Project 2
Directions for Using AppleWorks
Word Processing and Painting

Goal: To create a cartoon strip using the paint tools within a word processing document. This will be grade on your computer. Do not print.

 

Directions:

  1. Go to AppleWorks: Word Processing: O.K.
  2. Go to Window: Show ToolsTouch your Paint Tool (Painter's palette)
  3. Drag a rectangle about a 1/3 of your page
  4. Touch your rectangle with your Arrow Tool (you will see four black boxes, one in each corner)
  5. Go to Edit: Duplicate (until you have 3 paint boxes)
  6. With your Arrow tool arrange your three paint boxes so there are three in a row
  7. Now you are ready to begin Painting your cartoon

 

Cartoon:

 
Frame #1: Create a picture of a person, an animal, or an object in this frame.

Frame #2: Using your lasso, select part of your picture above, and go to Edit: Copy
Next, go to Edit: Paste to paste the picture in this frame.
Add other details you'd like to this frame.

Frame #3: Using your lasso tool, copy and paste anything from the first two frames that you'd like in the end of your cartoon.
Put any final details you'd like in the cartoon here.

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