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    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.  
    						
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    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  
    						
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    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   
    						
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    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.  
    						
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     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.  
    						
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    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. 
       
    						
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    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  
    						
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    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 .  
    						
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    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. 
      
       
    						
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