launch
OpenOffice Draw, let's do it now. I am
| | 02:02 | just going to double click my shortcut
icon here on the desktop. Launching an
| | 02:06 | OpenOffice application from your Mac
computer is done in a slightly different
| | 02:11 | manner. I have installed the latest
version of OpenOffice for the Mac and you
| | 02:15 | can see here on my desktop I have an
alias too OpenOffice.org. This is not
| | 02:20 | something that appears automatically
during the installation process, you will
| | 02:23 | need to do this yourself if you
want one. So this means we will access
| | 02:27 | OpenOffice from our applications the
first time around. You can use Spotlight
| | 02:31 | to locate OpenOffice.org or click your
go menu and then applications and in the
| | 02:36 | alphabetical list of applications you
will find OpenOffice.org. What you don't
| | 02:42 | see here is a separate icon for each of
the applications in the suite; we need
| | 02:45 | to launch this first. And we can do
it by double clicking right here in
| | 02:49 | applications or I am going to close
this up. I am going to double click my
| | 02:53 | alias. Now from the OpenOffice window I
can choose to create different types of
| | 02:59 | files, which will then launch the
appropriate app. For example if I wanted to
| | 03:03 | launch Draw, I would choose drawing, so
I am going to click drawing, the Quick
| | 03:09 | launch screen disappears, closes up
and I am ready to start using the app,
| | 03:13 | slightly different from what we see on
the windows PC. So this automatically
| | 03:21 | launches Draw with a brand new blank
file in front of you and what you see here
| | 03:27 | is the default user interface. So let's
talk about it now. We will start right
| | 03:31 | at the top on our title bar where you
will see the name of your file. Because
| | 03:34 | it's a brand new blank file, it's
called Untitled1. If I was to start another
| | 03:40 | new file it would be Untitled 2 and so
on until I actually save it and give it
| | 03:44 | a name. So once you name it, it's easy
to get reminded what you are working on
| | 03:49 | just by going up to the title bar.
Check it out up here. Also in the very far
| | 03:53 | right-hand corner of your title bar are
the Minimize, Restore and Close buttons
| | 03:58 | for closing the entire application.
You also see a Close button below the red
| | 04:02 | Close button for closing the file that
you are working on. This will keep Draw
| | 04:06 | open but just simply close the file
that you been working on. If you haven't
| | 04:10 | saved it you will be prompted to save
your changes before closing. All right
| | 04:14 | while we are down here on this bar,
we call it the menu bar, you will see a
| | 04:18 | number of menu items starting with File,
Edit, View, Insert all the way across
| | 04:22 | to help. These are called menu items
because when we click them we see all of
| | 04:28 | the menu commands down below that
relate to the headings. So in this case
| | 04:32 | because I have clicked the File menu, I
see File commands down below. Right at
| | 04:36 | the top is New and over here on the
right you will see I can actually start new
| | 04:41 | text documents, spreadsheets,
presentations, drawings. This is my QuickStart in
| | 04:45 | effect where I can start any type of
OpenOffice file. Drawing is the one that
| | 04:50 | shows up with the keyboard shortcut
because we are in Draw right now. Ctrl+N on
| | 04:55 | the PC keyboard or Cmd+N on your Mac
keyboard will start a new drawing, just
| | 04:59 | like we have in front of us now. We
can also open files, check out our recent
| | 05:04 | documents, use wizards to help us
create different types of documents not
| | 05:08 | necessarily drawings but all different
kinds in the suite. Here is where we go
| | 05:12 | to close the file if you don't like to
use the Close button in the upper right
| | 05:16 | corner of the menu bar. We can do our
saving and exporting and printing all of
| | 05:21 | these related to working with files
because we are on the File menu, if I go
| | 05:26 | back up here to the Edit menu I'll see
Edit commands like Undo and Resort, Cut,
| | 05:30 | Copy, Paste, all editing commands.
Under View this is important while we are
| | 05:35 | looking at our user interface we will
see checkmarks next to items that are
| | 05:39 | currently turned on or selected. For
example we are in normal view right now.
| | 05:44 | We are looking at the normal page, the
page that we would work on when creating
| | 05:48 | our drawings. We can also access
something called the master which allows us to
| | 05:53 | look at the master sheet if we had a
multiple page project going on. We had
| | 05:57 | certain items that needed to appear on
every page, we could do that by working
| | 06:00 | on the master created at once and have
it automatically appear on every page.
| | 06:05 | You will notice down below color
grayscale we're using color, the page pane is
| | 06:10 | what appears down the left side, the
status bar appears across the very bottom
| | 06:14 | of our screen, the ruler is turned on
as are a number of toolbars. If I go up
| | 06:19 | to toolbars you will see checkmarks
next to drawing, line and filling as well
| | 06:24 | as standard. So I am going to click
here my empty page and we will talk about
| | 06:28 | those areas of our user interface. So
just below the menu bar where we left off
| | 06:33 | is our first toolbar, the Standard
toolbar. And the Standard toolbar has a
| | 06:37 | number of buttons representing
commands that we would find under one of those
| | 06:42 | menus up top in the menu bar but
because these are commands that you will use
| | 06:46 | on a more regular basis perhaps they
appear here on your Standard toolbar. Now
| | 06:51 | the very first button is our New button.
And you will notice it has a dropdown.
| | 06:55 | Clicking the New button will create a
new drawing. It's like Ctrl+N on the
| | 06:59 | keyboard or Cmd+N on your Mac. If I
click the dropdown though I can start any
| | 07:04 | type of document using any of the
applications in the suite. We have also got
| | 07:09 | the Open button, save, send. These are
all file commands and they are grouped
| | 07:14 | together. Same thing goes for editing,
exporting and printing then we have got
| | 07:19 | some more editing commands like
spellchecker, automatically spell check is
| | 07:24 | turned on. We have got cut, copy, and
paste. And of course these are typically
| | 07:29 | commands you will use on a regular
basis, but if there are any here that you
| | 07:32 | don't use, you can customize your
toolbar. So you can remove buttons and add
| | 07:37 | ones that aren't there. So as you
position over these you do get a little tool
| | 07:40 | tip. This is our Chart button,
hyperlinking navigator, here is our Zoom button
| | 07:45 | and Help over here at the very end. We
also notice the dropdown here at the end
| | 07:50 | of each of our toolbars and clicking
that gives us a little popup menu where we
| | 07:54 | can choose our visible buttons like I
said you can turn any on or off that you
| | 07:59 | need or don't need. So the ones with
checkmarks are currently turned on. We can
| | 08:04 | also customize the toolbar from here,
lock it and even close it so it doesn't
| | 08:08 | appear on our screen. I am not going
to choose any thing from there and I am
| | 08:11 | going to click in an empty space. Now
we have lines and fills. This is our line
| | 08:15 | and fill toolbar that we saw checked
off from the view menu, so we will be
| | 08:19 | using this one working with objects to
change the outline for example or line
| | 08:23 | style, the thickness and color. We
will also change the fill, it could be a
| | 08:28 | color, it could be a bitmap, it could
be a gradient, here is where we choose
| | 08:32 | things like colors, and bitmaps and
gradients and even a Shadow button down
| | 08:35 | here at the end. Just below that is
our work area where we do see the ruler
| | 08:40 | going across the top, this will help us
be more precise with our drawings, you
| | 08:44 | are doing a technical drawing for
example, you might want to use the ruler,
| | 08:48 | zoom in, and be very precise with your
measurements, you have also got one down
| | 08:52 | the left hand side. And notice as I
move my mouse pointer around on the page
| | 08:55 | there are guides that appear both at
the top and on the left to show me exactly
| | 09:00 | where I am on the page. Very helpful.
On the left hand side is that pages pane
| | 09:05 | we are talking about, very similar to
OpenOffice Impress working with slides
| | 09:10 | and the slideshow where you see
thumbnail representations of each of the pages
| | 09:14 | in your document. So if you have got
10 pages you could scroll down through
| | 09:17 | these thumbnails to go to the exact
page you want to work on just by clicking
| | 09:21 | it over here. It has its own Close
button. Clicking here will close it up which
| | 09:26 | is the same as going up to view, going
down to then deselecting it on our view
| | 09:30 | menu page pane. I am going to leave it
on now, it's very handy, down below we
| | 09:35 | have got tabs for different views
wherein layout, we can do controls and
| | 09:39 | dimension lines if you are really into
technical drawings. Dimension lines are
| | 09:42 | handy because they are measured as you
draw them. Well we have got different
| | 09:45 | tabs for working in different views
on the same page. Then we have got our
| | 09:49 | Drawing toolbar across the bottom for
drawing lines and different shapes like
| | 09:53 | rectangles and ellipses adding text,
you can draw your own lines, you can use
| | 09:59 | connectors, as we position over these
we see little tool tips, there is lines
| | 10:03 | and arrows basic shapes, symbols,
block arrows, all kinds of cool things that
| | 10:07 | you can add to the page in your drawing.
We also have access to the font work
| | 10:12 | gallery. We will check that out later,
a different way to create text on your
| | 10:16 | page. We have also got the ability to
insert graphics from files, so here is
| | 10:21 | where you could go a shortcut to
choose that file or locate it. There is a
| | 10:25 | gallery to choose from. We also have
effects down here, alignment options and
| | 10:29 | arrange options when working with
multiple objects on your page. We will get
| | 10:33 | into some of those later on as well.
At the very bottom our status bar giving
| | 10:37 | us up to the moment information
and you can see down here we have got
| | 10:41 | co-ordinates and as we move around the
page we can see those exact co-ordinates
| | 10:46 | down below 3.85 and 7.29, so if it's
difficult to read that on the ruler, there
| | 10:52 | is the exact measurements down below on
your status bar. You can also see exact
| | 10:56 | measurements of anything you draw down
here. The zoom levels at the 51%, find
| | 11:01 | out what page or slides you are on. You
will see a lot of references to working
| | 11:05 | with Impress here, working with new
slides which are really pages and so on.
| | 11:09 | You have also got some scrollbars here
for scrolling left to right as well as
| | 11:13 | up and down depending on your zoom
level. If you can't see the entire page on
| | 11:17 | one screen you may need to use the
scrollbars to move around to different areas
| | 11:22 | of your page to work on them. So
that's a quick intro and a quick overview of
| | 11:27 | the user interface. Of course as we
start creating our own files, we are going
| | 11:32 | to be using a lot of the elements you
see on your screen here and we will make
| | 11:36 | sure that they are covered
in detail as we use them.
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| Creating a new drawing| 00:00 | If you were following along with me
in the previous lesson, we launched
| | 00:04 | OpenOffice Draw and we were
automatically presented with a new blank drawing.
| | 00:08 | Well that's one way to create a new
project here in Draw, but in this lesson we
| | 00:14 | are going to look at some other ways
to create new drawings. So with Draw
| | 00:18 | already launched and a new blank
drawing in front of me, I am going to go down
| | 00:22 | to my Drawing toolbar and I am going to
click the rectangle tool down here, and
| | 00:26 | now I am going to move onto my page,
up here near the top, click across and
| | 00:31 | down. There is the outline of my
rectangle and when I let go I have drawn my
| | 00:35 | first object. It's selected; I know
that by the little handles around the
| | 00:39 | outside. I am going to click anywhere
on the blank page to deselect the object
| | 00:44 | and there I have started my first
drawing. If I look at the title bar it's
| | 00:48 | called untitled1. I haven't saved
this yet, haven't give it a name. That's
| | 00:51 | coming up in the next lesson. So now
what happens if I am ready to start
| | 00:56 | another new drawing? So I don't have
to close up Draw and then start it up
| | 01:00 | again. Instead, I can go up to the File
menu, this is one way, down to New and
| | 01:06 | choose New Drawing. There it is right
there on the submenu. Notice that Ctrl+N
| | 01:11 | here on the PC is a shortcut to
create a new drawing, Cmd+N on your Mac
| | 01:16 | keyboard. So I am going to give it a
click and it creates a brand new blank
| | 01:20 | drawing, just like my first one.
Speaking of the first one, where did it go?
| | 01:24 | It's actually still open and if I go
up to my window menu, I will see down at
| | 01:29 | the bottom of this menu, two untitled
files, Untitled1 and Untitled2. You will
| | 01:36 | also notice this black dot will show up
next to one of the open files, in this
| | 01:40 | case Untitled 2. That means that's the
one I am looking at to switch back to
| | 01:45 | Untitled1. I simply click it here on
the window menu and it comes to the front.
| | 01:50 | Now I can go up to window, down to
Untitled2 to switch back to that one. All
| | 01:54 | right let's close it by going to the
File menu and choosing close. Because we
| | 02:00 | haven't made any changes to that
second untitled file, we are not prompted to
| | 02:04 | save anything, it simply closes up and
we will return back to Untitled1. Now
| | 02:09 | another way to create a new drawing we
saw is the keyboard Ctrl+N, but if you
| | 02:14 | like using the Standard toolbar the
very first button is your New button. Now
| | 02:17 | there is a dropdown when I click that.
I can create all different kinds of
| | 02:21 | documents or files, but really all
I am interested in is creating a new
| | 02:25 | drawing, so I could select it from here
but without clicking the dropdown just
| | 02:29 | clicking the New button itself will
automatically create a new drawing. So
| | 02:34 | let's try that. I am going to click my
page to close up the menu and I am going
| | 02:38 | to click once just quickly on this
button to create a brand new blank file.
| | 02:42 | There it is Untitled2 again up the top
on my title bar and I am ready to start
| | 02:46 | drawing. Well I am going to go back up
to file and down to close. There is one
| | 02:53 | other thing you might be wondering
about when I go up to the File menu you will
| | 02:57 | notice wizards down below. And
wizards are very useful in creating certain
| | 03:01 | types of documents, but on that submenu
that shows up to the right there are no
| | 03:06 | options for creating new drawings.
There is letters, faxes and agendas, all of
| | 03:11 | those will use Writer, a new
presentation using Impress, Web pages again
| | 03:16 | using Writer. There is a document
converter, Euro converter, address data
| | 03:21 | source, in this case using OpenOffice
Base. Install new dictionaries and fonts
| | 03:26 | from the web. No options here under
wizards for creating a new drawing. So you
| | 03:29 | are kind of on your own. I am going
to deselect this menu by clicking in my
| | 03:34 | drawing. All right so let's close this
one up. I am going to go up to File and
| | 03:38 | I am going to choose Close. Now I have
made changes to this file. I have added
| | 03:42 | that rectangle. So in this case the
document Untitled1 has been modified, do I
| | 03:47 | want to save those changes? I am not
ready to save this. That's the first
| | 03:51 | button, second option is to discard
those changes and actually close this file
| | 03:55 | or if I accidentally hit something and
I want to just forget the whole thing
| | 03:59 | click cancel and I will be returned to
my new document. I am going to choose
| | 04:04 | discard though, which will discard my
changes and close the file. Now I am back
| | 04:09 | to OpenOffice.org. I am not in
OpenOffice Draw at this point. Check out the
| | 04:14 | title bar and now my New button does
not work like the New Draw icon that I am
| | 04:19 | used to seeing. So clicking the
dropdown means I need to go to drawing to
| | 04:24 | create a new drawing back here in
OpenOffice Draw. So that's creating a new
| | 04:29 | drawing. In the next lesson we are
going to talk about opening up existing
| | 04:32 | files as well as some of the saving
techniques for saving your changes.
