Hi, everyone. How was everybody's lunch? Great. See, we have that little dip there right after our meal here. I wanted to take a little survey here. So how many people here have used Krita before? Okay. About three or four. And how many folks here are current users of GIMP? Okay. Good. Good. About half of the room. And commercial applications, like say Photoshop. Okay. About three or four. Three or four. Well, I hope I can share with you some of the things I've learned through the last few months about Krita. So I'm very glad to see you here. And so let me tell you a little bit about myself. First off, I'm currently a STEM teacher as science, technology, engineering, math teacher over at Sylvan Learning, providing training to elementary school students from kindergartners all the way to sixth grade students. So a lot of times what we do is we show students at these ages how to use painting apps. And because I work with elementary schools because of funding issues and things, Krita is a way to introduce kids on how to paint. So we'll talk about what is Krita or Krita. Maybe we'll talk about the pronunciation as well, the history behind it, some installation tips, basic concepts, and possibly if we have some additional time, a demo. So let's get going here. So this workshop is an introductory level for Krita. But we're trying to cover various topics that might be of interest to both beginning users as well as advanced users. And I just wanted to point out that I am an engineer with basic art skills. So you might see a little bit of that. I'm not exactly a Van Gogh, but I'll definitely show you if you are top-notch artists what types of techniques that people at that level are currently using. So the pronunciation, a lot of it has been anecdotal. I've been trying to Google to see what I could find about Krita. I've seen Krita. I've seen Krita. So you can kind of pick your own. It looks like the very top one is the one that the person who, the people who have set it up, that's the way they pronounce it. But that looked anecdotal. I didn't see an exact source of that. So Krita is a digital painting program, and so you can use it for pixel art. You can edit photos. You can create web banners. You can do some retouching of photos. Let's say someone is frowning. You can change their frown into a smile. You can do some color corrections, things like that. A brief history of Krita. Back in 1998, someone created a fork on GIMP, which proved a little controversial, and so what they started to do is that spun-off as K-offices, K-image. So in case you're wondering why the K is on my slides here, Krita was originally part of the KDE section. But don't worry, however, because Krita does run on GNOME systems, and I've tested that a little. There are a few wrinkles, though, so I do forewarn you that if you find some things not quite working right, maybe try a parallel installation on the GNOME, on the KDE workspace. From that, around 2002, it was renamed to Krita to avoid potential trademark infringements. Development ramped up, and originally there was talk of Krita being sort of Photoshop-like, sort of GIMP-like, but then over time it developed into an app for digital painting. However, you will find that there is a lot of overlap among this app and the other apps that we've discussed. So some of the comparisons that you'll see on the board here are Krita is open source, Photoshop is commercial, so you have to pay for something on the cloud, you can do digital painting in Krita and image editing, Photoshop, you can do image editing, painting there as well. There are many types of brush engines. You have the color to alpha filter, which allows you to recolor. Various blend modes, I was pretty surprised, we'll only be covering a subset of those because there's so much experimentation that you can do on a day-to-day basis. Drawing assistance, multi brushes, those are features I haven't found yet in Photoshop and layer styles, they're called layer effects in Photoshop if you're used to that. For GIMP, both programs are open source. You have Krita covering drawing, painting, photo editing, GIMP, you can do some photo editing. You can do a little bit of painting here and there. Text tool is a little quirky too. I found the operation could be improved over there. Brushes are identifiable or previewable if you mouse over them in Krita, whereas for GIMP a lot of times you're moving your mouse to the paint brush and you're trying to figure out, okay, so what is this? And there's a thing called the pop-up palette in Krita and GIMP. It's either not implemented or I haven't seen something quite like it yet. So a frequently asked question for me is, which of these applications should you use? I say try them all. There is quite a bit of difference among these apps such that you may find one app more usable than the other app and vice versa. As you'll see in some upcoming slides, there are things like multi brushes which are very useful for folks. In terms of installing, what I generally use is the Fedora Design Suite Spin which is at this link and the slides are online will also be posted after this presentation. You can also perform a DNF install calligric Krita to add just Krita. There is a distribution called Chakra which completely implements Krita, but the distribution is a little tricky to set up. If you have a different distribution like Ubuntu or various others, you can install using either Yum or DNF or whatever flavor, whatever flavor installer you have. And the latest and greatest, if you like hacking away, you can try building it from scratch. For Mac, what's recommended is to turn Open Shield Support off because it's a little bit tenuous at this time. People are currently working on it and there is the hope that if there are other Mac developers out there that they can assist with that issue. For PCs, you install as you normally do using that operating systems installation and for Linux, try testing with different workspaces including KDE. So for a walk-through on Fedora, I've outlined it here.  And then as a root privilege user, if you would like to include KDE, you perform the additional steps and then perform Krita as a regular user. So here's the user interface. And at the very top, the link, excuse me, the link below is details the various things that we're about to discuss. But I wanted to include it there so that way when you try this out at home, you have a chance to survey the Krita interface. What you can do is you can right click and you then have access to the pop-up pallet. And if you notice, these types of swatches here give you a gamut of colors. And then these types of swatches here are swatches that you are presently accessing in your picture. So you can go back to colors that you previously used. And these tools over here are part of your defaults, but you can configure these. And we'll be showing in an upcoming slide how to set that up. So if you want to view the canvas only, you hit the tab key. A lot of times when people are painting or drawing, they don't want to look at any of the menus, they just want to look at the picture. And so I wanted to include this slide because you just want to look at the canvas and focus on painting and painting only. And what people tend to do when they're working through this is they use the right click of their mouse in order to access the tools so that way they don't have to worry about those additional menus and just focus on drawing. To zoom in and out, it's similar to other applications that you've used. You use the mouse scrolling on your mouse. And also the menus which are at the top of the screen are the image menu which affects the entire image. You have the layer menu which affects the individual layers. You also have the select menu which affects selections and we'll be discussing that in a few minutes. You have the filter menu which applies various filters at your disposal. And this is very similar to other apps that you may have used, GIMP or Photoshop. Tools menu is for macros if you want to begin recording in operations. And also the settings menu which allows you to configure keyboard shortcuts. The credit tools on the left side, you have the vector tools, the drawing tools, the manipulation tools, the color tools and the selection tools. So the vector tools include the pointer and text tool. You have various shapes. You have the paint brush which is very, very useful. The manipulation tool which allows you to crop your photo and move things around. And you also have the coloring tools so you can fill. This is pretty similar to GIMP. And you also have this eyedropper tool in case you need a sample from things off of the web in case you would like to do some color matching. And then various selection tools. As you notice there are different shapes. So one introductory term for Krita is something called the brush preset. This is by default it is on the right side, the right side docker in the second tab. What you can do is when you click this button here called brush preset, it will give you an assortment of brushes such as markers, sketching pens, air brushes and things like that. There is such an assortment of these that we can't cover it in this entire hour. And so I leave that for you as a way of experimenting further. To adjust the brush size you would like to press the left bracket key as well as the right bracket key. Or you can use the shift and drag the left hand, left button of the mouse in order to drag it up and down in order to change the size. And there are these two buttons here for symmetry mode and that allows you to press the little buttons to create axes for reflection. So you can choose a brush size and paint and make snowflakes and jewelry items. So for example, what I did was I took a blue and a purple brush and we have axes of reflection over here as well as over here. And just the simple act of drawing this would create this on the other four