Painting and Image Editing
Combining Image Channels
Combining Image Channels The Calculate Image command lets you combine channels to create selection masks for effects like embossing text in an image. By adding, subtracting, and multiplying channels, you can also enhance shadows and highlights. The ...
Combining Image Channels
Combining Image Channels The Calculate Image command lets you combine channels to create selection masks for effects like embossing text in an image. By adding, subtracting, and multiplying channels, you can also enhance shadows and highlights. The ...
Distorting Images
Distorting Images Canvas X Draw features an image effect that you can use to warp an image so it fits the bounding box of a vector object. Shape Effect To use this effect, you must first select an image and vector object. To Apply the Shape Effect: ...
Distorting Images
Distorting Images Canvas X Draw features an image effect that you can use to warp an image so it fits the bounding box of a vector object. Shape Effect To use this effect, you must first select an image and vector object. To Apply the Shape Effect: ...
Rotating Images
Rotating Images Canvas X Draw gives you the ability of applying a soft rotate or hard rotate to your images. A soft rotate is sufficient if you do not need to export the images to another format; however, if you plan on exporting your images and need ...
Rotating Images
Rotating Images Canvas X Draw gives you the ability of applying a soft rotate or hard rotate to your images. A soft rotate is sufficient if you do not need to export the images to another format; however, if you plan on exporting your images and need ...
Creating Custom Image Filters
Creating Custom Image Filters You can create your own special-effect and image-correcting filters using the Custom command. You can also save custom filters and use them in future Canvas X Draw documents. Filters work with an image one pixel at a ...
Filling Selections with Color
Filling Selections with Color The Fill command lets you quickly and uniformly fill a selection with the foreground or background color, black, white, or gray. In addition, select an opacity level and transfer mode for application of the color. To ...
Filling Selections with Color
Filling Selections with Color The Fill command lets you quickly and uniformly fill a selection with the foreground or background color, black, white, or gray. In addition, select an opacity level and transfer mode for application of the color. To ...
Using the High Pass, Maximum, and Minimum Filters
Using the High Pass, Maximum, and Minimum Filters This section describes how you can create selections in alpha channels and resize bright areas in color channels. Isolate areas in an image using the High Pass filter and Threshold command. You can ...
Artistic Effects
Artistic Effects The artistic filters, Crystallize, Lens Flare, Oil Painting, and Stained Glass, can be applied to images, text, and vector objects. For images, access the filters by choosing Image | Filter | Artistic or use the Filter menu in the ...
Spherical Distortion
Spherical Distortion The Spherize filter can distort an image to simulate a reflection on a curved surface. To Apply the Spherize Filter: Select a paint object. Make a selection to limit the effect to an area. If you don’t make a selection, the ...
Twirl Effects
Twirl Effects The Twirl filter twists an image around its center to create interesting spiral distortions. To Apply the Twirl Filter: Select a paint object. To limit the effect to a particular area, select the area where you want to apply the filter. ...
Ripple Effects
Ripple Effects With the Ripple filter, create the impression of ripples in an image, like the ripples made by dropping a stone into smooth water. By varying the controls in the Ripple dialog box, produce a range of effects in an image, from slight ...
Applying Effect Filters
Applying Effect Filters You can use the Render, Stylize, and Offset filters to transform images. The Render filters apply forms or textures to an image. The Stylize filters apply a conceptual effect to an image. Stylize filters include Emboss, Trace ...
Transparency Effects with Channel Masks
Transparency Effects with Channel Masks Channel masks let you add transparency to images without altering them permanently. A channel mask creates transparency without changing any pixels in an image. You can remove a channel mask to eliminate the ...
Channel Masks
Channel Masks Channel masks apply transparency effects to objects, including paint objects, vector objects, text objects, and group objects. A channel mask creates transparency in proportion to the luminance of its image. A channel mask is a ...
Customizing Alpha Channels
Customizing Alpha Channels You can change an alpha channel’s name, color indication, and mask tint opacity in the Channel Options dialog box. By default, Canvas X Draw numbers alpha channels, sets the mask tint opacity to 50%, and assigns a mask ...
Using the Channels Palette
Using the Channels Palette The Channels palette displays the channels contained in a paint object when the paint object is in Edit mode. The palette also displays the channels contained in any object that has a channel mask when you edit the mask. ...
Saving and Loading Selections in Channels
Saving and Loading Selections in Channels When you have made a selection in an image, you can create an alpha channel from the selection. An alpha channel preserves the shape and opacity of a selection, so you can use it to make the same selection in ...
