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File	Open		You can open Image Files or uSeeToo Editable Files in uSeeToo window.
	Save and Save as		You can save your drawings boards as jpg image or uSeeToo editable files: all individual shapes will be available for editing when you open up the file during a subsequent session.
	Show Web Image		Use it when you know an image URL.
	Close		Use it when you want to quickly close uSeeToo.

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Contacts			After you both start the uSeeToo application, you need to connect: select your contact’s Skype id from the Contacts menu.
			After the connection is established, you can start drawing, exchanging photos and arbitrary images, and creating other shared boards (eg. games).

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Boards			uSeeToo creates and manages any number of boards of several types. Currently 3 types of boards are supported: Drawing Chess Calendar
			You are most likely to be using Drawing boards most of the time. Drawing boards are like paper pages or whiteboards on which you can scribble. Photos (i.e. jpg, png, gif, TIFF, etc. images) are also displayed on Drawing Boards.
			Clone - click here to clone current board in a new window.

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Feddback

uSeeToo has been designed to be simple to use; if it isn’t, please send us feedback through the Feedback menu item.

 

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Background	Select color ...		Here you can choose color for your drawing board background from 3 sets of colors: Swatches HSB RGB
	Grid on/off		You can use grid as a drawing board or to play Gomoku More information about that play you will find here: Gomoku

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Help			This is where you are now :)

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		Use save current file for quick saving your board. You can save your drawings boards as jpg image or uSeeToo editable files: all individual shapes will be available for editing when you open up the file during a subsequent session.
		Use open file to open Image Files or uSeeToo Editable Files from your computer.
		Use this button to quickly create new whiteboard.
		Use this button to undo last action in your drawing, typing, chess, ect.
		Use this button to redo last action when you want to come back to previous version on your board.
		Use this button to cut selection previously selected with select shape or select area button. You can paste the cut element into a new place on your board: click on paste section button.
		Use this button to copy selection previously selected with select shape or select area button. You can paste the copied element into a new place on the same board: click on paste section button. If you want to paste copied element into a new/other board, simultaneusly press Ctrl and click on copy button. Go to the new/other board and click on paste button.
		Use this button to paste selection previously selected with select shape or select area button, cut or copied. You can multipaste cut or copied element by repeating clicking on paste button and moving cursor into a new place on your board.
		Use clear board button to quickly clear your current board. Your drawings and text will be removed (but not photos).
		Here you can choose fonts for typing text. Click on enter text button, create a text box in your board, and choose suitable font style, size, bold or italic.

Vertical Menu

		Vertical menu contains the following tools: select shape select area pencil eraser geometric shapes (with additional window for straight lines, rectangles, ovals and polylines) enter text pick color select tool width select tool color select custom tool color current tool color
		Here you will find description of each tool: uSeeToo Tools Description

Gallery

		All your current boards are represented by thumbnail images in the Gallery beneath the currently displayed board. Clicking on a thumbnail will display the contents of the board to you and your remote party.

Drawing

The main window of uSeeToo has a few tools for drawing and text.
For drawing use a pencil (thin line).
Activating the pencil tool will open a submenu of tool thickness from which you can choose the desired pen width.
Next, you can pick the line color from a color palette select tool color or from select custom tool color button.
A number of colors can be custom picked: just click on any of the white rectangles beneath the main palette.
To select background colors use the Background menu.
If you are not happy with the line you have just drawn, you can remove it by clicking the Undo button.
You can Redo the undone action, provided you haven’t made any further edits.

You can see examples of drawings and other uSeeToo action here:

• Freehand drawing, geometric shapes and text.
• Collages,text and freehand drawing on pictures.
• Drawing and typing on pictures.

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Chess

To play chess click on Boards button and choose Chess board. Right-click rotates the chess board, so you can pick your point of view. Left-click and press the mouse to drag any chess piece into a new position. Chess rules are not enforced by uSeeToo. Moves can be undone and redone - click on Undo or Redo button. Last version of uSeeToo allows you to save your chess board as uSeeToo editable file and continue your play during a next uSeeToo session.

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Calendar

Calendar shows present day and month.

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Sharing photos, maps, diagrams

To view an image simply drag and drop the image from your Firefox of IE browser onto the uSeeToo window.
The image will be automatically formatted: this process may take a few seconds,
and the formatted image will then be sent to your friend;
both of you will see the progress of the transmission on the progress bar at the bottom of the uSeeToo window.

You can also drag and drop image files from any folder onto the uSeeToo window.
You don’t need to worry about the size of the image in pixels or bytes: all images will be converted before transmission.

Finally, you can load pictures using Open from the File menu (selecting image files in the file chooser).

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