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  First, you have to start out with an idea, or a design for a pictu
                    SignSHOP GRAPHICS


   DESIGNING A PICTURE: Designing graphics is only limited by your imagination and a little ability to draw. Very little ability to draw.

  First, you have to start out with an idea, or a design for a picture you want to get into ADAM. 
 
Doing Low-Res on SignSHOP requires us to remember some basic rules: 
 1. The width may only be 50 squares 
 2. The height may only be 50 squares 
 3. Each square on the paper represent one pixel in ADAM. 
 4. SignSHOP does not have the ability to place two pictures 
next to each other like the Hi-Res programs.

  DRAWING YOUR PICTURE: First pencil your design onto the graph paper. Then fill in the boxes or squares where the 
pencil line crosses. after you have done this, set it about 
three feet from you, and look at it. You might want 
to make some changes prior to programing it into ADAM. 
 
Once you have decided that the graph paper picture is what you want, the next step is to number the squares, both across the top, and down the side. This is to help you when you load it into ADAM. See example (A).

   SignSHOP PROGRAMING: Now you load SignSHOP, and enter the picture editor. Place the (X) in every location you have a box or square filled in on the graph paper. You can keep track of where you are in SignSHOP with the numbers you placed across the top and down the side of the graph paper, so your picture will print out the way you want it to in SignSHOP. 
 
Use the rough draft print option (Smartkey II), while in the editor, to see if you have all the X's in the right spots, before you save it. Once saved, sometimes going back to the editor will add or delete some pixels, and cause more work for you. A much easier way to edit a picture you saved in SignSHOP is it use the ADAM Smartwriter word processor mode, pull the picture up, and add a capital X or a dash (-) to replace the X, and save under the same name. This is the method we use to edit a picture already saved in SignSHOP, and it works much faster. Just remember, that it FIRST MUST BE SAVED USING SignSHOP.  ow you load SignSH
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