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Photo-Paint 9: The Official Guide is divided into five basic categories
or parts. In Chapter 15, you will discover how easy it is to convert
this photograph of graffiti on a wall into a 3-D object as seen in the
image to the right.
Part 1: Introduction and Digital Fundamentals--the author provides
a brief history of Photo-Paint; a quick tour of the program; and discusses
what you need to run the program. You also learn about the basic terms
in digital imaging; resolution and printers; and basic color theory.
Lastly, you learn about setting up Photo-Paint 9, different settings,
and how to customize settings.
Part 2: Basic Photo-Editing Techniques--lets you delve into the
basic colors; how to change colors; getting the right color; the uniform
fill dialog box; and setting the mood-models, palettes, or mixers. Then
image size, direction, and format are discussed and the following tools
are examined: duplicate command, flip command, resample command, crop
command, paper size command, and the mode command. Resizing an image
and image conversion are also explored.
Part 3: Exploring Photo-Paint Tools--learn to work with masks;
The following tools are discussed: regular mask tools, the grow and
similar commands, the mask transform tool, and the mask
brush tool. Properties of a mask and selections are explained, as well
as color-sensitive masks and making tiles using masks and mask modes.
In the advanced masks section the author goes into saving, loading,
removing, manipulating, and inverting masks. Plus color masks are examined
in detail. The fill and shape tools are analyzed, also. You get acquainted
with: the uniform fill mode; the fountain fill tool, bitmap fill, the
texture fills, the interactive fill tool, and the interactive fill style.
The brush tools and the picture tools are looked at. Within the brush
tool section, you will discover how to select and configure brush tools
and how to use the paint and effect tools. Within the picture tools
section, the clone and image sprayer tools are covered. Lastly, text
and objects are delved into. Objects are defined as well as the objects
docker and property bar. You are also introduced to the text tool and
paragraph text. In Chapter 11, you will create the glass ball of flags
using the image sprayer tool as seen in the image to the left.
Part 4: Photo-Paint Filters--filters are explored. The author
examines: the installation of filters; the filter dialog box; the distort
filters (blocks, displace, mesh warp, squizz, offset, pixelate, ripple,
shear, swirl, tile, wet paint, whirlpool, and wind); the 3D filters
(3D rotate, cylinder, emboss, glass, page curl, perspective, pinch/punch,
sphere, and the boss); the blur
filters (Gaussian, motion, jaggy despeckle, radial, zoom, directional
smooth, smooth, soften, tune, and low pass); the transform filters (bit
planes, halftone, psychedelic, solarize, deinterlace, invert, posterize,
and threshold); the contour and custom filters (edge detect, alchemy,
and band pass); the noise filters (add noise, diffuse, dust and scratch,
median, remove moire, and remove noise); the sharpen filters (unsharp
mask, adaptive unsharp, directional sharpen, sharpen, high pass, and
tune sharpness); and the render and fancy filters (3D stereo noise and
lighting effects). The image to the left is created in Chapter 15 using
the glass filter tutorial. In Chapter 16, you will learn how to make
the hammered-metal effect shown at right in a step-by-step tutorial.
Part 5: Extending the Power of Photo-Paint--discusses scanners
and scanning, photo CDs, and moving images between applications. Certain
Corel graphic utilities or tools such as Capture 9, the Batch Process,
the Recorder Docker, and the Scripts Docker
are explained. An entire chapter is spent on creating elements for the
Web, and it covers: measuring color and pixels; Web backgrounds; creating
a tiling source image; image mapping and button making; other methods
for generating background tiles; and batch editing. The last two chapters
are devoted to repairing and restoring photographs and dazzling Photo-Paint
projects. In Chapter 26 you will create the twisted and worn metal shown
at top in image to the left. To the right and below are variations of
that same technique. In Chapter 25, you'll discover recoverable information
in the background of a photo as you go step-by-step to learn the recovery
process (see image to the right).
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