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1. The leftmost button the Arrow is used to reposition regions after they are drawn Eseseacs The four drawing tool buttons Rectangle Oval Polygon and Point are used to create map regions on an image Opening_image jpg In the example to the left the Rectangle was used to 280 x 255 pixels zsecekrs Create region 1 for Surfing the Polygon to create region 2 for Sunset Tours and the Oval to create region 3 for Weather Once the regions have been drawn their arrangement can be changed by using the layering buttons The Move to Front far left button moves a selected region to the front most position likewise the next button Move to Back moves the region to the lowest layer The next two but tons Move Forward and Move Backward shuffle the selected region up or down one level per click Layering is important because when regions overlap only the top most link is activated The Color Picker button opens the standard Apple Color Picker where you may select a color for the lines defining the map regions NOTE Options available in the Color Picker may differ depending on the extensions loaded in your System Clicking the URL button opens a dialog box where you may enter the Universal Resource Locator URL the image map will link to Fr To change the default URL click on the image outside of the numbered regions and click the URL button Enter the new name of the default URL you http
2. The Color Optimization area improves images displayed on monitors supporting fewer colors than the image contains for example viewing a Millions of Colors document on a screen that only support 256 colors 8 bit Enter the percent of colors in the image to be optimized in the Amount checkbox It is generally best to leave this at the default setting of 75 to allow for new colors introduced through paint or paste operations Check either the After opening or Before saving checkboxes to determine when optimization occurs Checking After opening ensures images from other programs have the same image quality as those created in Color It The Undo area sets the number of Undo and Redo operations available in Color It from 1 to 16 The After Long Operations area lets you select notification methods when operations are com pleted The menubar flashes when the Flash Menubar box is checked You can also select a sound alert from the Play pop up menu Checking Auto save on Scan Import will automatically save groups of images brought into Color It from products such as digital cameras Display Preferences The Open Images area lets you select how images are displayed Open Images The Where pop up menu lets you choose a Where On Main Screen On Best Screen 2 How B Disolayed at Resolution On Alternate Screens monitor in multiple monitor systems On Fit in Window k v On Main Screen Best Screen opens the window on the sc
3. Perinal The Color pop up lets you select how to display the color values The Hex Percent setting is used for color specification for Web images The next area indicates the width and height of any selections measured in the chosen units a Peels The Units pop up menu lets you select which measurement units to display ee X and Y identify the cursor location based on the ruler origin point normally a S the upper left corner of the active window Points The fourth area indicates the straight line distance from the point where the mouse button was held down to the current cursor position The angle of this straight line distance is also indicated measured in the chosen units ii Web Map Palette gt S co o gt alala 2l aai URL http iww w digimagearts com The Web Map palette is a floating palette that is used to create and modify web image maps It can be opened or closed from the Tools menu A web image map is a text file that describes the regions within a graphic that link to an HTML web page or location within a Web page EJ URL http www tropical paradise com gt See Chapter 9 The Web Map Palette for a complete discussion of the this palette ms Animation Palette Animation This palette is used to create GIF images which contain aaa Current Frame 1 7 multiple frames that may be played back in sequence as an animation for Web pages See Chapter 10 The Animation Palette for more in
4. GCR replaces gray components in the colored areas of a reproduction with black The least prominent color is reduced or removed completely along with proportional amounts of the other two colors to define a gray component which is replaced with black ink Total Coverage Limit is the maximum ink coverage of the four process colors It can be set from 200 to 400 Black Ink Limit is the maximum ink coverage of process black It can be set from 0 to 200 Black Starts At identifies the percent of coverage where black ink begins to be used It can be set from 0 to 90 GCR Black Generation can be set from 0 to 90 The Transfer button opens the Transfer Curves dialog Transfer Curves oO 23 50 75 1007 oO z253 50 75 100 a z253 50 Fo 1007 D z3 50 75 100 The Transfer Curves dialog sets the compen sation for dot gain The curves also enable you to set the points for the darkest printable shadow and the lightest printable highlight The dots on the curve represent the shadow quartertone midtone three quartertone and highlight points The points can be adjusting by clicking and dragging A curve that slopes above a 45 straight line makes the tones darker curving below the 45 line makes the tones lighter Shift clicking will move the same dot in all four ink colors at the same time Clicking the Inks button opens the Ink Calibration dialog Ink Calibration Hue and Grayness Cy an Blue Magenta Yellow
5. Spacebar Command changes to an enlarging Magnify tool Spacebar Command Option changes to a reducing Magnify tool Cli Note that many tools have features that appear at the bottom of the Tools palette when a toolis selected See the section for each tool for specific features for that tool General Tools DACE The General tools are the Pointer Mover Magnify and Eyedropper Pointer The Pointer tool lets you move a selection without moving its contents Clicking outside of a selection with the Pointer does not deactivate the selection rather it repositions the selection centered on the mouse click While the Pointer tool is selected you can open the Mouse Coordinates palette by double click ing on the Pointer tool Mover The Mover tool lets you scroll the document when it is too large to fit in the active window An m active selection is picked up and moved like a floating paste it does not affect the background until deselected The three icons at the bottom of the palette control how the document is displayed The left i icon is Normal Window mode which displays all the standard Macintosh window elements as well as Color It s magnification pop up and buttons The center icon is Full Screen mode The document fills the entire screen except for the menu bar if the view is large enough If the view of the document is not large enough a solid color back ground fills the rest of the screen The right icon is No Menuba
6. i Edit or Other choices described above The greater the spacing selected the more space between the areas where a brush applies paint With a spacing of 0 that the computer tries to keep up with the mouse but rapid movements may leave gaps in the stroke 0 50 100 0 10 20 50 100 250 Repeat ra The Repeat option adjusts in seconds how quickly Color It applies paint to the docu ment A higher repeat rate results in a faster application The amount can be selected with the slider or with the pop up using the Edit or Other choices described above The Fade option adjusts the type and distance of a brush stroke fade The top pop up menu lets you select a distance in inches for a fade The bottom pop up menu left lets you select from seven different types of fades Tablet 5000 eF When a pressure sensitive device such as a Wacom tablet is connected a Tablet option appears at the bottom of the Brush Options palette The stylus pen may be used just like a mouse for pointing selecting and dragging When used with the Brush Air Brush Blur Sharpen Stamp Lighten Darken or Smudge tools the stylus pressure can be used to vary tool characteristics such as thickness opacity repeat rate or spacing through the pop up menu 52 Chapter 7 The Tools Palette Color It 4 5 Manual Heavier Lighter Wider Thinner Farther The Heavier and Lighter commands control the opacity fo
7. The Arbitrary command allows you to rotate the o 00 e selection or the entire document in 0 01 degree incre Rotate ments Rotate in a right clockwise or left counterclockwise direction by choosing the appropri ate radio button Rotate 90 Right CW fI Rotate 90 Left CCW Gf Rotate 180 Direction re Right CW g5 O Left CCW The Free Rotate command permits rotating a selection by hand Color It places grow handles at the four corners of the selection Click on one of the handles and drag to rotate the selection The Rotate 90 Right CW command rotates the active selection or the entire image if there is no active selection 90 degrees to the right in a clockwise direction The Rotate 90 Left CCW command rotates the active selection or the entire image if there is no active selection 90 degrees to the left in a counter clockwise direction Fon M amp Original Rotate 90 Left NOTE Neither the Rotate 90 Right CW nor Rotate 90 Left CCW commands crop the image when it is rotated The Rotate 180 command rotates the active selection or the entire image if there is no active selection 180 degrees Portions of the image that extent beyond the edges of the document are lost so use the Canvas Size command to add extra area before rotating S me Pe Original Rotate 180 Effects T 3 stretch Shrink The Effects command displays a m
8. ASC Il Binary the PostScript or Color PostScript QuickDraw _ Selection to Clipping Path radio buttons if you have a PostScript he generally laser printer or the en nn uickDraw radio button if you have Preview Cancel e Q y an inkjet or similar printer NOTE The PostScript options will be grayed out on non PostScript printers NOTE The Custom Dither option is used to choose various types of black and white output 10 Click the Preview button Print Preview It can be good to preview your images before you ee _ S pitt it The Print Preview dialog allows you to fone choose the position of your image on the paper a either by using the buttons or by clicking and drag _ ging the preview image itself Cent 11 Click OK to close the Print Preview dialog once you have the image positioned as you rtig n piaia wish 12 Click the OK button in the Print Format dialog box Center Cancel i Color It 4 5 Tour Chapter 6 File Prep amp Output 41 Preparing An Image For The Web Graphics for the Internet or the Web are in many ways the opposite of graphics for print output your goal is to produce a low resolution image while still maintaining a good appearance and keeping the file size as small as possible Resolution is the amount of information stored in an image Images to be viewed only on screen either on your computer or sent for others to view on
9. Version 4 5 Be sure to read the Getting Started chapter The Tutorial section starts in Chapter 2 P O Box 269 Winterset lowa 50273 USA 515 462 5930 http www digimagearts com Color It 4 5 Manual December 2006 Rev 2 Copyright 2006 Digimage Arts All rights reserved This manual and the software described in it are copyrighted with all rights reserved Under the copyright laws of the United States this manual and the software may not be copied in whole or part without the written consent of Digimage Arts except in the normal use of the software or to make backup copies This exception does not allow copies to be made for others whether or not sold but all material purchased with all backup copies may be sold or given to another person You may take the software from one computer to another but you may use the software on only one computer at a time A multi user license may be purchased to allow the software to be used on more than one computer at the same time including a shared disk system Contact Digimage Arts for more information on multi user licenses Digimage Arts P O Box 269 Winterset lowa 50273 USA 515 462 5930 http www digimagearts com Additional company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of the individual companies and are respectfully acknowledged Four color separation code licensed from Photone International Inc Limited Warranty This softwar
10. 48 Point 72 Point B 4 Clicking on a document with the Text Cancel 50K T tool creates a rectangular box with a i ext cursor in it Text may be entered by Other 42 typing or by pasting from the Clipboard with most of the normal text editing features available Double clicking on a word in the text box selects it Clicking while holding down the Shift key extends the selection The text box can be resized by clicking on one of the handles at the corners of the text box and dragging Shift clicking the handles constrains the box to the aspect ratio of the original Command clicking the handles varies only the width of the text box Control click ing and dragging permits the text area to be repositioned Deselecting the text by clicking outside the box choosing Selection gt Select None Command D or using a different tool after entering the text combines it with the underlying image and the text is no longer editable by typing rar To convert the text to a selection double click the Text tool The selection can then be EK moved Once it is no longer selected the text becomes part of the underlying image and is no longer editable by typing Gradient The Gradient tool lets you create a gradient between colors or custom gradients with up to 16 blends When you select the Gradient tool a gradient color bar and a gradient type pop up is added to the bottom of the Tools palette The gradient
11. Default Tools TF The Magnification Pop up Menu shows the current magnification or reduction view of the document You can change the setting quickly by clicking on the menu and selecting a new level It does not change the document itself only your view of it Clicking on the Magnification Buttons changes the view level by one step The Tools palette is the control center of the program Each tool has many capabili ties which are describe in Chapter 7 The Tools Palette You can use and learn many of these tools by going through the Tutorial Tour section of the manual which begins in the next chapter Our web site http www digimagearts com offers a wealth of information about Color It technical support answers to frequently asked questions updaters and information about our other products Check it out 6 Chapter 2 Scanning amp Importing Color It 4 5 Tour 2 Scanning amp Importing The next 5 chapters are a step by step tour to familiarize you with the basic tools and functions available in Color It By creating an actual design you will learn to use the tools required to create it As each section builds on the steps before it it s best to go through this tutorial in sequential order Functions and tools not covered in the tutorial section are detailed in the reference section that follows Using Color It With A Scanner or Digital Camera Color It does not provide any direct interfaces with scanners or dig
12. Problem The version of the plug in is not supported Solution This may happen with some formats for plug ins Check to see if Color It has been upgrad ed or use an compatible version of the plug in badimageType 10 Problem Color It does not support the plug in s image type Solution Open the plug in and save the image in a format that Color It can read blankResErr 11 Problem Color It could not find a resource so it created a NewHandle Solution This is a serious problem you should quit Color It and relaunch it pathTooLongErr 12 Problem The path name is longer than 255 charac ters Usually this happens when a virtual image folder is inside several layers of folders Solution Move the virtual image folder up a few levels or rename it with a shorter name Color It 4 5 Manual Appendix Error Messages 123 badSplitDocErr 13 Problem Color It couldn t find the split screen document Solution Quit and relaunch Color It ptsTooBigErr 14 Problem The points list is too long You ll see this if you have drawn very complex shapes with the Lasso Magic Wand or Shape tools Solution Draw or select with the tool again mak ing simpler shapes noUndoBufErr 15 Problem The required undo buffer does not exist Solution Clear some space on your disk noSelMaskErr 16 Problem Color It couldn t get the required selec tion mask Solution Clear some space on your disk noS
13. Scan Import TWAIN Acquire Export si Select TWAIN Source er usually provides a TWAIN driver or Photoshop compatible plug in for their peripheral See Chapter 2 Scanning amp Importing for more information Restart Color It after installing the driver or plug in If the plug in is installed properly it appears on the Scan Import menu below the TWAIN commands Export Third party export plug ins permit you to export a document to compression hardware soft ware or a printer not accessed through the Print command or to save a document in an file format not supported by Color It Third party export plug ins are installed by placing the plug in file in the Plug ins folder located inside the Color It Stuff folder See Chapter 2 Scanning amp Importing for more information If Color It is running you must quit and restart the program to use the plug in If the plug in is installed properly it appears on the Export menu Page Setup The Page Setup command opens the standard Page Setup dialog box for your specific printer Settings Page Attributes Options for Color It appear when Color It is AILEEN k chosen from the Settings pop up menu Page Setup Settings Color It HA 7 Format for Save As Default Paper Size US Letter HH 8 50 in x 11 00 in Orientation Te Scale 100 Crop Marks Registration Marks CCancel_ OK Clicking the Screen button opens a dialog where screen settings
14. The frame thicknesses in pixels are displayed in the box at the upper right Frame Width The Frame Fill pop up menu lets you select the frame and fill options for the l shape Frame Only draws a frame for the shape without any fill Fill Only draws ine ony aarmi the selected shape without a frame Frame and Fill draws the frame of the select ed shape and fills it with the fill or foreground color Frame Fill Line lt The Line tool lets you draw lines Selecting the Line tool adds a pop up feature to the bottom of the Tools palette The Line Width pop up lets you set the width of the lines Moving the cursor within the upper left box resizes the line widths as you move Holding down the Command key makes the sizing non proportional The width of horizontal and vertical lines are displayed in pixels in the box at the upper right Line Width Shift Line constrains the line to horizontal vertical or a 45 angle Option Line changes to the Eyedropper tool Paint Bucket The Paint Bucket tool fills an area with the fill color Selecting this tool adds a feature to the bottom of the palette eT The pop up opens the Fill Sensitivity menu Choosing a high percentage of az spread fills the document completely With a lower percentage of spread the Paint Bucket fills until it reaches a boundary or object defined by a color change fll Fill Sensitivity NOTE If the edges of a filled area appear
