Artist Help:Bitmap Manager

This is responsible for loading and initializing all loadable bitmaps. The loadable bitmaps are all in the 'Program Files\Artist\Bitmaps' directory. These bitmaps are used to display the icons for fixtures and the gobo patterns. You can view the loaded bitmaps from the Media tree under Bitmap Manager.

Brushes

These are the bitmaps for Gobo patterns. They are in a 20 X 20 pixel format. You can use Microsoft Paint or any similar program that produces device independent bitmaps, to create new ones.

Fixture

These bitmaps are used to display the icon in the tree and list views. They are in a 32 X 32 format and can be created by a suitable device independent bitmap editor.

Colours

This branch shows bitmaps for Artist's predefined colours.

User Images

These bitmaps are used in the fixture effects dialog. See Effects.

Making new Bitmaps

If you wish to add a Gobo pattern or a fixture image, open an existing bitmap in the directory you are adding to. Make the changes required, and save it as a new unique name. If you choose to scan an image or use any other format, you must scale it down to 20 X 20 for Gobos and 32 X 32 for fixture images.

Be careful not do delete any of the bitmaps in these directory since they may be used by a fixture of template.