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| Opening and saving files| 00:00 | In this lesson we are going to open a
couple of different files of different
| | 00:03 | formats, make a couple of changes and
talk about how we save those changes
| | 00:07 | depending on the format. If you got
the exercise files you will be able to
| | 00:11 | follow along with me. If you don't
have those exercise files though don't worry
| | 00:15 | about it. You will be able to open
up some of your own graphical files of
| | 00:19 | different formats and you can
experiment with those. So here I am in OpenOffice
| | 00:23 | Draw. I have got a brand new blank
document started and I am going to go up to
| | 00:27 | the Open button. I am going to click
the Open button and navigate to the
| | 00:30 | exercise files folder, which I have
put on my desktop. In here I am going to
| | 00:34 | double click the lesson 1 folder
and you can see I have got a couple of
| | 00:37 | different files in here. I have got
what looks to be some kind of JPEG image.
| | 00:42 | If I position over the file name here
you will see a little popup tell me that
| | 00:46 | this is indeed a JPEG image. Down
below that Poster1 you will see is an open
| | 00:52 | document drawing and the name of this
is poster1.odg. That's the extension I
| | 00:58 | was talking about in the previous
lesson, so if I want to open up a file that
| | 01:02 | was actually created in OpenOffice
Draw, I just click it and click Open and
| | 01:07 | there it is. Now this is a vector
based drawing. This is one that was created
| | 01:12 | within OpenOffice Draw using some of
the tools in the Drawing toolbar for
| | 01:17 | example. Right now what happens if I
want to open up a different file format?
| | 01:21 | Well in this case I am going to go back
to the Open button. You can also go up
| | 01:24 | to File and choose Open or if you
prefer to use the keyboard, Ctrl+O on your PC
| | 01:30 | keyboard is the shortcut, Cmd+O on the
Mac and that's going to take me back to
| | 01:34 | the folder I just looked in. Notice
down below files of type is displaying all
| | 01:39 | files. So no matter what type of file I
have in this folder, it's being listed
| | 01:43 | here. I only have the two, but if I go
over here to the dropdown next two files
| | 01:48 | of type I can take a look at the types
of files I can open and there is quite a
| | 01:52 | long list. Now first of all up at the
top, if I only wanted to display text
| | 01:56 | documents, spreadsheets,
presentations, there is drawings, these will be
| | 02:00 | drawings created in OpenOffice Draw,
I can do that. And if I have to choose
| | 02:04 | drawings here it looks as though my
JPEG image, my whale poster has just
| | 02:09 | disappeared, but I am left with my
drawing, I opened document drawing that I
| | 02:14 | created in draw and that's just
because drawings is displayed down here. If I
| | 02:18 | scroll all the way back up and select
all files check it out my Humpback whale
| | 02:23 | poster is back. Let' go back to our
dropdown four files of type because there
| | 02:27 | is lots of other file types down below
our standard groups of files that we see
| | 02:33 | up here at the top. This next
section includes open document format text
| | 02:37 | documents and templates. We have got
OpenOffice.org text documents of older
| | 02:42 | versions, Microsoft Word and now if I
was to select a word document and open it
| | 02:47 | up here and draw it would not actually
open in draw, it would open up in Writer,
| | 02:52 | so keep that in mind not all of these
formats will open up in OpenOffice Draw,
| | 02:57 | but as I scroll down to the graphical
formats and I need to go way past some of
| | 03:03 | those formats that we see there, here
we go. You will notice that there's quite
| | 03:06 | a long list of graphical formats here
starting with our ODF drawing, which is a
| | 03:10 | .odg extension. You got ODF drawing
templates. OpenOffice.org older versions of
| | 03:16 | drawings and templates. Then you can
see we get into AutoCAD, Mac PICT files.
| | 03:23 | There is SVG scalable vector graphics
created with StarDraw. We can open those
| | 03:27 | files right here in OpenOffice Draw.
Same with some other versions that we see
| | 03:32 | here. Windows metafiles and bitmaps,
GIFs, and JPEGs, PCX files created in
| | 03:38 | Paintbrush. Look at them all here,
PNG portable network graphics, another
| | 03:42 | popular format and we have got TIFS.
Most of these are what we would call
| | 03:47 | Bitmap type images, remember the
pixels we talked about. So I can open them
| | 03:52 | directly into OpenOffice Draw. Even
though OpenOffice Draw allows me to create
| | 03:56 | vector-based graphics, I can open up
bitmap based graphics. So I am going to
| | 04:01 | scroll all the way back up to the top
here. Now you have got a good idea and go
| | 04:04 | back to all files and here is an
example of one of those formats, my humpback
| | 04:09 | whale, which is an actual JPEG image.
So I am going to click it and choose Open
| | 04:15 | and you can see it opened up in
OpenOffice Draw. And what if I have to just to
| | 04:19 | make a change to this? I am going to
click the image, I am going to go to one
| | 04:23 | of the handles in the top left corner
and when you see the double arrow if you
| | 04:26 | are following along just click and
drag down and in. And if you want to keep
| | 04:30 | the proportions hold your Shift key
down while you do that. That way it will
| | 04:33 | stay proportioned. I am going to
move it into the center by clicking and
| | 04:36 | dragging from the center and click off
the graphic itself. So I made a simple
| | 04:41 | change. If I want to save the change
clicking the Save button here is actually
| | 04:46 | going to open up the Save As dialog box.
I can't save it as a JPEG image. I can
| | 04:52 | export an image and we are going to
talk about exporting at the very end of
| | 04:56 | this title and saving to other formats,
but you can see what's happening here
| | 05:00 | by default. It's trying to call it
humpback whale but converted over to an ODG
| | 05:05 | file, which is an Open Document Format
Drawing. So in that case it would be in
| | 05:09 | its native format, even though it's a
bitmap image inside the file. So I am
| | 05:13 | going to click cancel. I am going to go
up to file and choose close and discard
| | 05:20 | those changes. That takes me back to
my original file that I opened which was
| | 05:25 | created here in OpenOffice Draw. So if
I have to make a simple change to this I
| | 05:29 | am going to click the border here,
which is black. And this is actually just a
| | 05:33 | black rectangle in the background and I
am going to change its color, so let's
| | 05:38 | go up here to our line and fill
toolbar where we see black next to color, and
| | 05:42 | let's just choose really dark blue.
So there is a simple change that really
| | 05:47 | changes the look of this image and
now if I was to click my Save button or
| | 05:51 | Ctrl+S here on the PC keyboard, Cmd+S
on your Mac or go up to file and choose
| | 05:57 | save. It will be saved in the same
format under the same name poster 1. If I
| | 06:02 | want to change the name, the location,
I can go to Save As and I do want to
| | 06:07 | save this to my desktop. Notice that
it's called poster1. It's still a .odg
| | 06:13 | file, an open document format drawing,
and when I click Save I will have
| | 06:17 | another version of this file on my
desktop with those changes. So keep in mind
| | 06:23 | that when you are saving changes that
you make, if you are not exporting you
| | 06:27 | are saving to the default format here
on OpenOffice Draw, which is an open
| | 06:31 | document format drawing. Now later on
as I mentioned at the very end of this
| | 06:36 | title we are going to talk about
exporting images to different formats. So for
| | 06:39 | example if you needed to make a change
to that humpback whale image and hand it
| | 06:45 | off to somebody you probably want to
save it back to a JPEG, in other words
| | 06:49 | export it to that same format. We will
talk about same pictures at the very end.
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2. Drawing, Filling, and Using EffectsDrawing basic shapes| 00:00 | All right this is the chapter where we
begin to get creative using OpenOffice
| | 00:04 | Draw. We are going to be drawing some
basic shapes in this lesson. We are going
| | 00:07 | to be talking about some of the fill
and line attributes. We will look at some
| | 00:12 | additional options for creating your
own drawings like flowcharting, but first
| | 00:17 | let's just tackle some basic shapes.
You can see you have got a brand new blank
| | 00:21 | document started here. If you need to
catch up just go up to your New button
| | 00:25 | right here, give it a click or click
the dropdown and select Drawing, and you
| | 00:29 | will have what I have right here. We
will keep all of the defaults, which is an
| | 00:32 | 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper. It's in
portrait mode here. It's taller than it is
| | 00:37 | wide and we are going to focus down
here now on our Drawing toolbar. Here is
| | 00:41 | where we find all of our drawing tools
for drawing lines and arrows and look at
| | 00:45 | these two shapes right here,
rectangle and ellipse. We will start with our
| | 00:49 | Rectangle tool. So we give it a click.
It's now selected and when we move our
| | 00:53 | cursor onto our page, you can see
it looks different now. It's got the
| | 00:57 | crosshair and the little rectangle
beside it just to remind you what you are
| | 01:00 | drawing. So it's just a matter now of
clicking and dragging to draw the shape.
| | 01:05 | So I am going to start up here in the
top left corner. I am going to click and
| | 01:07 | drag the across and down I see an
outline as I am drawing, and when I let go I
| | 01:12 | have drawn my shape. Right, my shape is
a basic shape. It's a rectangle and it
| | 01:17 | has the default attributes for fill
and line style around the outside. It's
| | 01:23 | also selected and I can tell by these
little handles that appear around the
| | 01:26 | outside because here is where I go to
make adjustments. So for example if I
| | 01:30 | wanted this to be a little bit taller
I may come down to this handle at the
| | 01:34 | bottom center. I see the double arrow.
I click and drag it down a little bit
| | 01:38 | further and I have adjusted the shape
of my rectangle. I am going to bring in
| | 01:41 | the right side a little bit just by
clicking, dragging inwards and if I wanted
| | 01:45 | to make adjustments to height and width
I can go to any of the corners. So I am
| | 01:49 | going to go down to this corner here
and I can click and drag in and out and up
| | 01:53 | and down at the same time to make
adjustments. I am going to go right to about
| | 01:57 | there and let go. And when I click off
the actual shape, it's deselected now
| | 02:02 | and there is the end result. All right
let's go down to our Drawing toolbar now
| | 02:05 | and click the ellipse. This is another
basic shape and because rectangles and
| | 02:10 | ellipses are used very often, they
appear here as their own buttons. So now we
| | 02:15 | can click and drag down below again
across and down we see the outline and when
| | 02:21 | we let go we have drawn our ellipse
again. It has handles, so we can make
| | 02:25 | adjustments if we want to click and
drag any of these handles. We are going to
| | 02:29 | adjust height and width by going to the
corners, or just the height or just the
| | 02:34 | width by going to any of the sides.
When we deselect by clicking off the shape
| | 02:39 | we see the end result. Again using the
default fill and line attributes that we
| | 02:43 | saw with our rectangle, all right, I am
going to click the rectangle and hit my
| | 02:47 | Delete key that removes the object. I
am going to do the same with the ellipse.
| | 02:51 | One click, hit my Delete key on the
keyboard, it's gone. And I am going to go
| | 02:55 | back to the rectangle now. To draw a
perfect square, it's just a matter of
| | 02:59 | clicking and dragging and instead of
trying to use the ruler to line things up
| | 03:04 | and measure why not try holding down
your Shift key. Hold down your Shift key,
| | 03:08 | click and drag across and down you can
see it's going to be a perfect square,
| | 03:12 | as soon as I let go with the mouse
button first and then my Shift key I got a
| | 03:17 | perfect square four equal sides, I can
move right inside to move it around, you
| | 03:21 | can see the four-sided arrow and if I
go to any of the corners to click and
| | 03:25 | drag, I can continue to hold my Shift
key first and then click and drag to keep
| | 03:29 | it a perfect square. As soon as I let
go the Shift key you can see now I am
| | 03:33 | drawing a rectangle. Hold the Shift
key down again. It pops back to a perfect
| | 03:38 | square and when I let go of the mouse
button first then the Shift key, I can
| | 03:42 | deselect by clicking off the object to
see the end result. Same applies with
| | 03:46 | the ellipse. So let's go back down to
our Ellipse tool now. To draw a perfect
| | 03:51 | circle I am going to hold down my Shift
key, click and drag across, you can see
| | 03:56 | there will always be a perfect circle,
just different sized circles as I click
| | 04:00 | and drag. Again I need to let go with
the mouse button first and then my Shift
| | 04:04 | key to keep that perfect circle, when I
am editing again I can change it to an
| | 04:09 | ellipse if I don't hold down my Shift
key, but as soon as I hold down the Shift
| | 04:12 | key pops back to a perfect circle.
Now I can adjust the size of that circle
| | 04:17 | like over the mouse button first then
my Shift key, click off the object to see
| | 04:22 | the end result. Now the new thing
about OpenOffice Draw and other drawing
| | 04:26 | programs is that you start to create
projects by combining these shapes. So for
| | 04:31 | example if I click my circle four-sided
arrow inside I can click and drag this
| | 04:35 | right on top of my square and I am
starting to build something now. Of course
| | 04:40 | when we start to change some of the
attributes like the fill attributes and the
| | 04:43 | line attributes around the outside of
our shapes, that's when we really start to
| | 04:47 | see some changes. So I am going to
click off this and in the next lesson we are
| | 04:51 | going to explore those fill attributes.
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| Changing fill attributes| 00:00 | In the previous lesson we tackled a
couple of basic shapes, a square and a
| | 00:04 | circle, put the circle on top of the
square and if you were following along
| | 00:08 | with me this is what you see here on
your page. In this lesson we are going to
| | 00:13 | look at changing fill attributes for
our shapes both of them here on our page.
| | 00:18 | So if you are following along you
are ready to go. If you jumped to this
| | 00:21 | lesson, however, and you do have the
exercise files, you can get all caught up
| | 00:25 | by drawing these two shapes, or by
going to the lesson 2 folder and opening up
| | 00:30 | this file shapes1. It has an .odg
extension. It's a native to OpenOffice Draw.
| | 00:36 | And once you open that up you will see
exactly what I see here on my screen. So
| | 00:40 | I am going to start by clicking on the
ellipse itself. As soon as I click right in
| | 00:44 | the middle of the circle you can see I
have got the handles around the outside
| | 00:48 | moving to the center of my circle. I
see the four-sided arrow, so I am going to
| | 00:52 | click and drag this down just below my
square just like that. And I am going to
| | 00:58 | keep it selected because I want to
manipulate the fill attributes for this
| | 01:03 | selected object. And there is a number
of different ways to do that. One way,
| | 01:07 | the fastest way is to go up to our
toolbar for formatting these types of
| | 01:12 | objects where we can adjust things like
line and area styling. So over here on
| | 01:16 | the right side of this bar we have got
a little paint bucket representing the
| | 01:20 | area, we can access the area dialog
box from here. We are going to do that
| | 01:24 | momentarily, but if we just want to
change the styling and the fill itself we
| | 01:28 | can go to these two dropdowns where we
can choose the area style. We can change
| | 01:32 | it from the default, which is Color
and the color being used is blue 8, which
| | 01:37 | is that light blue that we see every
time we draw a shape that has a fill. So
| | 01:41 | for example if I click this dropdown
next to Color I have got some other
| | 01:44 | options. I could have no fill at all,
which is called Invisible. There is color,
| | 01:50 | I could change it to a Gradient. I have
a number of Gradient selections to
| | 01:53 | choose from. Hatching where I am going
to see things like lines and patterns
| | 01:59 | inside my object. Or Bitmap, which you
will use actual images inside. So let's go
| | 02:04 | through each of these starting with
Invisible. When I click Invisible you can
| | 02:08 | see exactly what happens. There is no
fill. And in fact if I my mouse pointer
| | 02:12 | to the center of the circle I don't see
the four-sided arrow just because there
| | 02:15 | is nothing there. If I go to the
border of my circle I do see the four-sided
| | 02:20 | arrow I don't want to be on one of the
handles to change the size or shape, but
| | 02:25 | rather right on the border when I see
the four-sided arrow, if I click and drag
| | 02:29 | this up a little bit, so it's
overlapping my square, you can see it is
| | 02:34 | invisible. I can see right through it;
there is nothing there. I am going to
| | 02:37 | click and drag that down. Leave it
just slightly overlapping. All right let's
| | 02:41 | go back to that dropdown. Change it
from Invisible, skip over Color and go
| | 02:45 | right to Gradient. And when I choose
Gradient nothing happens until I go to the
| | 02:50 | next dropdown and select one of those
presets. So you can see gradient 1 is
| | 02:55 | that gray fill, it goes from dark to
light. There we got some colors for
| | 02:59 | Gradients 2, 3 all the way through 6,
linear blue and white. There is a green
| | 03:04 | to black one this one has red and
white colors being used, but it seems to
| | 03:09 | radiate out from the center and there
is square yellow and as I scroll down you
| | 03:14 | will see there are some more options
here as well. I am going to go to radial
| | 03:17 | red yellow, kind of like that one and
give it a click. Right away you can see
| | 03:21 | now I have got almost looks like a
three dimensional ball, almost like a sun
| | 03:25 | for example, because I am using a
Gradient that goes from yellow in the center
| | 03:29 | outwards to that orangey red color. All
right that's kind of cool. Let's go up
| | 03:34 | to Gradient now. Click the dropdown
and try Hatching. Now Hatching, I need to
| | 03:39 | click the next dropdown beside to see
some of those patterns, you see straight
| | 03:43 | lines, diagonal lines, we have got some
that use color as well, not a whole lot
| | 03:48 | to choose from here, but if I want to
choose a pattern like blue crossed 45
| | 03:52 | degrees you can see the end result, it
is somewhat transparent. So I am seeing
| | 03:56 | the Hatching, but in behind the screen
door effect is my object here, my square
| | 04:02 | and I can see it including its fill
attributes which is like blue color. Let's
| | 04:06 | go back up here to hatching and change
it now to Bitmap. Bitmap allows me to
| | 04:11 | select from preset images. So these are
actual images that will fill my object
| | 04:17 | and be tiled across the object. So for
example I got blank and if I click blank
| | 04:22 | you can see that's different from
invisible. In this case it actually is filled
| | 04:26 | and it's the same as filling it up
with the white color. It's solid, I can't
| | 04:29 | see through it, but there are more
interesting ones in blank we have got Sky,
| | 04:34 | that's kind of neat looks like a
cloudy sky, we have got Water, kind of looks
| | 04:39 | like a pool, round pool. We have got
Droplets and we can adjust the tiling that
| | 04:47 | we see there, we are going to get to
that momentarily, Netting, you can see I
| | 04:50 | have got Leaves here if I wanted to. I
am going to go back to my dropdown where
| | 04:57 | it says Bitmap and go back to gradient
and change it back to that yellow red
| | 05:03 | rectangular red light no, let's go
little bit further down here, there it is,
| | 05:06 | radial red yellow give that a click I
like that effect right there. I am going
| | 05:11 | to click off the circle just to
deselect it and now click my rectangle. Let's
| | 05:16 | continue working with some fill
attributes, but this time I work with a
| | 05:20 | different object, a rectangular object,
again we have got all those options but
| | 05:24 | we got more options when it comes to
our fill attributes if we go to the paintcan,
| | 05:29 | which is a shortcut button by the
way for going up to the Format menu and
| | 05:34 | coming down here to Area. There is my
little paintcan again. So I am going to
| | 05:38 | give it a click here. Same thing is
clicking the button on the toolbar and here
| | 05:41 | you can see we have got not just our
fill options that were used to seeing from
| | 05:45 | the toolbar. Here is our Gradient,
Hatching, Bitmap, etc, but we have also got
| | 05:51 | some tabs across here for affecting
shadow, transparency of the object, colors
| | 05:56 | if you want to combine our own colors,
create our own effects, gradients as
| | 06:01 | well. There is our presets, but we
can modify those and create our own
| | 06:04 | gradients from here. Same thing goes
for hatching. So we can change angles and
| | 06:09 | spacing and line type and the line
color and when we go to Bitmaps, you can
| | 06:14 | see we've got our Pattern Editor here as
well. Somewhat more advanced, but it's
| | 06:18 | good to know that it's all here and I
am going to go back to area, I am going
| | 06:22 | to click my Fill dropdown, change it
from Color to Bitmap, here we go. And I am
| | 06:28 | going to change the Bitmap to Water
right here. So I am going to click Water.
| | 06:33 | Now over here if I want to change the
size, you can see original size is being
| | 06:36 | used, position right in the center and
the tiling is all set for me by default
| | 06:41 | but I can make adjustments right from
here. The other thing I do want to do
| | 06:44 | though is adjust the transparency.
