When working on photos, we might want to remove a background element, often a grey sky, to replace it with something "prettier" or just different. We often hear of tThe Background Eraser tool to achieve this first step of removing the unwanted area. Although it is a great tool, it might not always work as you expect it. It might leave you somewhat puzzled by its behavior. Let's have a look at how it works and what the various settings affect the end result for you.
In the last few months, Michele has become a very active member of our community, sharing projects and layouts, participating in our games and challenges, but also encouraging others and being an inspiration herself when she shares how she creates this or that. Everyone appreciates her taking time to share that. So, what else do you know about Michele?
In the fall, we have a lot of back to school theme projects. Notebooks could be part of those projects. Adding a spiral binding to a notebook to showcase a photo or artwork could give a unique effect. Let's see how to achieve a realistic look.
Everyone seems to enjoy animations as you can find more and more gifs on Facebook feed, and such. Photo-Mirage is a new product from the Corel family. It aims at allowing the users to add some type of animation to still photos.
Whether you are doing scrapbooking, cards, or collages, you might want to extract a particular element from a photo to use separately as a decoration. There are multiple ways to select the outline of an element. You can use the Magic Wand or the Object Extractor. What tool you will use will depend on various factors. What type of element do you need to extract? and the background that needs to be removed. However, there is one lesser-known technique that is easier to use than most of the others.
Again, another new version of Paintshop Pro is available to you. It is called PSP2019. Let's have a look at what this version is bringing to you.
When you take pictures of objects, buildings or surroundings, you might not always be able to place yourself perfectly straight in front of it to take a centered and proportional photo. You might be at a slight angle because of the physical environment. Maybe you were just too much and in a hurry to move somewhere else. Either way, there is a tool in Paintshop Pro that will allow you to fix this issue.
This month, we will meet a new but very active member of our Campus. You can see a lot of her work in the forum.
Do you have a scanner at home? Typically, you will likely be scanning images and photos, save them onto your hard drive, then open them in your PaintShop Pro. But did you know you could scan from PaintShop Pro too? It is a function that has been added in recent versions of PSP, and it can save you some steps. I recently found that out, and for me, it is great news because, for unknown reasons, I can't seem to connect the scanner to my computer and scan directly. Go figure! But with PaintShop Pro's functionality, now, I can scan!
Since version X4, PaintShop Pro has added a few new Photo effects. Those effects can be applied with just a few clicks and several options to choose from. One of them is the Vignette effect. It will add a focus on part of the photo while adding a combination of blur and brightness change elsewhere. The subject will get more prominent. Let's have a look at that particular feature.
Cassel is the owner and main instructor in the Scrapbook Campus.
She has been teaching digital scrapbooking for over 15 years.
