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4.8.1 Effects overview

The effects are organised in groups. Find the IDs for use with the ARexx interface in braces.

Paint

Artistic

Blur

Colortransformation

Compose

Distortions

Light-effects

Matrix-Operations

Mirror

Noise

Plugins (9000)

4.8.2 Paint/Paint

This effect is allows normal painting with the pens. You are able to draw in several different modes

Options:

Method

Red/Green/Blue
Sets the color for Method/Fade.

4.8.3 Artistic/Oil painting"

This effect performs a special version of the pixelise-effect. After this operation is done, the picture looks like an oil-painting.

Options:

Size
This sets the size of one "rectangle" of the oil-painting.

4.8.4 Artistic/Buttonborder

This effect adds a smooth border to your image, giving it a decent three dimensional look.

Options:

Mode
You can select between three different border types here.

Border
Set the width and height of the border here.

Change
You have to make a decision on whether your button shall be pressed or released here. A negative value creates a pressed button, a positive value creates a released button.

4.8.5 Artistic/Colorgradient

This effect uses the color information of your base image and maps it to the gradient currently attached to this image/project.

Options:

Use transparency info
Check this box, if the transparency information of the gradient should be used for calculation.

4.8.6 Blur/Smooth

Smoothing an image helps you to hide "edges" in the picture or make a manipulation more realistic.

Options:

Level
The level, the image shall be smoothed by.

Floody mode
If this checkbox is checked, the image looks less blurry but is still smoothed.

4.8.7 Blur/Median

The median-effect calculates the average color of the sourring of every pixel.

Options:

Level
Set the median-level here.

4.8.8 Blur/Selective Gauss

Sometimes it isn`t possible to scan an image and get a high-quality picture. In most cases, a videocamera and a digitizer is used then. But digitised images contain noise in them making the image unusable for many purposes, e.g. printing them in a magazine. The "selective gauss" effect is a special variant of the gauss-effect, that removes that detects the noise and blurs these areas via a "Gaussian Blur". Note, that this effect is quite slow, but if you`re ready to wait, you`ll get great results.

Options:

Radius
Radius of the "Gaussian Blur", if applied.

Max delta
The maximum delta needed to make "Selective Gauss" perform a "Gaussian Blur".

4.8.9 Blur/Zoom blur

This effects simulates a fast and blurry zoomout of a region of the image.

Options:

Level
The higher this value, the heavier the effect.

Positiong mode
By default, the center of the "Zoom blur" is the middle of the image. However, if you want another position, check this checkbox and perform a mouse-click at the new position.

4.8.10 Blur/Motion

This effect performs a motion blur effect.

Options:

Level
Gives the length of the created "trails".

4.8.11 Blur/Gaussian blur

fxPAINT offers you a wide variety of blur-filters. "Gaussian Blur" is one of the methods used by professionals. It creates far better results than some "normal" blur routine.

Options:

Radius
Radius of the Gaussian blur.

4.8.12 Blur/Minimum

This is not really a blur-method, but the results are very comparable to those of blur-methods. You can define a X- and Y-radius in which fxPAINT shall find a replacement pixel with the lowest intensity.

Options:

X-radius
Y-radius
X- and Y-radius of the filter.

4.8.13 Blur/Maximum

This is not really a blur-method, but the results are very comparable to those of blur-methods. You can define a X- and Y-radius in which fxPAINT shall find a replacement pixel with the highest intensity.

Options:

X-radius
Y-radius
X- and Y-radius of the filter.

4.8.14 Blur/Reduce JPEG artefacts

This effect can reduce the impact of JPEG artefacts on images.

4.8.15 Blur/Antialias

This effect reduces or elimintes the "stair effects" in an image making it look smoother and clearer without loosing too much sharpness.

4.8.16 Colortransformation/Anti Redeye

Many photographs are made using flashes to shortly enlighten the surrounding and to improve the light situation in the room. Very often the infamous "Red eye"- effect is created. This effect is created by our eyes, that are opened too wide to prevent bright light to be reflected. The red you`re seeing is in fact the blood of the people being photographed. To remove this effect, the "Anti Red-Eye"-effect can be used.

fxPAINT is not able to decide, whether a red circle is a "red-eye" or a red point. That`s why you have to paint over the eyes with a small pen, then select the "Anti Red-Eye" effect and select a color to replace the red with.

Options:

Red/Green/Blue
Set the color to replace the red with.

Use current color
Copy the current value of the color manager as "Red/Green/Blue".

Tolerance
Select the tolerance of the effect for what has to be considered as red and be replaced.

4.8.17 Colortransformation/Antique

Old grayscale-photographs have a special colortouch. This effect can be created with "Antique" using a filled paint layer for the whole image or for selected areas.

Tip: Creates good results in combination with " Noise".

4.8.18 Colortransformation/Black&White

This effect divides the image in black and in white parts.

Options:

Frontier
Any pixel-intensity higher than this frontier is considered white, every pixel-intensity lower or equal this frontier is considered black.

4.8.19 Colortransformation/Correction

Especially when scanning, digitising or creating own images, it is often needed to correct the value of one "color-channel" or of the whole image. This effect offers lots of ways to reach the aimed result.

Options:

Brightness
Red/Green/Blue
Adjust the brightness of the whole image and/or of a seperate channel.

Gamma
Correct the gamma-value of the whole image.

Contrast
Adjust the contrast of the whole image.

4.8.20 Colortransformation/Dithering

Mr. Gutenberg has made one of the greatest inventions of all times - he made it possible to really produce books instead of copying them by hand. Mr. Gutenberg`s invention also made it possible to print newspapers. But these had a problem: How shall images by printed with only black and white available ? This problem was soluted with dithering which basically simply replaces some pixels by a combination of black and white creating grayscales for the eye. However, we can print in color today, too and still basically use the same princinple to build the image of C, M, Y and K-components.

It was quite recently that dithering became popular on computers though today`s graphic chips can display 24Bit without any problem. One reason for this is for sure the internet: The wide-spread file-format GIF allows only 256 colors (and a licence ....).

fxPAINT offers you 12 (!) different dithering methods, of which some can really be called an effect.

Options:

Method

4.8.21 Colortransformation/Gradation

"Gradation" allows you to perform a so called "Gradation curve" on your image. These curves are heavily used by graphic professionals to correct certain aspect of an image.

Options:

Gradientscheme


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