Right now there is no transparency. I can't
| | 06:48 | see through it. I can create a
transparency using a percentage and you can see
| | 06:52 | I get a preview over here of what 50%
transparency looks like, but I can also use
| | 06:56 | a gradient transparency where it goes
from solid to transparent and you can see
| | 07:02 | the type by default selected here is
Linear. If I click this dropdown, if I
| | 07:07 | wanted to I can go down to Square. This
is kind of cool, it's going to go form
| | 07:10 | the center out. Center x 50-50, if I
wanted to leave it just like that and not
| | 07:15 | adjust the degrees, the border. I can
see it's going from 0 to 100%. When I click
| | 07:20 | OK, let's see what the end result
is for our object. You can see it's
| | 07:23 | transparent there in the center going
out to solid on the outside and that's
| | 07:28 | kind of a neat effect. Now if we
could see something in behind it you would
| | 07:32 | really get the full effect of
transparency. All right so I am going to deselect
| | 07:36 | this object just by clicking off of
it to see the end result. So there are
| | 07:40 | many, many options when it comes to
your fill attributes with your shapes.
| | 07:44 | There are other shapes that we can draw
as well, but before we get to that, the
| | 07:47 | other part of an object that we can
adjust the properties are what we see
| | 07:52 | around the outside known as the border
and each of these is using the default
| | 07:57 | line type around the outside, which is
a very thin black line. All of that can
| | 08:01 | be adjusted as well to really change
the look and appearance of the things that
| | 08:05 | we draw. We are going to do that next.
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| Changing line attributes| 00:00 | If you were following along with me in
the previous lesson, we worked with the
| | 00:03 | fill attributes of a couple of shapes
we've drawn. In this lesson we explore
| | 00:07 | the other half, which is the line
attributes of an object. Now an object may
| | 00:12 | have a border or the object may be a
line itself. So in this lesson we are going
| | 00:17 | to draw a line and we are going to
work with some line attributes. I am still
| | 00:20 | working with the same document or file
that I started a couple of lessons ago
| | 00:25 | if you've following along with me
you've got something similar to what I see
| | 00:28 | here on my screen. If you skipped to
this lesson however and you've got the
| | 00:32 | exercise files, you can get all caught
up by going to the lesson 2 folder and
| | 00:36 | opening up shapes2.odg. You will see
exactly what I see here. So you got a
| | 00:42 | couple of shapes, each of them has a
border around the outside, a line style
| | 00:46 | has been assigned by default, which is
that thin black line you see, what we
| | 00:50 | don't have here is just a normal line.
So I am going to go down to my Drawing
| | 00:54 | toolbar here and I am not going to
select this line, which actually ends with
| | 00:58 | an arrow. I am going to select the
basic Line button right here. Give it a
| | 01:01 | click. Now all I have to do is click
and drag. Click and drag across. Don't
| | 01:06 | worry about the angle. If you hold down
your Shift key you can get a perfectly
| | 01:10 | straight line that's level and you can
see you can move it to 45 and 90 degree
| | 01:14 | angles holding the Shift key down.
Without the Shift key you can go to pretty
| | 01:18 | much any angle you like. So I am going
to hold down my Shift key and I am going
| | 01:21 | to go straight across the bottom here,
let go on my mouse button first and
| | 01:25 | there is my selected shape. In this
case which happens to be a line. A line
| | 01:29 | only has two handles one on the left,
one on the right here to allow me to
| | 01:33 | change the length of the line. So
it has got two end points and that's
| | 01:37 | important when working with line styles.
So with it selected we can go up to
| | 01:42 | our toolbar, this is one way to make
changes to the line attributes of a
| | 01:46 | selected object, in this case a
straight line. This little button here that
| | 01:50 | looks like a fountain pen will open up
the dialog box where we will see tabs
| | 01:54 | and a whole bunch of options for making
changes to our line style. We will come
| | 01:58 | back to that in a moment. Next to that
a little shortcut for choosing an arrow
| | 02:02 | style, so if I want to change that
straight line into an arrow, I can click
| | 02:05 | this dropdown and you see I've got
different arrowheads pointing in different
| | 02:09 | directions, and if I wanted to maybe
choose one of these long arrows right
| | 02:13 | here. I am going to choose small arrow
on the right give it a click and you can
| | 02:17 | see I get that small area on the right
side of my line. What I don't see is the
| | 02:23 | beginning of my line, I don't have,
for example, maybe an arrow ending like a
| | 02:27 | feather at the end but I can go back
to this dropdown if I wanted to and just
| | 02:32 | scroll down a little bit and you can
see those other options for how the end of
| | 02:35 | my arrow will appear. So you might want
to choose this one right up here which
| | 02:39 | is dimension lines on the left and now
when I deselect this, you will be able
| | 02:44 | to see, it's very difficult but there
is a little end line there and a small
| | 02:48 | arrow. They are small because of the
line itself. So the line attributes can be
| | 02:53 | changed as far as color line style and
thickness. Let's go back to that line,
| | 02:58 | when I click it and those are changes I
can make right from my toolbar up here.
| | 03:02 | First of all the line style is a solid
line. If I click this dropdown I can go
| | 03:06 | to ultra fine dashed, I can go to
dotted lines, you can see fine all the way up
| | 03:12 | to three dashes and three dots, lots
of different styles to choose from but I
| | 03:16 | want to keep it at continuous, so I
am going to give that a click. Keep it
| | 03:20 | continuous but what I do want to do
change is its thickness. Right now you can
| | 03:23 | see 0.00 inches for the line width. I
can use these little arrows to bump it
| | 03:29 | up. You can see it's going up by 0.
02 with each click and you can see it
| | 03:33 | actually changing at the bottom of my
page as I click. The other thing that is
| | 03:37 | changing is the beginning and end
of my line is rolling with it. So the
| | 03:42 | arrowhead and ending over here on the
left is also changing in thickness as
| | 03:46 | well. Now if you wanted to you can
come right in here and type in the actual
| | 03:50 | width. I am going to type 0.2 and you
can see since I type the 0.2 how thick it
| | 03:55 | gets perfect. Now the other thing I can
change is the color clicking the black
| | 03:59 | color swatch dropdown here I can select
from a number of different colors if I
| | 04:04 | want to go to something cool like sea
blue I could do that and I am changing
| | 04:09 | the line color itself. There we go. I
can move it around with a four-sided
| | 04:13 | arrow. I am going through my sun. I can
do that, if I want to change the length
| | 04:19 | of it. I can do that I can make a
little bit shorter and I am going to adjust
| | 04:22 | the angle at the same time here we go.
Okay. Just like that. Now let's go to
| | 04:27 | one of our shapes that has a border it
also has a line style and I am going to
| | 04:31 | my sun here my circle, when I click
this I have access to all of those same
| | 04:36 | properties up here from my toolbar. The
only thing that won't work is the arrow
| | 04:40 | style because they don't have the end
points on a shape, goes continuously
| | 04:44 | around the outside of my shape, but I
can change the line style, I can change
| | 04:48 | their thickness, I am going to bump it
up with each click you can see getting
| | 04:52 | thicker and thicker, that's way too
thick, so bring it down to about 0.26 just
| | 04:57 | like that. Of course I can come in here
and type in the exact value 0.25 that's
| | 05:02 | what I really want. And I can change
the color here as well. So maybe a nice
| | 05:07 | dark red color would work well. I am
going to go to red 7 see what that looks
| | 05:12 | like. No not very good. Let's try
something a little more yellowy, yellow 2.
| | 05:19 | Now that does not look very good either.
So it's very easy to experiment, till
| | 05:24 | you find something you are working for
chart 2 is what I am going to leave out
| | 05:27 | right there. I am going to click off
the object and then I am going to my
| | 05:30 | square now and then instead of going up
to the toolbar to make these changes, I
| | 05:34 | am going to go to my Fountain pen
button here which will take me to the line
| | 05:37 | dialog box or if you prefer to use the
menus you can go up to Format and down
| | 05:42 | to Line right here, your choice. This
opens up my Line dialog and now I can
| | 05:47 | make changes here from the Line, Line
Styles and Arrow Styles tabs and we'll leave
| | 05:51 | the Line tab selected. There is the
style, Continues, so solid. There is the color,
| | 05:57 | same choices, so I am going to change
the color to this dark blue I can do
| | 06:01 | that. If I want to change the width I
can do that. I get a preview down below
| | 06:05 | what that's going to look like and I am
going to go up to .10. The other thing
| | 06:09 | now that I can do is add some
transparency, something you can't do from your
| | 06:13 | toolbar. So as you bump this up, the
higher the percentage the more transparent
| | 06:18 | it gets. You actually be able to see
right through your border if you do this.
| | 06:23 | So I am going to go down to 50% right
there. Arrow styles don't apply to a
| | 06:29 | shape but corner styles do, and you
can see I've got Rounded, None, Mitered.
| | 06:34 | I've got Beveled if I wanted to, you
can see a preview of what that looks like
| | 06:38 | over here. I'm going to go up to Rounded
just like that. And when I click OK I am
| | 06:43 | going to see the end result. And I
click off my object and you can see the
| | 06:48 | bitmap pattern in behind my border and
it gives me a totally different effect
| | 06:53 | thanks to that transparency. If I
click this object and go back to my Line
| | 06:58 | dialog box I am going to click the
button this time, go over to Line Styles,
| | 07:02 | you can see I've also got the ability
to change line styles, types, the number
| | 07:06 | of dashes and dots if you are using
them, how far they are spaced apart, but I
| | 07:11 | am not going to going any of that with
my object. I am going to go back to the
| | 07:14 | Line tab and I am going to change
this transparency here by clicking and
| | 07:17 | dragging over what say our 50% and
typing in zero. So there is no transparency.
| | 07:22 | When I click OK, you can see the end
result over here. Deselect so you can see
| | 07:27 | that perfect. So there is a lot of
options when it comes to fill and line
| | 07:32 | attributes that can really change the
look and feel of your objects especially
| | 07:36 | when we get into combing them like
we will so that's a line and the fill
| | 07:41 | properties of some basic shapes. There
are some additional shapes though that
| | 07:44 | we can draw thanks to our Drawing toolbar.
We are going to tackle those in the next lesson.
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| More shapes| 00:00 | In OpenOffice Draw you can pretty much
draw any shape you want but there are a
| | 00:04 | number of predefined shapes for you
to choose from. We have already used a
| | 00:08 | couple of them, our square and a circle
from lessons gone by, using the Rectangle
| | 00:13 | and Ellipse tools. But there are other
shapes that we can draw and predefined
| | 00:18 | symbols even and characters and so on
that we can select from, thanks to our
| | 00:22 | Drawing toolbar. That's what we are
going to explore in this lesson. So wherever
| | 00:26 | you left off we are going to go up
to the New button to start a brand new
| | 00:29 | project. Giving that a click opens up a
brand new page for us to work on using
| | 00:34 | the default settings. We have got an
8.5 x 11 sheet of paper here in portrait.
| | 00:39 | We are going to go down to our Drawing
toolbar and start drawing. Now we already
| | 00:42 | know that we have got our Line tool
down here. We have also got the Rectangle
| | 00:47 | and Ellipse tools and as we move
further right on this toolbar we have got some
| | 00:51 | additional tools for drawing curves,
drawing connectors, there is our Lines and
| | 00:56 | Arrows button and you will see Basic
Shapes has its own button as well. I am
| | 01:00 | going to click the little dropdown
next to Basic Shapes because in here you
| | 01:04 | will see the Rectangle tool. You will
also see the Ellipse tool as well as some
| | 01:09 | other options like rounded rectangles,
perfect squares or rounded squares.
| | 01:14 | There is our circle. You can see we can
draw circle pies, we have got triangles
| | 01:19 | to choose from, trapezoids, parallelograms,
diamonds. Look at this. We can use
| | 01:24 | the octagon if we needed a stop sign
for example. Here we have got the cross,
| | 01:28 | a ring. There is an arc and we got some
three-dimensional looking ones like the
| | 01:33 | cylinder and the cube here as well.
So let's draw a couple of these just
| | 01:37 | experimenting. I am going to go up
to my triangle, give it a click, the
| | 01:40 | isosceles triangle. I click and drag
and I can draw pretty much any shape.
| | 01:45 | It will be an isosceles triangle, to make
it perfectly symmetrical, hold down your
| | 01:49 | Shift key and it'll always be three equal
sides and when you look over your mouse you've
| | 01:53 | just drawn your triangle. Now notice
that some of these objects like this
| | 01:57 | triangle have an extra handle at the
top. It's that round sphere yellow in
| | 02:02 | color. We've got our handles for
changing the shape and size of our object but
| | 02:06 | when we go up to this you can actually
change the angle. So you can see I am
| | 02:10 | kind of pulling left or right to
change the angle of my triangle, and this
| | 02:15 | little handle is going to come in
handy with some of our other shapes that we
| | 02:19 | draw now. So I am going to deselect by
clicking off the shape before I go on to
| | 02:22 | the next one, and click this little
dropdown here and I am going to go my
| | 02:27 | cylinder this time. Now when I click
and drag I will be drawing a cylinder,
| | 02:31 | hold down your Shift key if you wanted
to be perfectly symmetrical and when you
| | 02:35 | let go there is your cylinder. Notice
that we have got that little spherical
| | 02:39 | handle again, so that means I can
click and drag to change the angle of it, I
| | 02:43 | am looking at this three dimensional
object. So not necessarily rotating it
| | 02:48 | although I do get that effect to be
rotating it up and down, and I am going to
| | 02:53 | change the angle like so. So I am
looking at it more from the side than above.
| | 02:57 | I will deselect to see the end result.
Now all of these symbols and shapes are
| | 03:01 | being drawn using the default fill
and line styles. Of course we can change
| | 03:06 | those as well and we will momentarily.
Now aside from our basic shapes that we
| | 03:11 | see here, the next button over has a
little happy face by default. If I click
| | 03:15 | this you will see some symbols here. So
I am going to go over to the moon and I
| | 03:19 | am going to click and drag to draw
myself a moon. Now this is an object I could
| | 03:24 | draw kind of manually if I wanted to by
using some of the tools we are going to
| | 03:28 | talk about later for trimming and
intersecting objects and combining objects.
| | 03:34 | But we got it built right into our
Drawing toolbar here and it's as easy as
| | 03:38 | clicking and dragging, thanks to these
predefined symbols and shapes. Let's go
| | 03:42 | back to the symbol shapes now, try
another one. Here is the popular one. The no
| | 03:47 | sign or prohibited sign. This is a
good one where you probably want to hold
| | 03:50 | down your Shift key to get a perfect
circle and there it is. All right next to
| | 03:56 | our symbol shapes we have got some
block arrows as well. So here arrows as
| | 04:00 | opposed to using lines with arrow tips
we have got some block arrows that can
| | 04:04 | be treated like objects. We can
change their line and fill attributes for
| | 04:07 | example. So if I go over here to this
one it looks like a straight right arrow,
| | 04:12 | click and drag you can see the end
result. It too has this special handle for
| | 04:17 | changing the width and the height of
my arrow while adjusting the stripes as
| | 04:23 | well. Kind of cool. Let's go back to
our block arrows and try one more. When we
| | 04:29 | go to this one, this is four way arrow
callout, and click and drag down here
| | 04:34 | and there you see the end result.