15. Window Mode New View Split Screen Display At Resolution The rose portion of the Rose tif image is pasted in the Tutorial tif image Cut Copy Tutorial tif x Tutorial tif Mask 3 Click and drag the rose into the position show in the example to the left lami Filter Tools Window Selection Type Document Mask Mask Operations Invert Mask Select All Selection To Mask Select None Mask To Selection 4 From the Selection menu choose Mask Operations gt Selection To Mask A new mask document is created In it The rose shape appears white and the background black This mask will be used later in the tutorial 5 Inthe File menu select Save As and rename the mask Rose tif Mask Although Color It creates a default name for a mask document it is best to name each mask if you plan to have multiple mask documents 6 From the Window menu choose Tutorial tif 7 With the rose still selected by the mask from the Filter menu select Sharpen gt Sharpen 1 Window Tools Filter ii Last Filter Adjustment Only the rose the portion of the image selected by the Image Map mask is sharpened Blur 8 Press Command S to save the modified image Convolution Noise In the next chapter the fun really begins We learn how to Sharpen Stylize Video Other Unsharp Mask apply special effects and do some advanced techniques that Sharpen 1 x can help make
16. of the tool Entering a higher Flow setting applies more paint to Ah your document A lower Flow setting allows more of the docu Seen MEA ment to show through The Repeat Rate adjusts in seconds how quickly paint is applied to the document As you change the settings by moving the cursor over the bars a black pointer Repeat Rate 15 sec shows the current level and a gray pointer the previous level The percentage readouts change to indicate the current settings Double clicking on the Air Brush displays the Brush Options palette described earlier with the Brush tool Option Air Brush changes to the Eyedropper tool Blur The Blur tool smooths or blurs the document Selecting the Blur tool adds a number of pop up features to the bottom of the Tools palette The Brush Type and Brush Size pop ups are described under the Brush tool earlier in this chapter The Blur Intensity pop up opens a Blur Intensity display that adjusts the intensi E o ty of the tool as Light Medium or Heavy The heavier the setting the larger the Med Light Heat sampled region of the document used in the blur process The smoothing effect of the tool does not accumulate as you make multiple passes over the same region the smoothing is applied only once To increase the smoothing effect first release the mouse then press and drag over the region again Blur Intensity If you want a finer adjustment open the Brush Options palette and use t
17. that option The Opacity functions the same as the Brush Opacity pop up described O Spacing BS earlier As you move the button on the slider the values in the pop up menu change Repeat oi sec O Fade 576 0 pix You can add predefined values by clicking on the pop up for each control and choosing Other which opens a dialog where a new value can be typed in the text box Checking the Add to list checkbox adds the value to Male 100 0 the pop up menu listing Transparent C Add to list Cancel_ 50K Color It 4 5 Manual Chapter 7 The Tools Palette 51 Add or delete values to the list by choosing Edit from the pop up An Edit Value 100 0 List dialog box opens with a scrolling list Click on a value in the list and then the Remove button to delete Typing a new value in the text box and clicking the Add button adds the value to the list The Gradient option adjusts the overall level of antialias ing for the brush tools The amount can be selected with the slider or with the pop up using the Edit or Other choices described above A 0 gradient antialiases from the center in a linear manner A low percent gradient creates a smooth but less soft edge A heavy gradient 100 creates a harsh edge Spacing 2s vj The Spacing option adjusts the spacing of the paint retouching effect in percent from 0 to 999 The amount can be selected with the slider or with the pop up using the i
18. you may select ASCII or Binary as a method of sending the image information Different types of printer work better with ASCII or Binary Binary format is usually preferred as it is half the size of ASCII and transfers faster to the printer Checking Selection to Clipping Path will drop out the background outside of a selection so it does not show when printed or imported into programs such as InDesign or QuarkXPress QuickDraw is the printing method used by non PostScript printers including most inkjet printers No options are available Custom Dither prints only black and white Clicking the Options button opens the Convert dialog box The Dither Style area offers several different Dither Style styles Diffusion Floyd Steinberg 3x2 E D Sake ters Floyd Steinberg 3x2 Diffusion has a pop o ail Jarvis Judice Ninke 5x3 up menu with several Mezzotint TF i oa Stucki 5x3 hoi for diffusion O Threshold at 50 _ a ia dither methods ai y U None 9 Levels Ordered Dither has a pop up 17 Levels menu with several choices for 33 Levels dither levels Mezzotint converts the image to a random dither Color Set Current Document Set System Colors Cancel i Threshold converts the image to a posterized image consisting of pure blacks and whites The percent entered in the textbox determines the level at which the black to white change takes place None does not dithe
19. 25 1 3 33 1 2 50 Fit v 1 1 100 The Zoom In Command and Zoom Out Command 2 1 200 4 1 400 commands change the document view to the next magnification factor listed at the 8 1 800 bottom of the menu 16 1 Window Mode Noma Window Color It supports three types of window modes Normal Window Full Screen E Full Screen and No Menubar No Menubar The default mode is Normal Windows which displays all the standard Macintosh window elements as well as Color It s magnification pop up Color It 4 5 Manual Chapter 19 The Window Menu 121 In Full Screen mode the document fills the screen except the menu bar if the view is large enough If the view of the document is not large enough a solid color background fills the rest of the screen The background color is chosen from the Document Border pop up menu in the Display Preferences dialog box Edit gt Preferences gt Display The No Menubar mode is similar to the Full Screen mode except the menu bar is hidden as well Although hidden menus will appear when the mouse button is held down as you click in the menu bar area at the top of the screen New View The New View command opens another view of the active document This permits viewing the same document at different magnifications Split Screen No Split Screen The Split Screen command displays a menu that allows you to view the active document in a window with a second
20. 28__ Double clicking on the Sharpen tool displays the Brush Options palette f Repeat oi sec Trade Eva vjox Option Sharpen changes to the Eyedropper tool The Stamp tool paints a copy of a document from a point you choose anywhere else in that document or from another document Selecting the Stamp tool adds a number of pop up features to the bottom of the Tools palette The Brush Type and Brush Size pop ups are described under the Brush tool earlier in this chapter The Stamp Operation pop up opens a box that offers several Pie ee ia pian vee a choices Clone Relative and Clone Aligned allow you to select a region of a document by holding down the Option key and clicking on the portion of the document you wish to duplicate or you may select a portion of another document When painting begins a copy of the selected part of the image is painted on top of the current image Clone Relative paints a copy of the selected image from the exact location you first selected and each paint operation starts anew from the point set with the Option key Clone Aligned aligns the image you are painting with the original loca tion and locks the copied image to the point where painting first began Stamp Operation Clone Relative Clone Aligned The Snapshot commands differs from the Clone commands in that an image of the entire document is taken when the Snapshot commands are first applied Unlike the Clone commands any sub
21. 480K amp Cancel New Y Millions of Colors The Image Type pop up menu lets you choose the type of document Color It Thousands of Colors creates Millions of Colors Thousands of Colors 256 Colors or 16 Colors for color le documents 256 Grays or 16 Grays for grayscale documents and Black and White 56 Grays 16 Colors 16 Grays Black and White Scan Import Export Page Setup Print v White The Fill With pop up controls the initial appearance of the new document You Black may create a new empty image with white or black fills background or duplicate Sa the contents of the current document active selection or clipboard Active Selection Current Document is available only when an existing document is open The new Clipboard document duplicates the contents of the document active at the time you chose New The height and width boxes automatically change to show the dimensions of the current document Active Selection is available only when a selection is active The new document duplicates the contents of the active selection The height and width boxes automatically change to show the dimensions of the current selection Clipboard is available only when an image is stored on the Clipboard The new document dupli cates the contents of the clipboard The height and width boxes automatically show the dimen sions of the clipboard image es Width Height These text boxes control the size of the new document P
22. Color It creates exactly matches the gradient bar at the bottom of the Tools palette When you move the crosshair over the active window two parallel lines show 7 m where Color It will create the gradient Starting Ending Resulting m Clicking the Gradient Type pop up opens a dialog where color color gradient you choose between Linear straight line or Radial circular gradients The line that appears on the side of the crosshair where you start is the beginning point of the gradient and the opposite line is the ending point Shift Gradient constrains the gradients to horizontal vertical or 45 degree angle gradients Gradient Type If no selection is made before using the Gradient tool an alert The Gradient tool will fill the current j et selection with the specified gradient appears informing you that the entire document will be filled if you proceed There is no active selection or mask so the entire document will be filled a NOTE The Smooth Gradients checkbox in Preferences Color It gt Preferences gt Tools must be checked in order for gradients to be created Color It 4 5 Manual Chapter 7 The Tools Palette 59 Clicking on the color bar in the Tools palette opens the Gradient Editor dialog box with the current gradient displayed at the top Here custom gradients may be created or existing ones modified To save a gradient I in the top view click the Add button To modif
23. Map FA The Image Map command displays a submenu with commands for changing the map Equalize for a document or selection Threshold Posterize Invert The Invert command Command I creates a negative of the image white becomes black black becomes white 30 black becomes 70 black etc Equalize The Equalize command adjusts the distribution of the colors in the image to make all saturation levels more even Threshold The Threshold command opens a dialog box to con Before f vert the image to only pure black and white areas Levels below the threshold point turn black and levels above the threshold point turn white The threshold point may be set by moving the slider bar clicking on the pointers at each end of the slider or entering a number from 1 255 in the textbox The effect of the adjustments to the image are shown in the After image You can choose the portion of the Cancel 60K9 image to be shown in the Before and After boxes by clicking and dragging the selection rectangle in the Color It 4 5 Manual Chapter 17 The Filter Menu 111 small image at the top left or in the Before view Checking the Live checkbox applies changes to the entire screen and removes the Before and After views Posterize The Posterize command allows you to create special Before effects by limiting the number of color levels in the image The number of levels is entered in the text box or by moving the sli
24. and ask Operations n enter 20 as the Width in the textbox Select All elect 4 Click Feather Select None Invert Selection Inward Outward Grow Selection Shrink Selection Select Similar Width pixels Feather Feather 36 Chapter 5 Special Effects Color It 4 5 Tour The selection area indicated by the moving black and white lines expands to indicate the new feathered area Feathering gradually fades the edges of a selection with its background 5 From the Edit menu select Paste to Fit The image from the Clipboard is pasted into the soft edged selection i I I LL l l l at l pa n i l l l I t 6 From the Selection menu choose Select None or type Command D 7 Press Command S to save Here is the final document we have cre ated The features we have demonstrat ed in this chapter show just some of the broad capabilities of Color It to easily produce intricate exciting and appeal ing images Be sure to check the refer ence section of the manual for complete descriptions of all of Color It s features So far we ve learned how to bring an image into Color It with a scanner or digital camera how to work with items in the Tools palette to create and modi fy images how to isolate portions of images and combine them with others how to utilize layers and masks and how to retouch images and perform special effects like painting with patte
25. changes the image resolu tion The pop up menu lets you choose Pixels per Inch or Pixels C Convert to Millions of ROB Colors T per Centimeter vi Keep aspect ratio S eae Checking Convert to changes the color depth of the image The Smooth scaling pop up menu offers the same options as the Image Type command Image Size 399K described earlier in this chapter C Reset _Cancel_ Ok Checking Keep Aspect Ratio changes width and height proportion ally Units other than Pixels must be chosen in the Size pop up in order for this checkbox to be available Checking Keep pixels constant keeps the file size the same despite differences in X and Y resolution For example changing a 2 x 2 image with 100 pixels inch resolution to 200 pixels inch resolution changes it to a 1 x 1 image The fils size remains the same Choosing Smooth scaling improves the appearance of images which are scaled 2 or more times their original size The Reset button returns the values in Size and Resolution to their original settings 96 Chapter 15 The Image Menu Color It 4 5 Manual Canvas Size The Canvas Size command lets you change the size of New Dimensions Align a document without changing the size of the existing Width Horizontal image Enter numbers in the Width and Height textbox Height 334 00 Vertical es for the new document dimensions Unchecking Keep Aspect Ratio enables width and height to be changed Units M Kee
26. folder E EEEE In the window that opens double click to open the Color It Stuff folder In the window that opens double click to open the Tool Sets folder _ p _ Color It Stuff Ci Tool Sets e Inside the Tool Sets folder are all the files for the saved tool 01 Q sets Select the tool set you wish to remove and drag it to 5 the Trash Default Tools Painting Tools Retouching Tools Selection Tools 4 items 2 45 GB available Color It 4 5 Manual Chapter 8 The Colors Palette 61 8 The Colors Palette The Colors palette is used to select and edit colors and patterns It can be opened from the Tools menu Command Y or by double clicking the Eyedropper tool Back Frame Fill The Back box indicates the color or pattern used for the background color This fills holes created when selections are moved cleared or cut The Frame box indicates the color or pattern chosen for frames The Fill box indicates the color or pattern used in painting and fill operations Click on one of the boxes to select it the selected color type is shown with a gray border Six different displays are available for the bottom portion of the Colors palette HSB Range Color Wheel Sliders Color Grid Scratch Pad and Patterns HSB Color Range The HSB Color Range shown above displays a graduated range of colors The color saturation increas es as you move from left to right The color brightness incre
27. gives you a choice of palettes of different colors The number of colors displayed depends on the type of document open A grid of 256 colors will appear for documents v Document Set 256 System Colors 16 System Colors 256 Grays with 256 colors to millions of colors documents with 16 or fewer colors will display a grid of 16 Grays 16 colors Grayscale docu ments with 256 levels show a grid of 256 grays documents with 16 or fewer grays dis play a grid of 16 gray levels Specialized color sets or Earth Tones Flesh Tones ImageWriter Colors Pastel Hues Vivid Hues Web Safe Colors those you create or modify appear at the bottom of the list NOTE The Web Safe Colors color set contains the 216 colors common to both the Mac and Windows versions of web browsers These colors will not dither when used on a web page Clicking the Edit button next to the Color Set pop up menu brings up a dialog box where color sets are edited or created Clicking on the Color Set pop up at the v Document Set upper left lets you choose from existing sets or create a new color set Copy Paste Earth Tones Flesh Tones ImageWriter Colors Pastel Hues Vivid Hues Web Safe Colors Clear a uit Undo Me at Pick Blend i F Selecting New Set opens a eave enter suk ae dialog box where the name of the new set is entered The Color Set Size 256 w Color Set Size pop up lets you anne choose the num
28. gt Tool Preferences must be checked before the Tools palette can be changed The Tool Set Pop up Menu New Tool Set The Tool Set pop up menu controls editing of the Tools palette It lets you create Reset save reset and select different palettes Dr ail ne Itis important to save any tool sets you wish to keep before rearranging tools Any Painting Tools modifications made to the Tools palette are saved when you quit Color It Retouching Tools Selection Tools The New Tool Set command opens a dialog to create a new tool set pe renee based on the current Tools palette The new tool set name appears at the bottom of the Tool Set pop up ika FES The Reset command opens a dialog box where you may eset this tool set to fa am as last time opined return to the Tools palette active when Color It was last O Factory defaults opened or the original palette settings that shipped with the program Cancel Rese All of the available tool palettes are listed at the bottom of the Tool Set pop up menu Selecting one makes it the current palette Y Open Lif Get Info To remove a tool set from the list quit Color It Hold down the Control key and click on the Color It program icon Choose the Show Package Contents command A new window opens Show Package Contents Move to Trash Double click to open the Contents folder a In the window that opens double click to open the MacOSClassic
