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Satori is an "Object Based" painting program. This means that everything you do is recorded as a mini-instruction set that contains the appearance of each of your painting actions. If you create a Chalk brush stroke, Satori will create an object in the Object List. Make a new brush stroke, and a new object will appear in the list. Change the colour of the brush:- another new object. Geometry objects, Colour corrections,Transformations, everything is recorded here.
The advantage to this approach is that you can edit, change, copy, move or delete just about anything you do, at any time.
PLEASE NOTE: This feature is NOT like the "History List" found in some bitmap based imaging software. It's much more powerful and useful!
We'll do a walk through of the Object List, using a small canvas.
Start a new canvas of 200 pixels by 150 pixels.
Then make a squiggly mark with the Solid Brush set at 30 pixels, (the default)
Like..
...so.
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Now go to the Actions Palette,and hit the Object button.
You will see your brush stroke recorded as an Object.
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Now click on the Brush Object called: Solid(Brush),
and then press the "Select for Edit" button.
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A selection line appears in the brush stroke,
copy the selection by pressing the yellow plus sign on the Edit Toolbar.
A dialogue box appears. Click O.K.
Now change the Brush selection to "Chalk", and
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pick a colour like Pure Video Green, and your copy will change colour.
While this edit session is still open, change the size of the brush to about one third of the original.
Here's how it looks in the canvas.
Right click, and press "Finish" on the pop-up menu.
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The new brush object will appear in the Object List. Notice that it's above the original.
It helps to give objects sensible names in Satori, so click the "Rename..." button
and give it a...er...sensible name.
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When you have lots of objects in a layer, it's easy to spot the ones that you have renamed yourself. Don't rename absolutely everything, just the significant objects.
Here's the Satori Tip of the Day on the subject of the Object List Two ways to go.
The Edit Toolbar will allow you to perform many of the functions of the Object Palette, but the Object Palette allows you to make some very subtle changes to your picture, especially when it comes to moving objects in "depth" (Z-order).
Read the Satori Reference Guide when you are ready to go into this subject in depth.
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