Again using the default fill and line
| | 04:38 | attributes all of which can be changed,
I am going to click my triangle and hit
| | 04:44 | my Delete key as well as my cylinder
and my striped arrow. It gives me some
| | 04:49 | space up here at the top and I am
going over to the next button now this one
| | 04:53 | here is used for flow charting there
is a whole lesson devoted to flow charts
| | 04:56 | coming up soon but you can see some of
the flow charting shapes that we have
| | 05:00 | available to us here. All of these are
used in typical flow chart diagrams. So
| | 05:05 | for example we have got this one here
for a punched tape, if I click and drag
| | 05:09 | that you can see the end result. I am
going to hit the Delete key because we
| | 05:12 | will come back to flow charts later on.
We have also got callouts, we just
| | 05:16 | going to need if you have got characters,
cartoons characters, for example and
| | 05:20 | you want them to be speaking or
thinking. I am going to select the cloud here
| | 05:24 | click and drag and you will see the
default angle for the fog bubble but there
| | 05:30 | is that special handle when I see the
hand up here I can change the angle so
| | 05:34 | it's going directly over the person
or object that should be doing the
| | 05:38 | thinking, just like that. I hit my
Delete key to remove that. We have also got
| | 05:42 | some stars in here and you will see a
number of different styles of stars and
| | 05:48 | some that don't even look like stars,
for example we have got what looks like
| | 05:51 | scrolls and signets, there is a
door plate for example and then we got
| | 05:56 | different pointed stars. So you can see
we got an explosion got a 4.5, 6, I am
| | 06:03 | going to go to the six point star. I am
going to just click and drag. Hold down
| | 06:06 | your Shift key if you want it perfectly
symmetrical and release the mouse first
| | 06:11 | and there is your star. So lot of
different objects, symbols shapes, callouts,
| | 06:18 | block arrows, stars all of these are
the things that you could draw manually be
| | 06:22 | very time consuming but it's very good
that OpenOffice Draw has provided these
| | 06:27 | predefined objects for you to use as
you create your projects. The only thing
| | 06:32 | we have not talked about yet is text.
So I am going to click and drag from way
| | 06:37 | out here off my page across and down
so that I am kind of a enveloping all of
| | 06:42 | the objects on my page. When I released
you will notice that I have got handles
| | 06:45 | around the outside of all of them that
means when I hit delete I am removing
| | 06:49 | them all. So I am going to draw just a
couple more objects here. I am going to
| | 06:52 | start with my rectangle and I am going
to go up to the border here I can see
| | 06:58 | the margins, click and drag to fill
almost the entire page. I am going to
| | 07:04 | change the fill color. I am going to
leave it as color but change it to black.
| | 07:09 | There we go. And I am going to
deselect by clicking off the shape and I am
| | 07:13 | going to go down to my symbol shapes
now and go over to the star here. Now it's
| | 07:20 | really the sun, which is a star,
hold down my Shift key to make a nice
| | 07:25 | symmetrical star or sun here we go.
I am going to place it as best I can
| | 07:31 | towards the middle. We are going to
be talking about lining objects and
| | 07:34 | layering them little bit later on, and
I try and keep it fairly centered if I
| | 07:39 | can, and in this case I am going to
change the fill from color to gradient. From
| | 07:44 | the Gradient dropdown I am going to
select gradient 3. I am going to deselect
| | 07:48 | and that's where I want to leave off
for the next lesson when we start to add
| | 07:52 | some text objects to our project. So
if you are following along with me you
| | 07:56 | should have something similar to what
I have here on the screen. In the next
| | 08:00 | lesson we explore text.
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| Working with text| 00:00 | So far in this chapter we have been
inserting different types of objects and
| | 00:04 | symbols and stars and shapes and we
have adjusted properties, but we have
| | 00:09 | neglected to explore one very
important type of object to this point and that
| | 00:13 | is text. As you create projects in
OpenOffice Draw many of them will include
| | 00:18 | some type of text so in this lesson we
are going to insert different kinds of
| | 00:23 | text and we are also going to explore
how we can adjust the properties of text.
| | 00:28 | So in the last lesson we started our
drawing we got this black rectangle in the
| | 00:33 | background and we have got our shape
here in the center, a nice sun symbol with
| | 00:37 | some special properties added to it to
make it stand out. Now we have got some room
| | 00:42 | at the top and the bottom here to add
some text. So we are going to do in two
| | 00:46 | different ways. Now if you were not
following along in the previous lesson but
| | 00:50 | you got the exercise files you can get
all caught up by going to the lesson 2
| | 00:53 | folder and opening up travel1.odg.
Open that up, you will see what I see here.
| | 00:59 | We are going to start with some
simple text so going down to the Drawing
| | 01:03 | toolbar you will see the capital
letter T for text. We give it a click and now
| | 01:08 | all we have to do with Text
selected is to go into our drawing here
| | 01:11 | somewhere and start typing. The neat
thing about Draw is that you don't have to
| | 01:15 | be on the page. Because I know the
default text properties include a black font
| | 01:21 | color, I won't see what I am typing if
I click in here. So I am going to go off
| | 01:25 | the page to enter my text and then I will
make some adjustments to it after the fact.
| | 01:30 | So I am just going to click
right here. You could see my flashing
| | 01:33 | cursor inside the shaded box that will
expand as I type. So I am just going to
| | 01:37 | type in TRAVEL all in capital letters,
just like that. Now if I look up to the
| | 01:43 | property bar here it's the Arial font
that's being used, 18 points. It's left
| | 01:48 | aligned. You can see over here that the
line spacing is single and if I go over
| | 01:53 | here to my Font Color dropdown, actually
I can see right on the page it's black,
| | 01:58 | but I can make changes to the font
color from here. So all of these things can
| | 02:03 | be adjusted and that's what we are
going to do momentarily. First though we are
| | 02:06 | going to select the text. You can
double click the word TRAVEL or click and
| | 02:10 | drag over it. I like double clicking.
It's a fast way to select everything
| | 02:14 | inside the box. And now I am going to
change the font first. I am going to go
| | 02:17 | up to the font dropdown. This is the
easiest way to do it. We could go through
| | 02:21 | the format menu, but I am gong to
choose Arial black it's a nice thick font.
| | 02:25 | This is still way too small to cover
up this area in the bottom of my poster.
| | 02:30 | So I am going to click the size
dropdown. I am going to go as big as I can 96
| | 02:35 | points. Now you can see that is going
to be a good size. Problem is when I move
| | 02:40 | it over here I am not going to be able
to see it. Why not? Because it's black.
| | 02:44 | So I am going to move it back over here
and I am going to double click again to
| | 02:48 | get inside and select all that text
because the next change I make is to change
| | 02:53 | the color. So I am going to come up
here to the font color dropdown and choose
| | 02:58 | white. Now if I wanted to I am just
going to move this over here where we can
| | 03:02 | see it and click off the object. You
can see that with it sitting down there at
| | 03:06 | the bottom, I can easily read it, it's
a white color on black background very
| | 03:11 | nice but just like we did with objects
we can do some cool things with our text
| | 03:16 | as well if we turn it into an object.
Now right now if I click the word TRAVEL
| | 03:21 | once. I see the handles around the
outside. So right now it's being treated
| | 03:26 | like an object. So for example if I was
to change the fill to a different color
| | 03:31 | from invisible I would actually be
filling in the box itself. So what should I
| | 03:35 | mean? Click color and from the
color dropdown I am just going to choose
| | 03:39 | anything here I am going to choose
turquoise and see what happens. It's not the
| | 03:43 | text that changes color bur rather
the box itself. Just like any other
| | 03:47 | rectangle this one happens to have text
inside. So I am going to go up here to
| | 03:51 | my undo button and instead I would
like to be able to alter the actual text
| | 03:57 | itself. So I am going to click Undo
again to take out the fill, there we go.
| | 04:01 | Click off the page to see the end
result all right. Won't it be nice if we get
| | 04:05 | put a nice gradient fill or something
inside the text itself, it is possible,
| | 04:10 | all we have to do is turn this text
into an object like our sun up here for
| | 04:14 | example. So I am going to click it.
And I am going to go up to my Modify menu
| | 04:20 | and down below you will notice
something that will allow me to convert this. So
| | 04:24 | if I come down to convert and over to
the right to polygon, curve is for lines
| | 04:31 | but polygon means it will have a fill
and everything. So I am going to go to
| | 04:35 | polygon give it a click. It's now just
like my other objects on the page like
| | 04:40 | the sun for example meaning if I change
the color dropdown up here to gradient,
| | 04:47 | and I choose a gradient, I am going to
choose something similar to the sun. I
| | 04:51 | am going to go down to, let's scroll
down here further to radial red yellow.
| | 04:56 | You can see that actually effects the
inside of my text, not the rectangle that
| | 05:01 | it was in. that's because it's now
what we will call a polygon it's an object
| | 05:05 | very cool stuff. So that's a standard
text. There is also some thing called the
| | 05:09 | font work gallery that allows you to
create some special effects with your
| | 05:13 | text. So I am going to go down here and
you will this little font work gallery
| | 05:18 | symbol. It is capital letter A inside
the picture frame I am going to give it a
| | 05:21 | click which opens up my gallery and
here is where I can select some very cool
| | 05:26 | options. See there is lots to choose
from and all of these can be manipulated
| | 05:30 | form the defaults. So I am going to go
to this one looks like it would match
| | 05:34 | nicely favourite16 click that. Click OK
and it's inserted into my drawing. Now
| | 05:41 | the word font work is what appears by
default but I can change that of course.
| | 05:44 | I am going to move it up here to the
top and I am going to double click it,
| | 05:49 | that gets me inside and I will see the
word font work in black on top of the
| | 05:53 | special effect. So another double click
we will select the word font work. Now
| | 05:58 | I can type right over that and I am
going to type in GO SOUTH! With an
| | 06:04 | exclamation mark. Watch what happens
when I click off my page, the word FONT
| | 06:09 | WORK changes to GO SOUTH and it's got
that special effect from my gallery. So
| | 06:14 | when I click it another thing happens
first of all you are going to see that
| | 06:18 | spherical handle down there that
allows me to adjust the vanishing point or
| | 06:23 | angle and see that's more of a
special effect. I am going to bring it up a
| | 06:27 | little bit and this toolbar over here
for 3D settings as well as the font work
| | 06:32 | toolbar up here or I can make some
additional adjustments. So for example if I
| | 06:37 | want to rotate, tilt it a little bit
left, I could click this, tilt left button
| | 06:41 | and with each click and tilting it a
little more left kind of turning it
| | 06:44 | towards me. I can do the opposite tilt
right until I get the exact angle I am
| | 06:49 | looking for. I am going to also tilt
it up and down using these buttons, here
| | 06:56 | we go, one more of the tilt up, a kind
of like it just like that. Now the 3D
| | 07:02 | effect that you see here is what's
called an extrusion, it sounds like it's
| | 07:06 | pulled out to create that 3D effect.
The extrusion can also be manipulated.
| | 07:11 | There's two options. We can adjust
the depth as well as the direction. The
| | 07:15 | depth dropdown allows us to select from
measurements. For example if I go to 4
| | 07:20 | inch you can see how much thicker that
is as far as the extrusion goes. I am
| | 07:25 | going to go back to about 1 inch and
that's a pretty good effect right there.
| | 07:29 | We can also adjust the direction. The
direction currently selected you can see
| | 07:34 | it right here. We can change that to
North East for example we can go right
| | 07:39 | down here to South, South makes
sense for go south and then we can make
| | 07:45 | additional adjustments to lighting for
example to make the light appears like
| | 07:49 | it's coming from a different
direction. So I am going to go to lighting
| | 07:52 | dropdown and choose the opposite corner,
so kind of matches my sun here and of
| | 07:57 | course it still got my handles I can
make adjustments. I am going to maybe
| | 08:01 | adjust this a little bit this way, and
don't forget the handles as well. This is
| | 08:06 | an object that we can size that we can
make it wider and taller. We can go to
| | 08:11 | any of these handles till we have got
the exact defect that we are looking for.
| | 08:15 | When we are done we click off the
object, those toolbars disappear and we're
| | 08:19 | left with the end result. So these are
just a couple of different ways to add
| | 08:24 | text to a project here in OpenOffice Draw.
Depending on how you create that text
| | 08:30 | and how you manipulate that text,
you have got an infinite amount of
| | 08:34 | flexibility and you can really get
creative with text just like you can any
| | 08:39 | other object here in OpenOffice Draw.
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| Selecting and manipulating objects| 00:00 | As you begin to work with objects
here in OpenOffice Draw you will probably
| | 00:04 | need to rearrange those objects, get
them in the right order, align them and so on.
| | 00:10 | So that's what we are going to do
in this lesson using this file that I
| | 00:13 | have already opened up here. It's
called Bull's Eye1. It's an .odg file that
| | 00:17 | you will find in the lesson 2 folder
of the exercise files if you have got
| | 00:20 | them. If you don't have them, you can
see all this is is really just a series
| | 00:24 | of circles. I have got five of them.
They are from large, all the way down to
| | 00:28 | small. And I have also got this text
object here where it says Bull's Eye. Now
| | 00:33 | each of these is its own object. So
if I click the circle, you can see the
| | 00:37 | handles, it's selected. If I click this
circle, same thing. If I click bull's eye,
| | 00:42 | you can see it's selected as an object
as well. Now if I click the big circle
| | 00:47 | over here on the left and then I want
to select the bull's eye, notice that I
| | 00:50 | can't actually select it because the
circle is kind of overlapping bull's eye.
| | 00:56 | Even though I can see bull's eye I
can't select it unless I deselect the large
| | 01:01 | circle first and then click bull's eye.
So just something to keep in mind here
| | 01:05 | in this particular application that you
will have to deselect, on occasion, to
| | 01:10 | select something that's inside the
area of a currently selected object. All
| | 01:14 | right, so let's say we want to get
this one over here on top of this one and
| | 01:19 | then the next biggest one and so on
with bull's eye right on top of all of
| | 01:23 | that. So I should be able to come over
here and click this blue circle and just
| | 01:28 | drag it over here, so it fits nicely
on top of the big red circle and let go.
| | 01:33 | Oh, oh, I can't see it. I have actually
moved it in behind. Objects will appear
| | 01:39 | on the page in the order that they are
created. So would appear that this blue
| | 01:44 | one was created before this big red
one. It's still selected so I can still
| | 01:48 | move it, but really if I overlap I want
this one on top of this object here. So
| | 01:55 | all I am going to do is go up to the
Modify menu. It's still selected, that's
| | 01:59 | very important. From Modify I am going
to go down to Arrange. And I am going to
| | 02:05 | bring it forward. Now you will notice
some keyboard shortcuts for this as well.
| | 02:09 | Ctrl+Shift and the Plus sign will take
you to the very top. We got Ctrl and the
| | 02:15 | plus sign just to bring it forward one
step at a time. We got the opposites.
| | 02:20 | Send backward, one step, or all the way to the
back. We can also choose to place it in
| | 02:25 | front or behind another object. Right
now then let's try Bring Forward. Now
| | 02:30 | when I do that it actually does come
forward and will appear on top of the big
| | 02:35 | red circle if I move it into position
here. I am going to trying to keep it a
| | 02:38 | little bit offline, but close to the
center, there we go. How about this one,
| | 02:43 | it appears to be okay, seems to be
overlapping or on top of the other two, so I
| | 02:47 | am going to move it into position.
How about this next one? We got the blue
| | 02:52 | circle. Now all I have to do is move
that just partly over the other circles to
| | 02:57 | see that this one needs to come forward.
So in this case I am going to try that
| | 03:01 | option where I can go up to Modify and
choose Arrange > In Front Of Object and
| | 03:08 | now all I have to do is select the object
I wanted in front of, which is this one.
| | 03:12 | And see as I position over the objects
they get that border appearing. This is
| | 03:16 | the one I want to move it in front of,
so I click. It's now in front of that
| | 03:19 | object. I should be able to move it in
to position, very good. Let's go to this
| | 03:24 | last circle. Move it on top of bull's
eye and really it needs to go back one.
| | 03:29 | It needs to go back behind bull's eye.
So in this case if I go up to Modify,
| | 03:35 | down to Arrange and I say Send Backward,
you can see bull's eye now appears on
| | 03:41 | top. So I have got the right order.
Just things are lined up very well at this
| | 03:46 | point. So can I select multiple objects?
Well, you bet. If I was to deselect everything
| | 03:51 | by clicking off any of the objects.
Click bull's eye. Now hold down my Shift key
| | 03:56 | and click the red circle. Still holding
Shift, click the blue. Now if I can see
| | 04:03 | part of the red, which I can just
outside the area here. I can continue
| | 04:07 | clicking to select them all. That's one
way. I am going to deselect. I am going
| | 04:12 | to show you another way, which is
called the marquee select. In this case I
| | 04:15 | need to scroll over just a little bit
so I can see all of the objects. All I
| | 04:20 | have to do now is move my mouse
pointer far enough left, so I'm past the
| | 04:23 | farthest left point and high enough so
I'm past the top point of the highest
| | 04:29 | object and then just click and drag
what we call a marquee. So long as the
| | 04:33 | marquee envelops all of the objects
when I let go, they are actually all
| | 04:38 | selected. Now with them all selected
there is a number of things I can do. I
| | 04:42 | can change their properties. Maybe I
want them all to have the same color, for
| | 04:45 | example, as a fill or the same line
attributes. So any formatting we can do to
| | 04:49 | one object we can do to a selected
group of objects like this. All I really
| | 04:53 | want to do though is get them aligned up,
centered one on top of the other and
| | 04:58 | there are some tools for doing that as
well. We will go up to the Modify menu,
| | 05:02 | come down to Alignment. This time
and you can see we have got horizontal
| | 05:07 | centering as well as vertical centering.