29. imperfections associated with them Imperfections occur from hairs on a lens scratches on the scanned image and other oddities such as computer glitches Color It offers a variety of powerful ways to correct imperfections This tutorial describes several basic techniques however you may choose an alternative method 1 From the File menu choose Open Select the Rose tif image in the Tutorial folder NOTE The rose has been previously cut out from a photograph using the Lasso Scissors and Zap method used in extracting the balloon image 2 Select the Magnify tool and click 2 or 3 times on the petal imperfections to zoom in Enlarging or zooming in on an image can make it easier to work on small details Color It 4 5 Tour Chapter 4 Combining Images 29 Retouching Using the Pencil ra 1 Select the Pencil tool a 2 Select the square shape in the lower left of the Tools palette 3 Click and hold the size box 4 Select the smallest pencil size in upper left corner 5 Press Option and click on the rose area near the top imperfection When you press the Option key the Pencil tool temporarily turns into the Eyedropper tool to select the color of the image where the cursor is located 6 Click and drag over the imperfection until it is filled The color of the rose area near the imperfection you chose when you clicked with the Option key held down is used to fill the white imperfection Retouching Using
30. in the histogram making the distribution of Outline the other colors in the image easier to see Cumulative sums the number of pixels in the image that are darker than a selected level The bottom portion of the pop up menu controls the type of display for the histogram Gradient displays a gradient range that accurately depicts the black white and grays in the image Solid Black fills the histogram area with black Outline displays the histogram as a line Checking the Live checkbox applies changes to the entire screen and removes the Before and After views Curves The Curves command adjusts an image s brightness Map contrast and gamma at any point along the color scale It Channel opens a dialog box that displays an image map The hori zontal axis in the chart represents the colors in the origi nal image shadows to the left highlights to the right The vertical axis represents the colors in the output image shadows at the bottom highlights at the top The 45 line indicates the original and output images are the same Before The effect of the adjustments to the image are shown in the After image at the lower left You can choose the por aaa tion of the image shown in the Before and After boxes by 0 In O0ut 0 clicking and dragging the selection rectangle in the small aja gt _Reset_ image at the top left or in the Before view H Live Cancel ox hh The tools to the right of the curve di
31. location Balloon Big Smile JPG Clouds 3 Fire Sky Opening_Image Opening_Image html 4 Roseman Bridge Sunset Clouds Water Background Delete Originals New Folder 1 Thumbnails within a catalog may be selected by clicking on them Shift clicking may be used to select multiple images Selected images have a wider grey border surrounding them Double clicking a thumbnail opens the original image in Color It for editing Choosing the Delete selected image s command from the Action pop up removes the selected thumbnails from that cata log Q search Cancel Today Today Today Today Today Today Today Today Today search The Add folder of images command opens a dialog box where a folder contain ing images may be selected and thumb nails of the images within the selected fold er will be added to the catalog The Selected button chooses the highlighted folder The Current button chooses the folder presently open The New Folder button creates a new fold er you may name and locate The Gather images to command collects a set of copies of the original images in a catalog to another Cancel en Color It 4 5 Manual Chapter 11 Catalog Palettes 75 If individual thumbnails within the catalog are selected when this command is chosen a dialog box appears asking whether to Move All Images Move All Images _ Selected images Onl
32. sizes for Web Advertising AA Teeter octal Banners 460 x 55 pixels and Web Button Badges 88 x 31 pixels 3 w g 8 x 10 640 x 480 512 x 342 512 x 384 648 x 485 532 x 388 VPixels The Units pop up menu lets you specify the units to Inches be used for width and height pixels inches Centimeters centimeters picas or points Picas Points The Resolution Unit pop up menu lets you select pixels per inch or per centimeter Web Advertising Banner 460 x 55 sos Web Button Badge 88 x 31 The Image Size listing is an estimate of the amount of disk space Loop needed for the animation based on the color depth width and height entered Animation Once a new animation is created a new untitled docu ajot EH ment appears and a first blank frame appears on the Animation palette Additional frames may be created by selecting Add New Frame from the pop up menu or duplicating an existing frame Any of the normal tools or operations that may be performed on an image may also be done on each individual frame Animation Loop The Set Loop Limit command opens the Animation Loop dialog box where the number of times the animation loops or repeats itself are set Forever You may choose to have the animation loop forever or enter a specific OStop After Time s number of times in the textbox The Set Frame Characteristics command opens a a dialog Delay Time 100 Second s box where m
33. that may not be able to read TIFFs without info strings If you have a TIFF document which you cannot open in a program reopen it in Color It and save it with the Include Info Strings unchecked You may then be able to open it Macintosh PICT Format Options Checking Include Selection as Alpha Channel saves a selection so it reappears when the document is reopened Cancel JPEG is a popular compressed file format for Web use The Quality buttons set the quality of the image and the compression Low quality Baseline images are highly compressed and result in small file sizes High is the O Medium O Progressive quality setting used most often with a good balance of image quality High and file size The Format buttons let you choose between Baseline or lt A standard JPEG and Progressive where the the image first appears as Cancel OK fuzzy and gradually becomes clearer as the balance of the image information is downloaded This allows the viewer to see the entire image immediately and they may stop further downloading if the y wish NOTE Because JPEG discards data from the original image called lossy compression you cannot restore this data once an image is stored in the JPEG file format 86 Chapter 13 The File Menu Color It 4 5 Manual PostScript EPSF Format Options PostScript EPSF Options Saving PostScript documents in Binary format is usually pre Data Format Display Representation ferred as it tr
34. the Before view 6 Live C cance ES Checking the Live checkbox applies changes to the entire screen and removes the Before and After views The Reset button returns the settings to their defaults 110 Chapter 17 The Filter Menu Color It 4 5 Manual Adjust HSL This command opens a dialog similar to Contrast Before RGB but with sliders for Hue Saturation and Lightness With this filter it is easy to change the entire color balance and intensity of an image Adjustments are made by moving the slider bar click ing on the pointers at each end of the slider or enter ing a percent in the textbox qT S o x The effect of the adjustments to the image are shown p ea aN o j in the After image You can choose the portion of the peaa image to be shown in the Before and After boxes by gt o i clicking and dragging the selection rectangle in the gt small image at the top left or in the Before view cancel 50K Checking the Live checkbox applies changes to the entire screen and removes the Before and After views The Reset button returns the settings to their defaults Remove Red eye This command automatically searches for the range of colors reflected I a by eye pupils when a flash is too close to the camera S Because skin tones may share many of these colors it is best to select the pupils first with the Lasso tool for example before applying the filter k 4 ge 1 J Before After Image
35. the Color It program in order to use the ge Maps Pattern Sets plug in Color It only looks for plug ins a when the program launches 4 j Separation Settings Tool Sets 1 of 10 selected 2 06 GE available Go to File gt Scan Import The submenu will have TWAIN cinta Acquire and Select TWAIN Source listed If you have Open installed the plug in properly its name will appear on this a Recent submenu below Select TWAIN Sourcee If the plug in s site name does not appear on the menu you have not installed save it correctly Save As a Revert To Saved For information on how to use the plug in interface for SAF IMDON TWAIN Acquire your particular scanner or digital camera consult the Einar Sie documentation provided by the manufacturer or contact their technical support department Page Serup Print What Resolution Should I Use to Scan Most scanners today scan between 300 and 4 800dpi dots per inch Many people make the mistake of assuming that scanning at the highest resolution available makes the sharpest scans Particularly when scanning continuous tone images this is not true The resulting gigantic file eats up valuable space on your hard drive take forever to send to your printer and once the information gets to the printer it throws out the excess The types of images you would be most likely to scan fall into three major categories continuous tone line art and
36. the Paint Bucket EE 1 Select the Paint Bucket tool a 2 Click and hold the Fill Sensitivity pop up in the lower left of the Tools 0 palette and drag to select 75 as the Fill Sensitivity A 3 Press Option and click near the next imperfection Fill Sensitivity When you press Option the Paint Bucket tool temporarily turns into the Eyedropper tool for color selection 4 Click once in the imperfection Notice that the imperfection did not fill in completely 5 Open the Tools menu Antialiasing blends the fill with the adjacent colors Note that it has a check mark indicating it is on The Antialiasing command is a toggle Paint Controls i 6 Brush Options f Mouse Coordinates 7 Click in the imperfection a second time Web Map Palette o ETON eee This time the imperfection is corrected as the antialiasing is not trying to Catalogs blend the while of the imperfection with the fill color Select Antialiasing to turn it off Hide Palettes tab Antialiasing Dran Nelaw Retouching Using the Brush eg 1 Select the Brush tool Ce ice 2 Set the Brush options as in the example to the left 3 Press Option and click near the third imperfection When you press Option the Brush tool temporarily turns into the Eyedropper tool for color selection 4 Paint over the next imperfection 30 Chapter 4 Combining Images Color It 4 5 Tour Retouching Using the Stamp Tool A 1 Select the Stam
37. the mouse If Smooth Gradients is not checked in the Preferences Color It gt Preferences gt Tools only solid colors will show in the color bar The most recent color becomes the foreground background or frame color depending upon the color region currently selected Holding the Option key while clicking sets the starting color holding the Command key sets the ending color Option Holding the Shift key while clicking or dragging between colors creates a multi color ney blend with up to 16 colors Command key Clicking the Eyedropper inside the color bar selects a specific color The contents of the color bar can be assigned to the Paint Is and Image Is color bars in the Paint Controls palette by choosing the Current Colors command Clicking on the pop up at the bottom right corner of the Tools palette changes the size of the sample area the Eyedropper uses The color value selected is the average Eyedropper Area of the pixels in the area chosen lx Fxg 5x5 7x9 Double clicking on the Eyedropper displays or hides the Colors palette Shift Option Eyedropper changes to the Mover tool Selection Tools The selection tools are the Shape Selection Lasso Magic Wand Zap Scissors Crop and Bezier A selection from these tools can be repositioned from the keyboard Pressing an arrow key nudges the selection 1 pixel at a time Shift arrow nudges the selection 10 pixels Several of the selection tools the
38. the person who created the document Software The creator program Color It 4 5 by default but it may be changed Computer The type of computer used to create the document Apple Macintosh by default but it may be changed Device Make The hardware used to create the document Device Model Specific model information Description Notes or other comments you wish to add about the document Histogram The Histogram command opens a dialog box displaying a graphic Channel representation of the frequency distribution of the number of pixels in an image at a specific color level a Composite The Channel pop up lists the various channels that can be displayed The composite channel displays a combination of all three individual channels Red Green Blue Green and Blue CMYK images display Cyan Magenta Yellow and Black channels Low 15 Std Dew 32 35 e oes Median 144 aA The Display pop up adjusts the way the histogram is Selection Only displayed Selected options are marked with a bullet e Normal The top portion lets you choose between displaying No Black White the Whole Image or Selection Only Compressed Pamuluee Normal includes all the blacks whites and colors in the image No Black White ignores all pixels at the Gradient i Solid Black first index 0 and the last index 255 Some filters Outline group pixels at these extreme positions so it is com mo
39. then click the Grab button in PNG is a format used for Web graphics Interlacing displays images in a progressive manner first as coarse or fuzzy and interlaci i i a iii gradually getting clearer as the balance of the image informa O Adam 7 O Paeth tion is downloaded This lets the viewer see the entire image es as it displays the image immediately and they may stop further downloading if the image is of no interest Choosing Adam 7 makes seven pass Filter Types Sub Up Average and Paeth are different methods of comparing pixels already compressed to those not yet compressed to speed the process 88 Chapter 13 The File Menu Color It 4 5 Manual Revert to Saved The Revert To Saved command returns the document to the last version saved on the disk It is available only if the document has been changed since the last save Scan amp Import Edit Image Selection Filter Tools Windoy The Scan amp Import menu displays any scanning and ian i import plug ins that let you communicate with scanners Open 3 and other third party hardware Color It works with any el Recent scanner or digital camera which has a Photoshop compat ible plug in The TWAIN Acquire and Select TWAIN ne 7 Source options let you select any installed scanner plug Save As 2 SS ins that meet the TWAIN scanner standard specifications Revert To Saved NOTE If you have a scanner or digital camera the manufactur
40. tobrs map for the document For more information see Chapter 9 The Web Image Map Palette T 106 Chapter 17 The Filter Menu Color It 4 5 Manual 17 The Filter Menu EE Tools Window The Filter menu contains commands for adjusting color levels tone bright Blur 1 ness contrast to lighten or darken an image for adjusting or replacing colors removing red eye and to apply image maps and filters It also lets you apply third party plug in filters such as those compatible with Adobe Photoshop Adjustment Image Map Blur Convolution Last Filter The Last Filter command Command F is the first command listed in the Filter menu The command changes to reflect the last filter used and is a shortcut to apply that filter with the same settings once again Noise Sharpen Stylize Video Other rrrrryryrif fFrT Adjustment oS The Adjustment command displays a submenu with commands for adjust Curves ing the image for a document or selection Auto Enhance Auto Contrast Brightness Contrast 6 Lighten Darken L Brightness RGB Contrast RGB Adjust HSL Remove Red Eye Levels The Levels command lets you adjust the brightness Channel contrast and gamma in an image The command opens a input dialog box containing a histogram of the image A his togram displays the frequency distribution of the number Before of pixels in an image at a specific color level The
41. with surprisingly good results The Remove Scratches filter and Stamp tool are particularly effective in fixing flaws in the original image such as folds in the paper streaks dirt scratches or other background noise And you never can tell what other improvements you can make with Color It Original Image Modified Image Levels adjusted contrast adjusted unsharp mask applied power lines and pole removed extra window added on left side 12 Chapter 3 The Basics Color It 4 5 Tour 3 The Basics Tools Palette Introduction This section introduces the Tools palette and the names of the tools Most of the tools appear and perform the same as in many other paint programs For detailed informa GHEE tion about any of the tools refer to Chapter 8 The Tools Palette in the reference eN section HAA ool AeA i If a tool is not visible in the Tools palette it can be found in the Tool pop up menu The Tool pop up is located on the top right of the Tools palette The Tools palette contains six families of tools GHE General Tools Pointer Mover Magnify and Eyedropper Selection Tools Shape Selection Lasso Magic Wand Zap Scissors Crop and Bezier PEHEA Brush Tools Brush Eraser Pencil Air Brush Blur Sharpen Stamp Smudge Lighten HEHA and Darken A Paint Tools Shape Objects Paint Bucket Line Text and Gradient tools m A Filter Tool Kernel Brush tool Creating the Backgroun
42. www tropical_paracdise com wish to use in the dialog box The Image Map Options pop up at the right end of the palette lets you open existing image maps save image maps or close image maps Please enter the item URL desired Open Map Save Map Save Map As Cancel OK Close Map 68 Chapter 9 The Web Map Palette Color It 4 5 Manual Save Sen a rr fam Travel Images HH Q search Date Modified Balloon Today Clouds Today 2 Fire Sky Today Roseman Bridge Today Sunset Clouds Today Water Background Today C NCSA C CERN New Folder Save C Save Client side map also When Save Map or Save Map As is chosen a dialog box opens with the options to save the image map in two server side types NCSA or CERN the type chosen depends on the type your server supports ask your provider These maps are opened automatically if the map file is named the same as the image file except for the map exten sion at the end and both are located in the same folder Checking the Save Client side map also checkbox will save a client side version of the map in HTML format in addition to the server side type you choose This HTML image map file is immediately useable The CERN or NCSA maps as described above must be in the same folder for the image map to appear when the image file is opened Color It 4 5 Manual Chapter 10 The Animation Palette 69 10 The An
