User manual ULEAD PHOTOIMPACT 11

[. . . ] August 2005 First edition for Ulead® PhotoImpact® 11, August 2005. © 1992-2005 Ulead Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or storing in a retrieval system, or translated into any language in any form without the express written permission of Ulead Systems, Inc. Software license The software described in this document is furnished under a License Agreement which is included with the product. This Agreement specifies the permitted and prohibited uses of the product. Licenses and trademarks ©1995-2005 Ulead Systems, Inc. [. . . ] The example below shows you how to apply it to a photograph to transform it to a painterly masterpiece. To use the Drop Water Tool: 1. Select the Drop Water Tool from the Paint Tool menu. On the Attribute Toolbar, specify the Shape and size of the tool. Lower values decrease the amount of color that is smudged. Try using different stroke techniques to get the paint effect that you want. Top: Original image Bottom: After painting using the Drop Water Tool Painting with textures For almost all of the Paint Tools, you can apply color as if you were painting on a textured surface. To paint with texture: 1. Click Painting Texture menu on the Attribute Toolbar. On the Painting Texture pop-up menu, select Select Texture then choose a texture pattern you want to use. The paint is applied with the texture you selected. Tip: In the Painting Texture menu, you can use the Add Texture command to include your own texture files in the menu, and the Delete Texture command to remove texture files. CHAPTER 4: USING THE PAINTING AND FILL TOOLS 153 Painting an outline or border The Paint on Edges command in the Effect menu allows you to easily, quickly, and accurately apply paint along the edges of a selection area or active object, using the Paint Tool that you have selected. To paint a border on a selection: 1. Create a selection area using one of the Selection Tools, or select an object or objects. Select the Paint Tool that you want to use for the effect, and define its color as well as other attributes. Select Effect: Creative - Paint on Edges or press [Shift+P]. The edges of the selection or object will be painted with the Paint Tool and attributes that you specified. 154 ULEAD PHOTOIMPACT USER GUIDE Using Paint as Object mode PhotoImpact provides two modes when using the Paint, Clone, and Retouch Tools (with the exception of the Color Replacement Pen). The default mode is Normal Mode, which allows you to paint, clone or retouch the base image directly. The Paint as Object Mode lets you do the same but on an independent layer on top of the base image. This is convenient if you want to use a particular image as a basis for artwork, or if you want to apply paint on individual layers, for example. To use the Paint as Object Mode: 1. Click Paint as Object on the Attribute Toolbar. Paint, clone, or retouch the image as desired. When you are done, click Paint as Object again to deactivate the mode. The painted, cloned or retouched area turns into an object. CHAPTER 4: USING THE PAINTING AND FILL TOOLS 155 Editing active objects only Sometimes you might have a project with many carefully positioned objects in it, and then you discover that you only need to edit selected objects. The Edit Active Objects Only mode allows you to edit selected objects that are overlapped by other objects without having to reposition them. To edit active objects only: 1. Select the objects in the project that you want to edit. Note: If the objects are not image objects, convert them first to an image object by selecting Object: Convert Object Type. 2. Click Edit Active Objects Only on the Attribute Toolbar (for selected editing tools only). [. . . ] Rotates the selected image thumbnail(s) 90 degrees counterclockwise. Rotates the selected image thumbnail(s) 90 degrees clockwise. Simultaneously processes selected multiple files based on the set options in the Batch Convert dialog box. Simultaneously applies an operation on selected multiple files based on the set options in the Batch Task dialog box. [. . . ]