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PhotoPlus X2 User Guide - Serif

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Image Adjustments and Effects 115<br />

• Red Eye<br />

Removes the dreaded red eye effect from subject's eyes—commonly<br />

encountered with flash photography.<br />

• Blemish Removal<br />

Removes simple skin blemishes and other flaws.<br />

• Brightness and Contrast<br />

Simple adjustments to a photo's brightness, contrast, shadows, and highlights.<br />

• Colour<br />

"Cool down" or "warm up" your photo by adjusting white balance either by<br />

selecting presets or customizing temperature/tint combinations. Colour<br />

saturation can also be altered.<br />

• Greyscale<br />

Intelligently apply greyscale by varying the grey tones of red, green or blue<br />

colours in your original image.<br />

• Sharpen<br />

Makes your image sharper at image edges—great for improving image quality<br />

after other adjustments have been made.<br />

Some adjustments can also be applied independently from the Effects<br />

menu.<br />

Overview: Applying special effects<br />

Creative effects are grouped into different categories, i.e. distortion, blur, sharpen,<br />

edge, noise, render, and stylistic. Individual effects can be applied to the active<br />

layer or selection either individually or cumulatively via a Filter Gallery or just<br />

individually via the Effects menu. As with image adjustments (see Overview:<br />

adjusting image colours on p. 110), you can use filter effects to improve the image,<br />

for example by sharpening, but more often the emphasis here is on the "creative"<br />

possibilities when effects are applied.<br />

Equally dramatic artistic effects can be applied by using the studio-based Instant<br />

Artist, warp tools via the Tools toolbar's flyout, or 2D/3D layer effects via the<br />

Layers tab.

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