How to Use Sumo PaintUpload | Edit | Submit | Print
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Download your Image(s)
- Click the button to open the folder of characters for our class.
- Open the image larger to make sure it's the one you need.
- Click the download button.
- Check the downloads folder to see if it's there.
Open Sumo Paint & Upload Your Character
Click 'try online' or Scroll down to the workspace
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Open your image:
Click 'file' 'open from my computer' |
How to delete a layer
Magic Wand Tool
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Use to select individual colors at the time.
Click the plus sign to add to your selection or minus sign to take away from your selection |
Fill the Sections of Your Character
Lasso Tool
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If you have extra parts that you can't seem to capture, or if you have the same color in a part you want to keep and delete, use the LASSO TOOL
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Other Drawing Tools
Use the eraser tool to clean up edges or erase lines in your original drawing you don't want
Use the magic wand tool to erase the background |
Use the ink tool to draw dark lines with your mouse
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The brush tool gives you other mark making options with more texture when you draw
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If you do something you don't like, click 'edit' then 'undo'
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Tips & Tricks
Save Your Work!
submit your Character to Ms. Lovin
Done Early?
Explore More about Color Theory
You choose. Try out as many other tools as you have time for and edit one of your other characters. The more you try, the more options you will have!
- Jackson Pollock was a famous painter in the 1940s and 50s best known for his paintings he made on the floor where he splattered paint. Create your own Pollock inspired work by clicking the link and dragging the mouse. When you click the mouse it will change colors. http://www.jacksonpollock.org/
- Test your knowledge of the color wheel by matching the color they show you. http://color.method.ac/
- Look at the image and count how many colors you see. Scroll down and read about the results: http://www.higherperspectives.com/all-the-colors-1406173892.html
- Color Challenge Game: Drag the squares around to arrange them in order of color. A perfect score is 0. It takes time to get it right, so pay attention! http://www.xrite.com/online-color-test-challenge
- Create anything you would like in SUMO Paint.