User manual PURFLO 1877

[. . . ] ("Serif") for the accompanying software product, which includes computer software and may include associated media, printed materials, and "online" or electronic documentation (the "Software Product"). By installing, copying, or otherwise using the Software Product, you agree to be bound by the terms of this License Agreement. If you do not agree to the terms and conditions of this License Agreement, do not install or use the Software Product; you may, however, return it to your place of purchase for a full refund. IT IS IMPORTANT THAT YOU (THE "LICENSEE") READ THIS NOTICE CAREFULLY. [. . . ] You'll notice that some brushes have hard edges, while others appear fuzzy, with soft edges. The hardness of a brush is expressed as a percentage of its outer diameter. If less than 100%, the brush has a soft edge region within which the opacity of applied color falls off gradually. Y To see what this means, try using a medium-sized hard-edge brush, and then switch to a soft-edge brush. To customize a brush tip's properties, double-click it on the Brush Tip tab (or right-click it and use the popup menu) to open the Brush Options dialog. As you vary the controls, you can see the effect of each change in the preview window. (See the tab's Visual Reference entry in online help for details. ) Right-clicking a brush tip's square on the Brush Tip tab provides several other choices, including deleting a brush tip or creating a new one. To define a custom brush shape--for example a textured brush or special shape--first select part of the image to be used as a custom brush (for best results, use a solid white background), then right-click on the tab choose 'HILQH. Setting tool properties The Tool Properties tab is really an extension of each tool's functionality. Use it to customize the way each tool affects pixels on the screen, and (if you're using a pressure-sensitive drawing tablet) how the tool responds to pressure variations you apply with the pen. 56 Working with Paint and Text For the basic Paintbrush tool and most other creation tools, you can alter the Blend Mode, Opacity, and number of Fade steps. 2SDFLW\ is basically the same concept as "transparency"--they're just different ends of the same scale (0% opaque is 100% transparent). Thus a lower opacity value produces paint that's more transparent, with less effect on existing pixels on the layer-- more of the underlying paint "shows through. " A fully opaque stroke completely replaces all pixels in its path. Y Again, switch between the Background and standard layers to see the results. Y By now, you may be getting inspired to create something "interesting" instead of just scribbling. Perhaps it's time to get a beverage, make a few phone calls, and while you're at it (if you haven't already) save this masterpiece-in-progress. We'd suggest SANDBOX. SPP. 58 Working with Paint and Text Using the Smudge tool Smudging may sound silly, but the Smudge tool can be quite useful for blending pixels the way an artist might hand-blend pastels. It comes in handy when retouching photos--along with the Clone tool, which we'll look at next. Now that you have a trial image with lots of painted and overlapping lines, let's briefly try out the Smudge tool. To use the tool, select it from the Tools toolbar and drag to pick up color from the initial click point and "push" it in the direction of the brush stroke. Smudge tool properties are the same as for the Paintbrush and Airbrush, except that there's no Fade setting. Y Try using the tool to smear a painted line outward, or create a mix of two colors (using a semi-transparent setting). Experiment with the effects of both a hard-edge and a soft-edge brush tip. Y For best results when using extended strokes, set the brush tip's Spacing property to 1. Using the Clone tool Like the preceding tools, the Clone tool uses a brush, but it's really a high-tech version of a pantograph--that device with two connected stylus points, one that traces an original drawing, the other that draws an exact duplicate somewhere else. For example, you can use the Clone tool to brush away skin blemishes by cloning some "good skin" over them, or remove an unwanted object from an image by extending some foliage to cover it. [. . . ] After specifying options, click one of the other tabs to set more options, or click 2. Click &DQFHO to abandon changes. CMYK color separations An offset press needs one independent plate for each color that will print on the job. PhotoPlus will let you choose to print either a composite copy or color separations which are used when printing the job to an imagesetter. If the job is created properly, you then get, for each page, one complete negative for each color. [. . . ]