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Boy, did I have a great time with this one. I have been using Corel Photopaint for a while now and ignoring Corel Draw that is part of the package. So lately I have been trying to teach myself in the use of Corel Draw. In looking for some tutorials I came across this technique in photopaint. I took a regular digital color photo. I created a duplicate of the photo, then changed the duplicate photo to greyscale. Then I went to the object menu/create/from background. Choose the eraser tool; "erase" the portions of the photo you want to remain colored; do a ctrl c to copy; then switch to the color photo and do a ctrl v to paste the grey scale with color to the original color photo. And of course to put the finishing touches, vignette. Isn't it neat? |
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| So far this is one of the most interesting and time consuming techniques I have learned. I have included the original photo as well as the one I worked with. First I used the clone and effects tools to clean up the old photos. Then the fun began. I had to change the "mode" of the photo to Lab Color. I learned how to use a tool new to me called the path tool. I was plesantly surprised to find that it makes a cleaner mask than the other mask tools. You can make cleaner corners. Once the path is created around each object that will be colored you turn the path into a mask which can be adjusted if need be and then into an object for the coloring process. Set photopaint to read CMYK colors and use the Tone Curve feature on each individual portion of the photo (eyes, mouth, face, arms, legs, skirt, hair, etc.) The fun part of the Tone Curve feature is by manipulating a curve with the mouse you can adjust color tones and hues as though mixing oil colors on a palette I spent some time experimenting on how to add the finishing touches. A vignette just didn't fit this time. And the other frames and masks in the creative menu didn't suit me either. So I opened my frames pacakage and this frame set to large seemed to be just the thing. I am really fascinated with this technique and hope to practice until I get better and better at it as least until I can do it in my sleep. It is a technique that takes time even though your skill may be at its best. Tinting a black and white photo (or a colored photo that has been changed to black and white) is exciting.. |
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I just found and purchsed a new software package. It is of photo objects. It is a package of 50,000 photo objects that can be used to enhance other photos or graphics. I took a window object from that package and combined it with a photo that I took at my daughter's house of my two grandsons playing a game. I first masked the panes using the magic wand mask tool to blank out the panes of glass in the window. I had to then click the object click on object, create, object cut selection and drag the window object to a new document window. Then I made sure the photo was the same size as the window photo object (image, resample). I had to make the photo of the boys an object (object, create, from background). Then with the object of the boys photo selected, click object, arrange, order, and to the back. The boys photo immediately goes behind the window and the boys show through the panes and the slight opening in the windows!! |
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| I just got a new "toy". I took my income tax return and bought a great new digital camera. I can purchase lenses (telephoto, wide angle, close up) and an extra flash! Now I want to get back into a hobby of photography. So I will, hopefully, be sharing some of my efforts from time to time. Anyway, this photo (taken with the new camera) allowed me to use some other new found tricks with photopaint. | 
This project is creating lenses and how you can do such neat things with them. In this one I pulled up the photo (color). Clicked Image, Adjust, Level Equalization. Next Clicked Object, Create, New Lens, and selected Desaturate. Then I used the freehand tool with the feather width set at 5. I masked out the puppy then created a copy to an object (CTRL + up). Lastly dragged the new object above the desaturate lens in the object docker. And wahlay.. | |
| I do a web page at work and liked the idea of doing a composit in the title section of the page so I put together this composit. I used floating objects from a corel disk I have as well as other graphics. For the floating objects I didn't need to delete the backgrounds. But for the other graphics I needs to isolate the objects I wanted to use and make them a "floating object". . | 
I was trying to get a composit to go with a title for other training sites. I picked the map, a computer screen, keyboard, a set of binoculars and a bulb with telepone polls. Once all of the pieces were floating objects, pulled each of them on to one page then sized them to go together. Some I used the fade out bar on the objects menu. Once the pieces were all together I used a fade on all the objects. | |
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