43. A PP Pe Cancel 0 OF Pon s Major Divisions appear in the rulers as a full height vertical tick marks followed by a number The pop up menu has several selected increments or others can be entered in the text box Minor Divisions are shorter vertical tick marks between the major divisions The pop up menu has several selected increments or others can be entered in the text box As changes are made the ruler in the the dialog box automatically updates to reflect the current values 80 Chapter 12 The Color It Menu Color It 4 5 Manual Separation Preferences Separation Settings Black Generation OUCR GcR Total Coverage Limit 350 Black Ink Limit 100 Method Black Starts At 10 GCR Black Generation Inks gt Fine Tuning Transfer Save Load Cancel Ok a a Nha F Black Generation offers 2 methods UCR Undercolor Removal or GCR Grey Component Replacement UCR is a technique that replaces some of the cyan magenta and yellow components of the neutral gray and dark shadow areas with black This helps compensate for some of the trap ping and related problems that occur in multicolor printing Extreme UCR is not practical If too much of the three color gray component is removed detail and density will be lost By reducing three colors cyan magenta and yellow and increasing one color black UCR reduces total ink coverage and printing expense significantly
44. Before improving poor quality images Much like a camera the Exposure amount can be adjusted the equivalent of 6 f stops up or down in 1 3 stop increments by clicking on the arrows The Contrast can be adjusted up or down in 1 2 stop increments The Contrast according to highlight checkbox optimizes the image based on its highlights and is most effective on images fs o with lots of white or highlight areas E The effect of the adjustments to the image are shown 6 Live in the After image You can choose the portion of the Reset Cancel 60K9 image to be shown in the Before and After boxes by clicking and dragging the selection rectangle in the small image at the top left or in the Before view Checking the Live checkbox applies changes to the entire screen and removes the Before and After views The Reset button returns the settings to their defaults Auto Contrast The Auto Contrast command is a shortcut to improve an image by optimizing the brightness and contrast and has no dialog box This is often the only contrast adjustment needed to improve the image Brightness Contrast The Brightness Contrast command Command B also adjusts the brightness and contrast of an image The command opens a dialog box with sliders The top slider adjusts Brightness in percentages 100 The bottom slider adjusts Contrast in percentages 100 Adjustments are made by moving the slider bar clicking o
45. Bit v 8 Bit Color sets may be created or modified See Chapter 8 The Colors Palette for more information Scale The Scale command opens a dialog where the width Original Scaling New and height of a selection or document may be changed Width 259 00 100 00 w by entering new numbers for either in the Scaling per Height 394 00 100 00 w cent or New measurements textboxes ee The Units pop up menu lets you inches change measurements to pixels inches Centimeters centimeters picas or points Picas Points Units Pesaran fa M Smooth scaling Reset Image Size 398K Cancel Unchecking Keep Aspect Ratio enables the width or height to be changed independently Checking Smooth Scaling improves the appearance of images which are scaled 2 or more times their original size Normally the image appears more pixilated or blocky as you increase the magnification but the transitions are smoother with this option chosen The Reset button returns the values in the Scaling boxes to their original settings Change Resolution The Change Resolution command permits changing the both the Size physical size and the resolution of a document Width and Height may be changed by entering new numbers in these textboxes The Units pop up menu lets you change measure pnts ments to Pixels Inches Centimeters Picas or Points eLo a i ors in the h he i a Entering numbers in the X or Y textboxes
46. EE The Document icon pop up menu lets you quickly select from several common sizes US Letter Tall 8 5 x 11 US Legal Tall 8 5 x 14 A4 Letter Tall 210mm x 297mm 3 x 5 and 8 x 10 Color It 4 5 Manual Chapter 13 The File Menu 83 SSE The sizes in the lower two sections are common Macintosh screen sizes in pixels 640 x 480 512 x 342 and 512 x 384 The 646 x 486 and 532 x uaa 388 are sizes that work well for video or i 14 US Legal Tall are sizes that work well for video or images on a screen A4 Letter Tall The sizes in the bottom section are standard sizes for Web Advertising 3 5 Banners 460 x 55 pixels and Web Button Badges 88 x 31 pixels 8 x 10 The Units pop up menu lets you specify the units to Inches W be used for width and height pixels inches Centimeters centimeters picas or points Picas 640 x 480 512 x 342 512 x 384 Points 648 x 485 532 x 388 Web Advertising Banner 460 x 55 Web Button Badge 88 x 31 The Resolution text box controls how much information Color It stores in the document Higher resolution takes more disk space preserves more image details and the final printed image more precisely duplicates the original The pop up menu lets you select pixels per inch or per centimeter Image Size Color It estimates the amount of disk space needed for the document about to be created based on the Image Type width height and resolution entered NOTE S
47. ErEE E NEN stg star Crop Options Double clicking the Crop tool opens the Crop Options dialog box Width Pixels You can crop the document to a specific size by entering values in 7 v inches p the Width and Height text boxes The Units pop up lets you choose Height Shh pixels inches centimeters picas or points Icas Resolution __ Points Enter a value in the Resolution text box and choose pixels per inch Gnel Gok or centimeters per inch from the pop up menu If no value is entered in the Resolution text box the document s present resolution will be used Bezier The Bezier tool draws an outline with modifiable straight segments and smooth curves that may be used to create a selection Click to set the first point then click at a different point to connect a straight line with the previous point Clicking and dragging creates a curved line segment To connect the end to the beginning click again on the first point To make the closed outline a selection click inside the outlined area a dotted line square will appear next to the Bezier cursor when the outline can be made a selection as shown control Curved online points also have control handles that modify MaN E the curves Moving the control handles adjusts the curves The modifier keys change the way online points and con trol handles are adjusted Holding down the Command and Option keys adds another point when clicking on the Bezier line Selecting an onl
48. Gray Balance Yellow Components _ a Green nnn En The Hue and Grayness area usually should remain at the default settings Densitometer readings should be taken for each of the percentages listed Numbers can be entered in the Gray Balance textboxes to compensate for color shifts in order to produce a neutral gray from the three process colors 4 CLolors Cancel cox Color It 4 5 Manual Chapter 12 The Color It Menu 81 ink Component Bias Clicking the Components button opens the Ink Components Bias Gray Color dialog Numbers may be entered in the textboxes for both Gray and 1 4 Tone 25 1 4 Tone 40 Color 1 4 Tone Mid Tone and 3 4 Tone to adjust for impurities in the Mid Tone 50 Mid Tone 63 process inks 3 4 Tone 75 3 4 Tone 80 Cancel rr fam O Separation Settings Qsearch Date Modified _ Coated Stock 9 20 96 Newsprint 9 20 96 Post Black 9 20 96 Uncoated Stock 9 20 96 _ Zero Setting 9 20 96 New Folder Cancel Open The Load button in Separation Preferences opens a standard dialog show ing the folder where pre defined curves may be chosen and applied Several stan dard settings are provided with Color It You may create and define your own curves and use the Save button in Separation Preferences to open a dialog letting you name and store your own settings If any of the changes in settin
49. In this mode the selection is feathered both inside Width 3 ixel aa and outside half the number of pixels entered in the Width textbox Smooth Edges The Smooth Edges command cleans up rough or jagged selections It has three set Amount tings Light Medium and Heavy which control the amount of smoothing Light Medium a 7 _ Heavy a 104 Chapter 16 The Selection Menu Color It 4 5 Manual Drop Shadow Drop Shadow The Drop Shadow command creates shadows for selections and type The left side of the dialog box gives a visual reference to the shadow s positioning The Feather slider controls the softness of the shad ow edge Values are entered by moving the slider bar clicking on the pointers at either end of the slid er or entering a number of pixels in the textbox The Intensity slider controls the opacity of the shadow Values are entered by moving the slider bar clicking on the pointers at either end of the slider or entering a percent in the textbox The Offset area controls the positioning of the shadow in relation to the selection Enter numbers in the Horiz Horizontal and Vert Vertical textboxes The shadow may also be repositioned by moving the cursor over the display area on the left and clicking and dragging Pixels The Units pop up lets you choose from pixels inches Inches centimeters picas points or percent Centmtrs Picas Points Percent E
50. Mask If the Document Mask is active and the Colors palette is closed Choose Mask Colors is the last command in the submenu Choosing this command opens Invert Mask Selection To Mask Mask To Selection Add Selection Subtract Selection Add Colors Subtract Colors Choose Mask Colors the Colors palette where you may choose up to 16 colors from the palette by holding down the Shift key and clicking in the Colors palette The colors are shown in the gradient at the bottom of the Tools palette selecting the Gradient tool displays the gradient bar Once the colors are chosen the Add Colors command adds the gradient bar colors to the mask These areas are protected in active layer of the original document The Subtract Colors command subtracts all of the colors in the gradient bar from the mask document so these areas in the active layer of the original document fully accept any paint paste or filter operations Invert Mask Selection To Mask Mask To Selection Add Selection Subtract Selection Add Colors Subtract Colors If the Colors palette is open the last command in the submenu is Palette Colors To Mask This command masks off all of the colors in the gradient bar For more information on using Document Masks see Chapter 5 Special Effects Palette Colors To Mask Select All The Select All command Command A makes the entire contents of a document the active selection Double clicking any selecti
51. Press and that document given to a commercial printer for a print run 1 Press Command O and open your Tutorial tif image Selection Filter Toals Window 2 In order to separate the image into its Image Type A Millions of RGB Colors component process colors choose Image gt Channel Thousands of RGB Colors Image Type gt CMYK 256 Indexed Colors 16 Indexed Colors Scale Change Resolution This converts the image to a process color Cyan Magenta Yellow Black K image Canvas Size 256 Grays Crop To Selection ay IMPORTANT NOTE Once a document is converted to Gra oselection See CMYK you will only be able to view and edit individual Flip l k channels of the document Other than choosing Edit gt mem Undo Conversion you will NOT be able to return to a full color composite view To be able to accurately edit further in color a document that you wish to convert to CMYK save a copy in both the original form and after converting to CMYK choose Save As to save a separate CMYK version You may wish to add CMYK to the end of the file name to distinguish between the two Printing An Image Edit 1 From the File menu select Page Setup Select Image 2 Click on the Settings eae eat POP UP MENY and Close Settings v Page Attributes choose Color It for SL lt settings specific to aS Format for Save As Default the Color It program Revert To Saved see below Pap
52. San File Edit Image The Color It menu contains information about the program installed plugs About Color It p ins and the Preferences ASL Ea The first command About Color It opens a dialog box P O Boxe 269 Winterset lowa 50273 USA http www digimagearts com Preferences Services Hide Color It Hide Others Show All Version 4 5 PowerPC Quit Color It Licensed To Th mi i Digimage Arts Customer Color it 2006 Digimage Arts LC All Rights Reserved Four color separation code acquired from Photone international Ie Done The About Color It dialog displays the version number and the name and organization information entered when the program was first personalized iam File Edit image Selection Filter Toc The About Plug Ins pop up displays a list with About Color It information about any installed third party plug ins About Plug In Backlight NOTE The list displayed is simply a sample These plug ins Preferences Rnashed Metal K do not ship with Color It Services HE Selecting a plug in from the list displays any information Hide Color Iti eis the third party plug in company provides Hide Others XH Gradient Glow Show All Motion Trail Perspective Shadow Quit Color It Ha Super Star Preferences Sian File Edit Image Selection Filter The Preferences command Command K sets preferences About Color itl defaults for many areas of Color It Related prefe
53. Select the Magnify tool and hold the Option key down Click once to reduce the image view See Filter Tools Window 2 In the Selection menu select Document Mask gt Selection Type Balloon tif Mask Document Mask New Mask Mask Operations Open Mask Select All Balloon tif Mask 3 Select None rx Invert Selection Notice that the balloon area in the mask is white White areas in masks are transparent and accept all actions you perform on the image including paste paint or filter Black areas are 100 opaque and are completely protected from your actions Gray areas allow some of your actions to be applied to the image depending on the gray level Light gray allows greater change than dark gray 3 From the Window menu select your Tutorial tif image 4 From the Selection menu choose Selection Type gt Document The Selection Type options act as a toggle and turn masks or selections on and off 5 From the Selection menu choose Mask Operations gt Invert Mask This inverts the mask so the balloon is black and the background is white This allows you to alter the background without changing the balloon 6 Select the Darken tool from the Tool pop up 7 Select the settings for the pop up options as shown on the left 8 Click and drag from the top right side of the balloon where the balloon meets the back ground image around the image and stop at the bottom of the basket The Lighten and Darken tools only aff
54. Selection from the shape selector ical Ehapi opens a dialog box where the size and some selection O Constrain To Ratio attributes as well as adding completely customized Fixed Size shapes are chosen for the Shape Selection tool _ Height Draw From Center Select a shape from the Shape pop up Rectangle Oval menu All of the preset shapes from the Diamond shape selector are listed and can be Arc customized using the Constrain to ee Ratio proportional width height or Round Rect Fixed Size buttons Enter numbers in SATS the Width and Height textboxes for the ae ratio or fixed size to be used The Units Selection pop up menu next to the Width and Height textboxes lets you choose from pixels inches centimeters picas or points To create a completely customized shape first make a selection in the document using any of the selection tools With the selection still active choose one of the Shape Selection tools hold down the Option key and double click on the tool to open the Custom Selection dialog box Choose Selection from the Shape pop up menu The Normal Shape active selection in the document appears in the square to O Constrain To Ratio the right Choose any of the other options if desired and iiiu click the OK button The selection is now available as Custom in the Shape pop up menu and remains until m Inches Y i 7 nenes ka iis 1 Height the process is repeated to create anoth
55. Shape Selection Lasso and Magic Wand tools share the Grow Shrink Selection and Selection Calculator features Color It 4 5 Manual Chapter 7 The Tools Palette 47 Grow snrank The Grow Shrink Selection opens a dialog box that Selection lets you increase or decrease the current selection Key Adjusts area by the percentage you set in the dialog box As T you move the mouse over the graduated bar black ot gt Ee pointers show the current range selected Holding the Command key down selects only colors lighter than the current selection Holding the Option key down selects only colors darker than the current selection The Selection Calculator Equals button lets you make a new selection The Plus button or j 7 m Shift adds and the Minus button or Command subtracts from the current selection Selecting with Command Shift selects the intersection of the two selections I I S HE a My wN EH l i l E Original Plus Minus Intersection Shape Selection r The Shape Selection tool selects an area of a document When this tool is chosen the L a Grow Shrink Selection and Selection Calculator discussed previously and the Shape Selector appear at the bottom of the Tools palette The Shape Selector offers eleven standard shapes and a custom shape option Choose a shape by moving the cursor over the shape and releasing the mouse The chosen shape then appears in the Tools palette ST E Choosing the Custom
56. W 45k 600 dpi 1 B amp W 176 k 72 dpi 8 256 colors 20 k 300 dpi 8 256 colors 352 k 600 dpi 8 256 colors 1 400 k 1 200 dpi 8 256 colors 5 500 k 72 dpi 16 Thousands 40 k 300 dpi 16 Thousands 703 k 600 dpi 16 Thousands 2 700 k 1 200 dpi 16 Thousands 11 000 k 72dpi 24 Millions 81k 300 dpi 24 Millions 1 400 k 600 dpi 24 Millions 5 500 k 1 200 dpi 24 Millions 22 000 k As you can see as the scanning resolution and bits depths increase the file size increases rapid ly Files may become so large that just a few images may fill your entire hard drive and working with very large files takes a long time Always consider how the scanned image will eventually be used on screen inkjet printer laser printer imagesetter or slide presentations for example Capturing more information in a scan than you can use may make huge unwieldy files that do not improve the final appearance of the image Color It 4 5 Tour Chapter 2 Scanning amp Importing 11 72dpi too low 300dpi just right for print output for 150 line screen 4x larger than 300dpi 87k 1MB 4 1MB Good Originals Make Good Scans Images with a good balance of colors and contrast produce the best scans If the image you are scanning is imperfect it is still possible to get fairly good results The options under Adjustment in the Filter menu Levels Curves Brightness etc and Sharpen can be used to help compensate for poor quality originals sometimes
57. Wand 1 Double click on the Magnify tool to return to a 1 1 view of the Rose tif file SD 2 Select the Magic Wand tool 3 Click and hold the Wand Sensitivity pop up located on the bottom left of the Tools palette 4 Click and drag to select 20 as the Sensitivity Expand 0 50 5 Click on the white area surrounding the rose to select it r The white area is selected Wand Sensitivity Color It 4 5 Tour Chapter 4 Combining Images 31 Se Fiter Tools Win 6 From the Selection menu choose Invert Selection Selection Type All of the portions of the Rose tif image not previously selected are now DOCUTISRE Mask selected i e the rose is now selected not the white background Mask Operations Select All WA NOTE This is a very useful technique when you which to select a multi colored Select None image against a mostly solid colored background invert Selection 7 From the Edit menu select Copy or type Command C Selection Image Undo Selection T 8 Close the Rose tif image by clicking on the red Close button SENN nse in the upper left corner of the image window or type Cut 98 Command W If you are asked if you wish to save changes choose Don t Save Sharpening the Entire Rose 1 From the Window menu select the Tutorial tif image Show Rulers 2 From the Edit menu choose Paste or type Magnification Command V Image Selection Undo Selection 2 Redo