sides. There are things called themes and you may have seen this in other applications. So if you like to work in the dark there is crit a dark and there's also crit a bright if you like bright work spaces as well. We also have on the settings menu you can configure these tool bars to your exact specifications. Do we have any questions so far before I continue? Okay. So the docker is you can click these in and out by simply dragging these boxes on the left hand and right hand side of your screen. And there are buttons on the individual docker to lock these in place. When you're happy with the way you've set it up, you can click on this button here to create the workspace icon and then you type in a new name and this will save your settings. That way if things get moved around and strange and you'd like to reset back to your workspace, you can go ahead and save that. Wrap around mode is if you like working with a tile background in a web page, you hit the W key and it allows you to take a look at what you're drawing as it looks like in a tiled environment. It's very useful for folks that use that. So for example, this tile that I created here is then shown as this so that way this would be part of some sort of background let's say. To pan the canvas you hold the wheel, the wheel button of your mouse down and so that way you can move up and down. You can also hit the space bar and mouse around and move the canvas as well. To rotate the canvas you press control left bracket or control right bracket. Or you can use the four, five and six keys. The four will rotate counterclockwise and six will rotate clockwise and five will reset back to regular orientation. And to lighten and darken colors you can press the L or K keys. For exporting you hit the file menu and export and export to either PDF or regular JPEGs, TIPS, things like that. So let's talk a little about layers. So how many folks here have used layers before in either Gimp or Photoshop? Okay. So it looks like about half of you, let's talk a little bit more in terms of thinking of clear sheets of plastic atop of a background. The bottom layer is the background which is either transparent for those who work on web banners. You definitely don't want a wider background showing up. You just want that picture. Or you want an opaque background if you want a nice canvas behind that. You can group these layers such as create a face layer group which could have eyes, nose, hair and so on. So the various buttons in this layers dialogue you have a visibility which shows whether the layer is displayed or not. You have a lock icon here. A lot of times people will lock their layers down once things look perfect because as you're moving around here, if you start accidentally tweaking a layer it could turn disastrous. A lot of people will lock that down. Then you also have the alpha button which is for transparencies. So if you work with web type banners this is definitely a button to use as well as alpha inheritance as well. You have these buttons here which are layer types of operations. Very similar to Photoshop and GIMP if you've used it before. So just a survey since we have about 50% here you have adding of a layer. This little button here doesn't just add a layer but you have various choices of layers.  So I wanted to point that out. You also have this button here which allows you to duplicate a layer, move the layer down, move the layer up, pull it out of a group and put it into a group. Layer properties and finally the trash button here which is to remove layer. You can also add the layer using the insert key. That's a shortcut that people tend to use a lot from an Adobe type product. And also to remove a layer you can right click and remove the layer when you're in the layer docker. And you can press the Ctrl J key. That's a very useful button in order to duplicate a layer. So the case study for this sunny day here is that we have our background here which is a gray canvas. We have a ground layer which I had created, a vegetation layer which I created using the various brushes there, a sky layer which is just blue paint, and finally the sun layer. So that's kind of an example of layers if you haven't seen that before. They do add extra complexity so be sure to save your work first and then flatten the layers if you no longer need the sub layers. Right click that layer and choose flatten image or flatten layer. I caution it is safer because sometimes you do want to go back to a previous version and see what the unflattened image layers look like. Do you have a question? Yes, it does. Because what's happening is each layer takes up quite a bit of memory as well as space on your hard drive. So as you flatten it, less complexity there. Each individual layer you're applying, you could potentially have a lot of filters attached and it's extra stuff for credibility to keep track of. Thank you for asking that. So how would you create the following three layers? If you have a bottom canvas, on the middle you have a sketch layer and then on the top you have an ink layer. And a lot of times what artists will typically do is they'll create a basic sketch and then on top of that start inking that sketch. So I wanted to ask who here, what would you do first? Does anyone know who's created layers before? Correct. So you would start lower, so when you create a new project you can have it fill in the canvas color. And then you can create an additional layer called a sketch layer using this button here, the plus button, or the insert key. And then last, create another layer called an ink layer. To undo and redo you press Ctrl Z or Ctrl Shift C to redo what you have just done done. And to go into a race mode if you're not quite happy with how it's turned out you press the E key. And any brush or drawing tool can be turned into an eraser. And that's pretty, it sounds trivial but it's actually not. So that's really handy to have. To mirror, a lot of times if you need a mirror image of something you press the M button and that allows you to get a fluffed image. So if you need to get something reoriented correctly you would do that. There's a mode called Stabilizer Mode that I wanted to point out to folks using a mouse. Because a lot of times when you're drawing on the screen it looks very jittery and stuff. And so if you haven't purchased a tablet yet and tablet, Wacom tablets definitely work with this. But if you're just starting out with a mouse and wanted a nicer feel to it you have this option of changing the dropdown smoothing from basic smoothing to Stabilizer. So definitely look out for that. So let's talk a little about foreground and background colors. For folks who've used an Adobe product you should be very familiar with this. This little box here, this little box here is the foreground color and this box is the background color. And at any time you can press either this box or this box and change the color of the brush that's currently painting. You have this button here which allows you to swap the foreground color with the background color. And then this button here resets things to default black foreground and default white background. And so this is useful to keep track of because as you are painting a lot of times you'll start drawing and then all of a sudden why is everything showing up white or why can't I see what I'm painting? Well, you may find out that you've accidentally swapped these and you're starting to paint white over your canvas which you kind of don't want to do. So definitely when you're starting out try that out. To fill a layer with color as we were populating those three layers earlier you hit the backspace key to populate with a background color or shift backspace to fill with a foreground color. And this is great for masked photos which we may see later. This feature called Color History, basically you have a docker here called the Advanced Color Selector. It should be shown by default but if it isn't you can go into the settings menu and display it. And so what it does is as you are painting it'll keep track of the various colors in your photo that you've used. So if you liked this green color that you've been using you can go back here and it's recorded that so that way you don't have to find that again. Now let's talk a little about brush settings. So the brush settings or the brush presets are the ways for you to change what your photo looks like. As we've discussed previously you have pencils, brushes, sketch brushes, airbrushes, clone tools, things like that at your disposal. So many, so many. I've counted at probably about 80 to 100 for you to experiment with. So definitely try those out. And you click on the tool options, the tool options docker to play around with the various settings. So from the top you have gradients and fill patterns which you've seen in other graphical applications perhaps. You have the brush engines and how to erase preserving the alpha. You have the brush sizes and opacity and flow. Opacity determines whether or not you can see through that down into the next layers and also the mirror buttons that we discussed earlier. So for scaling you would like to be sure to scale to a new size under the image menu and you change to the larger or smaller sizes accordingly. So if you have a photo that seems just a little bit too large, that's the way you would do it. You have blending modes which are algorithms that describe how colors are mixed together mixed with the other layers. And here is a page that I'll leave for you to experiment later about working with these blending modes. The things you have to... The things I'd like to leave with you in terms of blending modes are the popular ones which are the normal, the multiply which allows you to darken layers. So a lot of times if I'm handed a photo which is pretty light and I say a photo from a relative where it's been fading over time, this is a very useful mode for you to use called the