I need both of these so I am going to
| | 05:11 | start with the horizontal centering.
Now they are almost perfectly lined up.
| | 05:16 | Horizontally they are good. Let's go back up.
They're still all selected. Modify >
| | 05:21 | Alignment and we'll go down here to
center them vertically and there is a
| | 05:25 | slight adjustment there. You can see
everything is perfectly centered one on top
| | 05:29 | of the other. With them all still
selected when I go inside and click and drag
| | 05:33 | I can actually move the entire group
into position and scroll back over and
| | 05:40 | there is my bull's eye. So I am going
to click off the object and now none of
| | 05:45 | them are selected and this is the end
result. Now this is the good example of
| | 05:49 | multiple objects coming together to
create one and in that case if you want to
| | 05:54 | be able to treat it as one object you
know you can select it, I am going to do
| | 05:57 | the marquee select again but even
better would be to group it together, turn it
| | 06:02 | into a group of objects that can be
ungrouped at any time if you need to work
| | 06:06 | on an individual piece of the overall
object, but with everything selected,
| | 06:10 | if you go up to Modify you will notice
Group down below. Ctrl+Shift+G here on the
| | 06:16 | PC, Cmd+Shift+G as in group will work
on the Mac keyboard. I am going to give
| | 06:21 | it a click right here from this menu.
Now when I deselect I don't have to
| | 06:24 | marquee select all these objects. I can
just click once and it's like it's one
| | 06:29 | object and it will remain that way
until I go back up here to Modify and
| | 06:33 | Ungroup. Ungroup appears right below
Group. You can see it has its own keyboard
| | 06:39 | shortcut as well. So with the object
deselected and grouped together now there is
| | 06:44 | a lot of formatting of properties I can do,
sizing, moving and so on, thanks to
| | 06:49 | the tools found under the Modify menu,
you should have no trouble getting
| | 06:53 | things in the right order, lined
up properly and grouped together.
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| Flowcharts| 00:00 | In this lesson we are going to focus
in on a specific type of drawing you can
| | 00:04 | create here in OpenOffice Draw and
that is the flowchart. Flowcharts are used
| | 00:08 | to show the steps and the flow in a
process or a project for example and
| | 00:14 | universal symbols and connectors are
used so that people who are familiar with
| | 00:18 | flowcharts will be able to easily
understand the drawing and the flow of the
| | 00:21 | process for example. So here you can
see I have opened up a file, Flowcharting
| | 00:25 | with OpenOffice 2 Draw. It's got some
objects already on the page. If you got
| | 00:29 | the exercise files and you like to
follow along go the lesson 2 folder and open
| | 00:34 | up flowchart1. It's a .odg file,
native to OpenOffice Draw and we are going to
| | 00:39 | continue to add some additional shapes,
connect these and label them so that
| | 00:43 | you get familiar with the tools
when it comes to flowcharting here in
| | 00:46 | OpenOffice Draw. I have got some
symbols already here as I mentioned, one of
| | 00:51 | them does have a label down below and
if you know anything about objects in the
| | 00:55 | flowchart you probably have a good
idea what some of these symbols or objects
| | 00:58 | represent. For example this one here
represents documentation, this is storage
| | 01:03 | like on a magnetic disc for example, or
if we come up here this could represent
| | 01:08 | our decision. This guy right here,
simply a square on its side or a diamond
| | 01:12 | where we can choose different
directions to go in. So we are going to start by
| | 01:16 | adding one. We are going to go down to
our Drawing toolbar here just past the
| | 01:20 | block arrows and right before the
callouts there is a little bit with a
| | 01:23 | dropdown that contains all of our
flowcharting shapes and as we position over
| | 01:27 | these, this is nice, you get an idea
what you would use them for. Here is what
| | 01:30 | we are going to name our process. Over
here is an alternate process. There is
| | 01:34 | that decision shape. Here is our
flowchart data. We do have one of those right
| | 01:38 | up here as well, so lots of the
different symbols to choose from. You got
| | 01:42 | almost all of them here. Here is a
flowchart terminator, which could represent
| | 01:45 | the beginning or the end of a process.
So I am going to click that one and just
| | 01:50 | like drawing any other shape or object
we click and drag and I am going to come
| | 01:54 | up here to the top. Just click and
drag across and release and there is my
| | 01:58 | shape. It's selected. It's using the
default properties for fill and line
| | 02:02 | attributes. Here is the best part of
the flowcharting. And this works with the
| | 02:05 | any object by the way. You could be
drawing a happy face shape or another basic
| | 02:10 | shape. When you double click an
object you can type text inside it. So I am
| | 02:14 | going to double click right there on
my new shape that I just added. There is
| | 02:18 | the flashing cursor I am going to type
in start, just like that. I am going to
| | 02:22 | click off the shape and I am done, nice
and easy. All right down below we know
| | 02:27 | that this is going to represent some
kind of data. So I am going to double
| | 02:30 | click down here and I am going to
label this one data input output I/O, just
| | 02:37 | like that. This is a decision down here.
Instead of labeling it I am going to
| | 02:41 | type in decision, just to remind you
what it's all about. Here we go and down
| | 02:47 | below we know that a rectangle
represents a process or process step. So I am
| | 02:51 | going to double click down here and
just type that in. All right then we run
| | 02:57 | out of room and that's one we arrive
at this little connector. Little circle
| | 03:01 | represents a connector and it's
labeled A, so what we are going to do when we
| | 03:04 | get down here is look for another A
somewhere over here to continue the
| | 03:09 | process. Just before we do that let's
go over here to our storage, I am going
| | 03:13 | to double click right there and type in
database and down here we know this is
| | 03:19 | documentation so I am going to type in
document. And it could be any document,
| | 03:23 | you can type whatever labels you want
in there. Now you got everything labeled.
| | 03:27 | I could go down to my tools here find
the connector which is this guy right
| | 03:31 | here and add it up here or because I
have already got one I can click it and I
| | 03:36 | am going to copy this, couple of
different ways to copy objects, I could go up
| | 03:41 | to the Copy button right up here in my
Standard toolbar next to the scissors. I
| | 03:46 | could go up to the Edit menu and
choose copy from there. Ctrl+C on my PC
| | 03:50 | keyboard is a shortcut and it works in
almost every application. If you are on
| | 03:54 | a Mac keyboard Cmd+C or you could just
right-click it and I am going to come
| | 03:59 | down here right-click my selected
object and choose Copy from there. If you got
| | 04:03 | a single button mouse on your Mac you
can use control and click to achieve the
| | 04:07 | same popup menu. I am going to choose
copy and I am just going to right-click
| | 04:12 | over here and choose paste. Now paste
it right on top of the original down
| | 04:16 | here, so as I click and drag to
move it you can see I am left with the
| | 04:20 | original. So up here is where I want
to continue the process there we go. I
| | 04:25 | will deselect by clicking off. And I
just add a couple more shapes. And I am
| | 04:29 | going to come back down to my drawing
toolbar, let's go to this guy right here
| | 04:34 | preparation. And I am going to click
and drag and double click inside the
| | 04:39 | object and just type prep for short.
Here we go. All right I am going to
| | 04:45 | deselect go back down to my shapes, I
am going to add just a couple more. Let's
| | 04:49 | go down to how about this, a manual
operation, so I am going to give that a
| | 04:54 | click, click and drag, I am going to
double click. Now manual operation, two
| | 05:00 | words, let's see if it fits and what
happens if it doesn't. When I click off
| | 05:05 | the object you can see it's
overlapping. So I can always go back and double
| | 05:09 | click inside the object to modify that
text. I am going to take out the space
| | 05:14 | and hit Enter or return on my
keyboard and that gives me two lines perfect,
| | 05:19 | looks nice. Automatically the text is
centered inside the object. All right I
| | 05:22 | am going to take this object. I am
going to copy it. I am going to paste it.
| | 05:29 | And I am going to move it down here to
the bottom double click inside, double
| | 05:34 | click again on the word start to
highlight it and type in end, and there we go.
| | 05:39 | There is my whole process. The only
thing missing now are the connectors.
| | 05:43 | Connectors are very important when we
go down to our Drawing toolbar and check
| | 05:46 | out flowchart shapes, there are no
connectors there, but I am going to click
| | 05:50 | that again. If we go over to the left
just past the lines and arrows we see
| | 05:55 | connectors. And when I click this
little dropdown look at them all, straight
| | 05:59 | lines, lines with arrows, arrows at
both ends or at just one end. You can see I
| | 06:05 | can get curved lines as well. So I am
going to start just simple with this one
| | 06:09 | right up here. Connector ends with arrow.
What should happen when I click this?
| | 06:13 | All of my shapes now have little X's
around them and when I come close to that
| | 06:18 | shape it gets highlighted or selected
meaning it's automatically going to know
| | 06:23 | how to connect. I am going to go down
here to this little X, you can see when I
| | 06:27 | move over the X it gets highlighted
and I am going to click and I am going to
| | 06:31 | drag down to one of the other X's. And
as soon as the shape highlights itself I
| | 06:35 | will let go and it's now connected.
What's nice about the connectors as opposed
| | 06:39 | to just drawing lines is, if I click
out here to deselect and now I click this
| | 06:44 | shape and move it around you can see
it stays connected. The arrow follows it
| | 06:49 | around. So I am going to go right to
about there. All right let's try another.
| | 06:54 | Go back down, it's already selected.
It's a last tool we use, the connector so
| | 06:58 | all we have to do is click the
button itself, we don't have to click the
| | 07:01 | dropdown to use the exact same one and
I am going to go from here down to here.
| | 07:05 | I am going to go from here to there so
let's go back to that tool, because one
| | 07:11 | decision might be to go to the
database and another decision might be to go
| | 07:16 | right down to the next step, there we go.
If I do go to the database I am going
| | 07:20 | to need that connector, to go from
here down to the document. I am going to
| | 07:25 | click again on that connector tool to
go from the document now at the bottom
| | 07:30 | cross and over to the A. See how bends
nicely for me? It knows what to do. One
| | 07:35 | more connector necessary on the left
side, going to come down here. Now the
| | 07:40 | neat thing is we can start moving
these around lining them up a little bit
| | 07:43 | better if we wanted to, move that
over a little bit. That looks little bit
| | 07:48 | easier to read, move this down,
you can see how everything is getting
| | 07:52 | straightened out, maybe move this up
and over slightly, here we go. And you can
| | 07:59 | see it's really matter of just
tidying things up and the connectors stay
| | 08:02 | connected where you connected them.
Alright so all we need is few more arrows
| | 08:07 | over here on the right as soon as I
click that tool all of the little X's
| | 08:13 | appear around my shapes so I can
easily connect them, highlights to let me
| | 08:17 | know I am hovering over the right
spot. Eventually we reach the end of
| | 08:23 | our process. Just like that. Now just
like working with any other graphic, we
| | 08:28 | can change the fill and the outline
properties. If you need to go back to that
| | 08:33 | lesson to review that feel free. Just
going to align things up a little bit
| | 08:37 | nicely here, so we've got straight lines,
or fairly straight lines and that looks
| | 08:42 | pretty good just like that. So you
should have a good handle now on creating
| | 08:46 | flow charts. Just one type of a drawing
you can create with OpenOffice Draw and
| | 08:50 | thanks to all of the shapes available
to you under the flowcharting shapes as
| | 08:54 | well as the connectors, it should be a breeze.
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| Combining, merging, subtracting, and intersecting with objects| 00:00 | If you've been following along with
me in the previous lessons or you've
| | 00:03 | already got some experience using
OpenOffice Draw, you know there are a ton of
| | 00:08 | shapes to choose from. When it comes
to drawing objects we got basic shapes,
| | 00:12 | we've got symbol shapes, we've got
block arrows and flow charting, we got
| | 00:17 | callouts and stars, all kinds to
choose from, but if you're looking for a
| | 00:21 | specific shape that's not available you
might have to create your own. And one
| | 00:25 | way to do that is to take multiple
objects from multiple shapes and combine
| | 00:30 | them in different ways. You might want
to merge them together. Maybe you want
| | 00:34 | to subtract one from the other or
intersect. That's what we are going to look
| | 00:38 | at in this lesson and I have already
opened up the file we are going to use.
| | 00:41 | It's called combining one. It's an
.odg file. It's in the lesson 2 folder of
| | 00:45 | the exercise files if you have got them.
If you don't have the exercise files,
| | 00:49 | don't worry about it. Just go down to
your Drawing toolbar, down to your basic
| | 00:52 | shapes and draw a perfect diamond
and draw an ellipse. I had made mine a
| | 00:57 | perfect circle. I have also changed
their properties, so if you look at my
| | 01:01 | diamond here I have used light red for
the color and over here for my circle I
| | 01:06 | have used light blue, neither of them
has a border. I want to leave the border
| | 01:10 | out of this for now. So invisible is
selected for the borders for both. Now I
| | 01:14 | can tell which one I drew first by
overlapping the two, so I am going to take
| | 01:17 | the circle and just drag it so it's
overlapping my diamond. And you can see it
| | 01:22 | goes in behind indicating I drew it
first and then the diamond second and
| | 01:26 | that's important. So where they
exist is very important, for example if I
| | 01:31 | wanted to subtract these two shapes, in
other words, take a piece out of one of
| | 01:36 | the shapes, it's the one in behind that
gets subtracted from using the shape on
| | 01:41 | top. So it's important to have the
right order and you know how to change order
| | 01:45 | if you need to if you wanted to achieve
a different effect, but in any case we
| | 01:50 | need them both selected before we start
doing any of this. So you can click one
| | 01:54 | shape hold down your Shift key and
click the second shape that's one way to
| | 01:58 | select both shapes, you will see the
handles go around the outside of both
| | 02:01 | shapes. Now it's a matter of going up
to the Modify menu and down to Shapes and
| | 02:07 | here are our three options. If we merge
them together, watch what happens.
| | 02:12 | They become one shape and the color is blue.
Why? It is the color of the object that
| | 02:18 | was in behind the first drawn object.
If I wanted them to be combined and red,
| | 02:24 | well then I'd have to change the order.
So let's do that. I am going to click my
| | 02:27 | Undo button, which is going to undo
that merge, and now I am going to click my
| | 02:33 | diamond, I am going to go up to the
Modify menu, down to Arrange and send it
| | 02:38 | right to the back, Send To Back there
it is. Now I am going to hold down my
| | 02:43 | Shift key and click the circle so they
are both selected. And now watch what
| | 02:46 | happens when I go up to Modify, down
to Shapes and over to Merge. Again they
| | 02:52 | merge together. Looks the same but the
color is different. In this case it's
| | 02:56 | red, the object that was in the
background. All right I am going to click Undo.
| | 03:01 | That's one option. That's a totally
different shape, not a shape you would ever
| | 03:04 | find in your Drawing toolbar, which you
are able to create it by merging these
| | 03:08 | two together. Next we are going to
select both. This time I am going to marquee
| | 03:12 | select. So I am going to click and
drag from the top left to the far right to
| | 03:16 | make sure that my lasso here goes around
both objects. They are both selected. I
| | 03:20 | will go up to Modify, down to Shapes,
this time let's see what happens when we
| | 03:25 | use Subtract. Now remember it's the
object in the background that will be
| | 03:29 | subtracted from. So in this case the
circle is going to take a bite out of the
| | 03:34 | diamond when I click Subtract. Here we
go. So there it is, a nice curved angle
| | 03:39 | in this shape. I have got a brand new
shape now that was created by basically
| | 03:43 | cutting out a shape from the
existing shape. So one in the background is
| | 03:48 | important to remember. I am going to
click Undo to bring that back. Reselect
| | 03:52 | both objects and show you the last
option now, which is Modify, down to Shapes
| | 03:58 | and Intersect. In this case a new
shape will be created by the overlapping
| | 04:03 | parts of both my shapes. So in this
case, it's going to be a piece of the
| | 04:06 | circle, a piece of the diamond. When I
choose Intersect you can see this is the
| | 04:10 | part that was intersected. This is the
part where the two shapes overlapped. So
| | 04:15 | it's kind of like a piece of pie. And
click Undo to bring both my shapes back
| | 04:20 | and move them back like so. Now that's
just working with two shapes, what if I
| | 04:25 | wanted to take a bite out of the circle
from both sides. I am going to click my
| | 04:29 | diamond, I am going to copy it, this
time I am going to use my Copy button and
| | 04:33 | then I am going to click paste right
away, right next to it. So one click of
| | 04:37 | the Paste button will paste that right
on top. So as I move this diamond you
| | 04:40 | can see I have now got two. All right
with my circle I am going to move it over
| | 04:45 | here just what's overlapping my first
diamond. I am going to take this diamond,
| | 04:49 | I am going to move it, so it's
overlapping on the other side and I am going to
| | 04:53 | make sure that this circle is in the
back. So I am going to click my circle, go
| | 04:57 | up to Modify, choose Arrange and Send To
Back. This way I know it's behind every
| | 05:03 | other object. So now I can readjust
these a little bit. So move it slightly
| | 05:08 | over and up. I could use some of the
tools for alignment if I wanted from the
| | 05:14 | Modify menu, but right now you can see
that the shape I am going to end up with
| | 05:19 | if I use subtract is this kind of a
hour glass shape with bites coming out of
| | 05:23 | the left and the right. So again I
select all of my objects, all three this
| | 05:27 | time, go up to Modify, down to Shapes,
go over to Subtract and there is the end
| | 05:33 | result. A brand new shape that you
won't find anywhere in the Drawing toolbar
| | 05:37 | here in OpenOffice Draw. So the
possibilities are endless when it comes to
| | 05:41 | using Merge, Subtract and Intersect
when working with multiple objects.