58. ages QuickTime PICT is a format that permits you to compress images using many different com pression methods available in QuickTime It is not the same format as JPEG See the Help menu in the Finder for more information on compression in QuickTime 38 Chapter 6 File Prep amp Output Color It 4 5 Tour Web Graphics Formats Graphics Interchange Format GIF is the most popular Web graphics file format It is supported by every Web browser so if you use the GIF format you can be assured that everyone every where can view your image GIF files also support transparency which is an attribute that File Type Signature enables an image to turn the background color transparent so the Macintosh GIF Format Web page behind it shows through GIF s compression scheme is O Text File most efficient with areas of solid color _ Binary File Daiane Data from an interlaced GIF file is arranged to allow for a faster Make Background Color Transparent perceived display Interlaced GIF files appear on the screen in a C Interlaced GIF l M Minimize Color Table coarse form almost immediately and then get progressively sharper There are drawbacks to saving your image as a GIF file however cancel GOK GIF is limited to 8 bit color 256 colors For this reason GIF is not the best format to use for multi color images and color photographs GIF delivers better results and smaller files for line art and solid colors icons grap
59. al wider approximately 7 5 Heignt dala 11 Set the Height 1 higher approximately 5 25 Lee E keep aspect ratio Color It can increase or decrease canvas sizes propor pe n tionally or in a specified direction When adjusting the Reset Image Size 602K Cancel o Resize i canvas size of an image remember to use the Align pop up menus to determine where your present image fits in the canvas For this example leave both Align settings at Center 12 Click the Resize button 13 From the Selection menu choose Select All or press Command A 14 Select the Mover tool 15 Click and drag to reposition your image move it so a portion actually extends outside the limits of the image Selection Fiter 7 16 Choose Selection gt Select None Command D to deselect Image Type 17 Select Edit gt Undo Command Z to revert your actions until the nanne image is back to being centered within the document Scale Change Resolution NOTE Color It can be set to undo up to 16 levels To increase or decrease Undo levels select Color It gt Preferences gt General Canvas Size 3 Crop To Selection 17 Save your image 16 Chapter 3 The Basics Color It 4 5 Tour Exploring Image Edges Now that your background image is smaller than the actual canvas size the edges are open for creative opportunities Step 11 a Step 13 Step 22 1 Click the Magnify tool twice times o
60. an to save the entire document J TIFF The Format pop up menu is used to select the specific file format in which to save Macintosh PICT the document Formats include TIFF Macintosh PICT JPEG PostScript Paint JPEG CompuServe GIF Photoshop 2 0 and 2 5 StartUpScreen Photone Prepress Seine Scitex CT in CMYK only QuickTime PICT and PNG Paint Compuserve GIF The Options button next to the Format pop up menu opens a dialog box allowing Photoshop 2 0 you to set format specific preferences Photoshop 2 5 StartupScreen NOTE Paint is the old MacPaint file format Documents saved in this file format are ue Prepress black and white 8 x 10 images only Citex QuickTime PICT NOTE Paint StartUpScreen Photone Prepress Scitex CT and QuickTime PICT formats PNG do not have any options TIFF Format Options Compression Select from None RLE Run Length Encoding LZW Compression Lempel Ziv Welch and LZW Horiz Diff All are lossless no data is lost in None OZW the compression process ORLE L W Horiz Diff FA Format Select either Macintosh Motorola or IBM Intel formats Macintosh Motorola Checking Include Selection saves a selection so it reappears when the docu deal ment is reopened This option is useful for saving complex selection masks C Include Selection you have created C Include Info Strings The Include Info Strings checkbox is used for older versions of programs
61. ansfers faster to the printer Some programs may ASCII Text 2 1 O None require ASCII Text however Binary 1 1 Black and White O Color Gray Scale Many programs open and display a PICT screen image for a eee ee PostScript file to help you position the image You may select Saye a5 Desboa Color Separation files 15 None a Black and White representation or a Color Gray C Save Selection as Clipping Path Scale preview Cancel 90K Checking the Transparent Line Art checkbox makes all pure white areas of PostScript images transparent This option is available only for black and white images Checking Save as Desktop Color Separation Files saves CMYK images in five separate files one for each process color and one for a color preview available only for CMYK images Checking the Save Selection as Clipping Path enables you to drop out the background areas outside of an active selection in the document for export to page layout programs such as QuarkXPress or InDesign CompuServe GIF Format Options GIF is a popular compressed format for Web The File Type File Type Signature Signature area lets you choose Macintosh GIF Format for images to Macintosh GIF Format be displayed primarily on Macs although they may display on other Q enn computers too or Text and Binary for images to be displayed for Seles 7 other types of computers and Web pages Checking the Make C Make Background Color Transparent Background Color Tr
62. ansparent option makes the current back _ Interlaced GIF ground color in the document usually white transparent when E alsin displayed on a Web page Note that all areas of an image consisting Cancel OK of that color will turn transparent Be sure to set the desired back eround color in the Tools or Colors palette before saving When you re open a GIF file saved in Color It with the Make Background Color Transparent option chosen the color saved as transparent is selected and the Background color is changed to that color Checking the Interlaced GIF option causes the image to display on Web pages in a progressive manner first as coarse or fuzzy and gradually getting clearer as the balance of the image infor mation is downloaded This lets the viewer see the entire image immediately and stop further downloading if they wish Checking the Minimize Color Table option saves the image in the fewest number of colors possible to reduce the file size and downloading time Sao SS N OTE If the Image Type of the document being saved in GIF format a to 256 Colors before it can be saved in is Millions or Thousands of Colors a dialog box will open telling you Su Ee the file must be converted to 256 colors to save in GIF format Clicking the Convert button opens a dialog where the conversion can be made See Chapter 15 The Image Menu for more information Cancel Convert Photoshop 2 0 Format Options Checking Include Se
63. any aspects of the animation are set Delay times may be set in 100ths of a second Disposal Method Unspecified C Transparency Current Frame Index 0 Apply to M All Frames Cancel SOK Pil en The Disposal Method controls Do Not Dispose how the data from the previous Restore to Background Color frame is handled by the next Restore to Previous frame The pop up offers Unspecified where the particular web browser determines how to handle the data Do Not Dispose which retains image data Restore to Background Color returns any portions of the image not used by the next frame to the background color of the web page where the animation is being displayed and Restore to Previous returns to the image data there before a particular was displayed Color It 4 5 Manual Chapter 10 The Animation Palette 71 erase oom The Transparency checkbox controls whether transparency is used in the animation or not The pop up offers three ways of handling transparency Current Frame Index makes all areas of the image the same color as the current frame color index transparent Current Foreground Color makes those areas in the animation the same color as Color It s Foreground Color transparent likewise Current Background Color does the same with Color It s current background color Current Foreground Color Current Background Color When checked the Apply to All Frames checkbox applies all frame characteristics set in
64. are made Frequency controls the size of the halftone spots used to print the Blaci Screen Sedtinox image Choose Lines per Inch LPI or Lines per Benin Centimeter LPC from the pop up LPC Angle Degree Angle controls the halftone screen angle mape yRound The Shape pop up lets you choose the shape of the Square halftone spots used to print the image C Use Printer Defaults Cancel gt Line Checking Use Printer Defaults overrides these settings and uses the printer s normal built in settings NOTE Screen settings only affect output on PostScript printers Color It 4 5 Manual Chapter 13 The File Menu 89 Print The Print command Command P opens the standard Macintosh Printer StylusC86_ Print dialog Choose your printer Presets Standard BE from the Printer pop up Copies amp Pages H Copies E M Collated Pages All O From 1 to 1 A PDF Preview Supplies Cancel Print Clicking either the Preview or Print buttons PostScript Postscript Settings opens the Print Format dialog box PostScript Color PostScript ASC I O Binary and Color PostScript are the printing meth ack Oraw _ Selection to Clipping Path ods used by printers with a PostScript inter M Custom Dither Options E S preter The Screen options in the Page Setup Preview Cancel GOD dialog function only with this type of printer With PostScript printers
65. ases as you move from bottom to top The ue hue for the display is selected by moving the slider at the very bottom of the palette v Saturation Clicking on the H S or B letters on the edges opens a pop up that lets you re arrange the Brightness position for Hue Saturation or Brightness or change the display to RGB Red Red Green Blue Select a color by clicking in the display Green Blue Color Wheel The Color Wheel shows a graduated range of colors Hues or colors shown are fully saturated at the outside edge and decrease as you move toward the center YHSBWheel The pop up menu lets you choose between HSB Wheel Hue Saturation Brightness and HSL Wheel Hue Saturation Lightness In HSB Wheel the slider at the bottom controls the brightness In HSL Wheel the slid er controls the lightness Sliders Sliders displays controls used to change the selected color The pop up lets you Z RGB Sliders choose between RGB HSB CMY and Grayscale sliders The slid HSB Sliders ers are adjusted by clicking and dragging on the button Clicking CMY Sliders on the pointers at each end changes the settings one unit at a time Grayscale sliders Changes made are reflected in the selected color box Back Frame or Fill at the top of the palette 62 Chapter 8 The Colors Palette Color It 4 5 Manual Color Grid OAA The Color Grid displays colors that may be chosen by clicking on a color square Document Set ooo Z The pop up menu
66. ber of colors in CCancel_ EOD the set 16 36 64 or 256 Clicking OK saves the new set in the Color Sets folder inside the Color It Stuff folder New sets are always grayscale until edited Reverse C Light gt Tint Done j E Color squares are selected by clicking on them Use the Copy and Paste buttons to place selected colors in other grid squares Clicking the Clear button changes selected color squares to black The Undo Redo button is a toggle that lets you reverse the last action taken for selected squares The Pick button opens the standard Apple color picker where a color can be selected Color It 4 5 Manual Chapter 8 The Colors Palette 63 A range of squares can be selected by clicking and dragging The Blend button changes the selected color squares to a blend between the first and last squares selected fr J The Sort button opens a dialog box aay rae you ar of sort Secondary Ing the Colors 1N the set Copy Clear Undo ee iia C Sort gt Ee See Reverse Hue The Primary and Secondary pop up menus Saturation offer several choices for sort methods gee The Reverse button swaps the order of the Red selected color squares upper left corner to lower Green right corner Blue The Warm Cool Light and Dark buttons Fi Light J C Tint 7 i Cyan aaa change the selected colors by changing their Yellow color value
67. board into the document keep ing its original proportions but visible only within the selected area The marquee lines show the shape of the pasted image and it can be moved to position the portion you wish to show through the selection The Paste Behind command puts the con tents of the Clipboard into the document but outside of a selection rather than into it The original image shows within the selection The pasted image can be moved to reposition it behind the selection The Paste To Fit command changes the proportions of the contents of the Clipboard so that the pasted image completely fills the selection Color It 4 5 Manual Chapter 14 The Edit Menu 93 Fill The Fill command Option Delete fills a selection with the foreground color or pattern If no selection is active the entire document is filled Frame The Frame command opens a dialog where the width of a frame for a selec tion in pixels is entered Clicking the Frame button puts a frame of the specified width using the Frame color within the selection Width pixels 94 Chapter 15 The Image Menu Color It 4 5 Manual 15 The Image Menu Filter 1 The Image menu contains commands that allow you to convert image types Image Type view color channels change the scale resolution or size of a document or Channel rotate stretch skew distort or apply perspective to a selection or the entire Scale document Change Resolution Sel
68. ch the end drag the final cut on top of the beginning cut point Line Width 13 Click drag and click to create small cuts around the inside edge of the balloon Use the scroll bars when needed to see other parts of the image If you make a mistake select Undo in the Edit menu or type Command Z NOTE The cuts you made with the Scissors must be connected to remove the outside selection Color It 4 5 Tour Chapter 4 Combining Images 21 14 Select the Magnify tool Hold down the Option key and click three times to reduce the image view 15 Select the Zap tool from the Tool pop up menu F 16 Click between the balloon area cut with the Scissors tool and the first Lasso area The Zap tool deselects the Lasso selection and leaves the balloon cut out selection active 17 Save the Balloon tif image 18 With the balloon still selected choose Copy from the Edit menu Image Selection Undo Selection Z Redo 19 Choose New from the Edit Select Image Cut File menu Open Recent 20 From the Fill With pop up choose Clipboard Image Type The settings in the New Image dialog change to reflect those of v White x the image on the Clipboard Black _ Width 21 Click the New button Height Current Document aiii Active Selection Resolution Clipboard Image Size 806K Cancel New 0 untitled2 A new document is created with the clipboard contents Since the Clipb
69. command opens a dialog box where several methods can be n chosen for de interlacing images from video devices eplace Even Fields Odd Fields By Duplication Interpolation Cancel OD The Other command opens a submenu with other commands for adjusting images 116 Chapter 17 The Filter Menu Color It 4 5 Manual Minimum Ena c ee Third Party Plug in Filters The Minimum command opens a dialog box where the Intensity can be adjusted by moving the slider bar clicking on the pointers at each end of the slider or entering a number from 1 16 in the text box The effect of the adjustments to the image are shown in the After image You can choose the portion of the image to be shown in the Before and After boxes by clicking and dragging the selection rectangle in the small image at the top left or in the Before view The Maximum command opens a dialog box where the Intensity can be adjusted by moving the slider bar clicking on the pointers at each end of the slider or entering a number from 1 16 in the text box The effect of the adjustments to the image are shown in the After image You can choose the portion of the image to be shown in the Before and After boxes by clicking and dragging the selection rectangle in the small image at the top left or in the Before view Color It supports third party plug in filters compatible with Adobe Photoshop These filters must be put in the Plug ins folder i
70. creen image resolution is measured in pixels per inch It differs from output device resolu tion measured in dots per inch See Chapter 2 Scanning amp Importing for a tour and more infor mation Open The Open command Command O opens existing documents Color It uses a virtual memory scheme that uses hard disk space to hold documents too large to fit in RAM it can have many documents opened at one time limited only by your disk space Documents display at 72 dpi or at their resolution depending on the setting in Display Preferences Color It gt Preferences gt Display when opened High resolution documents may appear much larger than you expect To view all documents at their reproduction size select Display At Resolution in the Display Preferences dialog box To temporarily display the active document at its reproduction size choose Display at Resolution from the Window menu The Open dialog box has all the features of a standard Macintosh Open dialog box The Enable Macintosh PICT pop up lets Enable All Documents H JPEG ij i 1 1 fe r A a PostScript ee eC k ILS am 2 Tutorial Q search p file formats to _ a aint Background tif Today Photoshop 2 0 scroll box and Balloon1 tif Today Photoshop 2 5 spee ds the flower tif Today StartupScreen fe Rosel tif Today Photone Prepress pee of Tutorial tif Today Scitex CT searching for PNG documents in a All Documen
71. ct a document Color Extrude It supports two types of masks Selection masks and Document masks Hide Marquee Selection Masks are made with any of the selection tools and temporarily Sb Et protect portions of a document similar to the way a stencil or masking tape Use Selection as Mask protects portions of a surface as you paint Add to Web Image Map Document Masks are used for special effects and blends A document mask is a second grayscale only document linked to the original The gray levels in the document mask control how paste paint or filter operations affect the original document almost like a stencil with variable opacity Pure white areas in the Document Mask act as if completely transparent any changes made to the original document completely replace the image that already exists on the active layer Pure black areas in the Document Mask completely protect the original document from changes to the active layer In the gray areas of the Document Mask between pure white and pure black the amount of change to the original image is based on the eray level in the document mask the lighter the gray in an area of the document mask the greater the effect of changes in the active layer of the original document For example if an image has a Document Mask filled with a 70 grey and the original image was filled with a solid red only 30 of the solid red would be applied to the original image Masks can be turned on and off by select
