Photo Paint

Photo Paint > Setting options

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  • Learning resources
    • Using the Help, user guide, and tooltips
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    • Using the VBA programming guide
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  • Corel PHOTO-PAINT workspace tour
    • Corel PHOTO-PAINT terms
    • Exploring the application window
    • Toolbars
    • Toolbox
    • Property bar
    • Dockers
    • Color palette
    • Status bar
  • Setting options
    • Changing workspace options
    • Disabling warning messages
    • Increasing memory
    • Increasing the speed of image display
    • Improving the display quality of images
    • Corel Application Recovery Manager (Windows XP)
  • Bringing images into Corel PHOTO-PAINT
    • Opening images
    • Importing files
    • Acquiring images from scanners and digital cameras
    • Creating images
    • Working with vector graphics
  • Displaying images and image information
    • Viewing images
    • Zooming
    • Viewing image information
    • Detecting and embedding Digimarc watermarks
  • Using the guidelines, grid, and rulers
    • Setting up guidelines
    • Setting up the grid
    • Setting up the rulers
  • Undoing, redoing, repeating, and fading actions
    • Undoing and redoing actions
    • Reverting to an earlier image state
    • Repeating and fading actions
  • Saving and closing
    • Saving images
    • Exporting images to other file formats
    • Closing images
  • Collaborating
    • Using CorelDRAW ConceptShare
• Editing images
  • Changing image dimensions, resolution, and paper size
    • Changing image dimensions
    • Changing image resolution
    • Changing paper size
  • Cropping, stitching, and changing orientation
    • Cropping images
    • Stitching images together
    • Straightening images
    • Rotating and flipping images
  • Retouching
    • Improving scanned images
    • Removing red-eye
    • Removing dust and scratch marks
    • Cloning image areas
    • Sharpening images
    • Erasing image areas
    • Smearing, smudging, and blending colors
  • Adjusting color and tone
    • Using the Image Adjustment Lab
    • Using individual color-adjustment effects and tools
    • Exploring adjustment filters
    • Working with color channels
  • Working with lenses
    • Creating lenses
    • Editing lenses
    • Combining lenses with the image background
• Color and fills
  • Working with color
    • Choosing colors
    • Creating custom color palettes
    • Opening and editing custom color palettes
    • Setting the properties of color palettes
    • Understanding color models
    • Understanding color depth
    • Using spot color channels
  • Changing color modes
    • Changing the color mode of images
    • Converting images to the black-and-white color mode
    • Converting images to the paletted color mode
    • Converting images to the duotone color mode
  • Managing color for display, input, and output
    • Understanding the Color Management dialog box
    • Working with color profiles
    • Choosing advanced color management settings
    • Displaying colors for different types of output
  • Filling images
    • Applying uniform fills
    • Applying fountain fills
    • Applying bitmap fills
    • Applying texture fills
    • Applying gradient fills
    • Applying transparency patterns to fills
• Masks and paths
  • Working with masks
    • Distinguishing protected and editable areas
    • Defining editable areas
    • Defining editable areas by using color information
    • Expanding and contracting editable areas
    • Inverting and removing masks
    • Moving and aligning editable areas
    • Transforming editable areas
    • Adjusting the edges of editable areas
    • Adjusting the transparency of masks
    • Cutting out images
  • Using paths to define image areas
    • Creating paths
    • Managing paths
    • Shaping paths
    • Adding and deleting path nodes
    • Joining and breaking paths
    • Changing node types
    • Applying brushstrokes to paths
    • Working with clipping paths
  • Managing multiple masks with alpha channels
    • Creating and editing alpha channels
    • Saving masks and alpha channels
    • Loading masks and alpha channels
    • Managing alpha channels
• Painting and special effects
  • Drawing and painting
    • Drawing shapes and lines
    • Applying brushstrokes
    • Spraying images
    • Painting symmetrical patterns and orbits
    • Repeating brushstrokes
    • Creating custom brushes
    • Using a pressure-sensitive pen
    • Understanding merge modes
  • Applying special effects
    • Working with special effects
    • Applying preset styles
    • Applying color and tone effects
    • Special effects categories
    • Applying Bevel effects
    • Applying Lens Flare effects
