SCANNING MADE EASY?Written by Blur Loterina
When you scan an image, does it look more like a duplicate made by a photocopier? Does enlarging your image give you headache because you always get a sort of colored boxes, instead?A scanner is just like a photocopier. The only difference is that, a copier creates a copy to a paper while a scanner transmits scanned object into computer, thus, creating a digital image of any printed material. The transferring of image to paper is done by a printer. One purpose of scanning is to allow you to edit images. You must have, of course, a printed material of what you want to scan. The scanner will create a copy of it on computer. You can now edit it and print it afterwards. You must always remember that quality of duplicate will never be as good as original. If you want to make a copy closer to original, solution is on correct adjustments of scanner. Scanning images, whether color or black and white, are always associated with word resolution or dpi. For you to achieve image quality you desire, you should know and understand how these affect your image. Resolution refers to number of pixels contained in monitor. Pixel, from words “picture element”, is basic unit of programmable color in a computer image. For a better view of what I am telling you, try to enlarge a photo. You will notice squares that make up image. These squares are pixels.
| | HOW TO CREATE 3D EFFECTS USING COREL 10Written by Ruby Lorena
CorelDRAW’s tenth edition software, CorelDraw 10, is an upgraded combination of CorelDRAW and Corel Photo-Paint with new features and a unified interface. It has added features from Corel R.A.V.E., a vector based animation suite that introduced popular Micromedia Flash animations and movie format best suited for web content. It also offers more fonts, clip arts, option palettes, filters, toolbars, and a graphics powerhouse to help you create print and web graphics design. All tools used in this software are those tools you see in Photo-paint or R.A.V.E.CorelDRAW 10 allows user to import and export formats because it has a customizable interface. It offers controls for photo manipulation such as blemish removal, color corrections and red-eye reduction you can use in photo retouching. It provides additional controls even for complicated tasks such as mesh-based fills or extruding a three-dimensional object from a two-dimensional object. If you want to make 3D image follow these steps. First, draw image using basic shapes and elements. Turn off strokes. Select an object, a part or component of image, and fill it with color. Click copy and open a new page in Corel Photo-Paint. A window will open and will ask some parameters. The color mode is set for 24-Bit RGB, Background is enabled and page will be larger than object. Click paste, then press CTRL+A and select “Center of page” to bring object to center of page.
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