Getting Intimate with Corel Painter IX

Written by Ariel Velasco


If you are artistically inclined and would like to create breathtaking digital artworks, thenrepparttar new Corel Painter IX is a must-have software for you. This new version ofrepparttar 107235 Painter series offers increased speed, stability, and performance and several new creative tools all suited forrepparttar 107236 digital artist in you.

Speed has always been a factor in selecting a graphic program and with that fact in mind, Corel Painter IX has been endowed with brushes that can go up to ten times faster than version VIII. This is an important feature that all designers are sure to be grateful of.

A new Rotate/Flip command forrepparttar 107237 canvas has been added with customizable shortcut keys function that is sure to help speed up your work. An enhancement torepparttar 107238 brush tracker feature is present calledrepparttar 107239 "Iterative save.” This is comparable to Adobe Photoshop’s layer comp feature. Users can now use a "snap to path" painting tool that can really add some speed to drawing while using shapes, and paths.

There is new category of natural media brushes, called Artists' Oils, which act more like traditional oil paints enablingrepparttar 107240 digital artist create artworks inrepparttar 107241 manner that natural painters make theirs. With textured surfaces, brushes, and tools, you can mimic painting and drawing with chalk, pastels, watercolors, oils, crayons, pencil, felt pens, ink, and more.

How to Work with Light and Dark Edges in Photoshop

Written by Lala C. Ballatan


Want your images to have effects that’ll make it stand out more and show up well on every background tones? With Photoshop, you could achieve these effects for your images by its features that work on light and dark edges. These allow you to work on bringing outrepparttar best edges of your image – lighten or darken it, anyway you please to match on background tones and make it stand out more.

Through highlighting edges of your photo, you also highlight its details. The method of unsharp mask and others likerepparttar 107234 difference of Gaussians increaserepparttar 107235 change in brightness close to each step. This technique’s standard version adds a bright halo alongrepparttar 107236 bright edge ofrepparttar 107237 step and a dark halo alongrepparttar 107238 dark edge. Depending on what effect you’d like for your image, there are advantages in just using one orrepparttar 107239 other. Using both may not do very much to improve your image, though.

There are several advantages of using any ofrepparttar 107240 effects forrepparttar 107241 edges on real images. One is that it reduces interference between steps or detail andrepparttar 107242 haloes from other, nearby steps. Another thing,repparttar 107243 light or dark haloes make other features ofrepparttar 107244 image stand out better fromrepparttar 107245 background.

Start doing this effect on your images using Photoshop by following several procedures: 1st step is duplicaterepparttar 107246 layer holdingrepparttar 107247 image 2nd step - applyrepparttar 107248 conventional unsharp mask 3rd step - setrepparttar 107249 layer blending mode to “Darken” or “Lighten”.

However, you must understand that this only works for 8 bit per channel images – those that can be put into layers but it could function also on 16 bit per channel pictures with Optipix plug-in that allows direct selection of dark or light edges.

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