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| Using special effects| 00:00 | All right in this lesson is where we
get to have a little bit of fun working
| | 00:03 | with special effects. There are whole
series of effects that you can apply to
| | 00:08 | objects or shapes that you draw on
your page. We are going to take a look at
| | 00:11 | those in this lesson. Here is an
example of what you are going to achieve with
| | 00:15 | some of these effects. Take a look at
effects1.odg. If you got the exercise
| | 00:20 | files you can open it up from the
lesson 2 folder and have a good look at it.
| | 00:24 | This is a simple ellipse that kind of
turned into a three dimensional apple.
| | 00:28 | Add a couple of more shapes and you
have got the leaf and the shadow in behind.
| | 00:32 | So we are going to try to achieve
something similar to this by starting out
| | 00:36 | with a simple ellipse. So let's do that.
Let's go up to the New button. Create
| | 00:41 | a brand new blank canvas here ready
to work with and we'll go down to the
| | 00:45 | Drawing toolbar, give the Ellipse tool
a click and let's just draw one right
| | 00:49 | here in the middle of our page.
Doesn't have to be a perfect circle and it
| | 00:53 | doesn't have to be exactly like mine.
You can experiment with these tools.
| | 00:57 | There is the default fill and line
properties that we're used to seeing and now
| | 01:01 | it's time to explore some of the
special effects we can apply. Now with the
| | 01:05 | object selected, it must be selected, we
go down to our Drawing toolbar and the
| | 01:09 | Effects button by default should be
showing you the Rotate button. Here is
| | 01:13 | where we go to rotate objects and if I
click the dropdown next to it you will
| | 01:17 | see some other Effect buttons available
to us here as well. So there is Rotate.
| | 01:21 | We can also flip objects. We can flip
them horizontally or vertically. This
| | 01:25 | special effect we will save for last,
the 3D Rotation. We can add perspective
| | 01:31 | in a circle or to a circle. We have
also got Distortion, Transparency and
| | 01:38 | Gradient options right from here. Let's
start with Rotate. I am going to click
| | 01:42 | the Rotate button. Soon as I do
something happens to my shape. The handles turn
| | 01:46 | red and they turn into little spheres
and as I position over those handles you
| | 01:49 | will see rotating and skewing options.
The corners allow me to rotate and on
| | 01:55 | the side you will see a skewing symbol
as you position over those handles. Also
| | 01:59 | right in the center by default is the
point that I am going to rotate on. So if
| | 02:04 | I want to rotate this object on its
center, that's where it is. I can click and
| | 02:08 | drag from any corner. See the
outline as I click and drag to rotate.
| | 02:12 | If I prefer to rotate from a different
point I can move this rotation handle, I am
| | 02:17 | going to move it down here to the
bottom and now when I click and drag I am
| | 02:20 | rotating on that point. You can see it
moving all the way around there on to
| | 02:25 | the point that I moved the focal
point down here at the bottom. So that's
| | 02:30 | rotating simple stuff and think about
any object that you have created here in
| | 02:33 | Draw. You can rotate them using the
Rotate tool. Well I am going to come down
| | 02:37 | here to the Effects dropdown and I am
going to go over here to Flip. When I
| | 02:42 | click Flip you are automatically going
to see this guide here. We are going to
| | 02:46 | use the handles to flip. We can flip
vertically by going to the handles at the
| | 02:50 | top or bottom. We can flip horizontally
by going to the left or the right. It's
| | 02:54 | going to be across this plane. We can
even flip diagonally if we want to. So I
| | 02:58 | am going to go over here to the right
side and I am going to click and drag it
| | 03:01 | over to the other side and when I let
go I have just flipped it horizontally.
| | 03:05 | If I go up to the top here and I see
the Flip icon, I can come down, drag it
| | 03:10 | down if I wanted to, to flip it
vertically and it's going to look a little bit
| | 03:15 | different again. So flipping objects
both left or right or up and down or even
| | 03:19 | diagonally is pretty easy using the
handles that already appear and of course
| | 03:22 | you can move this around if you want
to be able to flip on a different plane.
| | 03:26 | It makes a little bit different when
you start flipping here we go that's left
| | 03:31 | or right, I am going to leave it just
like that. Well let's go back down.
| | 03:34 | With our object still selected click the
Effects dropdown, I am going to skip over
| | 03:38 | my In 3D Rotation object and just work
on little bit of perspective here. We
| | 03:42 | have got two perspectives, In
Circle and To Circle. They work a little bit
| | 03:47 | differently, when I choose In Circle
the object has to be converted to a curve,
| | 03:51 | something we can do from the Modify
menu anyways but let's just choose Yes. Now
| | 03:56 | it becomes a curve and using the
handles you can see when I position over them
| | 04:01 | changes to my little perspective in
circle option. So when I click and drag I
| | 04:07 | see the grid. And I can now stretch
it and bend it to add perspective. I am
| | 04:12 | going to go like so. Totally changed
my shape now. It was converted to curves
| | 04:17 | first of all, so now I can actually
manipulate it. Let's go down to our Effects
| | 04:21 | button and try this one, To Circle, and
it's just slightly different. Now you are
| | 04:25 | going to see inside that I am actually
skewing it or adding perspective to the
| | 04:30 | circle shape, here we go. Still selected,
I can add some perspective down here
| | 04:36 | as well. Cool. Well let's go back to
our dropdown, here you can see I can
| | 04:40 | distort. Clicking the Distort button
allows me to do things like skewing for
| | 04:45 | example, adding perspective. I can do it
all at once thanks to the Distort tool.
| | 04:50 | Click the dropdown over here,
Transparency. Now I am going to save Transparency
| | 04:55 | for little bit later. Let's go up to
this one, In 3D Rotation, give that a click
| | 05:00 | and you can see automatically it's
appeared over here. Now I can use the
| | 05:04 | handles to move that around if I
wanted to, but I am going to leave it just
| | 05:08 | like that just like you see it over
here on the right and I am going to click
| | 05:11 | off the object to show you the end
result is this donut. So when I click it and
| | 05:17 | I see the handles now I can start
doing things like dragging it around,
| | 05:21 | squeezing it together, starting to look
like an apple. Here we go and with that
| | 05:30 | 3D effect that I see with kind of an
extrusion and lighting effects really
| | 05:36 | makes it look three-dimensional. Now I
have to do is come up here and change
| | 05:39 | the color. I am going to change this
to one of those Granny Smith apples. I'll
| | 05:43 | try light green to see what that looks like.
Wow, that's nice. Very cool. I will
| | 05:48 | deselect to see the end result. Okay,
so now all we have to do is add the leaf
| | 05:53 | coming up through the top here. So I am
going to go down to my ellipse and I am
| | 05:57 | just going to draw down here a little
ellipse obviously that looks nothing like
| | 06:01 | a leaf, but I have got some special
effects tools that I can use down here. So
| | 06:05 | I am going to try the perspective one,
needs to be converted to curves, so I
| | 06:09 | say yes it's automatic which I like.
Let's squish that in like, so curve it
| | 06:14 | around, squish it up a little bit.
We could look like it's bending and of
| | 06:25 | course it looks nothing like a leaf at
this point, but I can deselect and click
| | 06:29 | it again, now it's just selected, not
using special effects, I can squish it in
| | 06:33 | a little bit and I am going to change
the color to that dark green. I am going
| | 06:37 | to green 1 and for the border let's
make it invisible we don't need the border
| | 06:43 | when working with this object. I can
come down to my special effects, maybe go
| | 06:47 | up to Rotate. Let's rotate it
slightly this way and now with my four-sided
| | 06:55 | arrow I can move it into position,
see what that's going to look like, put
| | 06:59 | right about there. Cool. And now for
that shadow effect in behind I might want
| | 07:05 | to put a gradient on this to make it
look more real. So I am going to change my
| | 07:08 | color to a gradient and if I wanted to,
I could select from these presets. Now
| | 07:14 | radial green is the closest one, but
it's not really effective. So instead I am
| | 07:18 | going to go to paint bucket here and
click Gradients. I have got the colors
| | 07:22 | that I want. I just want to change it
from Radial to Linear and it's going from
| | 07:26 | light down to black so when I click OK
you can see the end result, perfect.
| | 07:31 | I am going to deselect and click it again.
Now I am going to copy it. I am going
| | 07:35 | to use the Copy button this time and
paste it, click the Paste button. I have
| | 07:40 | got a copy now and I am going to move
that copy just over slightly. I am going
| | 07:46 | to size it down slightly, like so, and
move it into the back. Remember this?
| | 07:53 | Modify > Arrange > Send Backwards, it's
in behind my original leaf and now what I
| | 07:59 | would like to do is actually create a
special effect using transparency. So I
| | 08:03 | can do that right from my Effects
button down here. I can go to Transparency
| | 08:08 | and adjust the transparency right from
here. You can see the different effects
| | 08:12 | that I get just by using the slider. It
allows me to see right through the shadow
| | 08:18 | itself. Now another option is to go
up to paint bucket right here and go to
| | 08:22 | Transparency and if I want just a
regular transparency I can select the value
| | 08:28 | here as opposed to a gradient and
choose the color as well. So in this case I
| | 08:34 | am going to change the color, maybe to
a dark gray. When I click OK, see that's
| | 08:39 | a totally different effect when I
deselect. I may go to a darker gray this
| | 08:45 | time. I like that effect right there.
So I'll deselect to see the end result. There
| | 08:52 | we go. So we have got some special
effects hiding away down here in our Drawing
| | 08:56 | toolbar. Remember them down here,
because you can achieve some amazing results
| | 09:01 | thanks to these effects, working with
simple shapes that you've drawn on your
| | 09:05 | page here in OpenOffice Draw.
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3. Laying Out ProjectsAdjusting page layout| 00:00 | In this next chapter we shift our
focus over to laying out a project and some
| | 00:05 | of the tasks that you will need to
consider when doing so. Now a project could
| | 00:09 | be almost anything in OpenOffice Draw,
it could be a very large movie poster or
| | 00:14 | very small menu or maybe a brochure
combining text and graphics. So in this
| | 00:19 | chapter we will talk about paragraph
text, inserting graphics but before we get
| | 00:23 | there we will need to consider our page
layout. So we are going to explore some
| | 00:27 | of the page layout settings you have
access to here in Draw. I have opened up a
| | 00:31 | file to start with. It's called
overview1. It is an .odg file found in the
| | 00:36 | lesson 3 folder of your exercise files
if you are following along. If you don't
| | 00:41 | have the exercise files, really all
this is a brand new document. You can see
| | 00:45 | it's using the default paper size,
which is 8.5 x 11 portrait, and I have added
| | 00:49 | some text up here at the top, company
overview. Now maybe down below I am going to
| | 00:54 | have some text, I am going to have some
graphics and I need to figure out what
| | 00:58 | the output will be. Is it going to be
on a 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper or is it
| | 01:01 | going to be something bigger or maybe
something smaller? So we need to explore
| | 01:06 | the page layout options and we do that
by going up to the Format menu. So you
| | 01:10 | are going to click Format, then Page.
Because Page has those three dots, the
| | 01:15 | ellipse is right after it, that means I
am about to launch some kind of dialog
| | 01:19 | box. I give it a click and sure enough
there is my Setup dialog box. Two tabs
| | 01:24 | at the top Page and Background. Now
under Paper Format you can see Letter,
| | 01:29 | which is really 8.5 x 11, and portrait
orientation is the default. If I click
| | 01:35 | the dropdown for Format I have got
some other options. Legal, which will
| | 01:39 | automatically set my paper size to
8.5 x 14. You can see that right there,
| | 01:45 | remains portrait and there is a
thumbnail preview of what I can expect.
| | 01:50 | I'll click the dropdown and go to Tabloid.
This is much larger, 11 inches x almost 17
| | 01:55 | inches and that might be useful in what
I am about to create, which is similar
| | 02:00 | to a poster. So I am going to leave it
at Tabloid. Now if I wanted to create my
| | 02:04 | own custom width and height I can do that
using my up and down arrows here and
| | 02:09 | all of a sudden it changes to User, a
user format. Soon as I bring it back down
| | 02:14 | to a measurement that fits one of the
presets, it appears here on the dropdown,
| | 02:18 | Tabloid. All right where is it coming
from? The paper trays, from my printer
| | 02:21 | settings. I've only got one tray, so I
don't really need to go there, but check
| | 02:25 | out the margins. 0.39 inches all the
way around, left, right, top and bottom.
| | 02:30 | Now the left and right margins might
be okay. I am going to change the top
| | 02:33 | though. I can use the up arrow to move
up, the down arrow to move down or I can
| | 02:37 | click and drag over what's there and
just simply type over. I am going to type
| | 02:41 | .75. I am going to do the same for the
bottom. And when I click OK you will see
| | 02:50 | those changes here, check it out.
Company Overview looks like it just got
| | 02:54 | smaller. Well it hasn't. It's just
on a larger piece of paper now and the
| | 02:58 | margin at the top and at the bottom
appears to be greater than what I see on
| | 03:02 | the left and the right. So I have got
some adjusting to do. I am going to take
| | 03:05 | my Company Overview. And I am just
going to move it over here towards the
| | 03:09 | center, just get it right about there.
That looks pretty good for now. Now down
| | 03:15 | below I have got lots of room to work
with. I am going to be inserting some
| | 03:18 | text and some graphics here but the
page layout was very simple. Now there
| | 03:22 | was another tab. I don't know if you
noticed that. Lets go back to it now for
| | 03:26 | a second. Format and down to Page.
Because I can adjust the background too if I
| | 03:31 | wanted to right from here. In other
words if I want a dark background it will
| | 03:36 | have to create a rectangle and put it
in the background, I can go right to the
| | 03:40 | Background tab here and choose a fill.
None is the default, but I am going to
| | 03:45 | click this dropdown here and try a
color. Now these are all the same settings
| | 03:49 | you will see up here in your
Formatting toolbar for working with objects. You
| | 03:52 | can use Colors, Gradients, Hatchings,
even Bitmaps. I am going to go to Color
| | 03:56 | and I am going to choose this dark
blue that you see here and I see what that
| | 03:59 | looks like down below. Now when I
click OK, all I have to do is say Yes to
| | 04:04 | accept this background for all
subsequent pages I might create. I only have one
| | 04:09 | at this time. When I choose Yes look
what happens. Something very interesting.
| | 04:13 | Now I don't see that background outside
my margins and look what happened to my
| | 04:17 | title. It automatically switched
colors to an opposing color so I can still
| | 04:21 | read it. Black on dark blue is very
difficult to read, but if I look at my
| | 04:26 | Company Overview now, it's actually
changed to white. So it's easy to read on
| | 04:30 | this dark blue background that's the
advantage to setting your background up
| | 04:34 | here under the Format menu in
OpenOffice Draw. So we have got our layouts for
| | 04:39 | our page setup, now it's time to start
inserting things like paragraph text
| | 04:44 | and images and making our adjustments.
We are going to start doing that in the
| | 04:47 | next lesson as we work with text.
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| Working with paragraphs| 00:00 | Let's we continue to layout our
project here, which is going to be a fairly
| | 00:04 | large poster filled with text and
graphics, it's time to focus in on the text
| | 00:09 | itself. We will be using paragraph text
in this lesson. In the previous lesson
| | 00:14 | we started our project here with our
company overview and we changed the page
| | 00:18 | layout options so we are using a
tabloid piece of paper, so 11 inches wide x 17
| | 00:23 | inches tall. Fairly large piece of
paper, lots of room to work with. And we
| | 00:27 | changed the background to this dark
color. Automatically our title change colors
| | 00:30 | to white. We'll have to keep that in
mind as we start adding text now, because
| | 00:34 | not everything is automatic.
