CONTENT
- Flood fill: Graduate
- Colorfilter
- Distortionfilter
- Stylizefilter
In this lesson we will show you easy methods to create backgrounds and textures
for homepages or other things. With only a few functions you can create nice textures and the Filters are offering
you nearly all possibilities to change them.
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1. Graduate
Please open a New picture with the size 320x240 and a white
background. Doubleclick on the Flood fill tool. A requester will popup. Change the cycle-gadget to Graduate and be sure of the following values:Linear, RGB, Steps:255, Roughness:0. You need
a White-Gray-Black graduate. You can change this in the Color-Manager.
Only for those, who do not know how to do that:
In the WINDOW menu you will find the Color-Manager. You must be in the RGB mode. Take the first row. The first
color in this row should be white, the last color black. If you have done this click on the SPREAD button. Click
on "White", hold down the mousebutton and drag the pointer to "Black", then release it. After
this do the same with the RANGE button. Now your Graduate is right.
Click once into your picture. After the Flood fill color has filled
it, click into the bottom left edge of the picture and hold down the mousebutton. Drag the mouse to the top right
Edge and then release the mousebutton. Your pointer will be followed by a line. With this line you give the direction
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2. Color correction
Open
in the menu FILTER: COLOR the "Color correction". Adjust following values:
Function
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Value
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Brightness |
24 |
Contrast |
80 |
Gamma |
13 |
Red |
127 |
Green |
-4 |
Blue |
-128 |
After a short time you will see the result in the prewiev window. Execute the filter. Try the same with other values
and watch their results in the prewiev.
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3. Distortionfilter: Twirl
The distortionfilter are an easy possibility to change a picture. In the basic version ArtEffect
has three distortion filters:Caricature, Curl and Twirl. In our case we use the twirl filter. Please open it. In
the requester change the value to 500 and execute it. |
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4. Solarize
To
change the color of our picture dramatically, we use the Solarize filter. Open the Solarize filter from menu FILTER:Color.
Adjust following values:
Function |
Value |
Shape |
48 |
Brightness |
59 |
Low |
59 |
"Execute" the filter.
If you want to know more of Solarize, have a look onto our Advanced
lesson 3 .
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5. Stylizefilter: Edge finder and Relief
Open
FILTER:Stylize>>Edge finder. Choose PREWITT and Grayscale. Execute it. After the work is done, close the
filter. Open then the RELIEF filter (you find it in the same menu). Adjust following values:
Function |
Value |
Angle |
174 |
Height |
7 |
Depth |
94 |
Type |
Stone |
Voila. That`s it.
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