72. d Image To begin this tour we open a less than desirable background image Next using several Color It filters the background image is transformed into a visually appealing element in our design Layers and Filters 1 Double click the Color It icon to start the program 2 Open the Background tif file located in the Tour folder CORT Color It 3 In the File menu select Save As and rename the file Tutorial tif NOTE Always create a new file before retouching or altering an image to prevent the original from being changed 4 Double click the Mover tool to quickly select the fit to window option Double clicking the Mover tool again changes to a 1 1 100 view Color It 4 5 Tour Chapter 3 The Basics 13 caua Filter Tools Window 5 Selection Type Document Mask Mask Operations Select All Select None Invert Selection dida Tools Window Last Filter Adjustment Image Map Equalize Blur Threshold Convolution 1 Posterize Noise E la n non an HiG Tools Last Filter Adjustment am Levels image Map gt Curves Blur gt Auto Enhance Convolution gt Auto Contrast Noise bo iit Tools Equalize Levels Adjustment image Map From the Selection menu choose Selection Type gt Color It is capable of performing actions on either the entire image or in a selected area By choosing this com mand you insure the next commands a
73. d adds a gray frame The scroll bar and scroll arrows at the bottom of the dialog box can be used to make more the patterns in the set visible Each pattern set can hold up to 90 patterns Patterns are arranged in sets The Set popup menu Convert 2 0 Set lets you choose a set convert a Color It or Color It Classic Patterns 2 0 set or create a new pattern set Cool Patterns x Default Patterns More Patterns 1 Color It 4 5 Manual Chapter 8 The Colors Palette 65 The New Set command brings up a standard Open dialog box showing Save As na the Pattern Sets folder located in the Where _PatternSets sad Color It Stuff folder The Convert 2 0 Set command also Cancel Save brings up a standard Open dialog box where you can locate existing Color It or Color It 2 0 patterns Patterns within sets can be changed and moved within the Pattern Edit dialog box using the Cut Copy Paste and Undo buttons The Modify button opens a dialog box where existing patterns can be modified or new patterns created The pattern width or height can be Modify Pattern changed by entering numbers in the New Size or Percent textboxes Old Size NewSize Percent Unchecking Keep Aspect Ratio lets Width 16 100 0 you change the width or height inde Height 16 100 0 pendently wi Keep Aspect Ratio C Convert To Direct Color C Display Pattern Tiled Clicking the Convert To checkbox lets yo
74. d somethings happens to your one and only copy of the Color It program it may cost you money to get a replacement So make a backup OK Know Your Basic Macintosh Operations This manual assumes you are familiar with the basic Macintosh operations point click drag open save etc If you are not familiar with these operations refer to the manual that came with your Macintosh for more information Installing Color It NOTE It is recommended that you have at least 10 megabytes of free space on your hard drive before installing To install Color It insert the Color It CD ROM into your drive Double click the icon for the CD when it appears on your desktop Drag the Color It program icon onto your hard drive Onea itis recommended that you put the Color It program in your Applications folder type Command Shift A in the Finder to open your Applications folder but you may put it any where you wish You will also find it helpful to copy the Tutorial folder to your hard drive as well This contains files you will be using as you proceed through the Tutorial Tour section of this manual Double click the Color It icon on your hard drive to start the program Par a T k er Color It 4 Chapter 1 Getting Started Color It 4 5 Manual The first time you start Color It the Please personalize your copy of Registration dialog box opens To Or complete the Registration dialog Naini you must enter a name in the Name
75. der bar clicking on the pointers at each end of the slider or entering a number from 1 255 in the textbox The effect of the adjustments to the image are shown in the After image You can choose the portion of the image to be shown in the Before and After boxes by clicking and dragging the selection rectangle in the small image at the top left or in the Before view Checking the Live checkbox applies changes to the entire screen and removes the Before and After views Blur Blur Blur 1 Blur More 2 The Blur command displays a menu with several blur options The first Blur command opens a dialog box where Before the image can be blurred by moving the slider bar clicking on the pointers at each end of the slider or entering a number in the textbox The effect of the adjustments to the image are shown in the After image You can choose the portion of the image to be shown in the Before and After boxes by clicking and dragging the selection rectangle in the small image at the top left or in the Before view The Blur 1 and Blur More 2 commands are pre set and have no dialog box They apply directly to the image p a Cr OD Convolution The Convolution command displays a menu with two options Custom Convolution Kernel SS a The Kernel command opens a dialog box with a Before aaa ean pop up menu of all the Blur Light kernel filters available Blur Medium through the Kernel b
76. document selected from the open document list Two documents or two views of the same document must be open for this command to be available Left and Right Top and Bottom Balloon a When two documents are seen in a split screen view the active document is in the left or top position depending on whether you choose Left and Right or Top and Bottom from the menu To return to a single document view select the No Split Screen command Clouds tif In Split Screen mode any paint 4 04 x 5 25 inches operation performed in the right bottom document window appears in the left top document This can be very useful when using Document Masks as docu ments in Split Screen mode are always perfectly aligned See Chapter 17 The Selection Menu for more information about using masks Display at Resolution The Display at Resolution command displays the document at its true reproduction size in a one to one ratio Color It displays documents either in 72dpi or at the document s resolution depending on the settings in the Display Preferences dialog box Edit gt Preferences gt Display High resolution documents displayed at their resolution appear to be magnified a 300dpi document appears approximately 4 times larger on screen for example Checking Display at Resolution displays documents in the same physical dimensions as they will print out and were saved in Left unchecked all documents are displayed at 72dp
77. e Square Shape Object top left corner as shown to the left ti 3 Click and hold the Shape Object Frame Width pop up and select 1x1 in the Frame Width size 4 Select and hold the Frame Fill pop up and choose the Fill Only option P 5 Click the Fill color area the smallest area color Frame Fill Frame nly nly and Fill selection area furthest to the right in the Tools palette Frame Fill The color grid appears and you may also choose colors from this grid 6 Click on the fifth color from the end of the first column a gold 28 Chapter 4 Combining Images Color It 4 5 Tour 7 With the Shape Object tool still selected draw a i iit solid color rectangle similar to that shown here sae 4 8 Select the Text tool 9 Set the pop up settings to Times ee a Align Left Bold and Italic and 36 o Point e ELE 10 From the Colors palette select the Color Grid button 4th from the left m T third row from the top as shown EEHEEHE TE gt SESneneneeem gt This changes the fill color for the type you are about to enter to red eee ee OE SEES ___ EE See DA SEEDS rr ee ee ee er ee DOERRENHHTEENE Ltt tf __ SEER 11 Type Sailing Away 12 Hold down the Control key and drag the type into the position as shown to the left 13 Deselect the type Command D 14 Save the image Command S Retouching an Image It is not uncommon for photographs to have
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80. e the last operation was performed Eraser Size NOTE When not in a 1 1 100 image view Choose Tools gt Cursor gt Crosshair and Tools gt Cursor gt Brush Size to give you a view of the area to be affected by the Eraser Pencil ra The Pencil tool changes selected pixels to the foreground color Two features appear at the bottom of the Tools palette when the Pencil is selected The left feature lets you select either a square or round shape The current shape has an outline around it The pop up menu on the right side lets you select a size for the Pencil The current size has an outline around it The Pencil Size pop up lets you select a size for the tool by moving the cursor over the shape you wish Double clicking on the Pencil tool toggles between 1x and 8x views of the document The 8x magnification makes pixel editing with the Pencil easier Pencil Size NOTE When not in a 1 1 100 image view Choose Tools gt Cursor gt Crosshair and Tools gt Cursor gt Brush Size to give you a view of the area to be affected by the Pencil 54 Chapter 7 The Tools Palette Color It 4 5 Manual Air Brush The Air Brush tool sprays the current foreground color on a document Selecting the Air Brush tool adds a number of pop up features to the bottom of the Tool palette The Brush Type and Brush Size pop ups are described under the Brush tool earlier in this chapter REEE The Spray Options pop up adjusts the Flow and Repeat Rate
81. eates a regular pattern of pixels The pop up menu has v 17 Levels choices for several different dither levels 33 Levels Mezzotint converts the image to a random pattern of pixels in different sizes similar to a mezzotint effect in engraving APs Threshold converts the image to a posterized image consisting of pure blacks ae and whites The percent entered in the textbox determines the level at which the black to white change takes place None does not dither the image when converting Color It 4 5 Manual Chapter 15 The Image Menu 95 The Color Sets area allows you to choose the group of colors are chosen when converting to an image with fewer colors Current Document Set selects those colors that will most closely reproduce the colors in the existing document System Colors selects the standard colors used by the Mac s operating system gt Bit Optimized has a pop up to select fewer bits to reduce the bit depth of the image and thus 3 Bit reduce file size The After preview shows the effect so you may choose the bit depth that best 4 Bit meets your needs or balances file size and appearance 5 Bit Earth Tones Color It comes with a number of color sets available by selecting the Flesh Tones Other radio button The Web Safe Colors color set is particularly useful Pastel Hues for Web graphics as it contains the 216 colors common in both Mac and Vivid Hues 7 Web Safe Colors Windows that do not dither 6 Bit 7
82. ect the image once regardless of how many times you go over the image To darken or lighten more release the mouse and reapply 9 Select Magnify and zoom in on the top right corner where you began to darken 10 Select the Eraser tool ce 11 Select the Square Eraser shape 12 Click and hold the Eraser Size pop up Color It 4 5 Tour Chapter 4 Combining Images 27 13 Select the shape in the fourth row from the top third from the left in Eraser Size as displayed in the example at the left Eraser Size 14 Press and hold the Shift key as you drag the Eraser to remove the undesirable shadow against the white edge area Remember your mask is still active so you do not have to worry about eras ing your balloon Holding the Shift key constrains the Eraser tool to a vertical or horizontal movement 15 Select the Blur tool 16 Click and hold the Blur Intensity box Q o Q 17 Select Medium as the Blur Intensity Hed Light Heawy Blur intensity TE Filter Tools Window 18 From the Selection menu choose Selection Selection Type gt Type gt Off ee CD 19 Click and drag under the balloon basket where Sig Selection the edges appear to be unnatural i sD S y Document 20 From the File menu select Save or type invert Selection Command S Creating Basic Shapes 1 Select the Shape Object tool 2 Click and hold the Shape Object Type pop up and select th
83. ection Image Type J Millions of RGB Colors The Image Type command lets you change the Thousands of RGB Colors color or gray levels of a document The current 256 Indexed Colors image type is indicated with a check mark in the 16 Indexed Colors menu Canvas Size Crop To Selection Grow To Selection Flip Rotate Effect 256 Grays etap When you convert to fewer color or gray levels the Black and White Convert dialog box opens Optimize Colors aE Get Info z CMYK Histogram HSW HSL The effect of the conversion choice is shown in Dither Style the After image at the lower left You can Diffusion Floyd Steinberg 3x2 choose the portion of the image shown by O Ordered Dither clicking and dragging the selection rectangle in Mezzotint the small image at the top left O Threshold at 30 oo i _ None The Dither Style area has radio buttons to h h nversion ere choose the conversion type C Current Document Set C System Colors D Optimized Colors Other Web Safe Colors Cancel Floyd Steinberg 3x2 Diffusion creates a random pattern of pixels to simulate colors Jarvis Judice Ninke 5x3 or grays The pop up has choices for several diffusion dither Stucki 5x3 methods Choosing one in the pop up changes the display in the After image in the lower left se Dee teeta a ar ee ra ieee eer Lea er is a ir i AT r coe 9 Levels Ordered Dither cr
84. elBitsErr 17 Problem Color It couldn t expand selection to image form Solution Clear some space on your disk badDithImgErr 18 Problem The dither operation wasn t successful Generally this happens when converting a gray scale image to a black and white dither Solution Retry the operation converting the image to a different type badEPSFVers 719 Problem Color It cannot read the EPSF file Solution The file has been saved in a EPSF version that Color It cannot read Open the file with the program that created it and save it in a format Color It can read imgTooBigErr 20 Problem The image is too big This usually hap pens after you scale an image or you anti alias text or if you attempt to create an image that is too large in width or height in pixels The limits on pixel size are 16 382 x 16 382 pixels in B amp W 16 colors grays or 256 colors grays 8 191 x 8 191 pixels in Thousands of Colors 4 095 x 4 095 pixels in Millions of Colors Solution Make the image a smaller size imgTooSmlErr 21 Problem The image is too small Solution The image is empty or is not one pixel wide You must make it bigger badPIMsgErr 22 Problem Color It cannot understand the plug in message Solution Reinstall the plug in or contact the devel oper Technical support is available to registered users of our products Visit our web site at http www digimagearts com Check the Read Me fil
85. elected the Brush Type and Brush Cie ice Size are common to most of the brush tools Brush Air Brush Blur Sharpen Stamp _ Smudge Lighten and Darken The Brush Type pop up menu contains the different brushes available The current brush has a square outline around it and the outline follows the cur sor as you move it over the different brushes To select a different brush type move the cursor over it and release the mouse button The solid black brush shapes indicate tools that are not antialiased soft edged When you click on the Brush Size pop up second from the left a box appears where the brush size can be set Moving the cursor within the upper left box resizes the brush size as you move Holding down the Command key makes the sizing non proportional The width and height of the brush is displayed in pixels in the box at Brush Size the upper right When you click on the the Brush Opacity pop up third from the left a box opens that controls the opacity of the paint As you change the opacity by moving the cursor over the bar a Brush Opacity black pointer shows the current level and a gray pointer the previous level The percentage shows the current opacity Double clicking on the Brush tool shows or hides the Brush Options palette The a Brush Options palette lets you set several controls for a brush at one time As you Do click on the buttons for each box the slider at the top changes to reflect the setting for
86. enu with several commands for modifying the FI skew image for a selection or the entire document Portions of the image that extent i Perspective beyond the edges of the document are lost so use the Canvas Size command to PI ed add extra area before rotating 98 Chapter 15 The Image Menu Color It 4 5 Manual The Stretch Shrink command permits interactively scaling of an image When you choose the command Color It places grow handles at the four corners of the selection Click and drag one of the handles to stretch or shrink the selection Holding down the Shift key while dragging retains the image s proportions The Skew command slants the active selection along either the horizontal or vertical axis When the command is chosen Color It places grow handles at the four corners of the selec tion Click and drag one of the handles to skew the selection The Perspective command changes the perspective of the active selection When the command is chosen Color It places grow handles at the four corners of the selection Click and drag one of the handles to create either a horizontal or vertical perspective of the selection Original Perspective The Distort command creates a number of special effects When the command is chosen Color It places grow handles at the four corners of the selection Click and drag one of the handles to to distort the image Successive distortions can be made to a selection without cau
87. er Size US Letter HA 8 50 in x 11 00 in Orientation m fi Scale 100 Scan Import Export Page Setup Cancel 0K 3 Click on the Screen button The Screen dialog box opens Settings Color It HH Screen C Crop Marks Registration Marks TD EB 40 Chapter 6 File Prep amp Output Color It 4 5 Tour 3 You can control aspects of the print output in some Black Screen Settings output devices by entering the line Frequency and Angle peat ad dope sta Or es ibe tee ies Use Printer E ae ae efaults box to use the settings for your specific printer Shape NOTE Checking Use Printer Defaults overrides the previous options O Use Printer Defaults Cancel OK 4 Click OK to close the Screen dialog 5 If you wish to add Crop or Registration Marks to your image when printed check the appropriate boxes in the Page Setup dialog box 6 Click OK in the Page Setup dialog box 7 From the File menu choose Print 8 If your printer does not already show in the Printer pop up Printer StylusC86_ W choose it first Presets Standard 9 Click the Print button once all Copies Pages pg settings are as you wish The Print Format dialog box Copies M Collated opens Pages All l From 1 to 1 A PDF Preview Supplies Cancel Print 10 Here you may change settings appro ig ee Postscript Settings priate for your particular printer Click Color PostScript
