One of the hardest techniques to learn is creating photos on glass. It is not easy and requires you to know how to adjust photos in CorelDraw. To get the best photos requires the use of a mask typically. Although you do not have to use a mask i tend …
Read More »Lasering a Photo onto a Glass Part 2 using CorelDraw
This is the second part of my tutorial on lasering photos onto glass. This example came from a seminar I did with come of my customers. This photo is approximately 50 years old. We had to get rid of some creases to get it looking at least good enough for …
Read More »Why You Should Only Use JPEGS for Photographs
When it comes to formats for exchanging files one of the more common formats that we use is JPEGS. JPEGS are good because most people can create them, the file size is small and when you say JPEG to someone they know what you are talking about. The problem with …
Read More »Working with Corel PhotoPaint’s Contrast Enhancement
One of the problems that you may face when you are doing photographs is that your photos may be to “dark” or maybe to “light”. Figure 1 shows a photo that falls into the category of being to “dark”. If you look at the photo you will notice that the …
Read More »Working with Cropping Photos – Creating an Oval Crop
A lot of times when you are working with photos you need to crop the photo so that you can focus in on a certain part of the photo. Typically what we are trying to do is to get rid of certain parts of the photo that we do not …
Read More »Working with the Dodge and Burn Tool – Skin Tones
In this tutorial we will look at how to even out the skin tones of two individuals. A lot of times when you have a person that is dark skinned beside someone that is light skinned it is hard to do an overall adjustment. This is because if you lighten …
Read More »Using The Smart Carver Tool In Corel PhotoPaint
One problem that will eventually come up when you are working with Photographs is that you will have an issue where the size of your photo or your cropped photo does not match up with the size that you need. For example in this tutorial we will show you how …
Read More »Using Corel PhotoPaint’s Clone Tool Part 2
Clone the Bad Area Now it is time to click in another area to repair that area. If you look you have two points on the cursor – a “+” sign and an “o”. The plus sign is where you are sampling and the “o” is where the sample is …
Read More »Using Corel PhotoPaints Clone Tool Part 1
Problem: When working with photographs occasionally you are presented with a photograph that is contaminated with finger prints, has ripped edges or creases. Sublimating this image is not a good idea as the final image is only going to look as bad as the original. Solution: The best way to …
Read More »Raster Images versus Vector Images
This lesson will look at what is a raster image and what is a vector image. Many people get confused with the tow. A good thorough knowledge of both is essential when you are looking at working with computers and graphics. In computer graphics, a raster graphics image or bitmap …
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