All right, it's time to insert text. Now if you
| | 00:38 | wanted to you could come down to your
Text tool here, give it a click and then
| | 00:42 | just click and drag to create a frame
where the text will appear. Let's say
| | 00:46 | you were going to do a couple of different
columns. We might click and drag across
| | 00:51 | using your ruler up here. You can
figure out where you wanted that column to
| | 00:54 | end, go all the way down near the
bottom perhaps and when you let go, your
| | 00:58 | cursor is flashing inside waiting for
you to enter text. So here is where you
| | 01:03 | adjust the font, the size, we have
talked about this before, they are some of
| | 01:07 | the attributes and font color would
be very important, you probably want to
| | 01:10 | choose something like white. So
whatever you type here you will be able to see.
| | 01:14 | So if I start typing now, our company,
you can see that it's quite visible. I
| | 01:21 | am going to click the border and hit my
Delete key to remove that object. What
| | 01:26 | happens if you have already got the
text somewhere? You don't want to retype
| | 01:29 | it. Yes you can bring text in to a
project here in OpenOffice Draw. We do that
| | 01:34 | by going up to the insert menu. So if
you got the exercise files, first of all
| | 01:39 | you can get all caught up by opening up
overview 2 from the lesson 3 folder of
| | 01:43 | the exercise files. Now when it's time
to insert text, we will go to insert all
| | 01:48 | the way down to the bottom, we will
choose File and from the lesson 3 folder
| | 01:52 | again there is some brochure text. Okay
so we will click that. This happens to
| | 01:57 | be a txt file, a text document. It's
not a Microsoft word document or word
| | 02:02 | perfect document. OpenOffice might not
recognize those formats, but plain text
| | 02:07 | it will. So this was actually created
in Notepad. This is a standard text file
| | 02:11 | that will work in any application. So
with brochure text selected, I'll go down
| | 02:16 | here click insert and you will see
the name of the file and its path right
| | 02:21 | here, the insert text dialog box. If
there are any unused backgrounds, and if
| | 02:26 | they aren't, but if there are any
they will be deleted. I click OK and it's
| | 02:30 | automatically inserted right in here
at the top. Now it's not a good spot for
| | 02:34 | it's not the right size and this is
where the adjusting comes in. This is just
| | 02:38 | like any other object. When I click it
I see handles over here on the left and
| | 02:43 | the right and when I see the four
sided arrow I can click and drag to move it
| | 02:48 | around. I am going to size it down a
little bit and I am going to move it over
| | 02:52 | towards the center, it's a little bit
too wide. So I am going to squeeze it in
| | 02:57 | and when I do this the text
automatically adjusts itself, moving itself down
| | 03:01 | into a larger box. Now when I move this
up near the top and take a look at it,
| | 03:07 | just above fits perfectly. Now there
is some formatting I probably want to do
| | 03:11 | with this text as well inside for
example some of the titles but you will
| | 03:15 | notice that the color here is white
and it's white because what I just did, I
| | 03:20 | changed my font to white a moment ago.
If you didn't do that you might have to
| | 03:24 | go inside here and change this text
to white so you can see it on the dark
| | 03:28 | background. To do that we double click
inside the text and the easiest way to
| | 03:32 | select all of your text is to go up to
the Edit menu and choose select all. Now
| | 03:38 | Ctrl+A on the PC keyboard will also
select all your text. Cmd+A on the Mac
| | 03:43 | keyboard, and you can see it's all
selected now. Now we can do anything. We can
| | 03:47 | change the font. I am not going to
change the font name but I am going to
| | 03:50 | change the size, I am going to bump
this down actually to 16 points you can see
| | 03:56 | it fits nicer now on the page and I
can do any of these other attributes. One
| | 04:00 | thing I would like to do is change the
alignment to justify. And when I do that
| | 04:06 | you can see its flush on the left and
the right except for the last line in
| | 04:09 | every paragraph. Same thing goes
for headings; they are on a line by
| | 04:13 | themselves. So all those changes
possible including this one here at the end
| | 04:17 | the font color, we want to make sure
that it's white and it was for me by
| | 04:21 | default. Now when I click off the page,
I see the end result. Now looks pretty
| | 04:26 | good. Right now I am going to click it
and just bring this bottom up because
| | 04:31 | there is a lot of empty space down
there that I don't actually use. Slide this
| | 04:35 | down ever so slightly and maybe I
would like to have this in a couple of
| | 04:39 | columns. There is no real columns
feature but what I can do is squeeze this
| | 04:45 | side over I am going to go to about a
five and a quarter inch mark right there,
| | 04:50 | you can see now it just goes right off
my page. So what I need to do is create
| | 04:54 | a second column over here and put the
remaining text into that column. So I am
| | 04:59 | going to double click inside this first
column. Gets me inside. And I am going
| | 05:04 | to click and drag from this
paragraph here, which says advertising
| | 05:07 | communications. Not sure if you can
read that but as I scroll down you can see
| | 05:11 | it scrolls with me, selecting all of
that text. And I am going to cut this,
| | 05:15 | Ctrl+X or Cmd+X on your keyboard if you
are using the Mac. Or find the Scissors
| | 05:21 | button up here on the toolbar to cut.
That just removes it temporarily. It's in
| | 05:25 | memory now waiting to be pasted, so
we are going to scroll back up and I am
| | 05:30 | going to create that paragraph text
placeholder like we did earlier. I am going
| | 05:35 | to click off the page first, go down
to my text tool. I am going to come over
| | 05:39 | here I don't need this top. I am going
to put a picture in there. So I am going
| | 05:42 | to come down to about here and from
the five and three quarter inch mark I am
| | 05:47 | going to click and drag across and down
we will see if it actually fits in this
| | 05:51 | frame. Now it's time to paste. I can
go to the Paste button, Ctrl+V on my PC
| | 05:56 | keyboard, Cmd+V on the Mac. Sure enough,
it does fit nicely. I will deselect by
| | 06:01 | clicking out here and that's the
end result. So a column effect without
| | 06:06 | actually using a column feature and now
I can adjust things like the width and
| | 06:10 | I might make it a little bit wider.
There we go. Maybe make this one a little bit
| | 06:13 | skinnier, so I got a nice space in
between and click this and bring the bottom up,
| | 06:19 | just minor adjustments now anywhere
inside I am going to drag it down, so I
| | 06:23 | can get the bottoms close together and
that gives me a nice little spot here for a
| | 06:28 | graphic. So I click off the text, I
like what I see. I might do a little bit
| | 06:33 | of formatting with some of those
headings later on. I have got some space
| | 06:37 | reserved for inserting a graphic. Guess
what? That's what we are going to do in
| | 06:40 | the next lesson.
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| Inserting graphics| 00:00 | Quickly recapping what we done so far
in this chapter, we have changed the page
| | 00:04 | layout for our project. We changed the
background, added some paragraph text,
| | 00:09 | made it look like it was in two
columns, reserved a little space here for
| | 00:12 | inserting some graphics and guess what?
That's we are going to do right now in
| | 00:16 | this lesson. So if you have been
following along, you are ready to continue.
| | 00:19 | If you jumped to this lesson and you
got the exercise files, you can get all
| | 00:23 | caught up by going to the lesson 3
folder and opening up overview 3. It's an
| | 00:28 | .odg file. Now it's time to insert our
graphic. So again we go to the Insert
| | 00:33 | menu and of course we could draw our
own graphics in the top right corner but
| | 00:38 | in this case we have got a JPEG. So we
go to Insert > Picture and From File. When
| | 00:45 | I choose From File, navigate to the
lesson 3 folder of the exercise files, there
| | 00:49 | is my company pic right there. It's the
only image file. Down below the files of
| | 00:54 | type or listing all the different
types of images that could be listed up
| | 00:57 | there. There is only one JPEG and
that's why that's the only file you see. So
| | 01:01 | when I click Open, it's inserted
right in the center. It's too big. It's
| | 01:07 | looking a little bit skewed; it's in
the wrong location. So we have got a
| | 01:10 | little bit of adjusting to do in this
case. So the first thing I am going to do
| | 01:14 | is just right from the center with my
four-sided arrow click and drag this up
| | 01:18 | to above right there. So that the
tops are leveled and I have got the same
| | 01:23 | amount of space on the right. Now well
I have to do is go to the bottom left
| | 01:26 | corner when I see the double arrow on
that handle just like any other object I
| | 01:30 | can click and drag to change its size
and its shape. And when I click off I see
| | 01:37 | the end result. Well that was
pretty easy. When I click an image though
| | 01:41 | something happens up here on my
toolbars. I am going to click off and just
| | 01:45 | check out the fill and line attributes
toolbar up here, watch what happens when
| | 01:50 | I click my image it changes. Now I
have got a number of options for working
| | 01:55 | with this image. First of all I have
got some filters over here on the left
| | 01:58 | hand side when I click the filter
dropdown I can change that image to look
| | 02:03 | differently using some of these
filters like inverting, kind of like a
| | 02:06 | negative, smooth it out, sharpen it. I
have got the ability to remove noise.
| | 02:12 | Sometimes you get digital camera pics
that appear almost fuzzy or noisy and you
| | 02:17 | can remove some of that noise using
this feature. We can adjust something
| | 02:21 | called Solarization now, make it look
solarized. We can age it, creating a
| | 02:26 | sepia type effect. We can also Posterize,
Pop Art, Charcoal, Sketch, Relief and
| | 02:34 | Mosaic. If I choose Mosaic let's say
look what happens. The Mosaic dialog box
| | 02:39 | shows up. I can choose pixel width and
height. I can enhance edges. And when I
| | 02:44 | click OK you see it doesn't look a
whole lot different. It does look a little
| | 02:48 | bit pixilated. So if I go back up to
the filter and down to Mosaic and I change
| | 02:53 | the width to something larger, I am
going to go up to 8 for both of these and I
| | 02:58 | am just using the up arrow and click OK
and you can see right away here in the
| | 03:02 | preview that that will look much
different. I am going to click my Undo button
| | 03:07 | twice to undo both of those effects. So
I want to make sure the graphics filter
| | 03:12 | is disabled. And I am going to go back
up here with my picture selected back to
| | 03:17 | the filters, I am going to try aging
it using that sepia or 'seepia,' however
| | 03:21 | you like to pronounce it. You can
see the effect right there. And we can
| | 03:25 | increase or decrease the aging degree.
So if I click and drag over what's there
| | 03:29 | and type 50 let's say, you can see the
effect, that's too much. What about 20?
| | 03:35 | Not bad. If I go down to very subtle
change such as a 5, you can see it's
| | 03:43 | almost black and white with a bit of
tint there. Well I am going to click
| | 03:47 | cancel because I kind of like the
color that I see there. Let's just explore
| | 03:51 | one other option here and that is
Solarization. When I give that a click you
| | 03:56 | can see the effect, it sounds like
that heat effect where you can see the hot
| | 03:59 | spots, we can bump that up the
threshold value. And you can see the preview
| | 04:05 | eventually when we get all of the way
up to 100, it doesn't look a whole lot
| | 04:11 | different than when it started. You can
also invert which is a totally reverse
| | 04:15 | effect kind of like a negative,
doesn't really apply to our projects, I am
| | 04:19 | going to click cancel. Image still
selected, over here we have got a little
| | 04:23 | dropdown for graphics mode. You can see
we can change this to a black and white
| | 04:28 | or Grayscale or create a Watermark
effect where it's almost going to be
| | 04:32 | see-through very faint. If I go to
Grayscale for example, you can see now it's
| | 04:37 | a black and white image. I am going
to click Undo make sure bitmap graphics
| | 04:42 | mode is selected when I do that. All
right we have also got some options over
| | 04:46 | here for coloring, transparency; we
can create that line or area property. We
| | 04:53 | can also create a shadow if we want
to we can crop. I don't like that white
| | 04:57 | border I see around the outside, so I
am going to go to crop. You can see I can
| | 05:01 | keep the scale, but here is where I do
my cropping down below, left right top
| | 05:06 | and bottom. So if I bump this up you
can see the preview here as I crop it. I
| | 05:11 | am gong to bump these up by quarter
inch all the way around and that's going to
| | 05:15 | remove the white border. When I click
OK, keeping the same scale, you can see
| | 05:20 | that white border is gone. That's a
nice effect. Being able to crop right here
| | 05:25 | from within OpenOffice Draw is very
handy, now I have to take it another
| | 05:28 | graphics application for example,
taking it to Adobe Photoshop to do the
| | 05:33 | cropping then back into Draw doesn't
make a lot of sense. All right, I am
| | 05:38 | going to go up to my transparency icon
here and bump this up. With each click
| | 05:42 | you can see getting more and more see-
through. Eventually it becomes invisible.
| | 05:47 | So I can add an effect especially if I
have got something in the background. I
| | 05:51 | am going to leave it at 15% just like
that. Let's erase it off the page using
| | 05:55 | shadow. You can see it's kind a giving
me the shadow in the background so that
| | 06:00 | the image appears to come off the page
slightly up and to the left. If you don't
| | 06:05 | like it click the Same button to turn
it off, just like that. All right I am
| | 06:08 | going to deselect and I think that's
what makes me happy right there. I am
| | 06:13 | going to leave it just like that. Save
your changes using the Save button if
| | 06:17 | you like what you see. Otherwise
continue experimenting with inserting graphic
| | 06:21 | images and adjusting their properties.
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4. Sharing FilesPrinting files| 00:00 | Well in this last chapter we are
going to talk about sharing your work with
| | 00:03 | others. There is many ways to do that
here in OpenOffice Draw. You want to know
| | 00:07 | how to export to compatible file
formats if you are going to be sharing your
| | 00:11 | files with some one who uses a
different graphics application on another
| | 00:14 | computer for example. We will also
talk about sending via e-mail, password
| | 00:19 | protecting your file if you are going
to be sharing it electronically and the
| | 00:23 | most popular way to share a document
with others is to print it out. So in this
| | 00:28 | lesson we are going to start with
printing techniques. I have already opened up
| | 00:32 | the file that I am going to use it's
called BigApple1. If you have got the
| | 00:35 | exercise files you will find this in
the lesson 4 folder, but really any file
| | 00:39 | will do. And I like to work with a multi
page document because when it comes to
| | 00:44 | printing techniques it's important to
understand things like collating when
| | 00:48 | you choose multiple copies. We will
talk about that too in this lesson. First
| | 00:51 | thing you will notice up here on this
Standard toolbar is a print icon. This is
| | 00:57 | a button that will automatically send
your document, in this case, both pages
| | 01:02 | to your default printer using the
default settings. If you know what they are,
| | 01:07 | great, off it goes. For my printer I
know that both pages will be sent. One
| | 01:12 | copy to my default printer, which is an
hp deskjet. It will print out in color
| | 01:16 | and that's it. Now if that's all what
I am looking for, if I need to adjust
| | 01:20 | some of those properties in that case I
probably want to go up to the File menu
| | 01:25 | because from here you will see down
near the bottom I have got options. I can
| | 01:28 | go directly to my printer settings. And
this will open up the printer settings
| | 01:32 | dialog box or I can go to the print
dialog box by selecting print which will
| | 01:37 | also give me access to my printer
settings from there. Notice the keyboard
| | 01:41 | shortcut here on the PC is Ctrl+P. If
you are on a Mac keyboard, Cmd+P. I am
| | 01:47 | going to give it a click right from
here to open it up and there it is. And
| | 01:51 | here are the default settings that you
see that would have been used if I had
| | 01:54 | selected the print icon up here on the
Standard toolbar. My default printer hp
| | 01:59 | deskjet, that's where the documents go
in. It's going to print all the pages in
| | 02:04 | my document, one copy using my default
options that appear down below. We get
| | 02:10 | to those in a moment. The Print dialog
box also gives you some information for
| | 02:15 | example the status of your printer.
Default printer hp deskjet 3600 series for
| | 02:20 | me is ready. You can see the type of
printer it is you will see your own
| | 02:24 | information here for your printer, the
location, it's actually connected via a
| | 02:28 | USB cable port 001 so I get that
information. And if I need to access the
| | 02:34 | printer properties I can go right
from here. Clicking the Properties button
| | 02:38 | will show me printer properties from my
printer, so your dialog box will likely
| | 02:42 | look different unless you have got the
exact same printer that I have connected
| | 02:46 | to your computer. So there is a
number of tabs for advanced paper quality.
| | 02:50 | There is effects here for me, finishing.
