By Steve Bain
Have you ever tried to photograph a scene that’s just too large to fit in your camera’s viewfinder no matter how many steps backward you take? Unless the wide-angle lens you’re using can work miracles, this is a common challenge that many photographers face. Why not just shoot a photo panorama? (more…)
Categories: Advanced · Image Retouching · PHOTO-PAINT · Recent feature
Tagged: Advanced, Feature, Image correction, Image Stitch, Panoramas, PHOTO-PAINT, Retouching, Touch-up Brush, Tutorial
By Steve Bain
Blurry or out-of-focus pictures aren’t usually very appealing in a layout. But strategically applying blur effects to an image can sometimes work to your advantage. Blurring specific areas of a picture enables you to clean up messy background clutter and focus in on the subject at hand. This technique is also great for exaggerating depth-of-field created naturally when using a wide camera lens aperture. (more…)
Categories: Beginner · Image Retouching · PHOTO-PAINT · Special Effects · Technique
Tagged: Basic, Depth effect, Depth of field, Gaussian blur, PHOTO-PAINT, Quick Tip, Retouching, Special Effects, Touch-up Brush
By Steve Bain
Whether you’re out snapping photos with your digital camera or just scanning old family album favorites to disc, you’re bound to end up with little anomalies that you wish you could fix quickly. In this tutorial, we’ll show you five common problems with scanned images and digital camera photos, and the techniques you can use to fix them using the tools and filters in Corel PHOTO-PAINT. Although this tutorial shows version 12 in use, most of these techniques apply to any recent version of the program. (more…)
Categories: PHOTO-PAINT · Special Effects · Tips
Tagged: Basic, Clone Tool, Feature, PHOTO-PAINT, Red Eye Removal, Retouching, Sharpen, Tips, Touch-up Brush