multiply mode. It allows you to darken your photos. You can also screen too. So the opposite operation if you've received a photo which is way too dark and you need to lighten it up. You also have overlay and soft light which we won't go over now but I just wanted to leave you with that. Those are two of the more popular ones. You also have a color blending mode. And this is useful for like, say wedding photos or grid-side grayscale underpaintings. And so just to... Rather than discuss this slide further, let's just go into this picture as an example. Here you have, let's say you have a happy bride here and she wanted to show her flower vase here. What I've done is I've taken a new layer, created a new layer. I've duplicated it and then I just changed the color blending mode to color. And then I just painted, carefully painted purple over this can. So you've seen that technique used in wedding photos where the bride is in color and everything else is black and white. This is the way you would do it. You take a photo, make it black and white and then just color this right in using the color blending mode. So for shapes, you have various shapes, squares, circles, polygons and polylines which are similar to polygons but they're not connected at the end. And you can also transform too which allows you to distort or adjust your pictures. So a lot of times if you want to squash things or if you want to make them bigger or smaller but preserve the aspect ratio what you would use is the shift key as you're dragging your selections there. And then you have the perspective key which allows you to control and drag a handle. You have a thing called a perspective transform which you hit by pressing control T and when you go to the tools options docker which is on the right hand side you choose the perspective or second tool here. And then what you can do is you can drag the objects of the handle, of the handles of the object. So say you have a photo that you would like to apply along the side of the wall but it's in three-dimensional space. The wall is perpendicular or off at an angle. This is how you would apply this photo onto that. And so you can see the applications for that because a lot of times if you have like say jewelry or something where you would like to apply a photo at an odd angle this is the tool to work with. The filter menu works as the filter menu in GIMP or in Adobe products and there's so many different filters available. The ones I wanted to point out that you might be using a lot starting out are the Gaussian blur which allows you to create a smooth blurring on an image. You can also use the Gaussian blur if you need to say you work with a photo and you want to kind of redact certain things that shouldn't be there. That's one way you can blur the photo out. You also have something called GIMP which is Gracie's magic for image computing. There seem to be like a hundred or more of these various filters and you might not be familiar with these. So once I want to at least point out for you to experiment are the frames Polaroid and frames Fuzzy one. So let's take a look at that. Remember our regular photo with a bride here. What we've done is we've just created a Polaroid and one of the options there is for adding an angle. So a lot of times Polaroids might not be set at a regular angle. So this one here is called frames fuzzy. As you can see the photo on the edges is a little bit fuzzy here. It wasn't like that before as you can see over here. But there are so many more of those, countless. So I encourage you to experiment more and take a look at GIMP.  And you can apply layer styles to these. And we'll be covering layer styles in about a minute or two. Note that you can interleave these vector layers with the raster layers. What are raster layers are the paint layers that we've been discussing. And you can have multiple layers of this. To add to your favorite presets or that pop-up pellet that I was discussing earlier go to the brush presets docker. And then right click on a desired brush preset and choose assign to tag. And then you choose favorite preset or any other group. And then when you're ready to use that brush preset right click on the canvas and see that your preset has been added. So returning back to our example of jewelry or snowflake you have symmetry mode. So there's two triangular buttons at the top of your screen.  You can also use the multi-brush tool which will be on your left-hand side. And repeat. One nice thing about the multi-brush is that you can add additional axes on the multi-brush so you can have, say, 13 leaves. So over here, for example, I've changed this to 13 by dragging and moving this up or down accordingly. Our next case study is the frowning to a smile. So our friend here, when he had his picture taken, he wasn't smiling very much. And so what we would like to do is maybe this is the type of photo where you wouldn't exactly like to share it with folks because, you know, like to cheer him up a little. And so what we've done in terms of this procedure is we've used the Transform tool, hit Ctrl T, but you want to then press this button here which looks like a teardrop and this is called the Liquify tool. So if you've used that tool in other applications like Adobe ones, for example, this allows you to essentially nip and tuck on a photo. And the mode you want to choose is Build Up. It should be selected by default, but I wanted to point that out to you. And for a size, you would choose a good size. In terms of a good size, I would probably make it around the size of his cheek over here. So like maybe about here. Because what the tuck is doing is you basically want to grab this section and then just tuck a little bit. But not too much because what happens is if you tuck too much, then it starts to have this thing that we like to call the Joker effect. And so he's like smiling very crazily and stuff. You don't want that to happen unless that's your intended effect. And then finally, another way to do this is to go into tools, options, or warp. You can create anchor points and draw, create them, lock them, and then start dragging those points. It's not as clean as say Liquify, but I've included this here for you in case you find an application where this works better for you. And so you do have a warp tool similar to other graphics products. So our next case is the penguin is looking up. And so this particular picture, we have this penguin here, a great awk. And we'd like to basically make him look up a little bit more and also maybe adjust how his arm or wing is. And so what we've done is we use the transform tool, control T once again, and you pick this tool here, which is known as the cage tool, which you may find in other apps you might not. So you draw a cage around the object. So what I've done is I've started here, and then I just started clicking, clicking, clicking, so on and so forth, and then I returned back to my first point in order to create this cage here. And then when I was done, I then took this point over here, let's say, and I just started tweaking it up just a little bit, maybe this point here and tweaking it just a little bit. And so what ends up happening, it's ever so slight, but as you can see, a different look from before and after. So folks who like to work on vision boards or collages, you like to take photos and arrange them or vision boards, which I'd highly recommend if you don't have one, definitely start a vision board, because it's a way to definitely take a look at what matters to you and is important in your life. Basically what you do is you create, start a new document, and choose a custom size. I typically do like a letter size, but what some folks like to do is they like to change the size to a size 4, let's say, background for the desktop. So just find out what the numbers of the pixels are and then do that. And then under the Layer menu, choose Import, Export, Import, and choose each picture one by one. And then in the Layer tab, you highlight each layer. You hit Ctrl T and then Shift-click and drag the picture's corner handles and move the layers to an ideal location. And then you can optionally rotate these pictures. So as an example, we have these four photos here, and after turning it into a collage, I, with some tweaking, ended up making this collage. I can optionally move this picture to the left here, so that way I cut this out. But you get the idea from there. One important thing is blemish or debris removal. A lot of times if someone has a blemish on their face that you'd like to remove, perhaps, or perhaps there's some type of dust on a photo, like a dark speck, you like to remove it. What you do is you go to your Edit Brush Settings, which is at the top toolbar that we've discussed previously. You click on the Clone Brush Engine, which is on the left-hand side, and hold down the Ctrl key and click on an ideal source, a clean surface with no defects visible. Release the Ctrl key and click on the blemish to remove. So for example, for this case study, we've taken this wrinkle here, and what I would do is I would sample from her forehead here using the Ctrl key and then start painting over on her face here to remove that wrinkle in case that's an example you'd like to do. Or if the person has a blemish, you can do that too. For a transparency mask, you can use this to create vignettes. And so I've left the procedure here for you to try out and experiment with as well. The instructions are all there. So for layer styles, a lot of times what people would like to do is create a banner for their web page, and maybe apply drop shadows to a headline. So what you do is you create your text box using the Text tool, and then on the Layer menu, apply a Layer style, and you use the FX button to view your applied style. So what's missing currently from Krita that I've been looking for are snapping to grids or snapping to the rulers. I like some