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Copyright © 2015 NVIDIA Corporation How to Use NVIDIA Dabbler NVIDIA® Dabbler™ is a drawing and painting app that is optimized for use with an NVIDIA SHIELD tablet K1. An optional Stylus is available for purchase to enhance your Dabbler experience. The first time you open NVIDIA Dabbler, a tutorial shows you how to use all the features of the app. NVIDIA Dabbler also includes help tips that you can show or hide as needed. How to Open NVIDIA Dabbler 1. Tap All Apps . 2. Tap NVIDIA Dabbler . The tools may or may not be displayed along the sides of the screen. To display the tools, touch the small arrows in the lower right and left corners. The tools slide out from each side. Learn the NVIDIA Dabbler Workspace General Toolbar (left) provides actions such as Load, Share, Save, and Print. Canvas Toolbar (right) provides background settings and several brushes and drawing . Workspace. The Workspace displays the paper texture or background image that you have chosen for your project.
Copyright © 2015 NVIDIA Corporation How to Use the NVIDIA Dabbler Tools Slides out the General Toolbar (left) Slides out the Canvas Toolbar (right) Closes the General Toolbar (left). Closes the Canvas Toolbar (right) . Undo recent task Redo recent task
Copyright © 2015 NVIDIA Corporation Palette. Displays a palette of colors and tools to choose from for your paint brush and pen. When you select this icon, it turns green and displays the palette of colors. Select a color and begin. You can change colors repeatedly. When you are finished, tap the icon again and the palette closes and the icon returns to its normal color. Palette of colors. Select RBG To display the RGB wheel. You can also swipe your finger across the palette left/right to see the palette or RGB color wheel. There are also blank palette spots to save colors you have created. Adjust the thickness of the pen/finger/brush stroke. Use your finger (or Stylus) to move the ball left/right to increase/decrease the thickness of the stroke Adjusts the amount of paint that is deposited on the canvas. Use your finger (or Stylus) to move the ball left/right to increase/decrease the amount of paint on the brush. Adjusts mixing rations of current color and colors on the canvas The actual brush radius is controlled by the pressure and angle of the stylus tip on the touchscreen. Brush Eraser Pen Pencil Applies gravity to your watercolor depending on the orientation of the tablet Instantly dries a canvas you have painted Locks/Unlocks the level of brush wetness
Copyright © 2015 NVIDIA Corporation Shows the About Box that gives information on the Dabbler Application. Displays the Layer menu. When you select this icon, it turns green and displays a menu to manage the layers of your canvas. When you are finished, tap the icon again and the palette goes away and the icon returns to its normal color Stylus only mode. When the icon is green, you are in Stylus only mode and the canvas only recognizes a Stylus.. When you tap again and the icon turns back to black and white, Stylus only mode is deactivated and the canvas recognize any other implement (finger, brush, etc...) Tools. Tapping the Tools icon turns it green and displays two tool icons . Toggles vector shapes on and off. Toggles vector shape mode (squares, triangles, circles, etc.) on and off. Help information. Tap this icon to turn it green and then you can tap any other icon and a description of that icon is displayed. Tap Help again to exit Help mode. Art Style. Tap this icon to see different painting styles to choose from. Sketch Mode Watercolor painting mode Oil painting mode Clear canvas. You are asked if you want to save, Yes or No. Load a saved canvas or any curated canvas from the NVIDIA servers. Save your current canvas to local storage.
