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2 Paint ShoP Pro Photo Xi for PhotograPherS 11 Paint Shop Pro Photo Xi: advanced features tonal controls Most of the processes mentioned in the previous section deal with single-button operations that perform a logical, but not always controllable, function. These are often good for the bulk of your photo-editing tasks, like simple color and contrast corrections. However, there ll come a time when you need to make detailed changes to a photo this is where Paint Shop Pro Photo s advanced tools save the day. Most are simply expanded versions of the one-button-does-all tool sets discussed previously. One of the most versatile is the Histogram Adjustment feature, found under Adjust> Brightness and Contrast>Histogram Adjustment menu. With this you can set shadow and highlight values, as well as all the tones in between (called the midtones ). A step up the sophistication scale is the Curves tool. Again, designed by professionals to get the maximum out of camera and scanned files, Curves is one of my favorites as it has almost limitless possibilities for tone control and creativity. color controls Paint Shop Pro Photo XI provides a range of color tools that enables you to make global changes to all of the colors in an image for example, to remove a color cast and to change some image colors whilst leaving others unaffected. Tools like Color Balance, Hue/Saturation/ Lightness and Hue Map require some understanding of how color works to get the most from them, but even these sophisticated tools have something to offer the novice with features like Smart White Balance, warm/cool adjustment and a range of presets for dealing with common color problems like color casts caused by fluorescent lighting. Once you have got your head round the idea that all digital pictures require at least some tonal fix-ups, you ll begin to appreciate the power of selections. A selection allows you to isolate part of a picture so that you can then apply a change or filter effect to that selected area only. Paint Shop Pro Photo not only has a wide range of selection By adjusting the individual color sliders in the hue Map dialog box you can change specific colors in an image whilst leaving others unchanged.

3 12 Paint ShoP Pro Photo Xi for PhotograPherS not new but one of the favorites, Paint Shop Pro Photo s Picture tube can be used to spray images in the form of a continuous paint stream. tools but also a comprehensive range of modifier features (under Selection Edit mode) that are so good as to shame most other photo-editing programs. Perhaps, after tonal fix-ups and learning about selections, you ll move onto layers. Layers offer the digital image-maker incredible editing capabilities. You can add disparate picture elements to Web designers will be able to use Paint Shop Pro Photo s many sophisticated Web optimization tools like this image Slicer tool. the JPeg optimizer is designed so that you get the most from web quality and download speeds.

4 Paint ShoP Pro Photo Xi for PhotograPherS 1 a master picture file, move them about, change their colors and contrast, and then move them some more to make the weirdest montage effects imaginable. The reason you d keep all these elements on layers is that you can move everything else in the frame even after it has been saved in a layered format. Once saved, in a flattened, non-layered format, you lose all editability. Layers can also be radically changed using layer masks or individual adjustment layers. An extension of the layers concept brings us to the use of text. Paint Shop Pro Photo has a text engine which allows you to add text, as a separate vector layer, to any document. Again, the advantage of this is that you can return to the picture at any time and edit the text layer, changing the size, font, kerning or other text-specific characteristics. Because this is done using a special vector layer (not pixel-based) there s no loss of quality. Vector text introduces us to the creation of vector shapes and art. All digital scans and photographs are bitmap or raster files; they are made up from pixels, which explains, in some part, why a bitmapped image requires so much computing power to manipulate. An A4 photo contains more than 20 million pixels! Vector images, on the other hand, are made from mathematical calculations: dots and points on the canvas that are filled with flat or graded colors. An A4 vector illustration might only be a few hundred kilobytes at most. Besides a small file size, the beauty of vector art is that it s scalable. You can increase or one of the advantages of vector graphics is that they can be resized with no loss in quality. another consequence of their existence as mathematical constructs, rather than collections of dots, is that they can be easily modified. as well as changing the fill and stroke properties, the shape of these objects, created using the new Symmetric Shape tool, can be altered using Bezier handles to adjust the shape of the curve between two points.

5 1 Paint ShoP Pro Photo Xi for PhotograPherS decrease vector shapes to almost any dimensions with no discernible loss of quality. Enlarge a bitmapped file too much and it begins to look distinctly fuzzy around its edges. Vector images are created and edited using the Pen tool, one of the most sophisticated of all the tools. The Preset Shape tool and the new Rectangle, Ellipse and Symmetric Shape tools also create vector objects. Other advanced features of Paint Shop Pro Photo XI include the use of layer and image masks, adjustment layers, gradients, the picture tube, sophisticated warping tools, a range of very cool printing aids, framing assistants, GIF and JPEG image optimizers, image mapping, and image slicing. the organizer The Organizer helps with the task of finding and opening image files in Paint Shop Pro Photo XI. One of the difficulties with digital images is that it doesn t take long before you have so many of in the default layout the organizer palette is docked at the bottom of the screen, but you can undock, float and maximize it to get a better view of a folder s contents. Click the info button on the toolbar to display exif and other image data that s recorded along with the image when you take a photo.