feature that allows me to lock my selections to the rulers and some guidelines, and also the nudging of layers. But this is scheduled for version 3, so look out for it. And if you like working with apps, one thing you can do to help is develop for Krita at Krita.org, get involved. You can learn it and use Krita and teach it and tell others about it and fund Krita development. So just to wrap up, use Krita to paint, edit or retouch photos, make web banners, and much more. Are there any questions? Yeah, I mean you could select the entire photo and move it, but a lot of times, like say for a collage, if you just want to move the individual pictures, you just want to nudge that one photo. You don't want to move. Just like if you have photos on a light board or on a canvas, you want to move the individual photos around. Are there any other questions? Well, okay, so your question then to repeat for the audiences, is there a way to take that raster and then export it out as a vector or something? I'm not sure about that. I can research that for you and let you know. So maybe we'll talk about it a little later. Good question though. By the way, the online evaluation for this presentation is located here, but this is also part of the slide deck. So if you don't have to write this down now, you could take a look at it later. And please feel free to stop by the Fedora table and say hello. I'd like to chat with you. So thank you for attending, and here's some fun stuff. We have keyboard shortcuts. So if you go to this link here, you can see a graphical representation of all the shortcuts that I've shown you and much more.  And so I'd highly recommend this bundle. Just go to this website and import it into your workflow here. You may need to restart Krita, and what you can then do is you can click on these new brushes that show up and you'll be amazed at what you can do with this. So for an aging document, let's say, we'll go to Krita. Actually, let's go here. Okay, so for the cage example here, we have this penguin here, and we would like to tweak his beak here. So what you would do is you hit Ctrl T, and then what you do is you go into the tool options here, which is on the right-hand side. And here's that Liquify tool that I showed you earlier, but here's also that Cage tool. The Cage tool that we would like to work with. If you notice, the background is a little bit kind of off-white, so we may need some cleanup operation a little later. But just to give you the idea of how the Cage tool works, I'll just click around here, and then to start tweaking, you can start moving these up a little more, like that. Maybe make him a little over here. As you can see, there is a little bit of cleanup that we might need to do later, but we can use the Fill tool color match here and clean that up. So there's one example. Another one is Jewelry or Snowflake. That was the case, maybe. So let's go ahead and get rid of that. So you have these two symmetry tools here. What that does is it creates these axes for you to draw around in. And then I want to choose a Paint Brush. So you click on the Paint Brush tool, and then I'm using the bracket keys on my keyboard in order to choose a brush size. On the right-hand side over here, if you follow my mouse, I'm just choosing the color blue. A lot of times when you're first starting out, you'll see that the pointer might be over here on white, and no matter what you do, if you start clicking around, it's like, I can't see anything.  And if you notice, when I clicked here, it then, and I start drawing here, notice that there is a symmetry applied in this photo here. And as I pick different colors, remember that color history on the upper right-hand corner, it's keeping track, so I can always go back to that previous color and just continue painting. Similarly, you can use something called a Multi Brush, which is over here on the left-hand side. If I click here, and let's get rid of our symmetry brushes now, because we don't need that. If I choose an axis angle of, say, I don't know, 10, you can do something like this. So it's like a kaleidoscope of 10 different angles, I guess, if the case may be. Then you can just pick different colors. Any questions on that before we go on? So that's a feature that I haven't seen yet in some of the other apps. So if I go to File, Open, and go to, how about Blamish Removal? Because I'm sure folks here would like to see. So what I'm doing is I'm using the mouse wheel to zoom in on the affected area. And basically what you would do is you would see me move the mouse over here to Edit Brush Settings. And what I want is the Clone tool here. And then when I'm done here, hit Escape. And if you notice, the brush is pretty huge. It's like, I don't know, really, really large. And so I want to change the brush size down. So I'm using the left bracket to reduce the size of the brush. Notice also that you can use, if I press the Shift key and use the left mouse button, I can change the size. But I want to make it about the size of the Blamish here, or in this case, the Wrinkle. And what I would like to do is I'd like to sample from this section here. So what I do is I press the Control key. And due to an OpenGL fun thing right now, that weird pink box is showing up on my screen, but it'll hopefully not do that on your screen. So if you press the Control key and then just click once in this area, let's see, maybe make it a little smaller here, hit Control. And so this section here will be the sample area. And then what I'll do is, if I press here, it'll then clone a portion of this, but mix it in with a layer. So that's an example of the clone tool. Similarly, you can go here, maybe, and maybe clean that up a little, things like that. So clone here, over here. Let's see. Do we have some more questions, or shall I keep going? Yes. So if you Google on YouTube, there is actually a pixel art demonstration. There's an initial process in setting it up. I think it's like about 12 to 15 minutes. More not for the scope for an intro class, but if you work with pixel art a lot, it's a very good video. So what I can do is I can help you find that link if you see me at the Fedora table. So any other questions? Yes. So the slides will be available either on Scale's website, or if you go to, if you write this quickly down, you can get them today, or stop by the Fedora table later, and I can get you this link. So the last set of bonus slides, in case you're interested, let's see. So with Krita, you can also, I've left the instructions for you to make this aging document perhaps look a little better. See, right now it's kind of yellowing, and so what I've done is I've darkened the document using the Multiply tool, and I've also replaced the color of this with blue. Obviously, I picked blue arbitrarily, but you can pick whatever color you'd like. I did the blue just for effect. I've left you a few resources and brushes, studies on why people may be switching from different applications and some DVDs that you can purchase from the Muses group, and a copy of the Krita manual. If you like living on the edge, there is an alpha that just came out recently, like about a week ago, so there's a link for that as well. And in terms of the photo citations, there you go. So if you have any other questions, I will be at the Fedora table. I'll be here for probably about 5 or 10 minutes while I close up shop here if you'd like me to maybe quickly demo something for you. Thank you very much again for attending our presentation here at Scale 14x, and I look forward to seeing you again. Take care. In terms of what? It's different. Again, there are different tools at your disposal. Well, as I mentioned earlier in the presentation, try the tool out, see if it works for you, if it doesn't work for you. It's not a question of what's better or not. I know some people who will use both Gimp and both Krita, but it's an alternative. All right. Thank you for asking. Sure. I will go back to slide number one. Yeah. So go ahead and if you want to take a picture of that now. Cheese. Thank you. Thank you for coming. Cheese. Yeah. What I found with the text tools, it's a little quirky. What I found is when I first set up text, it will show up really, really large and then I have to dial down the font size. It could use a little work. Like how to change the layer style or something? No, just set the font size. Once it's there, you can't do anything other than change the layer. So what I do in that particular case, say if I click on the text tool here, so then I click inside here and I start changing the size over here and the tool options here, which is on the right-hand side here. Yeah. So you have to highlight the text and then you start. So what I did was I click between the R and the T in artist and then just start dialing it down. Oh, I hit Ctrl A. Oh, okay. Yeah, first select all. You don't have to select all, because the thing with Quitta is it allows you to select just individual characters. I'm just going to figure out how to do it with the mouse. Oh, okay. Ctrl A. Okay. Yeah.  Just select a couple letters. Yeah. Okay, so to get to the clone tool, click on Brush to activate the brushes and then you click here and Edit Brush Settings and then here's the clone tool. However, D-Vod here, if you go into the Brush Presets, notice the stock brushes are everything except for D-Vods. If you click on D-Vod here, the brush is one of the... Oh, we're interesting. I'm wondering where that worked. Okay. One of his tools is a clone tool that you can also use. So let's see. Oh, here we go. And if you click there, notice how it has a clone tool. If you hit Ctrl, the Ctrl button, it'll sample and then you can start sampling from that. Of course, I'm sampling from nothing right now so that's kind of pointless, but yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so. Now I haven't. Okay. Okay. Paint tool. SAI. SAI. Okay. I'll look for it.