Copyright © 2015 NVIDIA Corporation Share your work . Record and share your canvas painting session. Share your canvas as a Dabbler File. Share your canvas as a JPEG. Print your canvas on the cloud (this requires a Google account) Setting Icon. Displays the pressure sensitive sliding scale that allows you to fine-tune how pressure affects the brush radius. Create Artwork NVIDIA Dabbler Painting Styles To begin a canvas, select the style of art you wish to do by tapping the Art Style icon . Choose a style. Depending on the style chosen, different tools are displayed when the palette is expanded. Sketch. Sketch includes the marker, pencil, and eraser tools. Watercolor. Watercolor includes all of the drawing and painting tools except the spatula. Gravity, instant-dry, and water level features are only available in Watercolor. Oil. Oil includes all of the drawing and painting tools. The spatula tool is only available in Oil. How to Mix Colors 1. Open the Palette . 2. Tap a color. 3. Touch the Color Mixer and move your finger or stylus in a circle. The new color mixes with the previously selected color. Mix clockwise to add more of the new color or counter- clockwise to retain more of the previous color.
Copyright © 2015 NVIDIA Corporation 4. Double tap to clear mixer back to white color. How to Adjust the Water Level in a Watercolor The Dabbler replicates the feel of watercolors by providing adjustable water levels. The Water level tool is only available in Watercolor Mode. To increase or decrease the wetness of the paint, open the Palette . Use your stylus or finger to adjust the water level up/down to determine the wetness of the brush. To lock the water level you select, tap the lock icon To dry your canvas so the colors do not run, tap the dry icon To run and mix your colors on the canvas, tap the gravity and move the tablet. How to Use Shape Recognition Shape recognition mode detects when you are drawing a circle, square, or other geometric shape and automatically corrects the shape. In the Toolbar, tap and Shape Recognition . Tap again to turn off shape recognition. How to Add Vector Shapes In the Toolbar, tap and Vector Shapes . Shape. The vector shape currently in use. Toggle / Transform. Tap on a handle to cycle through available vector shapes (square, triangle, star, circle, etc..). Drag a handle to rotate the vector shape about the other handle. Drag both handles to move, scale and rotate the vector shape.
Copyright © 2015 NVIDIA Corporation Layers Accessing Layer Operations To show or hide layer operations, tap the Layers icon. The slider adjusts opacity of the selected layer. Clear. Clears selected layer(s) Camera. Takes a picture to be applied as the canvas. Opens the native Camera app. Image. Opens Photos to use an existing image as the canvas. Paper Selection. Toggles paper selection for background Filter. Swipe through existing filters that can be applied to the imported background image Blend. Toggles blending function menu for selected layer Visibility. Toggles visibility of a layers. Add. Adds a new layer Delete. Deletes designated layer. Move up. Moves selected layer up in order. Move down. Moves selected layer down in order. Merge. Merge the selected layer with the next lowest layer. Crop
Copyright © 2015 NVIDIA Corporation How to Zoom and Move Canvas Use a two-finger pinch gesture to zoom the canvas view in and out. A two-finger swipe gesture will move the canvas about the view window. How to Share Video Recording 1. In the Toolbar, tap Share to expand the tools 2. From the expanded tools, tap Record . 3. Select how you want to record and how yo want to share it from the extended record menu. Tap to turn the microphone on for the next recording/broadcast so you can narrate Tap to enable the camera for the next recording/broadcast Tap to enable chat for the next recording/broadcast Tap to open the Share Settings menu Twitch: Share your canvas to the Twitch app for sharing Auto Record: Automatically record as you paint/draw Manual Record: Manual record your painting/drawing process with control over start/stop Screenshot: Takes a screenshot of your canvas and saves it to either the Photos folder or you can sa and share File Sharing 1. In the Toolbar, tap Share .
Copyright © 2015 NVIDIA Corporation 2. Select from the following actions: Save the canvas as a Dabbler file Save the canvas as a .jpeg file Global Effects How to Dynamically Adjust Lighting To adjust the light direction on the canvas, tap Dynamic Lighting . A circular slider is shown, which controls the direction of incident light. Stylus-Only Mode To toggle stylus-only mode, tap the Stylus icon. When the stylus-only mode is enabled, the icon is green and finger touches on the canvas are ignored. Only stylus inputs are accepted as drawing actions. When the stylus-only mode is enabled, you can only interact with the tools using finger touches.