6 Paint Shop Pro Photo XI for photographers 15 them that finding the one you want can take a lot of searching. Corel Snapfire and Corel Photo Album 6 can help you organize your digital photo collection to make this task easier (see Chapter 10 Snapfire and Photo Album: Organizing your pictures). The Organizer can also help you quickly locate files, view information about them, sort them and open them for editing. In earlier versions of Paint Shop Pro the Organizer functioned as a separate application, but Paint Shop Pro Photo XI integrates it more fully so that you can get to work right away without having to waste time finding the image you want. Digital Image-Making Using the Organizer T o o l u s e d Organizer In the default workspace the Organizer appears at the bottom of the screen below the main picture window. You can increase the size of the Organizer palette by hovering over the top edge until the cursor changes to a double bar with up and down arrows, then drag the edge of the palette upwards. Alternatively, drag the palette by its title bar and drop it anywhere in the workspace to undock it you can then resize or maximize it like any other palette. If you subsequently find the Organizer is getting in the way and you haven t got enough room to edit, click the pushpin icon on the title bar and the palette will autohide and reappear when you mouse over it. You can display or hide the Organizer by clicking the Toggle Organizer button or choosing Organizer from the Palettes drop-list on the Standard toolbar. The Organizer has two modes Palette mode and Document mode. You can select either mode from the View>Organizer mode menu. In Palette mode the Organizer behaves like other palettes; it has a pushpin and can be free floating, or docked at the top, bottom or left of the screen. In Document mode the Organizer occupies a window. It can t be docked, but you can resize, reposition, or minimize it. Initially, the Organizer shows a virtual folder called All Photos which displays the contents of the My Pictures and Shared Pictures folders. To view the contents of other folders on your hard drive click the Add More Folders button it looks just like a folder with a little plus symbol on it in the folder list on the left, then browse for the folder you want. In earlier versions of Paint Shop Pro you were stuck with tiny thumbnails, but Paint Shop Pro Photo XI provides a Zoom slider on the Organizer palette button bar which allows you to increase the thumbnail size for a better view. The button bar provides a number of other really useful features. Click the Image Information button to display the General Info panel. The General Info panel displays image information such as the file name, and the date and time the photo was taken. Click the Advanced Info button to display EXIF data recorded by the camera when the shot was taken. EXIF data includes

7 16 Paint Shop Pro Photo XI for photographers Digital Image-Making information about the camera make and model. the exposure settings used, white balance, and other camera settings for example, whether the flash fired and the focal length of the lens. You can use the General Info panel to add information, including a star rating, caption, information about the photographer and tags which you can later use to search for photos. For more detailed advice on using tags and searching for photos see Chapter 10. Other buttons on the Organizer button bar include Quick Review, rotate left and right, Print Contact Sheet and Share as . Quick Review presents a slide show of all of the images in the thumbnail window. Print Contact Sheet uses the thumbnail images so it prints very quickly; the size and resolution of the images are small, but that s not a problem for a contact sheet. If you want, you can choose from a number of templates, increase the thumbnail size, and even print the full resolution image rather than the thumbnail. But for multiple printing other than a quick sheet of contacts you re better off with Print Layout (see Chapter 8 Print Preparation). (1) Select File>Preferences>General Program Preferences to set Organizer options like ratings and filename display. (2) Click the Print Contact Sheet button to print a contact sheet of all the thumbnails in a folder. (3) Right-click a thumbnail and select JPEG Lossless Rotation to rotate images taken in portrait format. The Organizer Palette context menu contains useful options including Rename, Adjust Date Taken and View Photo Info.

