Canvas Guide

GETTING STARTED What is Canvas - 4 What Can Be Posted on Canvas Posting Rules - 5 Posting Tips - 6 Stickers Bar - 7 Using Stickers Using Actions Using Sharing Functions Sticker Store - 8 Canvas Creators and Moot - 9 The Groups Bar - 10 Group Labels on Images Groups menu Creating a Group Image Sorting Options - 11 Following a Group - 11 Moderating a Group - 11 User Information Bar - 12 Suggestions Site - 12

POSTING AND REMIXING Uploading Images - 14 Uploading an Image to Group Deleting Original Images Drawing and Remixing Tools - 15 Drawing Tips - 16 Rotating and Resizing Exiting Rotate/Resize mode Layers Color Selection Creating and Uploading Stamps - 17

THE OFFICIAL, Unofficial Guide For

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1 Getting Started 4 What is Canvas

Canvas is not like other sites. Canvas is definitely not 4chan, and is even more so not /b/. Canvas is not

Reddit with stickers, it is not a . message board, it is not merely .

an image board. .

Think of Canvas as an interactive Canvas. You can post an image which others can remix, comment on, or sticker. You can remix, comment on, or reward (or perhaps punish) an image post with a sticker.


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Anything Safe for Work (SFW).

Meaning None Of:

SFW Gentlemen.

Pornography or drawings of pornography or things that could be construed and pornographic (like penis drawings).

/b/ terminology. Such as: newfag, oldfag, whore, or cumdumpster Try instead, newfriend, oldfriend, and girl/lady/woman

Nothing hateful: do not hate on the poster, no racism, sexism, etc. no posting pictures of someone to trash, or posting personal info.

Meaning Lots Of: Everything else in life. (Yes, there is quite a lot more)

Keep in Mind: Canvas lives past page 15. Comments and remixes cannot be deleted currently. All posts are tied to your Canvas account.

Threads can live on indefinitely and can be commented on or stickered at any point and time post creation.

1 Getting Started 5 What Can be Posted


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P.S. Don’t beg for

stickers, a gentleman should

never be too needy. REPOSTS:

On Canvas, just like everywhere else on the internet, you will see lots of frustration towards reposting (the act of posting an item you found elsewhere on the net).

It is impossible to post only fully original content. So you can alleviate frustration with your repost by including a template in your thread and citing the source in the comment box. Especially if you are posting from a less known source or an image of a purchasable item. See the section on template making later. Use tineye.com to help you find the source if you don’t have it.

REMIXING: If you remix an image make sure to sticker the original image with something. Nothing is worse than having 20 replies and not a single sticker. The image inspired you enough to remix it, then it inspired you enough to earn a sticker. You have 8 unlimited stickers. You do not have to be stingy with them.

1 Getting Started 6 Posting Tips


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Oh, That’s the stickers. (perhaps that should have been mentioned earlier…)

Smiley Face: Made you smile.

Frowny Face: You’re sad/horrified.

Monocle: For intelligent/classy, or monocled images.

LOL: lol.

WOW: Amazed, shocked.

Question: You question the content or do not understand.

Number 1: Best Post, +1.

Cookie: Clever post or post that demonstrated effort at being clever.

Heart: Bawwww, You love it.

Actions Sharing

Flag: flag for moderation. Down: Downvote post. Pin: Pin an image you didn’t create. Your threads are auto-pinned.

For sharing via Facebook, Twitter, or Tumbler.

Drag a sticker onto an image to

use it.

Stickers are used to rate and quickly respond to images.

1 Getting Started 7 Stickers


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Well, you’re in luck. Because there’s more. You earn Number 1 stickers daily for logging in. You also earn Number 1 stickers for reaching the max on your sticker meter. These stickers can be used to purchase additional stickers as follows:

1 Getting Started 8 Buying Stickers


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@timothy

@dmauro

@midtown

Oh, and these awesome guys helped bring Canvas

to life too!

@moot But is known to have many other names on Canvas as well, such as: @nokonoko. In his words:

Christopher "moot" Poole the founder of 4chan, TED speaker and voted world's most influential person of 2008 by Time Magazine.

Its Moot. Canvas’ father.

1 Getting Started 9 Canvas Creators


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That’s the group bar. It always shows:

Following: A combination of all the hot posts from groups you are following.

Everything: A combination of all the hot posts from all groups.

Then: The names of the groups you’re following.

And Then: The top Groups.

When under following or everything:

Images posted to a group are labeled.

I See…

When you click more groups, you get the groups menu.

From The Groups Menu You Can: Browse groups by newest or most popular.