Working with Image Selections
Working with Image Selections After you make a selection, you can clear it, soften its edges, make it floating, move it, and change its opacity. Clearing and Copying a Selection You can replace the pixels in a selection with the current background ...
Converting Paths to Selections
Converting Paths to Selections You can use vector objects and text to make selections in images. The Path to Selection command makes a selection in an image from the shape of a vector, text, or group object. With this command, you can outline ...
Selecting Areas Based on Color
Selecting Areas Based on Color You can use the Wand tool and the Color Range command to select pixels in an image according to color. To Select a Contiguous Area of Similarly Colored Pixels: Use the Wand tool. To Select All Pixels of a Particular ...
Selecting Pixels in Images
Selecting Pixels in Images When a paint object is in Edit mode, any filters, commands, and painting tools that you apply can affect the entire image. When you have selected pixels in the image, the effect of a tool, filter, or other adjustment is ...
Adding and Removing Noise
Adding and Removing Noise In images, “noise” refers to randomly-colored pixels. Noise can be good or bad; e.g., you can apply noise to computer-generated graphics to make them appear more photographic. You can also use a filter that removes noise to ...
Sharpen Filters
Sharpen Filters Sharpen filters increase the contrast between adjacent pixels, which can make an image appear more distinct. These commands work with all image modes except Black & White, Indexed, and Duotone. Although the Sharpen and Blur filters ...
Sharpen Filters
Sharpen Filters Sharpen filters increase the contrast between adjacent pixels, which can make an image appear more distinct. These commands work with all image modes except Black & White, Indexed, and Duotone. Although the Sharpen and Blur filters ...
Blur Filters
Blur Filters Blur filters soften images by decreasing contrast between neighboring pixels. These commands work with all image modes except Indexed and Black & White. Apply the Blur filters by choosing Image | Filter | Blur or by using the Filters ...
Color Equalization
Color Equalization You can graphically adjust the saturation of different color ranges with the Color Equalization command. You can add or remove gray from various color ranges in images in RGB Color mode, CMYK Color mode, and LAB Color mode. To Use ...
Hue/Saturation
Hue/Saturation You can modify the tint and purity of specific colors with the Hue/Saturation command. In terms of image editing, saturation refers to the amount of gray in colors. The Hue/Saturation dialog box varies slightly depending on the color ...
Adjusting Brightness Curves
Adjusting Brightness Curves You can adjust the tonal range of an image with the Curves command. Unlike the Levels command, which can set the minimum, maximum, and median values, Curves adjusts the entire range of values. It lets you map input values ...
Levels
Levels You can adjust the brightness of shadows, highlights, or midtones by using the Levels command. Brightness values range from 0 (black) to 255 (white). For colored pixels, brightness is the brightness value in each color channel. The Levels ...
Levels
Levels You can adjust the brightness of shadows, highlights, or midtones by using the Levels command. Brightness values range from 0 (black) to 255 (white). For colored pixels, brightness is the brightness value in each color channel. The Levels ...
Color Balance
Color Balance The Color Balance command lets you adjust color in shadows, midtones, and highlights. You can use it with paint objects in CMYK Color or RGB Color modes. To Use the Color Balance Command: Select one or more paint objects to adjust all ...
Color Balance
Color Balance The Color Balance command lets you adjust color in shadows, midtones, and highlights. You can use it with paint objects in CMYK Color or RGB Color modes. To Use the Color Balance Command: Select one or more paint objects to adjust all ...
Changing Color and Contrast
Changing Color and Contrast You can use the Invert, Desaturate, and Brightness/Contrast commands to create special effects and correct lightness levels in images. These commands apply changes equally to all color values. If you select an area of an ...
Consolidating Colors
Consolidating Colors The Threshold and Posterize commands let you consolidate color values in an image or selection. Besides producing interesting effects with these commands, you can use them in alpha channels to help isolate areas within an image. ...
Consolidating Colors
Consolidating Colors The Threshold and Posterize commands let you consolidate color values in an image or selection. Besides producing interesting effects with these commands, you can use them in alpha channels to help isolate areas within an image. ...
Applying Image Editing Commands
Applying Image Editing Commands You can apply most image editing commands to a single paint object if it’s selected or in Edit mode.You can also apply most commands to multiple selected paint objects. You can set image modes, apply filters, and ...
Auto-Tracing Images
Auto-Tracing Images You can use the Auto Trace command to create vector objects from an image. The Auto Trace command traces an entire image or any channel of an image and is available when a paint object is selected. Auto-tracing is much faster than ...
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