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 highlights (the cupboards are “grayish” not white) are not white but gray. This is a tell tale sign that the image lacks the proper information in the highlight areas. This lack of information is shown as a photo that is to dark or has a colour cast. Although there maybe other issues with the image, this exercise will concentrate on quickly correcting contrast issues that can happen when you are giving a photograph. Sometimes the results achieved by a few mouse clicks can greatly enhance an image. So let us get started. … Continue Reading

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 being placed. … Continue Reading

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 fix up these imperfections is with the clone tool that is provided in Corel PhotoPaint. … Continue Reading

Corel Draw Graphic Suite X4 Review Part 5

In my experience of dealing with all my customers most people tend to stay in CorelDraw and not venture out of the program. There are a number of reasons. Mostly they are comfortable with CorelDraw. CorelDraw is a very powerful program and for most of what I do CorelDraw is the program that I spend most of my time in. However there are some things that you cannot do in CorelDraw that you can do in PhotoPaint. If you remember my article on the cutout lab this tool is only available in PhotoPaint. Tools such as red eye removal, masking and certain vignette effects can only be done with the PhotoPaint program. Actually some of the tools such as those found in the bitmap section of CorelDraw are actually accessing the tool libraries that are in PhotoPaint. … Continue Reading