Good evening everybody. Am I audible? Yeah. Today's my topic is design experiences for children. Myself Chaitali. I'm working as a UX consultant with ULF Pune. And also I lead a creative group in Pune called Creative Doodle. So I work with a lot of kids and a lot of parents. But it's not a digital platform, but in person I interact with a lot of kids. My presentation is based on my experience as a parent, as a user experience designer. And what I observe as a behavior with the kids within my workshop, creative workshops. Starting with the topic, how kids are different. When we are designing experiences for children, it's not only simplification of UI or just putting any big buttons, putting any funky colors. So make them attract. But as a user experience designer, we need to think of their mindset. We need to think of interaction patterns. We need to think of user experience in perspective for a child's point of view. Yes, children are curious and love to explore. Young kids have no go-to pattern, no expectation about how something should work. Children can have different interaction patterns and mindset. As an experienced designer, we need to think of range of possibilities because each age group will interact with the interface differently. If we are working designing any interface for a toddler, we need to consider that he is in a learning phase. He has not yet developed his motor skill. So we need to think of his interaction point of view. But if we are designing for an elder kid, so we need to consider he is more interested in entertainment, fun, excitement. He is more interested to have some voice which will engage him into the interface or app. Let's discuss with one child-centric design model. This one is proposed by uxkids.com. This is a very good site and you can refer this site. The main blogger, Sabina Adler, she is doing a lot of work with user experience for kids. They are doing user testing with kids on the apps and all. So what they propose is a similar kind of model with the UCD model, user-centric model we work. But the difference is they have added an age-appropriate slap in the model. It is based on the cognitive growth theory. What is cognitive growth theory? If we consider a kid of 0 to 2 years age group, so the learning pattern will be like he is in the sensory motor intelligence. He is in development phase of sensory motor intelligence. If we consider an age group of 4 to 7 years old kid, so he must be knowing some intuitive features. It means cognitive growth is coming up and if an elder kid, if we are taking, he can do more concrete operations on the interface. So the basic thing is like each slab has its own features. If a fun part, if it is loved by all the kids, definitely our application or interface, it will get more share, it will get more like. And if it is easy to use, beside kids, it is also appreciated by teachers because they can use that application for the education purpose. And definitely as a parent, I am more concerned the app or the content, whatever my kid is using, is it safe for his entertainment or education. So age-appropriate slab mostly deals with the parent's concern and definitely meet your business goal. If it is loved by our stakeholder and client, it is very important for us to make them happy. What are the key considerations we need to consider? Affordance is the key. As my observation, I believe that kid interacts with the technology as a toy, as he interacts with the nature in the past. So whatever he interacts with the application or any interface, he will expect the same response from the interface from his day-to-day activity. If a kid tap on a water, he will expect a water ripple from that water. So he will interrelate those things with his day-to-day activity. This is a very good example of Disney app mates. I will share their video. Back to the presentation. If you observe what they have done. They have designed few specific cars and they have made a virtual playground as a tab. It's a free app you can download. But the effects they have given is like it's a radiator spring if a particular character. If it is a night, they will show a headlight. And the feeling, it's like natural thing which will attract and engage the kid. So definitely, accordance is the very key consideration we have to consider. Child-proof navigation interface. Children are more prone to undershoot their targets. And also there are more prone to accidental multi-touch. So we need to design interfaces or navigation which are more useful while they are navigating to the app. Like in this example, the least used menu they have placed at the top most corner. But the next previous button they have placed at the bottom most corner. So kids can use it very efficiently. Understand kids gesture the right way. Nowadays kids are very smart and they can pick technology and quick gesture quickly. But the advanced gesture like multi-touch, swiping all increase the learnability of your app. So though we are giving a unique gesture which will attract the kid towards your app. But we need to think that it will also increase the learnability of your app. Using the patience. I hope most of them you are parents and most of them you means you have kids. So you must be knowing that kids don't have patience. So as per my own example, when my kid is playing with any game on the tab and if something takes time to load, he just come up and complain your app is not working or something goes wrong. So that much of patience kids don't have. So whenever we are designing for a toddler, flash screens or loading screen might not get interested. The kid may not be interested in that. But if it is a requirement from the back end, then we have to consider some animation or something engaging part in the screen so that the kid will be engaged to the screen. I want to add accessibility for children. Actually I was expecting more talks on accessibility and UX because this one factor is more important when we are considering some UX for any application or interface. Around 10 billion people from the developing countries, most of around 10 billion people are suffering from different disabilities and within them 10% are children. So I believe that all children deserve fair chance to have a great user experience in terms of knowledge and fun including children with disabilities. This one example I want to explain is like this slide is from a company Barrier Break. They work on different usability products for all age groups. What they have proposed is a normal e-book that any kid can use but they have just implemented one small feature in that a lady interpreting a story in a sign language. So this common book can be used by a small kid which is deaf and dumb. The same book can be used by a kid which is normal and with a voice. The same book can be used by a partially blind or blind kid. So we need to think of including the features which can be generic, which can be used by any audience and which can involve more people for the use. What are the key takeaways? Play is the highest form of research that is Albert Einstein. I just want to check how many of you are here are parents and how many of you are still a kid by heart. We have discussed a lot of consideration. We have to consider what process, what are the key characters of a kid. But I believe there should be some intangible things we need to consider to succeed in designing user experience for children. So the key takeaway is we need to think like a kid. When we are designing experiences for children, it's self a very fun loving domain. So if you are not enjoying this process or if you are not loving this process, you will not give a better product, a viable product, which is very good for kids. So on a concluding note, I will just quote one very interesting statement by a very renowned video game designer. She said that only few kids like to be grown up and only few grown ups like to be kid. So why don't we design a product which will work for both. So be a kid and enjoy designing experiences for children. That's it from my deck and have a great evening.


Good evening, town meeting members, elected and appointed officials, town employees and residents. I stand before you from the Town Hall Auditorium, where the seats normally would be filled tonight in anticipation of the arrival of the monotony Minutemen to signal the start of town meeting. It is silent as we enter our second virtual town meeting, but there's hope we will be returning here next spring. Before I begin, I want to thank Joe Currow for his nine years of service on the Slack Board and Dan Dunn for returning to the Board to serve as an interim member the past two months. On behalf of the Board, I also want to recognize Select Board Administrator Marie Kruppalka for her 62 years of service to the town. Thank Ashley Maher and Lauren Costa for their work in the Select Board Office and thank Town Council Doug Heim for his role in drafting the Select Board report and comments. We've been through a great deal as a community over the past year. We continue to work toward achieving immunity from COVID-19. Presently, more than 51% of town residents are vaccinated. At the same time, we mourn the loss of 86 residents to COVID and the more than 570,000 persons in the United States and 3.1 million worldwide who have died from COVID. We are extremely grateful to the healthcare workers, first responders and other essential workers who have provided services to our residents since the onset of the pandemic. Many of our town employees, particularly those in the police and fire departments, put themselves at risk to provide services to the community without interruption. Thank you to all town and school employees for your service to the community. Special recognition is in order for our Health and Human Services Director Christine Bonjono and her team for the COVID updates and continued guidance that they have provided to residents and businesses. They have overseen the administration of approximately 6,000 vaccinations in Arlington, including those provided at the regional site run at Arlington High School and through vaccinations given to homebound residents. HHS staff have also conducted contract tracing for the town's 1,827 reported cases of COVID. They have also managed the town's COVID relief fund, which has distributed more than $150,000 to local families and businesses. I also want to highlight other instances where our town and school employees stepped up to provide services to residents and to support valued organizations in town. At the regional vaccination clinics held at Arlington High School, employees from nearly every department work together to provide a calm environment for Arlington, Belmont and Lexington residents, healthcare workers and first responders who receive vaccinations. For young persons in need of mental health services, our Arlington Youth and Counseling Center transitioned to telehealth counseling last April and since then have conducted more than 7,600 