    • Applying Lighting effects
    • Gallery of special effects
    • Managing plug-ins
• Objects
  • Working with objects
    • Creating objects
    • Changing object properties
    • Selecting objects
    • Moving, copying, and deleting objects
    • Displaying and arranging objects
    • Grouping and combining objects
  • Modifying objects
    • Transforming objects
    • Changing the edges of objects
    • Adding drop shadows to objects
    • Working with object transparency
    • Using clip masks to change object transparency
  • Linking and embedding objects
    • Inserting linked or embedded objects into another application
    • Editing linked or embedded objects
• Text
  • Creating and formatting text
    • Adding and editing text
    • Formatting text
    • Fitting text to a path
    • Identifying fonts
  • Working with text in different languages
    • Encoding settings to display text correctly
    • Working with Asian text
• Web images and movies
  • Creating and editing movies
    • Opening and playing movies
    • Creating movies
    • Modifying frame sequence and frame display time
    • Saving movies
    • Working with QuickTime VR movies
  • Creating images for the Web
    • Exporting and optimizing images for the Web
    • Creating images with transparent backgrounds
    • Creating image maps
    • Slicing images
    • Creating and editing rollovers
    • E-mailing images
    • Choosing a Web-compatible file format
• Printing
  • Printing basics
    • Printing your work
    • Laying out print jobs
    • Previewing print jobs
    • Applying print styles
    • Fine-tuning print jobs
    • Printing colors accurately
    • Printing to a PostScript printer
    • Viewing preflight summaries
  • Working with commercial printers
    • Preparing a print job for a service bureau
    • Working with imposition layouts
    • Printing printers’ marks
    • Printing color separations
    • Working with color trapping and overprinting
    • Specifying In-RIP trapping settings
    • Printing to film
    • Understanding commercial printing
• File formats
  • Publishing to PDF
    • Saving documents as PDF files
    • Including hyperlinks, bookmarks, and thumbnails in PDF files
    • Reducing the size of PDF files
    • Specifying an encoding format for PDF files
    • Choosing a color model for objects in PDF files
    • Setting security options for PDF files
    • Optimizing PDF files
    • Viewing preflight summaries for PDF files
    • Preparing PDF files for a service bureau
  • Working with office productivity applications
    • Exporting files to office productivity applications
    • Adding objects to documents
  • Working with raw camera files
    • Using raw camera files
    • Bringing raw camera files into Corel PHOTO-PAINT
    • Adjusting the color and tone of raw camera files
    • Sharpening and reducing noise in raw camera files
    • Previewing raw camera files and obtaining image information
  • Supported file formats
    • Adobe Illustrator (AI)
    • Windows Bitmap (BMP)
    • OS/2 Bitmap (BMP)
    • Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM)
    • CorelDRAW (CDR)
    • Corel Presentation Exchange (CMX)
    • Corel PHOTO-PAINT (CPT)
    • Cursor Resource (CUR)
    • AutoCAD Drawing Database (DWG) and AutoCAD Drawing Interchange Format (DXF)
    • Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)
    • PostScript (PS or PRN)
    • GIF
    • JPEG (JPG)
    • JPEG 2000 (JP2)
    • Kodak Photo CD Image (PCD)
    • QuickTime Movie (MOV)
    • PICT (PCT)
    • PaintBrush (PCX)
    • Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF)
    • HPGL Plotter File (PLT)
    • Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
    • Adobe Photoshop (PSD)
    • Corel Painter (RIF)
    • TARGA (TGA)
    • TIFF
    • Corel Paint Shop Pro (PSP)
    • WordPerfect Graphic (WPG)
    • Raw camera file formats
    • Wavelet Compressed Bitmap (WI)
    • Windows Metafile Format (WMF)
    • Additional file formats
    • Recommended formats for importing graphics
    • Recommended formats for exporting graphics
• Customizing and automating
  • Customizing Corel PHOTO-PAINT
    • Using multiple workspaces
    • Customizing keyboard shortcuts
    • Customizing menus
    • Customizing toolbars
    • Customizing the property bar
    • Customizing the status bar
    • Customizing feedback sounds
    • Customizing filters
    • Customizing file associations
  • Automating tasks
    • Recording and saving scripts
    • Playing recordings and scripts
    • Editing recordings and scripts
    • Creating automation projects with the Visual Basic Editor
    • Specifying VBA security options
• Reference
  • Corel PHOTO-PAINT for Adobe Photoshop users
    • Comparing terminology
    • Comparing tools
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