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Corel Photo-PAINT Exercises |
Creating an Object with a Mask - Exercise file |
Select the File menu / Open / acp_corel_paint_04_01.cpt |
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A mask is applied to an image during image editing to define protected and editable areas in the image. The area outside of a mask is protected and the mask prohibits paint and effects from being applied to that area. The area inside of a mask (selection) is editable, paint and effects will be applied to the underlying pixels of this area. |
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The Mask tools are used to define the mask. |
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Rectangle Mask tool - click and dragging defines an rectangular area. |
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Ellipse Mask tool - click and dragging defines an elliptical area. |
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Freehand Mask tool - defines an irregularly shaped area. Click once and click again to create a straight line. Click and drag to create a curve. Double click to finish the mask. |
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Lasso Mask tool - defines an irregularly shaped area by clicking on the color you want to protect, and then clicking to define the outline of the area. |
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Magnetic Mask tool - snaps the mask marquee to the edges of areas that contrast in color with their surroundings. |
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Magic Wand Mask tool - defines an editable area by the pixel you click and all adjacent pixels of a similar color. |
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Brush Mask tool - paint to define the editable area of any shape. |
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Mask Modes are used to define the mask tool mode of operation when you fine tune a mask. |
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Normal - lets you select one area of an image. If you click a second time, the first area goes away. |
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Additive - lets you expand the editable regions by selecting multiple areas in an image. |
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Subtractive - lets you reduce the editable regions by removing areas from a mask. |
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XOR - lets you select multiple areas in an image. If areas overlap, the overlapping regions are excluded from the editable area and added to the protected area. |
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1) Mask the main flower. |
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See image: In order to see the selected flower easier, I activated Mask Overlay in the Mask menu. I also changed the overlay color to green by selecting the Tools \ Options \ Display and then choosing green for Mask Tint. Why did I choose green? Choose the image menu \ Transform \ Invert. The contrasting color for the pink flower is green. I chose green because it contrasted with pink. |
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The tools I used to mask (select) the flower were the Freehand, Magic Wand and Brush Mask tools. |
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Freehand Mask tool - I used to define the boundary of the flower. |
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Magic Wand Mask tool - experiment with Tolerance settings on the Property bar, used to fill in areas of color when appropriate. |
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Brush Mask tool - experiment with the Nib Size and Feather settings on the Property bar , I used this tool to finish fine tuning the mask. |
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Creating an Object | |
1) Select the Object menu \ Create \ Object Copy Selection. | |
In the Objects docker, you will see that Object 1 has been created and is selected. If you cannot see the Objects docker, select the Window menu \ Dockers \ Objects. |
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Creating a Color \ Duotone Image | |
1) In the Objects docker, select the Background. |
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2) Select the Adjust menu \ Grayscale. |
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3) Click the Tint check box. | |
Red slider = -165 |
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Hue = 7 |
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Saturation = 58 |
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Click OK |
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Have fun trying different tints and saturations. |
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