sessions with its clients. For those struggling with food insecurity, the town provided support through CBBG and CPA funding to the work provided by our valued outside partners, FoodLink and Arlington Eats. In addition, the Council on Aging coordinated food deliveries for more than 7,000 meals delivered by Arlington Eats. In coordination with volunteers and Council on Aging staff, our police department distributed thousands of PPE to residents of housing authority properties, to Arlington Eats recipients and to residents in need. Our veteran services agent, Jeff Chunglow, collected over 16,000 donations of PPE for distribution to hospitals, assisted living facilities and nursing homes. The planning department coordinated the distribution of approximately $1.1 million in CBBG and CPA grant funds for tenants and local small businesses. Our town manager, Adam Chapter Lane and his management team provided strong leadership and kept the community informed through his periodic COVID updates. Also, in the midst of the pandemic, we are encouraged to see the New Arlington High School, the cost of which has been supported through the generosity of our taxpayers rising on Mass Ave. As I stand here today, the state of our town is strong. It is resilient. Notwithstanding this, we face many challenges ahead that need to be addressed through collective action. The murder of George Floyd last May in Minneapolis brought the issue of systemic racism to the forefront locally, across Massachusetts and throughout our nation. It forced us to engage in difficult but necessary discussions in recognition of needed reforms to the criminal justice system and to address racial disparities in areas such as healthcare, education and housing. There remains much work to be done locally, regionally and across our country in moving toward a society that is free of systemic racism and racial inequities. Toward that end locally, I want to recognize the work of our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Director, Jillian Harvey. Jill has been a leader in coordinating the community conversations that will continue again this year. She has also been instrumental in implementing racial equity seminars for our employees and the racial justice teachings that many residents participated in this past winter. I also want to add a note on steps taken locally by our police department under the leadership of Chief Flaherty. In June, in furtherance of its community policing model, the department adopted a duty tantrum policy and updated its de-escalation and training standards, which along with pre-existing policies already in place, brought the department into full alignment with national use of force reforms that were called for at that time. In recognition that this remains an ongoing process, however, Chief Flaherty stated the department's commitment to continuously review internal policies to see how they may be advanced to reflect what the community expects of the police department and what the department expects of its officers. Other challenges we will face in the coming years concern how we will fund the cost of providing core town and school services as well as priorities such as the creation of affordable housing. Town meeting will be presented with a balanced budget for fiscal year 2022. We must be mindful, however, that there are storm clouds ahead. The Finance Committee report contains a five-year plan summary that shows sizable deficits beginning in fiscal year 2024. As town leaders, we must work together to minimize the projected deficits and make sound decisions for our community while also providing the best services possible to our residents. The work we perform over the next year will be critical to address these challenges. In closing, town meeting will be asked to vote on 91 warrant articles this year. In our current virtual meeting environment, this will require collaboration, patience and respect for different points of view. As we begin tonight, I am once again reminded of the words of our late select board member Kevin Greeley and similar words spoken by the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. We can disagree without being disagreeable. I hope we take these words to heart in our deliberations this year. Thank you very much.


The story of Sweden's Christianization begins here in Birka, a few miles west of Stockholm. Birka was a prosperous trading town during the 700s up till the late 900s. From here came wears from all over Europe including Russia and even from destinations further away. As I mentioned in the previous video, silk from Sogdiana and China has been found in Uppsala. And Birka was indeed well situated, geographically speaking, to bring wears to Uppsala. Birka was the principal trading town in Svealand, whereas Uppsala was the religious and civic center. The most important exports from Birka and thus Svealand, Sweden in general, were iron and furs. From the countries across the Baltic Sea came fine goods such as honey, beeswax and linens. And the import of linen garments from the Baltic is a fine tradition that I endeavored to reignite. And a large and important part of the imports that came into Birka came from the powerful Frankish Empire to the south. Understanding Europe during the 800s is to a large part understanding the Frankish Empire. As I mentioned in the last video, the great Germanic migration era had created numerous new kingdoms all over Europe. The most powerful kingdom or rather empire would become the Frankish one. The Frankish Empire, at the height of its power, encompassed large parts of France and Germany and even more lands as can be seen by this map. The reason for discussing the Frankish Empire when talking about Sweden's Christianization is because the influence of Christianity came from two major sources. The British one and the Frankish one. And if you wonder why the story begins here in Birka almost 200 years before Sweden became Christian. It's because it was here the Frankish missionary Ansgar first landed during the 800s. He did create a church that was active for a few years but ultimately it was abandoned and it would be another 200 years until Sweden began its Christianization process. Although Sweden didn't become Christian overnight it was a gradual process over the entire Middle Ages. And many pagan beliefs just as in most of Europe clinged on and took the shape of Catholic holidays for example. So even though Ansgar failed to bring Christianity to Sweden, Sweden became Christian eventually. And the question is how did Sweden become Christian? Why did Sweden become Christian? And it's actually a matter more of politics rather than spirituality. As the Viking Age draw to its conclusion, if you will, the Vikings or the Scandinavians got tighter connections to England and Germany and great empires of the continent. The Vikings also realized that the Christian kingdoms were quite powerful indeed. So one could argue that it's actually the powerful aspect of Christianity that was appealing to the Vikings here in Sweden for example. And a difference between how the various Nordic countries become Christian differs a bit. So in Norway you had the quite brutal king, Olaf, who took the sword to anyone who didn't want to become Christian basically. And if we're talking about Christianity as a state religion it is a better option for a ruler, for a centralized king than paganism. Just based upon the teachings of Christianity versus paganism. Where paganism is a bit more suited to someone who is wild, a people that is wild, a bit more chaotic. Whereas if you want to cement a kingdom, if you want to create a kingdom where everything is a bit more centralized, you have a king who is chosen by God himself. It's easier to rule a bit more calm people so to speak.  In Sweden it was more or less to do with trade and connections to the continent. So Birka for example where we are, a central hub of trade both east primarily to the Viking colonies in Russia for example. But also during, but also to all of the Baltic. So Christianity was a good choice for Swedes to adapt to get closer to the continent culturally and spiritually. So it was a good deal, it was a good deal to get on the winning team so to speak. So the pagan world was a bit outdated, the new modern powerful was on the continent and the continent was Christian. So it might have been the case that they looked towards England with its advanced statescraft. They looked towards France or the Frankish kingdom or to Germany. So the majestic cathedrals, churches and heavy knights. And so that is the way to go. This white Christ is a powerful entity. We need to adapt his ways. And also if we are talking about polytheism. If you have many gods it's easier to adopt yet another god who is quite similar to Balder as I mentioned in the last episode. So if you have this white Christ it might be a good idea to have him on your side and if you already have eight or so gods or three main deities and then you want to add in another god whose disciples and whose kingdoms are so powerful why take the chance to not go with that god as well. So that could be another aspect seen from a religious point of view why Swedish Vikings adapted Christianity. But my analysis and I'm hardly the first one to present this is that it was probably mostly to do with a way to get closer in terms of trade, in terms of cultural exchange, in terms of getting to the same power level as the other kingdoms on the continent and in Denmark for example. So 200 years earlier when Ansgar was here the kingdoms of the continent in England they weren't as prepared to face off against the Viking raiders. But 200 years later as we draw up to the 11th century they were a bit more used to it. They had better military capacity to fight off Viking invaders. So Sweden for example had to adapt to it. So that could be said to be the reason for Sweden becoming Christian. Then I'm sure there are plenty of different explanations as to why this happened. But for a king who's out for power it made perfect sense. The different nations in Europe dealt with the Vikings in different manners. A notable example is how the Frankish king dealt with the Vikings. He invited the Normans or the people who would become the Normans. He invited their king Rolo and said you can have this land as long as you defend it against other Vikings. Now of course the Normans as most of you know went on to even further conquests, most primarily the throne of England in perhaps the most well-known battle of all time, the battle of Hastings 1066. They also conquered Sicily and was a quite aggressive and brutal people in general. So a lot more can be said about the Christianization of Sweden. But I thought to give this brief overview and I might talk more about this in coming videos because it is an important and interesting topic. So thank you for watching. Do check out the links in the description box below for ways to support if you like these videos. I will see you in the next one.