88. er custom selec tion C Draw From Center Checking the Draw From Center command draws Cancel 90K geometric shape selections expanding outward from the starting point as the mouse is dragged 48 Chapter 7 The Tools Palette Color It 4 5 Manual Double clicking on the Shape Selection tool toggles between the Select All and Select None commands Option double clicking on the Shape Selection tool opens the Custom Selection dialog Lasso The Lasso tool lets you make a tight selection around an irregularly shaped object TE Clicking on the Lasso Range pop up lets you select asso Range Normal Dark Colors modes In Normal mode the Lasso will grab the Key Adjusts entire contents of your selection Dark Colors mode ee Lasso Around 7 gt Dae ee Colors opt gt EA selects only darker colors Light Colors selects only lighter colors Modifier keys permit precise control over the range of colors selected The Option and Command keys change the display to a graduated bar Dragging the mouse over the bar selects all colors from black to that point with the Option key or from white to that point with the Command key As you move the mouse a pointer moves along the bar with a selection box indicating the colors chosen The Wrap Lasso Around Pixels in Range box displays the percentage and color values for the range selected Release the mouse button when the range you wish is selected and the Lasso wil
89. er previews and thumbnails To make them available in the Finder under the View menu choose Show View Options Check the Show icon preview box If you have an active window open you will have the choice at the top to choose This window only or All windows The Temporary Files area specifies the volume where Color It stores the temporary files it needs to maintain Undo capability The default location is the Virtual Images folder inside Color It Stuff folder Clicking the Add button brings up an Open dialog box allowing you to choose additional storage areas The Info button opens a dialog box where you may set the minimum Available Space 2047 2 ME space to be allocated for a location in MB and the Storage Priority if ee ee VeRErers you have multiple locations set Storage Priority Cancel OK Color It 4 5 Manual Chapter 12 The Color It Menu 79 Tools Preferences Antialiasing eliminates the jagged edges of text or colored Antialiasing Paint Dither Drag Updates objects These buttons let you select the amount of anti Good D Fine Outline Only aliasing In most cases the difference between Good and Best Better Medium D Brief Delay is virtually indistinguishable _ Best Coarse I Long Delay Paint Dither sets the palette for dither patterns Fine uses 33 Allow Editi f Tool Positi 1 vi ow Editing of Tool Positions patterns Medium uses ive Coarse uses 9 vi Average Selection Effects Smoot
90. esets all cells in the grid except the center to zero The Open button opens a standard Open box that lets you open existing kernels stored in the Convolution folder in the Color It Stuff folder The Save button opens a standard Save dialog that lets you save any convolution kernels created for later use Noise Add Noise Despeckle Quick Dust Off The Noise command displays a menu of methods for adding or subtracting noise from an image Noise is pixels of random colors scattered throughout an image that may or may not be desirable Remove Scratches Color It 4 5 Manual Chapter 17 The Filter Menu 113 Add Noise The Add Noise command opens a dialog box that Before ___ just the Levels the harshness by moving the slider a bar clicking on the pointers at each end or entering a number in the textbox The Area slider sets the color levels to be affected light to dark areas and is adjusted by moving the slider bar or clicking on the pointers at each end Levels 50 BS Positioning the slider knob in the middle evenly dis oe Type tributes the noise throughout an image Uniform gt Gaussian Two type of noise Uniform or Gaussian are avail _________________ able Uniform applies random noise along a linear dis Cancel tribution Gaussian selects the values along a Gaussian curve The effect of the adjustments to the image are shown in the After image You can choose the
91. ette From left to right the buttons are Step Back moves the Current Frame back to the left one frame Stop stops the animation from playing Run plays the animation and Step Forward moves the Current Frame forward to the right one frame These functions are also available from the pop up menu at the far right The Frame Characteristics button opens a dialog where the characteristics for a frame are set This function is also available from the pop up menu at the far right The pop up menu is accessed by clicking the right facing triangle at the far right of the palette Many of the functions are described above for their respective buttons Selecting the New Animation Color Set 256 System Colors command Opens a New Image Fill With dialog where many aspects of the SZA animated GIF are set While this is eee 0 ae Pixels id similar to the dialog that appears when selecting New from the File Resolution 72 00 _ Pxels inch menu it differs in several ways Image Size 171K Cancel New 7256 System Colors The GIF file format is limited to no more than 256 colors The color sets that may be 256 Grays used appear in this pop up New Animation Set Loop Limit Set Frame Characteristics Add New Frame Duplicate Frame s Reverse Order Delete Frame s Step Back Width 512 00 Stop Run Step Forward Height 342 00 g Earth Tones NOTE The Web Safe Colors color set is a
92. ffect the entire image 6 From the Filter menu select Image Map gt Equalize Notice the dramatic difference in the image now shown below Filters can be used to drastically or subtly alter images Filters sharpen distort alter color alter style or even modify images such as Background tif From the Filter menu select Adjustment gt Auto Contrast Notice the subtle difference this filter has on the image Auto Contrast improves an image by optimizing the brightness and contrast From the Filter menu select Adjustment gt Curves The Curves dialog box opens 14 Chapter 3 The Basics Color It 4 5 Tour Map Default Map Channel Histogram Line tool J Live EL m el Selection pop up Slider tool 9 Select the Line tool Click and drag to draw the histogram left to right as shown 10 Select Contrast in the Selection pop up menu 11 Move the Contrast Slider to 45 The number to the left of the pop up moves to reflect the changes as you drag the slider 12 Click OK NOTE You can alter specific RGB channels brightness contrast gamma and posterization of an image using the Slider tool NOTE Your background may not be exactly as displayed in the example Click Reset if you are not satisfied with the results and try again 13 Click OK 14 Select Save in the File menu or press Command S Color It 4 5 Tour Chapter 3 The Basics 15 Cropping and Changi
93. field and your Registration Number in the Registration field Organization is optional and does not need to be entered The Registration Registration Number is located on a label attached to the sleeve contain ing the Color It CD ROM If you downloaded your copy the Registration Number is sent in the order confirmation e mail sent separately There must be no spaces before within or following the Registration Number Organization Version 4 5 PowerPC Register _ Once you have a Name and a valid Registration Number entered the Register button Register f Sy ae a becomes active Click it to complete the registration process Color It is now running NOTE Please make a note of your Registration Number and keep it in a safe place If for some reason you need to reinstall the program in the future you will need this number again Color It Document Windows Color It s windows have the same features found in most standard Macintosh windows There are also some features unique to this program see the desktop image below x Colorit File Edit Image Selection Filter Tools Window 4 12 00 untitled O Tos 7 38 x 5 38 inches Default Tools hd Document Window Magnification Pop up Menu Magnification Buttons Color It 4 5 Manual Chapter 1 Getting Started 5 The Tools and other palettes always float above your document Other M 1 8 1 4 1 3 1 2 45
94. forma tion Catalogs Palettes oo FS The Catalogs command opens a submenu where new catalogs can be created or Open other existing catalogs opened A catalog is a floating palette containing thumbnails of Birthday images assembled from documents Thumbnails made be added or deleted or moved Images from one catalog to another Original images can be opened for editing moved to new Travel Images locations or deleted from within the catalog O Image Catalog See Chapter 11 The Catalog Palettes for a complete discussion Catalog Travel Images Action gt Image Mountain reflection reflection A Mountai in refle Yellowstone Fa i Color It 4 5 Manual Chapter 18 The Tools Menu 119 Show Hide Palettes The Show Hide Palettes command Tab is a toggle that removes and restores any open palettes from view without closing them Antialiasing ee The Antialiasing command is a toggle that eliminates jagged Antialiased Text edges of text or objects by blending the sharp contrasts between ee the different colors making the images appear smoother on Text without Antialiasing screen It is available only when the Shape Selection Shape Object Line Paint Can Text Scissors Zap or Bezier tools are in use When you select Antialiasing for a tool a check mark appears next to the command in the Tool menu Left Antialiased Shape Right Antialiasing Off Drag Delay The Drag Delay command is a
95. fuzzy Edit gt Undo Command Z the operation turn off Antialiasing in the Tools menu Tools gt Antialiasing and try the Paint Bucket fill again Double clicking on the Paint Bucket fills the entire document Option Paint Bucket changes to the Eyedropper tool Text The Text tool lets you add text to a document When you select the Text tool Fonts Style Alignment and Size pop ups are added to the bottom of the Tools palette The Font pop up menu shows all fonts installed in your System and any loaded Jazz LET with third party font organizing products The current font is indicated with a L Frutiger Light check mark Laser LI Frutiger Lightitalic LoType Medium Lucida Grande Lucida Handwriting Marker Felt Mona Lisa Solid ITC TT Monaco Monotype Sorts The Style pop up lets you select the style for text The current Bold style is indicated with a check mark Italic Underline Outline Shadow Condense Expand The Text Alignment pop up lets you choose the alignment for the text The current alignment is indicated with a check mark 58 Chapter 7 The Tools Palette Color It 4 5 Manual 9 Point The Text Size pop up lets you choose a point size for the text The current size is indi 10 Point cated with a check mark 12 Point Choosing Other opens a dialog box where the point size 14 Point 18 Point Font Size BE point for the type may be entered in the textbox 24 Point 36 Point
96. good choice as it uses the 216 colors that are see common to both Mac and Windows platforms Colors from this set will not be dithered Pastel Hues Vivid Hues Web Safe Colors 70 Chapter 10 The Animation Palette Color It 4 5 Manual Black The Fill With pop up controls the initial appearance of the new animation You may select white or black fills for the background Current Document Current Document is available only when an existing document is open The new Active Selection animation duplicates the contents of the document active at the time you chose Clipboard New Animation The height and width boxes automatically change to show the Current Size US Letter Tall US Legal Tall dimensions of the current document Active Selection is available only when a selection is active The new document duplicates the contents of the active selection The height and width boxes automatically change to show the dimensions of the current selection Clipboard is available only when an image is stored on the Clipboard The new document duplicates the contents of the clipboard The height and width boxes automatically show the dimensions of the clipboard image Width Height These text boxes control the size of the new document The document icon pop up menu lets you quickly select from several common sizes see Chapter 13 The File Menu for more information on these sizes The sizes in the bottom section are standard
97. gs made are not within the limits for that setting an alert sound is played when the Save button is clicked The Hide Color It command hides all windows for the program NOTE Command H does not hide the Color It program windows but is a toggle that hides and shows marquee selections The Hide Others Command Option H command hides all other running programs leaving only the windows for the Color It program still displayed The Show All command displays all windows for all running programs The Quit Color It Command Q command quits the Color It program 82 Chapter 13 The File Menu Color It 4 5 Manual 13 The File Menu The File menu contains commands for creating new documents as well as Edit Select Image New ag opening closing saving and printing of documents The File menu also Open 36 controls the scanning importing and exporting of images Open Recent Close New Save H The New command Command N opens a new empty document where you Save As can create or import images or graphics When you select New from the File Revert To Saved menu the New Image dialog box Image Type Millions of Colors v opens where the Image type a fill Fill With color dimensions and the resolution of the new document are specified It lace also lists the approximate file size of Height the new image in the lower left corner Resolution 72 00 e Pixels Inch lt w Image Size
98. h Gradients Drag Updates controls how images are displayed when Wacom Eraser Tool moved with the mouse With Outline Only the mouse button xe E must be released before the screen updates With Brief Delay the screen updates after a slight pause and before the mouse button is released With Long Delay the screen updates after a longer pause and before the mouse button is released Checking Allow Editing of Tool Positions permits repositioning of the tools within the Tools palette See Chapter 7 The Tools Palette for more information Checking Average Selection Effects smooths images that have been rotated Checking Smooth Gradients displays blends between two colors smoothly k Pointer The Wacom Eraser Tool pop up at left selects any tool from Color It to be used A Eyedropper when the eraser tip on a stylus from a pressure sensitive tablet that supports the Mover Wacom Eraser is activated Q Magnify Rulers Preferences _ Shape Selection G Lasso Magic Wand Shape Object Line Pencil g Brush v amp Eraser a Air Brush Ay Paint Bucket amp Blur A Sharpen t Smudge g Stamp A Text E Gradient gt Lighten Darken 7 Zap Se Scissors t Crop amp Bezier Kernel Pixels The Units pop up Inches menu lets you select Centimeters ruler measurements Picas in pixels inches Points Ee a centimeters picas Ruler Preferences Units Major Divisions Ly Minor Divisions Ly Po PR
99. halftones Continuous Tone Continuous tone images have areas of color that gradually blend into one another The most common type of continuous tone image is a photograph although paintings and pencil sketches with varying tones also fall into this category Color It 4 5 Tour Chapter 2 Scanning amp Importing 9 Line art is what most people consider to be drawings The image is comprised of solid areas of pure black or a color and pure white with no areas of color blend ing from one into another x Halftoning is a method used to reproduce continuous tone images in printed mat _ ter such as magazines It uses a pattern of tiny dots to fool your eye into believing oot the image is a continuous tone The dots may cause a disagreeable pattern known as a moir when scanned Images for screen display or for the Internet can be safely scanned at 72dpi For images to be printed the most important answer to know is the resolution of the printer or output device to be used Each type of image is handled differently when scanned CONTINUOUS TONE IMAGES Scan at twice the halftone resolution lines per inch of the printer A 300dpi printer for example produces halftones of about 60 lines per inch Therefore your scan should be made at 120dpi 2x 60 lpi For a 600 dpi printer which produces 75lpi halftones scan at 150dpi 2x 75 Ipi LINE ART IMAGES Scan at the spot resolution of the printer 300dpi for a 300dpi pri
100. he Blur Intensity pop up Q QO 10 Select Medium as the Blur Intensity Med Heavy 1 1 Light Click on the left top corner of the colored area of the image Blur Intensity 1 2 Hold the Shift key and drag to the top right corner of the colored area of the image As you drag the top edge of the colored area of the image will be blurred see next page Color It 4 5 Tour Chapter 3 The Basics 17 13 Click on the top right corner of the image Start End NOTE Holding the Shift key constrains movement to a horizontal or vertical direction Notice how the blur connected the two top corners 14 Select the Smudge tool from the Tool pop up 15 Click and hold the Brush Type pop up 16 Select the round antialiased brush second from the left in the second row from the top NOTE Solid black brush shapes are not antialiased soft edged eisai 17 Click and hold the Brush Size pop up 18 Hold the Command key and select 19x6 as the brush size Holding the Command key permits brushes to be non proportional Brush Type Brush Gize 19 Click and hold the Smudge Options pop up 20 Select 30 as the Pressure by dragging on the Pressure bar Pressure 30 h Smudge Options Selecting Image Only allows the Smudge tool to use colors in the image Selecting Fill Color allows Smudge to use a specific color selected from the Colors palette or from within the image 22 Start from t
101. he Intensity option to change the percentage The amount can be selected with the slider or with the pop up using the Edit or Other choices described under the Brush section earlier in this chapter Double clicking on the Blur tool displays hides the Brush Options palette Repeat oi sec rade 576 0 pix Option Blur changes to the Eyedropper tool Sharpen The Sharpen tool enhances edges to bring out detail Selecting the Sharpen tool adds several pop up features to the bottom of the Tools palette The Brush Type and Brush Size pop ups are described under the Brush tool earlier in this chapter The Sharpen Intensity pop up opens a Sharpen Intensity display that adjusts the intensity of the tool as Light Medium or Heavy The heavier the setting the larger the sampled region of the document used in the sharpening process The sharpening effect of the tool does not accumulate as you make multiple pass es over the same region the sharpen is applied only once To increase the sharp ening effect release the mouse then press and drag over the region again Sharpen Intensity Color It 4 5 Manual Chapter 7 The Tools Palette 55 If you want a finer adjustment open the Brush Options palette and use the Intensity e option to change the percentage The amount can be selected with the slider or with eT the pop up using the Edit or Other choices described under the Brush section earlier in this chapter O sano