8 Paint ShoP Pro Photo Xi for PhotograPherS 1 the organizer button bar provides the following features: (a) Menu, (b) Delete, (c) Zoom slider, (d) Sort menu, (e) rotate right, (f) rotate left, (g) Quick review, (h) Print Contact Sheet, (i) image information, (j) Share as , (k) order Prints, (l) find Photos. JPeg lossless rotation Before we leave the Organizer there s one last feature that I ll mention in more detail. If you need to rotate JPEG images always use the rotate left and rotate right buttons on the Organizer button bar rather than opening them in Paint Shop Pro Photo XI, rotating them, then resaving them. For one thing, using the Organizer is much qulicker to rotate more than one photo at a time Ctrl-click to select several, then hit the button but it will also rotate your photos without losing precious detail. To understand why simply rotating an image would cause it to lose quality you need to know a little about how JPEG compression works. If you want to know more about this take a look at JPEG in depth on page 240. In a nutshell, JPEG reduces the file size of digital images by removing information. You can remove a little, or a lot, but every time you do it the quality of your pictures deteriorates. To rotate a JPEG file some applications open the file, rotate it and then resave it and that s where the quality loss occurs. When you rotate photos in the Organizer it cleverly rearranges the pixels in the JPEG file without ever opening and resaving it, so your rotated digital photos look every bit as good as the originals. If an image is in a file format other than JPEG for example, Paint Shop Pro Photo XI s pspimage format, or TIFF you don t need to worry about quality loss when resaving because these formats don t remove data from the file in order to compress it when you save. As a general rule, if you intend to do any work on an image and this applies to all of the step-by-step projects in the following chapters you should first make sure you have the original backed up in a safe place and save a working copy in pspimage format. tip if you forgot to set the date and time on your camera and your photos all have the wrong date and time (like midnight on 1 January 2000), you can correct it using the organizer. Select the affected thumbnails, right-click and choose adjust Date taken from the context menu.

9 18 Paint Shop Pro Photo XI for photographers Digital Image-Making Features new to Paint Shop Pro Photo XI Here s a brief overview of all of the new stuff that Corel has added to Paint Shop Pro Photo XI. If you re an old hand with Paint Shop Pro this is where to look to find out what s new and, in the following section, what s changed. You ll find more detailed description of the new features, as well as practical examples of how to use them, throughout the book. The Organizer With each new release of Paint Shop Pro Corel has improved what was previously called the Browser and is now the Organizer. The Organizer makes it much easier to, well, to organize your photo collection so that you can quickly and easily locate any individual photo from among thousands. At its most basic, the Organizer displays a thumbnail picture of photos and video clips in a selected folder on your hard drive or removable disk. It also displays EXIF data that s recoded with each photo which tells you things like when it was taken and what exposure settings were used. The Organizer lets you add information to photos in the form of ratings, captions and tags keywords that describe the content. It also provides powerful search features so you can then quickly locate pictures on the basis of any of this information. You might, for example, want to find all the photos taken on 23 September 2006, or all those with a five-star rating, or those containing the tag horses. Quick Review Quick Review is an Organizer feature that displays a full-screen slide show of the contents of a folder or selected images in the thumbnail window. Slide shows can contain photos, video and music. A tool bar provides controls to pause the show, apply rotation and other basic edits and carry out organizational tasks. The only thing missing is the ability to rate photos; to do that you need to open the Image Information panel in the Organizer itself. I guess we ll have to add that one to the version XII wish list. Photo trays Photo trays are containers into which you can drop photos that you want to , print, or upload. Photo trays are a convenient way of storing a bunch of pictures that you plan on doing something with later. You might, for example, use a photo tray to hold a collection of photos that you plan on using for a montage. When you add an image to a photo tray, it stays in its original folder and the thumbnail in the photo tray links to the original file. This is a more efficient way of organizing photos than copying them and saves on disk space.

10 Paint ShoP Pro Photo Xi for PhotograPherS 1 the organizer s new Quick review feature can be used to scan through a folder of images, delete the ones you don t want and rotate, Quickfix, , or otherwise edit and organize the rest. it s full-screen, so you get a good look at the images and it has transitions and, if you want it, audio too. image information panel The Organizer s Image Information panel diplays EXIF data that is recorded by your camera along with the image data when you press the shutter release. It tells you when a photo was taken as well as a lot of other things. As well as displaying existing data the Image Information panel allows you to add information to a photo including a rating and tags searchable keywords that describe the image content. video file compatibility Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI now lets you view video clips in the Organizer. You can also grab still frames from them.

11 20 Paint ShoP Pro Photo Xi for PhotograPherS color changer tool The new Color Changer tool lets you change pixel colors at a stroke and provides sophisticated, but easy-to-use, selection methods so that only those pixels you want to recolor are affected. You can use the Color Changer tool to change the color of clothing, paintwork, or pretty much anything at a stroke. Skin Smoothing Removing wrinkles and blemishes is one of the most difficult retouching tasks there is; even professional retouchers find it a challenge. Paint Shop Pro Photo XI s new Skin Smoothing feature makes it easy to remove wrinkles and skin blemishes, taking years off your portrait subjects. the time Machine applies ageing effects to photos based on historical photographic processes this one simulates the Daguerrotype; also available, in chronological order, are albumen, Cyanotype, Platinum, autochrome, Box camera and Cross process a more recent photo lab technique.

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