I'm out here skating the local neighborhood spot. It's a cool little manual pad with a ledge some gutters And yeah, I'm just gonna try to skate this and have some fun and get some clips and make some YouTube videos So you guys can watch so I can get that YouTube I would go this way, but What's that transformer bumblebee? Bumblebee's in the way. I gotta try tricks going this way. I don't want to hit their car They've got this red curb here and it's like 10 centimeters bigger than a normal curb but check it out You can tell it's been here a lot. I'm gonna try to get a front tail.  I need wax I don't know if I've got wax in the car. Ben told me you had to over rotate So when you catch the ledge you're this way then it kind of corrects So I'm just trying to get square, but you ought to over rotate Very similar to this one at the end of my street and it was the first thing I learned how to front 50 on We just like wax it up I didn't bring wax today, but I'm just gonna try to get like a back 50-50 maybe a backside 5-0 Coming this way away from Bumblebee Same little rocks around here. I don't want it. I don't want to chore. Just a willpower and the drive to succeed But as you get towards the end here, there's a big crash I'll have to like nose manual then give it a little Chinese nollie power out that hopefully my towel will clear that Wish me luck guys.  I'm not gonna do it again because I can't be bothered But I clapped my tail on the way out. It is what it is.  So I'm trying to get in just some skating It doesn't matter if it's some like little local neighborhood fun little playful spots like I've just been skating today Sometimes that's all you need to go out and have a fun session In fact, I've had the most fun on skate sessions skating little playful spots like this because they're so playful and forgiving, you know You can see the sun over there trying to poke its head through all these clouds because it's about to the rain is about to come founding down the next few days There's perfect little spot here fly from all the rocks and people parking their cars here and the cracks and stuff Super quick PSA guys if you order anything from evening mob.com and you use the code Lower 48 you'll get free shipping within the continental us until the new year So yeah, if you want to head on over to evening mob.com pick something up join the mob today You'll get free shipping if you use the code Lower 48 that goes for the continental us so not Alaska and not Hawaii But if you're in the continental us then that code should serve you well, so yeah free shipping We just got a bunch of hoodies made up and yeah, cheers for watching the video I do appreciate all you guys watching and commenting and whatnot. So yeah Thank you. I'll see you guys in the next video


This video is brought to you in part by TrueTechTools. Quality tools, essential support. All right guys, so we're here to work on a nice machine. This thing's huge. Look at this. This thing is huge So we got here. We're gonna take a look at it and see what we've got going on, but it doesn't look like we have any ice. Imagine that, right? I've seen under the under the bar area style that I haven't seen this one before. This is kind of interesting. I ain't quite seen this before. It's very interesting. So yeah, but from what I see I think she just needs a good cleaning. From what I see, it looks like we can take this apart here and over here It feels kind of cold. The problem is the refrigeration issue, the dirty issue. So what exactly? We're gonna figure it out. Looks like the air filter's on the side here. I haven't worked on this. First, I thought it was a manual to walk, but it's a hajisaki. It's not horrible. Definitely dirty until we're in a factory location. Clean that up. Looks to me like this comes off. Nothing pops up here. I figure we've got to take it apart at the back and then everything should start coming apart. It's traditional plates, which I'm figuring they're probably coming apart. That's probably some of it. Might be low on charge and have plates that are separating from the refrigerant lines. So let's see what we find inside here. All right, so there is two screws back here.  And here we go. Pretty much the same design as usual. Looks like you unhook on one side and lift it up and out on the other. That's not a problem. Nope, not a problem at all. Yeah, well, there's your issue. If the cold is on the center there, what do you expect? It's not gonna transfer. Not gonna transfer. Now it can work, but my gosh. Look at that. All the way to the bottom. What's up guys? So we're going up here to a problem with a cooler call. It's after hours. Gonna see what's going on. So hop in, let's go see if we can find a place to park. All right, so this thing's brand new. It's real close to it. Let's see if thermostat's calling here. Let's see what's going on. All right, so we found the condenser. It's up here. All looking good. Nice. Confinancy. Funny how it wasn't on the run. So we came down here and we checked our clock. We went from in to line. We got 218 volts. Not bad.  You look at your timing motor. Oops-a-daisy. 120 volts. So the clock took a dump and it worked for quite a while, it sounds like. At least a month maybe. So I marked it right there on that copper spot there and it hasn't changed yet. So we're gonna go ahead and kill this thing. Hopefully this little fancy disconnect there actually kills everything. And we will swap this thing out. Oh, look at that. Somebody really wired this up like you're in Diggity.  Ain't that bright? Brilliant. Guys, this is why you gotta be very, very careful. This is right here. I don't know who the heck wired it up, but they just wired it wrong. And that is a bullcrap because at least it's dangerous for one of us. And that's why you can't trust anybody. Always double check wiring. So, yep, gotta fix that. All right, so I had to go kill the breaker because like I said, he had this wired up live. We've got our power coming in here and now I've corrected it. So it comes into the top of the disconnect, comes out of the disconnect.  Two of the power wire feeds here go down to the unit, to the compressor contactor. The other two come down, come across and come up here to one and in, which is our clock at 230 volts. Now this lighter gauge wire here is control wiring. They are grabbing one leg of power here and the other power leg off of two. Two is going to close when this thing is running in a call for cooling or, you know, refrigeration. The other one's just picked up the other leg because it's 230 volt coil, or at least I hope it's wired for 230 volt. Maybe I should check that too. A lot of times we use 230 volt coils, does it say? But one thing nice is not that it makes it any better. Yeah, this is a multi-voltage one, I think. Yeah, it is. I need to check and see what the voltage is, make sure it's right. I don't want to come back later. So for 230 volts, you've got to stick yellow to red. So there's yellow to red. The other two go to the power, so it is wired for 230 volts. I think our guys did this part here, but the high voltage part was done by an outside contractor. I'm going to assume that our electricians were too busy and couldn't get to it. So at least it wasn't our guys, however, we didn't catch it. So either way, here I am. So I've got that there. Everything's corrected. We're gonna go ahead and get these covers back on. The cyclist is full and I gotta finish changing out this clock. We're just gonna do wire for wire. The clock just comes out like this. It's not a big deal. You can kind of see the clock ran really hot. It's pretty baked and it's just a timed off defrost. So it literally just breaks the coil to the solenoid and for about an hour, it will just have to run the fans downstairs. Simple as that. So like that. Let's run a ground wire and not terminate it up here. Now at least they terminated it there and in theory it goes to the conduit, but it's like why would you run the...  I mean, there's really no place to ground it. Oh, yeah, right here you go. So whatever. And people are worried about us wiring things up as electricians. Okay. So we just go ahead and get this thing up here. Hook your edge corners over there. If you can kind of see in the dark, you are good to go. There we go. Just like Bisquick. Good deal. So there we go. So we just got to hook this back up. So Shazam it's back in. So what I usually do is if I'm going to use these kind of wires, which I usually like crimp speed terminals, but strip off about that much, crimp over how much you want to overhang, move it over, stick it underneath there. And Shazam, you've got a ground wire hooked up. If you're going to run it, you need to hook it. And let's go ahead and set the clock. It's six-something. And should be good there. I got that broke.  