PSD JJPG BMP or PNG

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The PSD format can support allrepparttar advanced features such as duotones, clipping paths and channels but it also offers one feature that no other file format does. While every other format must be flattened on export, PSD isrepparttar 107236 only format that supports layers. Any program that supports PSDs directly can then leverage this layer information as Adobe ImageReady and Deneba Canvas show.

PNG is a format that can efficiently and losslessly handle images ranging from bi-level line-art through to state-of-the-art 48-bit photographic images. The format doesn’t just support a transparent key color as GIF does but also, through its alpha mask, offers true variable transparency. Likewiserepparttar 107237 format doesn’t just support color profiling but also enables gamma information to be embedded so that colors can be kept consistent across different platforms such asrepparttar 107238 Mac and PC. The format is also easily extensible as Macromedia has (rather confusingly) shown by making PNGrepparttar 107239 native format for its largely vector-based Fireworks program.

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Getting Intimate with Corel Painter IX

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The Digital Watercolor now features paint that remains "wet" between sessions enablingrepparttar artist to play withrepparttar 107235 brushes even after he has paintedrepparttar 107236 strokes.

The inclusion of cloning tool calledrepparttar 107237 Quick Clone helps in makingrepparttar 107238 cloning process faster and simple. You will only have to click onrepparttar 107239 menu and you are now set make clones. Version IX has even included a total of 7 KPT filters namely Gel, Goo, LensFlare, Lightning, Pyramid Paint, Reaction, and ShapeShifter which are good effects thatrepparttar 107240 artist can play with. Painter has even gone to address compatibility issues with Adobe Photoshop enabling itself to open images in PSD format complete with layer masks, channels and layer sets maintained. It has also included support for Wacom Intuos3.

Included also are additional learning resources including a 175-page spiral-bound handbook containing artwork and tutorials from Painter experts, tutorial movies from Lynda.com, and a updated User Guide in PDF format. In essence, having Painter IX is a software that should be in a digital artist’s toolbox. It has features that are sure to giverepparttar 107241 digital artist an edge.

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