The hints and tips palette changes with the current tool and is a real bonus for people who are just starting to work with digital photos.Ĭhannel mixer is regarded as the ideal tool for creating b&w images from colour files, but for some unknown reason Corel has omitted the single most important feature, a monochrome option. It has a similar feel to Photoshop?s Extract filter (it made a better cut-out than Photoshop using the same test image). The Cut out lab is based on Corel Knockout 2, and makes easy work of cutting out parts of an image. From this palette you can adjust colour temperature, tint, saturation, brightness, contrast, highlights, midtones and shadows. The Image adjustment lab is a ?one-stop shop? for image improvement. Fortunately, Corel offers control on all aspects including precise placement, brightness, size, falloff, rays, streaks, colour etc. However, the default brightness settings are a bit overpowering for most users.

The Lens Flare filter leaves Photoshop?s one looking weak. The tools? behaviours and control are superb: they are fast and responsive, especially when using a graphics tablet.Ĭorel has bundled plenty of creative effects and filters to add that extra touch to your pictures. Some of the tools are hidden in fly-out menus, but they can be easily accessed via shortcut keystrokes. Photo-Paint has a great selection of image-editing tools including Mask selection, Image sprayer, Red-eye removal and Effect brush, to name a few.

Here we will look at Corel?s photo-editing application, Photo-Paint X3. CorelDraw X3 includes: Power Trace X3 Photo-Paint X3 Capture X3 and Picmantec?s RawShooter. At the heart of the suite is CorelDraw, a vector-based illustration application. Corel has launched CorelDraw Graphics suite X3.

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