To the dungeon area. And yeah, that's not gonna fit real good, is it? No, not really. We'll make it work. It'll be all right. And then get that back together because that's live. It's 120 volts there. All right, got her back on there. Let's go get the power on. And Shazam, we should have ignition. All right. So we're back. Look at that. Gin and juice, baby. Let that run for a little bit. I think it's certain that this clock tracks the other clock. Like I said, it just got a little bit warm here. So unfortunately, that's about it. If you guys, new guys, yeah, it seemed clocked. It really ain't much to it. You got it normally open. You got it normally closed. On the front side, they tie them together. If you want, you can literally run two circuits. So between here to here is your normally closed. That's going to be your normally open. And depending on when the clock goes in defrost, it switches them around. X is termination, which comes up to the solenoid. That triggers and terminates defrost early. Usually use that in a freezer. And in, all it does is power the clock. So that comes up here to the clock. And then that's about all there is to it. Pretty, pretty simple thing. Got a lot of gearing in there. These things are heavy duty. They don't go bad, usually that much. They're usually murdered like this. I think 40 amps of current is what that's capable of. On the contacts, points. At least I think that's what the box said. But yep, definitely warranty issue, I'm sure. So let's see if we can't get that right. I'm sure they won't notice that. Got that in there. Yeah, I got a three phase disconnect there. But it's all only single phase. There we go. Okay, give us a little mark here. Make sure it's tracking. Now I need to double check our Cyclas again. It's having a headmaster, so it will get cold up here, I'm sure. There's no heat up here. This is the same location as that start up I did on the make up air unit. So, yep. Cooler, brand new cooler. Right down there. And then they didn't get any struggling. Our guys did a really nice job. They got it level, even though nobody can see anything. They can get in there and work on it. We're good to go. They marked in there exactly what the poundage is and what the refrigerant. So our guys did the job right, but the only electricians that made a mistake, it happens. The biggest thing is you come out and you take care of it. And the customer was right here with me. There was no way to get around it. Just told him, hey, we made a mistake. No big deal. Didn't hurt your equipment. We'll replace the clock. Warranty, move on. You know, they ain't got time to bring up all this other stuff. Because that just, you know, creates doubt in your customer. So that's about it for this one, guys. We're going to go ahead and bounce out of here if we don't get nothing else. Alright, what's up, guys? We are working on this beautiful Pepsi cooler here that's not cooling. Looks like we got a broken seal in between here. Just probably got this funky frost stuff going on there. So the problem is it's not cool like it's supposed to. And it's definitely not cool. The fan's running. The compressor sounds like it's running. So let's find out if it's low on refrigerant. Or what exactly is going on. Or maybe it's got a plug cap too. Let's investigate here. So we've got the cover off and just like any time I always say use your ears and everything else that's going on around you. And you can hear the compressor dim down and not start. So we're going to start with the start components.  Or just flip the switch. I'm going to go ahead and plug it that way we know we're safe. I got that switch right there as you're trying to unplug it. You're flipping the switch back on which is less than desirable. So let's get them pulled out of there. That way we can get this thing pulled out. Alright so it looks like we can get to some of the start components there. Let's see if we can get this out a little further. We'll have to put everything right in the way. That compressor is definitely warm. It's not really hot. Look at that. Let's see if we can get this thing out of here. Have a bleed resistor on it. Nope. No bleed resistor. Can't see some liquid it looks like down in there which might be the not good. We're going to short that even though you're not supposed to short a start capacitor. I'm not getting shocked. I'm supposed to bleed it down but I'm not I don't carry the resistor thing around with me in my pocket. Let's get that out of there. So we've got one lead undone. Going to it and we've got 116. 103. 103 area and this is probably rated for 89. Nope looks like it's rated for 161 to 193. Yep it's looking a little weak. Yeah that leaking juice down there probably is not doing it no good. Let's check it one more time here. Yeah it's definitely weak. Let's take a look at that start and see if it's toasty too. A little no room in there. It rattles like it's loose. Let's go ahead and just grab a new capacitor and see if we can make a go but a lot of times I'll just order all new start components that way here's good and good to go. Get a new relay the whole nine yards. We'll just grab that one. We'll wire that thing up real quick. If I don't work then we'll order all the stuff for it. Usually I get my part numbers there I don't order it from the factory because that's just a waste. That looks a little suspicious. Alright let's go grab a capacitor. We've got a collection of different capacitors and we've got a Mars capacitor here that'll work just fine. 161 to 193 should be an exact match. Of course it's physically bigger so it's not going to fit where I need it at. If you need to take some wires in with us that way we can mount it vertically with a wire tie or something because they never seem to have the exact same size. If you order an OEM one then they don't send you everything you need anyway half the time. So let's go ahead and get that in there and I'll add a resistor to this also that way it's always bled down for the next time it starts. Arcing things like that. Part number for this thing is a 93106 AR-ACR yeah 93106 Just a simple resistor there with the speed terminals on it. Okay let's wire this thing up here and just do it rough. For now let's see what we get. That little multi-plug right there I believe it's usually the lights. Let's see what we get here. Doesn't sound like it kicked on so we may have a say start component there or it may just still be off on thermal. Let's see if we can put an amp clamp there on that and we will see if it's pulling locked rotor. There we go. How close that is to things. Yeah it's still warm. Alright well we're going to wait for a little bit here to see if it comes on. That thermal disc right there has got to cool down so once it cools down with this fan blowing right on it it should hopefully kick on here in a second. I got looking at that relay and I don't believe I got both prongs into it so I repositioned it. Let's try it one more time here. Flip the switch. Let's see if it comes on. There we go. Ooh I left a 42 amps and did not want to stop. So let's go grab the ANI and try it and see what we get there. Maybe that start relay is not removing itself from the circuit. Shaking it's not always the, you know, tried and true test. We could check resistance through it but it's just easier to hook ANI up to it, make sure that it freaking works and if it works boom. Ordering these start components are done. I've done a video in ANI which is model A12. It's got everything built into it. I did fry my own meter by accident but this thing can check pastors all that stuff way back before we had fancy digital meters. So it can do forward and reverse by switching the start relays. Let's just try to get the compressor broke loose. So what we're going to do I went ahead and used my meter. My highest resistance is going to be my start and run. Common then is in between. Found out what my start is by the second highest. And then that was going to be one to the left the red. The red one goes there black one goes on top and the white one's going to go on the other one. Got our plugged in there. What we're going to do is just steal power from the plug right here. And we'll flip it on. Now when we do this the condenser fan is not going to run. We can put our amp meter on here. The amp meter I think it still works on this. But we're going to go ahead and do it anyhow just as a precaution there. We got it on high. So we're going to go with the 160. It's a 200 range. We're going to push in our start which is going to energize our start relay. And then when I flip it on I'm going to release it after a couple seconds and that's going to take it out. So here we go. Yeah she's pulling 42 amps. So we can try it again. Yeah she's not getting it. We could try and reverse. That didn't do much. Yeah. This compressor's toasty. We could try breaking it loose but even if I can break it loose let's go ahead and jump to the next higher value for the capacitor there. It's probably not going to help much. It's going to reverse. It started to run a little bit so it did go in reverse. Let's go forward now. Yeah she's pulling 40 some amps. Compressor's toast. So nice thing about that is these capacitors in here are a lot bigger than those little hard start kits you know which I like for times when we don't have the hard start and it's critically needed. Like this one here is not humongous deal. It's just for extra condiments and overflows but this compressor has bearing issues most likely. It turns but it doesn't want to go. My start and run windings all seem to be about traditional. I think it was 12.5-13 ohms and then I think a couple of ohms for start or a couple of ohms for run so yeah anyhow this one's going to be tostomatic. I don't know if they're going to want to sink the money into a compressor. I don't really know it's worth it. So anyhow they own it now I guess so it's no longer worth it but that's going to wrap this one up guys. On to the next one.


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