CHAPTER
31
PAINTING AND IMAGE-EDITING
Canvas provides a full palette of painting tools, including the digital
equivalents of markers, airbrushes, and paintbrushes, plus tools for
creating effects like neon and blends. The toolbar of painting tools
also provides tools to select, retouch, color-correct, and clone images.
This chapter explains how to use these painting tools, choose image
modes, and convert objects into images.
Paint objects and images
A paint object is a special type of Canvas object that contains an
image. Paint objects are always rectangular and are the same size as
the images they contain.
An image is a picture made up of many tiny squares, called pixels. A
scanned photo, a TIFF or Photoshop (.PSD) file, and a picture you
paint in Canvas are examples of images.
Each pixel in an image is a solid color. Pixels can also be semi-trans-
parent or completely clear. You can adjust the color, opacity, and
transparency of pixels by using painting tools and commands.
At the object level, you can use tools and commands such as the
Selection tool and Align command to affect entire paint objects.
Almost anything you can do to objects, you can do to paint objects.
About paint objects and
images in Canvas
Images are pictures defined
by tiny dots, called pixels. A
scanned photo, a TIFF or Pho-
toshop file, and pictures you
paint in Canvas are all images
composed of pixels.
In a Canvas document, an
image is contained in a paint
object the same size as the
image. Painting tools operate
on the pixels within images,
while object tools and com-
mands, such as the Selection
tool or Align command, apply
to entire paint objects.
You can perform common
object operations, including
move, copy, and duplicate, on
paint objects. For details, see
the chapter titled Working
with objects on page 16.245.
You can create images entirely
in Canvas by making a new
paint object that you can paint
in, or creating an image from
vector or text objects, as
described in this chapter.
You can also import images
into Canvas documents using
the following methods:
Place an existing image in a
document using the Place,
Paste, or Acquire commands.
Scan a photo using the
Acquire command. See Using
scanners to acquire images
on page 32.633.