PhotoPlus X2 User Guide - Serif

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Index Straight Outline Tool, 98 Straighten Tool, 61 straightening, 61, 114 support. See start of User Guide Swatches tab, 75 system requirements, 13 tab, 32 Animation, 155 Brush Tip, 77 Channels, 68 Character, 91, 93 Colour, 73 docking and undocking, 34 Documents, 21 Histogram, 69 How To, 4 Instant Effects, 119 Layers, 12, 155 Layout (printing), 188 Navigator, 12, 37 Paths, 7, 103 settings, 35 Swatches, 75 Tool Presets, 5, 36 technical support. See start of User Guide text, 90 editing, 91, 92 layers, 90 Text Selection Tool, 47, 90 Text Tools, 90 Thick/Thin Warp Tool, 117 tiling (print option), 189 tolerance, 84 Tolerance, 45 tool Adjustable Selection, 45 Background Eraser, 80 Blemish Remover, 110 Blur, 110 Burn, 110 Clone, 88 Colour Pickup, 74, 144 Colour Selection, 45 Crop, 57, 58 Curved Outline, 98 Deform, 62 Dodge, 110 Elastic Warp, 117 Flood Eraser, 82 Flood Fill, 84 Freehand Outline, 98 Gradient Fill, 86 Image Slice, 168 Magnetic Selection, 47 Measure, 40 Mesh Warp, 63 Move, 49, 53 Node Edit, 96, 97, 99 Paintbrush, 76 Pan, 38 Patch, 110 Pattern, 82 Pencil, 76 Picture Brush, 78 Pinch/Punch, 117 presets, 36 QuickShape, 93, 95 Red Eye, 109 Replace Colour, 110 Scratch Remover, 110 Selection Deform, 49 Shape Edit, 97, 99 Sharpen, 110 Smudge, 109 Sponge, 110 Standard Eraser, 80 Standard Selection, 44 Straight Outline, 98 Straighten, 61 Text, 90 Text Selection, 47, 90 Thick/Thin Warp, 117 Twirl, 117 Unwarp, 117 Zoom, 37
Tool Presets tab, 5, 36 Tool properties, 35 toolbar, 32, 35 Context, 35 Photo Studio, 67, 113, 116, 124 Standard, 32 Tools, 32 Tools toolbar, 32 transparency. See opacity TWAIN image, 22 acquiring, 22 tweening, 159 Twirl Tools, 117 Undo preferences, 40 units (ruler), 40 Unwarp Tool, 117 URLs, 169 for image maps, 169 for image slices, 168 Use all layers, 46, 82, 89, 133 user interface, 31 vector shapes, 93 view options, 37 vignetting fixing lens, 114 Visual Reference, 31 Warp tools, 117 warping, 63, 117 Web images, 165 creating animated GIFs, 155 formats for, 165 image maps, 169 image slicing, 168 previewing in browser, 195 Web-safe palette, 167 Welcome to PhotoPlus X2, 3 windows, 32 workspace tabs, 32 Zoom Tool, 37 zooming, 37, 114 Index
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How to Contact Us Our main office T
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Contents 1. Welcome................
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Changing image size ...............
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8. Creating Animations ............
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1 Welcome
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Welcome to PhotoPlus X2 Welcome to
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Productivity Welcome to PhotoPlus X
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Welcome to PhotoPlus X2 7 • Uniqu
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Welcome to PhotoPlus X2 9 • Image
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Welcome to PhotoPlus X2 11 • Macr
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Installation System Requirements Mi
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2 Getting Started
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Startup Wizard Once PhotoPlus has b
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Getting Started 19 4. Select a back
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Getting Started 21 Recently viewed
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Screen capture Getting Started 23 I
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To use the image browser: 1. Choose
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To close all image windows (files):
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3 Understanding the Workspace
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Visual Reference Understanding the
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Understanding the Workspace 33 sepa
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Understanding the Workspace 35 To m
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Understanding the Workspace 37 3. C
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Understanding the Workspace 39 To m
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4 Manipulating Images
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Making a selection Manipulating Ima
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Manipulating Images 45 The Adjustab
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Manipulating Images 47 For Rectangl
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Storing selections Manipulating Ima
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Manipulating Images 51 • Grow and
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Manipulating a selection Manipulati
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Manipulating Images 55 • To dupli
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Cropping an image Manipulating Imag
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Manipulating Images 59 Moving and r
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To rotate: 1. Choose Rotate from th
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Mesh warping Manipulating Images 63
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Manipulating Images 65 • To move
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Extracting part of an image Manipul
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Manipulating Images 69 The composit
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5 Painting and Drawing
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Choosing colours Painting and Drawi
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Painting and Drawing 75 To swap for
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The Brush Tip tab hosts a comprehen
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Painting and Drawing 79 Note that t
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To erase with the Standard Eraser:
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To paint with a pattern: Painting a
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Painting and Drawing 85 A pattern c
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Painting and Drawing 87 On standard
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Painting and Drawing 89 When retouc
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To create new solid text: Painting
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Adjusting character size and positi
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Painting and Drawing 95 Intersect
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Painting and Drawing 97 To edit a Q
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Painting and Drawing 99 • Release
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Creating outlines Painting and Draw
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To switch off the layer effect: Pai
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Painting and Drawing 105 You can al
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6 Image Adjustments and Effects
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Image adjustments Image Adjustments
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Image Adjustments and Effects 111 H
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Using QuickFix Studio Image Adjustm
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Image Adjustments and Effects 117 4
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Image Adjustments and Effects 119
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Overview Image Adjustments and Effe
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To check or change the plug-in filt
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7 Layers and Masks
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Basics of using layers Layers and M
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Layers and Masks 133 • Suppose yo
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Layers and Masks 135 • Use lock b
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Layers and Masks 137 In reality a g
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Layers and Masks 139 • Negative I
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Using blend modes Layers and Masks
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Using depth maps Layers and Masks 1
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Layers and Masks 147 While working
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Creating the mask Before you can us
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To view the active layer's mask: La
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Page 197 and 198: Printing Printing and Exporting 187
Page 199 and 200: Printing and Exporting 189 • Chec
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Page 209 and 210: 2D layer effects, 118 3D layer effe
Page 211 and 212: feathering, 51 features (new), 3 fi
Page 213: Print Multiple command, 190 printin
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