Design Tools

DesignWare comes with a complete set of design tools. Almost half of the 49 training movies are for the design tools. A brief description of each tool is given and also the run time for its training movie.

These movies are best viewed with a broadband connection (DSL or Cable Modem) to the Internet.

Play Movie   Erase

Play Movie   Layer

Play Movie   Replicate

Play Movie   Perspective

Play Movie   Night Lighting

             Rotate

             Warp

             Shadow

             Flip

             Group

             Outline Area

             Zoom

             Clone Texture

             Magic Wand

             Smudge

             Paint

             Adjust Colors

             Color Levels

             Colorize

             Darkness

 Erase unwanted areas from textures or objects. 1:22

 Four layer tools to change the depth of a selected object relative to other objects. 1:39

 Make a copy of the object and keep same properties. 0:36

 Distort a texture pattern to give it an illusion of depth. 1:46

 How to use the various night lighting tools. 6:05

 Rotate an object on its axis. 0:46

 Distort the shape of an object to give the illusion of 3D. 1:23

 Create a shadow by inserting a transparent replica of an object. 0:58

 Flip horizontally an object on the screen. 0:35

 Group selected objects or textures. 1:59

 A set of tools used to outline an area to be filled with a texture. 7:42

 Three tools to zoom in and out on the background picture. 0:54

 Copy an area of your background to paste over another area of the background. 1:50

 Used for editing your own special library images. 5:22

 Takes the sharp edges off objects. 1:18

 Paint with a selected texture. 3:48

 Adjust the red, green, and blue colors of the background, objects or textures. 0:44

 Adjust the contrast, intensity, and gamma of the background, objects or textures. 0:44

 Change the color and brightness of a selected object or texture. 2:03

 Three tools for selecting the darkness mask for night lighting. 0:49