General appleworks drawing and painting help ?????

Question

1) i am basically interested in manipulating images on a basic level
i.e erasing certain parts and replacing them with others (e.g shapes)
i open appleworks in paint mode and understand i can select the eraser and then use it freehand to click over any parts i wish to delete
i want to do this on a document of my own instead of doing it from a blank peice but when i open my own picture in appleworks it doesnt allow me to select the eraser to do this as it did in paint when starting a new piece
how do i go about this?
2) i also want to be able to select an area of the image and then copying it and then pasting it again onto the same image so that there is a somewhat duplicate of that image on the whole image wich i can then move around if i wish
is it possible to do this too?
sorry if i sound confusing, im trying to describe best i can, im coming from microsoft paint and so am trying to do the same things i did on there,

Answer 1

Hello
It seems that your documents are opened as Draw ones.
To use the eraser you must open them as Paint ones.
In fact to do exactly what you ask for it would be useful to use the two formats.
Use the paint one to erase unneeded areas.
Select what you want to display, copy then paste in a Draw document.
Do the same with an other bloc of the original picture.
So, you will have several blocks whose behaviour will mimic layers.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE jeudi 29 mars 2007 20:41:19)