I can adjust color if I want to print
| | 02:55 | in black and white using the black
printer cartridge only. I could change it to
| | 02:59 | grayscale and choose black print
cartridge only for example. This is great for
| | 03:03 | a draft where I don't want to use up
on my color ink and I have also got a
| | 03:07 | Services tab, like I said your dialog
box will likely look different from mine
| | 03:11 | unless you have got the exact same
printer. I am going to close that up
| | 03:14 | clicking cancel. There is same thing
it takes me back to my print dialog box.
| | 03:18 | Now down below I have got some options
for the print range, All pages, is the
| | 03:22 | default, but if I want to select a
specific page I can go to pages and enter
| | 03:26 | the page here maybe I just want page 2,
so type in a 2 right over the 1 after I
| | 03:31 | click and drag over it or I can back
space and put in a one to change the page.
| | 03:36 | Let's say you had 10 pages in your
document, you want to print maybe pages 5
| | 03:40 | through 8, on that case you can type
5-8 or maybe one at page 1, 3, and 6
| | 03:48 | through 10. You can do any combination
just by entering it like so. So comas to
| | 03:54 | separate individual pages, dashes for
print ranges. I have only got two and I
| | 03:59 | do want to print them all so I am
going to choose all pages which means
| | 04:03 | anything in the pages field here is
not going to be used. Number of copies. I
| | 04:08 | am going to change this to 3. So
maybe I am going to be handing this off to
| | 04:11 | three different people, I need three
copies. If I do that with a multi-page
| | 04:15 | document like I have it's important
that Collate be selected. If it's not check
| | 04:21 | out the preview here I am going to get
in this case would be 3 page 1s then 3
| | 04:27 | page 2s then 3 page 3s and I would
have to do the collating myself. When I
| | 04:32 | select collate now I get pages 1
through 3, 1 through 3, and then 1 through 3
| | 04:38 | again. So the collating is done. I
don't have to do, I just hand off the
| | 04:42 | copies, easy as that. There is some
other options under the Options button
| | 04:46 | here. You can see quality is the
default but I can go to grayscale or black and
| | 04:50 | white from here. It does not
necessarily mean it's only going to use the blank
| | 04:54 | ink cartridge in my printer, so that's
why I like being able to go over to my
| | 04:59 | printer properties from here. I am
going to leave it at default. Also you can
| | 05:02 | see I have got a number of checks here,
it's going to print the page name, the
| | 05:06 | date, the time, and hidden pages. You
might see something like this where none
| | 05:10 | of these are selected except for
hidden pages, if you decided to hide any of
| | 05:13 | the pages they come out to, but you
don't have to print those just deselect the
| | 05:17 | check box. Page options, if the
drawing is a little bigger than the paper
| | 05:22 | itself you can have it fit to the page,
you can tile pages, look at this, as
| | 05:26 | you even have brochure option down
here. So if I want this like a brochure
| | 05:30 | front and back I can do that. And paper
tray from printer settings is going to
| | 05:34 | be selected if I click this checkbox.
I only have one paper tray. If you have
| | 05:38 | got multiple paper trays and a
laser printer, for example, we have got
| | 05:41 | different page sizes. You can use the
printer's default by selecting this check
| | 05:45 | box. I am going to click OK to save
these settings and now I am ready to print.
| | 05:50 | All I have to do is click OK to send
both of these pages, 3 copies off to my
| | 05:55 | printer. I am going to click cancer
to go back. So now you have got a good
| | 06:00 | handle on printing. You may have
noticed that there is something missing from
| | 06:04 | OpenOffice Draw, something I wish
there was in here and that's print preview.
| | 06:08 | You don't have an opportunity to see
what's going to look like when it prints
| | 06:11 | using those settings. The only option
you have for previewing is go up to the
| | 06:15 | File menu and preview in a browser.
This will be handy if you are going to be
| | 06:20 | saving to an HTML format for example
and using graphics on a website but in
| | 06:25 | this case because I have got two pages,
you can see I have got links at the
| | 06:28 | top, continue to go to the next page, I
can go to the first page or back. I am
| | 06:33 | in a browser, my default browser,
yours will launch, I am using explorer here
| | 06:37 | and when I am done previewing I close.
But this is not a print preview it's
| | 06:41 | missing from OpenOffice Draw. Maybe one
day when they update this print preview
| | 06:45 | will be an option. It's very handy
but you can always print in draft mode,
| | 06:50 | changing your color settings for
example to save on ink, just to get an idea
| | 06:54 | of what is going to look like on paper.
But really keep this in mind: what you see
| | 06:58 | here on your screen is pretty much
what you get on paper. So that's printing.
| | 07:03 | What about sending your documents off
to other people electronically? If you
| | 07:08 | are going to be doing that, one of
the things you might want to consider is
| | 07:10 | password protecting your file.
We'll talk about that in the next lesson.
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| Protecting files| 00:00 | These days it's a very common practice
to share your documents with others in
| | 00:04 | an electronic format, in other words,
sending it off as an e-mail attachment
| | 00:09 | for example. Or storing it on a network
drive where many people will have access to it.
| | 00:13 | Maybe burning it to a disc and
handing the disc off. In any of those cases
| | 00:18 | you want to make sure that the right
people are looking at your document and
| | 00:21 | getting access to it and the way to do
that is to password protect it. That's
| | 00:26 | we are going to talk about in this
lesson. You can save your files with a
| | 00:29 | password meaning that when you store it
on that network driver send it off via
| | 00:33 | e-mail, only the people who know the
password will be able to access the
| | 00:37 | contents. So here you can see I still
got the same file open from the previous
| | 00:41 | lesson. It's called BigApple1. It's
in the lesson 4 folder of the exercise
| | 00:45 | files. If you got them, you want to
open it up. But really any file will do;
| | 00:49 | you can have anything on your screen at
this point because the next step to add
| | 00:53 | the password is to save it with the
password that means going up to the file
| | 00:57 | menu and choosing Save As. Now if you
have already saved your document, it's
| | 01:02 | already got a name location and so on.
The only you are going to change here is
| | 01:07 | to save it with the password. So I am
going to click this little box down here
| | 01:11 | near the bottom save with password and
now when I go to save it, I probably see
| | 01:15 | a message saying it already exists,
you want to replace it. Yeah I want to
| | 01:18 | replace the old version that did not
have a password with this new version,
| | 01:23 | which is identical, but will have the
password. I am going to choose yes and
| | 01:27 | now I am prompted to create that
password. So I am going to type in the
| | 01:31 | password, notice I don't see when I am
typing, so I need to confirm that I have
| | 01:36 | typed that in correctly by entering it
again, down here in the confirm field.
| | 01:42 | Now when I click OK, it's updated,
saved with the password. So that means if I
| | 01:48 | go up to file and close this, and now
I go to my Open button, navigate to the
| | 01:56 | file itself, remember it's called
BigApple1, give it a click, click the Open
| | 02:02 | button, I am now required to enter a
password to gain access to this file. So I
| | 02:08 | am going to type that in. I know what
it is and click OK or press Enter on the
| | 02:14 | keyboard and there is my file. So you
can really guarantee that the people who
| | 02:19 | should have access to your files will
by creating that password and only giving
| | 02:23 | out the password to the people you want
access in your files. This will come in
| | 02:28 | handy if for example you are storing
on a network drive where many people will
| | 02:31 | have access to the drive, maybe sending
it via e-mail where people can actually
| | 02:36 | access attachments from other
people's e-mails. We are going to talk about
| | 02:40 | sending your documents
electronically via e-mail in the next lesson.
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| Sending files via email| 00:00 | Sending files electronically is a
very popular option for sharing work with
| | 00:05 | others and here in OpenOffice Draw
you have direct access to your e-mail
| | 00:09 | application from within OpenOffice Draw.
In other words you don't have to leave
| | 00:14 | the application, go to your e-mail
application, create a new message and then
| | 00:18 | try to browse to the file you created
here in OpenOffice Draw. You can do it
| | 00:22 | directly from the File menu. So I have
still got the same file open from the
| | 00:26 | last couple of lessons. It's called
BigApple1. It's in the lesson 4 folder of
| | 00:30 | the exercise files. If you have got
them, and if you don't, no problem. Any
| | 00:34 | document open at this point will work.
We are going to go up to the File menu
| | 00:38 | and go down to Send and down here you
will notice that I have got two options:
| | 00:43 | send this document as an e-mail
attachment or I could actually e-mail it as a
| | 00:48 | PDF. So two things would happen here. It gets
converted to Portable Document Format, a universally
| | 00:55 | accessible file that pretty much anyone
can open up on any type of computer. But,
| | 01:00 | we are going to talk about converting
in the next lesson. We are going to go up
| | 01:03 | here to send the document as e-mail.
So it will remain in its current default
| | 01:07 | format, which is an ODG file, an
open document format created here in
| | 01:12 | OpenOffice Draw. So I am going to
choose document as e-mail. Now if you click
| | 01:16 | the same thing your default e-mail
application should launch here with a brand
| | 01:20 | new message ready to be sent. All you
have to do is fill in who it's going to,
| | 01:25 | a subject if you want even some
additional text down below but you will notice
| | 01:29 | that the file is already attached,
beautiful. I am going to type in
| | 01:34 | Drivers@lynda.com. That's where I am
sending it to. Subject, tour poster and
| | 01:43 | down below if I wanted to, I could add
some additional text, per your request.
| | 01:49 | There we go. All I have to do now is
just simply send it off. Off it goes with
| | 01:56 | the attachment. At the other end, the
persons receiving my file a copy of it,
| | 02:01 | they will be able to open it up if they
have got OpenOffice Draw. What if they
| | 02:06 | don't? Well in that case we might
want to consider converting it to another
| | 02:10 | format, a more compatible format. That's
exactly what we are going to do in the next lesson.
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| Saving and exporting to other formats| 00:00 | Well let's face it. Not every one in the
world is going to be using OpenOffice
| | 00:04 | Draw as their graphics application. So
when it comes to sharing your work with
| | 00:09 | others electronically you may need
to consider converting it to a more
| | 00:13 | compatible file format before you
do so. You also need to consider this
| | 00:17 | scenario: are you going to be sharing
your file with someone who is going to be
| | 00:21 | working on it? Or are you going to be
sharing your file with others to simply
| | 00:25 | view the contents? Different formats
will work for different scenarios. We will
| | 00:29 | talk about that in this lesson. Still
using the same file from the last few
| | 00:33 | lessons BigApple1. It is a .odg file,
an OpenOffice Drawing. So you will find
| | 00:40 | that in the lesson 4 folder if you have
got them and you want to follow along,
| | 00:43 | but really any drawing will do that
you have created here in OpenOffice Draw.
| | 00:47 | Now if the person I am sharing this with
does not use OpenOffice Draw, I will need
| | 00:52 | to save it or export it to another
format. There is a difference. If I go up
| | 00:57 | to the File menu for example and down
to Save As, I can change the type of file
| | 01:03 | that I am saving to. From the Save As
Type dropdown, you can see the default
| | 01:07 | ODF Drawing or an .odg extension. When
I click the dropdown I don't have many
| | 01:12 | choices. I have older versions of
OpenOffice Draw as well as templates, but I
| | 01:17 | have also got StarDraw options here,
.sda files. Now let's say the person's
| | 01:22 | using Illustrator at their end or
CorelDraw. Well, those applications may be
| | 01:27 | able to open up StarDraw type files.
So I could save to this format knowing
| | 01:31 | that they will be able to open it up
and work on it. But what if they don't
| | 01:34 | have Illustrator or Draw and they just
want to be able to view the contents? In
| | 01:40 | that case I might use export. I am
going to go up to the File menu now and
| | 01:44 | choose export. Notice that export as
PDF, has its own option here on the file
| | 01:50 | menu. We will get back to that in a
moment. It also appears here under export.
| | 01:54 | So I am going to give it a click, looks
a lot like the save as dialog box, but
| | 01:58 | down below it doesn't say save as type
it says file format. This time we are
| | 02:03 | exporting to a selected format that we
choose from this dropdown and check out
| | 02:08 | the choices here, lots to choose from,
Macromedia Flash. There is Portable
| | 02:13 | Document Format (PDF) right up there,
HTML document. And down below you can see
| | 02:18 | I have got some Bitmap as well as
vector formats to choose from, SVG Scalable
| | 02:23 | Vector Graphics. I know that can be
opened up in Illustrator and Draw. People
| | 02:27 | will be able to work on it, but again
if the scenario is they just need to view
| | 02:31 | it and not necessarily make changes to
it, I can choose from a lot of different
| | 02:34 | bitmap formats like GIFs and JPEGs,
TIFs down here. Lots of different options
| | 02:40 | to save to. So in this case I am going
to go down to the JPEG format here, JPEG
| | 02:47 | that's what JPEG stands for and you
will see the extension .jpg or jpeg
| | 02:53 | sometimes. The thing about this format
and some of the other bitmap formats is
| | 02:58 | I have got a two page document here. I
am currently on page1. So I want you to
| | 03:03 | see what happens when you choose these
formats. When you choose JPEG BigApple1,
| | 03:07 | keep the same name and I am going to
save it to my desktop when I click Save
| | 03:12 | here, because I have selected JPEG,
I get to choose my minimum or maximum
| | 03:16 | quality, a 100 being the max. So I am
going to bump that up to a 100, means
| | 03:21 | bigger file size but that's okay. I
want to use true colors and not a black and
| | 03:25 | white or grayscale color resolutions.
So I am going to click OK and it's
| | 03:29 | exported to my desktop that means I
should be able to minimize OpenOffice Draw
| | 03:36 | and see BigApple1. Now there is my
original drawing BigApple1 the .odg file,
| | 03:43 | but down below is the JPEG. So if I is
to right-click this and I am going to go
| | 03:49 | to open with I could choose from photo
paint for example, there is Corel draw,
| | 03:56 | Microsoft Office Picture Manager. You
may have different options here. I am
| | 03:59 | going to choose paint because it's a
standard application that comes with most
| | 04:03 | PCs and you can see here I am really
zoomed in and as I scroll down I don't
| | 04:09 | have that second page. So when you're
exporting, I am going to close this up
| | 04:14 | and I am going to go back to my
OpenOffice Draw. When you are exporting to one
| | 04:19 | of those Bitmap formats you may need to
do it twice for a two page document. Go
| | 04:23 | to page 2 and go through that routine
again to get the second page. Now when
| | 04:28 | you export to a format like PDF or
Scalable Vector Graphics you get both pages,
| | 04:33 | well let's talk about PDF, it's a very
universal format. PDF means that I can
| | 04:39 | view the contents in Adobe Reader, here
on my PC, a free application comes with
| | 04:45 | most PCs, if you don't have it, it's a
free download from Adobe.com or if you
| | 04:49 | are on the Mac you got your preview
application for looking at PDF document. So
| | 04:53 | if the scenario is you simply want to
share the information with others so they
| | 04:57 | can view your work then exporting to
PDF is an excellent option. And it's so
| | 05:02 | popular that it has its own button
right here on the Standard toolbar and you
| | 05:07 | saw earlier from the File menu it has
its own option here as well. Export as
| | 05:11 | PDF or clicking the PDF button on the
Standard toolbar same thing gives me my
| | 05:16 | PDF options, the range you can see I
can actually export all of the pages, not
| | 05:21 | just a single page. Images, I can
choose the quality, JPEG compression quality
| | 05:27 | is what's selected here by default
using 300 dots per inch I can change all of
| | 05:31 | that if I want to bring it down a
little bit to save on file size. I can do
| | 05:35 | that or I can bump it up if I am not
worried about the size or overall size of
| | 05:40 | the PDF when I am done. Down below
some general options as well for PDF
| | 05:44 | versions tagged, create a PDF form out
of this, I wouldn't with a graphics app
| | 05:49 | like this, typically but all those
options are available to me here. Initial
| | 05:53 | view, thumbnails and Page Up means very
similar to what I see here, thumbnails
| | 05:57 | on the left and the page showing up in
my case Adobe Reader or it could be the
| | 06:03 | page only. I can choose what people
will see when they initially open up this
| | 06:06 | file, magnification I am going to
choose fit in window perfect. Page layout I
| | 06:12 | can use the default single page
continuous, facing, these are all options that
| | 06:17 | pertain to working with PDF files
especially when you are in Adobe Reader and
| | 06:20 | you are viewing the pages in that file.
User interface, you can see window
| | 06:25 | options, links, I don't have any links
in this file, but they can be exported
| | 06:30 | as bookmarks for example our URLs.
Security if I wanted to encrypt the PDF
| | 06:35 | documents. So people need a password
to decrypt it or restrict permissions by
| | 06:40 | using a password for that as well. I
can do all of that here from my PDF
| | 06:44 | options. I am going to go back to
general password protect any of this. And I
| | 06:48 | am going to export it to PDF. I am
going to do that to my desktop keeping the
| | 06:53 | same name BigApple1, different format,
when I click save, it's on my desktop. I
| | 06:59 | am going to minimize draw, and look at
that I have got a second one down here
| | 07:03 | BigApple1; it's got the Adobe logo. If
I double click this it should open up in
| | 07:08 | Adobe Reader because that's my default.
There we go. Adobe Reader shows up.
| | 07:12 | There's my thumbnails on the left,
there is my full page view that I set up on
| | 07:17 | the right and I can move between
pages and view the contents here in Adobe
| | 07:22 | Reader. I can use the toolbar at the
top. I can zoom it even further, don't
| | 07:26 | want to be able to see both pages,
lots of different options once I am in
| | 07:30 | Reader and in fact I can update which
I don't want to do, remind me later. I
| | 07:35 | can even print right from here if I
want to print out the PDF document. Over
| | 07:40 | here I have got some options for Adobe
Acrobat. If you have got Acrobat then
| | 07:43 | you might be able to actually work on
the files a little bit. I am going to
| | 07:46 | close up Adobe Reader and I am going to
go back to OpenOffice Draw and that is
| | 07:52 | how we export to other formats. It
should be able to remain compatible with
| | 07:56 | anybody out there, thanks to all
the options you have when it comes to exporting.
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ConclusionGoodbye| 00:00 | Hey, way to go! You made it to the end.
You should now be feeling like you have
| | 00:04 | a pretty good handle on the core
features of OpenOffice2 Draw, the free
| | 00:08 | graphics application included in
the OpenOffice.org suite of products.
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