See all groups or just the groups you have founded.

Or you can create your own group. Creating groups helps you organize themes in Canvas.

1 Getting Started 10 Groups


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Under the group bar you have additional sorting options for the group where you are presently located.

Popular: New posts that are stickered.

Best: Posts with the greatest number of stickers and +1s from all time.

New: New posts. Counter shows how many have been posted since last refresh.

Active: Active posts. Counter shows how many have been active since last refresh.

Pinned: Posts you created or pinned. Counter shows unviewed items that

are present in threads that you have commented on, created, or pinned.

When in a group (other than everything or following) you will see the option to follow or unfollow a group under the sorting options.

When in a group you founded, you can use the off topic sticker to hide off topic posts in your group

= Realmente me gusta hacia donde vamos.

1 Getting Started 11 Groups Continued…


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Your information and links. Here you will see: Your most recent sticker received. Clicking on this will take you to the image that was stickered.

A link with your username, and a link saying My Images. Both will take you to the same place. Your profile page. There you will see your posted images and comments, your anonymously posted images and comments (which only you can see), and images and comments you stickered.

Groups hyperlink which takes you to the groups menu.

The invites you can use to invite your Facebook friends.

A link to logout.

A link to the feedback site. This site operates independently and requires email verification when you vote or submit a suggestion.

Ah, it was just a bunch of hyperlinked text.

1 Getting Started 12 User Menu

Didn’t mean to post that? Go to the image and click delete. (This only works on original images, not comments and remixes)


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Awesome. Just do this: Canvas does not currently have a search function. But it wont hurt to give the groups and everything page a quick browse to see if you can find a place to fit your post. Putting your post in a specific group or thread increases your chances of getting stickers because it makes your post available to the specific interested audience. If you are going to post a picture of a cat, posting it in everything it would likely get less attention than it would in the cats group which has 425 followers.

Get back to the top if you aren't already there.

Click This ^

Figure out if you are posting an image from a web url, your computer, or making a new one. Click the button.

Get image in proper group (group drop down will default to the

group you were viewing) and label as necessary. Click Submit.

2 Posting & Remixing 14 Posting a Thread


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Well, it starts with the tools. Undo or redo last action.

Flip canvas vertically or horizontally.

Rotate canvas clockwise or counterclockwise.

Paint. You can set color, opacity, size, and softness >

Fill an area with current selected color

Blending brush. First click is blending source, second click is brush. When painting it paints with image in the source area. You can set size, opacity, and softness.

Brings up the stamp finder. You can search for user uploaded stamps, upload your own, or find one on Google. Stamps can be resized and rotated during placement.

Erase from you current layer. Can set size, softness, and opacity.

Draw a rectangle/square. Can set opacity and color.

Use the eyedropper to select a color from your canvas by clicking on the color you desire.

Create Text. You can set the inner and outer color, opacity, and font. Text an be resized and rotated during placement.

Play with the text settings for different effects.

In the above example, each word is two layers of text. The bottom layer’s color and outline color are the same, the top layer has a unique color and outline color and is offset for a shadow effect.

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Almost…

Then you have your layers.

The top and bottom anchor points resize the text/stamp vertically.

The left and right anchor points resize the text/stamp horizontally.

The corner anchor point resizes the entire text/stamp. If you hover outside the edge of a corner anchor point the rotate pointer appears and you can rotate the text/stamp.

Rotating and resizing texts and stamps

Layers help you work on a piece of your work independently. You keep your active work in the foreground, then when it is complete, merge it to the background to give you a blank foreground again.

You can use swap to move between background and foreground.

Color Selection

There is three ways you can select a color for text, rectangles, and your brush:

1) The eyedropper tool. 2) The color selector as pictured above. 3) HTML Color codes can be typed directly

into the color text box. Some HTML color codes will be given a bit later. But you can find a good chart of HTML color codes here: http://www.taoti.com/images/colorchart.gif

Exiting Rotate/Resize mode

When working with text/stamp it will default into rotate/resize mode. To set it in it’s final place there are two ways to do this:

1) Select a different tool. 2) If you are finished with the image click submit or reply

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It is super easy. This is how:

Get to stamps from the group menu if you aren’t already following stamps. Or if you are it will be on your groups bar.

Create an image on a translucent background in an external image editor and save it as a .png.

From the stamps group click “upload an image. And select the image you just made.

You absolutely must put a description of your stamp in the text entry box for it to be searchable from the stamps tool in remix mode.

MUY IMPORTANTE !

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Click Submit and you will see that your stamp is immediately searchable from the stamps tool.

Just passing through here.

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