102. he top right corner of the image click and drag the mouse ina zigzag motion to the bottom right corner of the color portion of the image 23 Select the Mover tool 24 Drag the image so you are viewing the top left corner again if necessary i NOTE Hold down Shift while using a tool to constrain the scrolling movements to a vertical or horizontal direction 21 Click the Image Only option below 25 Repeat step 22 on the left side of the image Do not alter the bottom edge of the picture 26 Double click the Mover tool to restore the image to a 1 1 view if necessary 27 Press Command S to save the image NOTE Feathering is another way to create interesting edges a soft edge that fades away See Chapter 5 Special Effects for more information 18 Chapter 3 The Basics Color It 4 5 Tour Finishing the Background aol Tools Window 1 From the Filter menu select Noise gt Despeckle Last Filter Adjustment Image Map Blur Convolution Sharpen Despeckle Stylize Quick Dust Off Video Remove Scratches Other 2 In the dialog box select 10 using the slider bar Before or type 10 in the textbox 3 Click OK 4 Save the image Below are views showing how the Background tif image looked before and after the steps in this chapter have been completed In the next chapter we learn how to take selections from one image and combine them with another Color It 4 5 Tour Chapter 4 Co
103. hics and thumbnail images JPEG s name is derived from the working ISO committee that developed it the Joint Photographic Experts Group Unlike GIF JPEG does not have transparency but does support an interlaced option called progressive JPEG which is supposedly faster than interlaced GIF JPEG decompression takes considerably longer than opening GIF files but saves in 24 bit full color format If your image does not need transparency or if it is a photographic image with a lot of color depth and shading JPEG is the better choice PNG is a relatively new format designed specifically for Web graphics It combines some of the best features of GIF and JPEG It is 24 bit supports interlacing and has lossless compression The only thing to watch for is that PNG is not supported on older Web browsers Compression Compression of graphic images speeds up the transfer of graphics images from the Web onto the viewer s computer screen There are two different forms of image compression techniques lossless and lossy With lossless compression your decompressed image is identical to the original which means you get back exactly what you put in Lossless compression works well on images that have large solid areas of color but it is less effective on more complex images PNG and GIF uses a lossless form of compression provides relatively modest amount of compression about 2 1 With lossy compression some image information is permanently l
104. i Magnification gt fied with a check mark next to it Window Mode P New View Split Screen e Display At Resolution x Balloon Show Rulers Hide Rulers The Show Rulers Hide Rulers command is a toggle that displays or hides the screen rulers displayed along the top and left side of the current window The exact horizontal and vertical location of the cursor is indicated as 3 23 x 3 91 inches roa gray lines on the rulers Se The default location for the ruler origin 0 0 is the top left corner of the document To change the origin click in the box at the corner where the rulers meet and drag into the document The new origin will be set where the mouse button is released To restore the default ruler origin double click in the box Inches are the default measurement units for the rulers Other units can be selected in either the Mouse Coordinates palette or with the Rulers command in the Color It menu Color It gt Preferences gt Rulers Magnification The Magnification menu controls the enlargement or reduction of the document view It is similar to the pop up menu at the bottom left corner of the document window The Other command Command M opens a dialog box Magnify where a custom magnification factor is chosen Select a Oreduce f2 tor 1 18 new value from 1 to 32 by entering a number or using the arrows and select either the Magnify or Reduce buttons doom In Zoom Out 1 8 12 1 4
105. i thus a 300dpi document appears on screen roughly four times its size 300 72 4 167 122 Appendix Error Messages Color It 4 5 Manual Appendix Error Messages memFullErr 108 Problem You ll encounter this error message if you do not have enough System memory available to complete an operation outOfVDiskErr 905 Problem You ll encounter this error message if you do not have enough hard disk space for a virtual image Solution You can solve this problem by clearing space on your hard disk for the virtual image You can also set the minimum required free to a lower number in Color It gt Preferences gt Files If you have more than one hard disk attached or you have another partition you can open the Files Preferences dialog and select a different drive or partition to store virtual images See Chapter 12 The Color It Menu for more information outOfVMemErr 906 Problem You ll encounter this error message if you do not have enough memory for a virtual image operation Solution This is usually a result of fragmented memory and you can solve the problem by quit ting the program and relaunching it imgFileNotSupp 1 Problem Color It doesn t support the format of the image file you are trying to open Solution Open the image with the program you created it with and save it in a format that Color It can read badPNTGFileErr 2 Problem The file has incomplete paint informa tion So
106. image view on the far left Your cursor changes into the Mover tool allowing you to move the portion of the image shown in the Before and After views 8 Select 10 using the slider or type the number in the text box and click OK 9 From the Image menu select Scale Selection Filter T Image Type Channel scale x Change Resolution 10 Check Smooth scaling 11 Check Keep aspect ratio 12 Type 75 00 in the Width Scaling textbox 13 Click Scale The selected portion of the image is reduced in size 24 Chapter 4 Combining Images Color It 4 5 Tour 14 Click and drag the balloon so the bottom of the basket is 2 5 from the left and 2 75 from the top Window From the Window menu Show Rulers choose Show Rulers if the Magnification rules along the top and left edges of the image window are not showing T Filter Tools Window 15 From the Selection menu select Mask Selection Type Operations gt Selection To Mask Document Mask eee Orato SS A new mask document is created and appears in front of the Balloon tif image This mask will be used later Select All Selection To Mask in the tour Select None 0 Mask To Selection Edit Image Select 16 From the File menu select Save As and rename the mask New Balloon tif Mask Open Open Recent Close Window 17 From the Window menu choose Tutorial tif Show Rulers Magnification PRT Filter Tools wi
107. imation Palette Animation The Animation palette is a floating palette that is used to afha tat current Frame 1 7 ano gt or create and animated GIF images It can be opened or closed from the Animation command on Tools menu An animated GIF is a special type of GIF file that contains multiple images that play back in sequence on a Web page The main portion of the palette displays the frames in the animation If all frames are not visible the scroll bar at the bottom of the palette will be active The palette may be expanded horizontal ly by clicking and dragging the size box in the lower right corner jalsfm The four buttons at the left control functions for frames From left to right the buttons are Add New Frame added to the right of the selected frame Duplicate Frame s duplicate frames are added to the right of the selected frames Reverse Order of the selected frames and Delete Frame s These functions are also available from the pop up menu at the far right The Current Frame is identified to the right of these buttons as the frame number followed by a slash and the total number of frames in the animation NOTE The Current Frame and the Selected Frame highlighted in the thumbnail images are not necessarily the same as the animations can be changed while they play and more than one frame can be selected at once faljaye jm The group of four buttons to the right control the playing of the animation in the pal
108. ine point with the Command key held down moves the online point Selecting a control handle with no modifier keys a snaps both control handles to points on a single line with the same length Selecting a control handle Control handle Control handle Control handle With the Command key held down snaps without modifier with Command key with Control key both control handles to points on a single line but maintains the previous lengths Selecting a control point with the Control key held down permits the single control handle to be moved independently Yd a 50 Chapter 7 The Tools Palette Color It 4 5 Manual Once a path is created clicking the Stroke button at the bottom of the Tools palette opens a dialog where you may click on the Brush Eraser Pencil Airbrush Blur Sharpen or Stamp and then click the Stroke button to stroke the Bezier path The selected tool uses its existing settings for width opacity etc NOTE The Stroke button remains grayed out until one of the applicable tools is selected fi meee a The Grow Shrink Selection and Selection Calculator features are the same as described at the beginning of the Selection Tools earlier in this chapter The Brush tools are Brush Eraser Pencil Air Brush Blur Sharpen Stamp Smudge Lighten and Darken The Brush tool applies paint and is used to retouch a document The first two features that appear at the bottom of the Tools palette when Brush is s
109. ing the appropriate choice in the Selection Type submenu Off Selection or Document Document Mask AAE The Document Mask submenu has several options for masks Open Mask n The New Mask command automatically creates a new blank grayscale document the same size and resolution of the original document with a white background brings it to the front and names it by adding Mask to the end of original document s name Clouds Mask The Open Mask command brings up a standard Open dialog box where you may choose an existing document to use as a mask Any document open at the same time as the original document can be used as a document mask To use an existing open document as a document mask choose Selection gt Document Mask and select it from the list at the bottom of the submenu any other open documents are listed at the bottom The selected document is linked to the original as a document mask and is brought to the front Document Masks must be grayscale images An alert dialog In its current form this image cannot be as es a ee pe E opens if you choose a color document To use it as a mask it Mclain o Sec amit ate AE Se must be converted to a grayscale image with the same resolu same pixel resolution Would you like to ae convert this image to a compatible form tion as the original Image Cancel Conver i 102 Chapter 16 The Selection Menu Color It 4 5 Manual New Mask When the doc
110. ital cameras Software to access a scanner or digital camera is provided by the manufacturer with the peripheral device In almost all cases nowadays a TWAIN driver in provided Please see the instructions that came with your peripheral to install the TWAIN driver File Once you have installed the TWAIN driver on your com New HN puter start Color It and go to File gt Scan Import Choose Open H Select TWAIN Source from the submenu Open Recent Close Save Save As Revert To Saved Scan Import TWAIN Acquire Export Select TWAIN Source Page Setup Print The Select Source dialog opens Look for the name of your par ticular device from the list Click on the name once to select it E E eae and click the OK button This process of selecting a TWAIN a source needs to be done only once EPSON Perfection 1200 File Now to access your scanner or digital camera from within Color It simply go to File gt Scan Import and choose the TWAIN Acquire command Refer to the materials that came with your device for instructions on how to use their TWAIN driver software to bring an image into Save 3 Color It Save As Revert To Saved New Open Open Recent Close Scan Import TWAIN Acquire Export _ Select TWAIN Source Page Setup Print Color It 4 5 Tour Chapter 2 Scanning amp Importing 7 Some older devices may use a Photoshop compatible plug in to access the device withi
111. l only select colors in that range Wrap Lasso Aroun Pixels In Range 0 30 0 77 Wrap Lasso Around Fiseis In Range 40 100 103 255 The Grow Shrink Selection and Selection Calculator features are the same as described at the beginning of the Selection Tools earlier in this chapter Double clicking on the Lasso tool toggles between Select All and Select None Magic Wand 7 The Magic Wand tool is a very powerful and flexible selection tool A single click on a document A selects a contiguous color area Dragging the Magic Wand reads all of the colors it passes through and selects any contiguous areas containing that range of colors Selecting the Magic Wand tool adds a Wand Sensitivity pop up menu to the bot tom left of the Tools palette that controls how many colors are selected when you click or drag the tool on a document for example clicking on a color with a 10 rs sensitivity selects all colors within 5 on each side of the selected colors Low Wand Sensitivity sensitivity expands the selected range of colors only a few levels higher sensitivi ty adds more levels to those chosen with the tool As you change the sensitivity a black pointer shows the current level and a gray pointer the previous level Expand OF The Grow Shrink Selection and Selection Calculator features are the same as described earlier in this chapter Double clicking on the Magic Wand toggles between Select All and Select None Za
112. lar shape Color It 4 5 Tour Chapter 5 Special Effects 35 6 Click the Subtract button or hold down the Command key and create a circle as shown at the left Notice the new circle was cut out of the first rectangle to create the final irregularly shaped selection Pasting Into Selections 1 Open the Flower tif file in the Tutorial folder TEE Window 2 from the Selection menu choose Select All or press Command A Tools oT Colors BY 3 From the Edit menu choose Copy or press Command C 4 From the Window menu select the Tutorial tif 5 From the Edit menu select Paste To Fit Image Selection Undo Selection 2 Redo Color It is capable of pasting clipboard images based on the current selection Paste Into places the contents of the Clipboard into the current selection at the size of the image Paste Behind places the contents of the Clipboard behind the selection Paste To Fit places the contents of the Clipboard sized to just fit into the selection Cut Copy AC Paste EAN Clear Faste Into Faste Behind Faste To Fit 6 Save the image Command S Feather image Undo Paste _ 1 From the Edit menu select Undo Paste to empty the selection again Selectii RF Fiter Tools Win 2 With the selection still active from the Selection menu choose Selection Type Feather The Feather dialog box opens Sacuma Mask 3 In the Feather dialog Click Outward
113. lect All command A which selects everything in frame 1 From the Edit menu select Copy command C 23 Click on frame 7 to make it the current frame and from the Edit menu choose Paste command V Selection Filter Tools Window 24 With Frame 7 still current from the Image menu image Type choose Flip gt Horizontal Channel The image in frame 7 is flipped Scale Change Resolution 25 Repeat steps 22 and 23 for the remaining frames 2 amp 6 and 3 amp 5 Canvas Size Crop To Selection When completed frames 1 2 and 3 should be mirror Grow To Selection images of frames 5 6 and 7 ORANE 26 Save the image as ball gif R ee lt E Flip Vertical E 27 Click the Run button on the Animation reee ae palette to see how your animation looks From the Animation oale pop up menu choose Frame Characteristics to adjust the speed of the animation and Set Loop Limit to control how Set Loop Limit many times the animation repeats Save the image again to retain these Set Frame Characteristics new settings New Animation That concludes the Color It tour Now you re ready to use the program on your own to create powerful graphics and great works of art Be sure to review the reference section that follows for specific information about all the many features of Color It And be sure to visit our web site at http www digimagearts com for tips updates and other valuable information Colo
114. lection as Alpha Channel saves a selection so it reappears when the document is reopened The selection is also saved as an alpha channel for use in programs that support chan Cancel nels such as Photoshop C Include Selection as Alpha Channel Color It 4 5 Manual Chapter 13 The File Menu 87 Photoshop 2 5 Format Options RLE Run Length Encoding compresses the file to reduce its size on disk Compression O None RLE Checking Include Selection as Alpha Channel saves a selection so it C Include Selection as Alpha Channel C Cancel Eo Photoshop QuickTime PICT Options Compression type Photo JPEG HA Compressor Depth Color HA Quality Cancel OD this dialog PNG Format Options reappears when the document is reopened The selection is also saved as an alpha channel for use in programs that support channels such as When you choose QuickTime PICT as a file format the dialog box to the left opens with all of the various options available through the system s QuickTime capabilities For more information on the various options see the files under the Help menu in the Finder Clicking the Grab button opens a dialog box where you can choose what portion of the image is displayed in the Compression Settings dialog box to preview the effect of the compres sion type chosen Click and drag in the dotted rectangle on the image to the right to choose the area you wish
115. lution The paint image is damaged or was saved incompletely and Color It cannot read it badTIFFData 3 Problem The file has incomplete TIFF Information Solution The TIFF image is damaged or it was saved incompletely and Color It cannot read it badTIFFPack 4 Problem The TIFF image was saved with a com pression type that Color It does not support Solution Open the image with the program that created it and save using a compression type that Color It can read Color It supports PackBits com pression types badTIFFPhoto 5 Problem The TIFF image was saved in a type that Color It cannot read Solution Open the image with the program that created it and save the it in a format that Color It can read noTlFFimage 6 Problem The program didn t save the main TIFF image that is it only saved the image Mask Solution Open the image with the program that created it and save the entire TIFF image badTIFFVers 7 Problem Color It cannot read the TIFF version Solution The file has been saved in a different TIFF version that Color It cannot read Open the file with the program that created it and save it ina TIFF format that Color It can read pluginNotFound 8 Problem Color It cannot find the plug in module you have selected Solution Locate the plug in and place it in the Plug ins folder inside the Color It Stuff folder See Chapter 2 Scanning amp Importing badPluginVers 9
116. mbining Images 19 4 Combining Images In this section of the tour you will learn how to extract images from photographs and add them to your image Then you will retouch an image 1 In the File menu select Open or type Command O Edit Select Image 2 Open Balloon1 tif and Enable All Documents Rose1 tif located in the SO i l Tutorial folder EP aie o S Aici 3 With the Balloon1 tif as the Network Name Date Modified O active image choose File gt Save Background tif Today E ae oe eee IE Desktop flawer tif Today Balloon tif EREE 4 With the Rose1 tif as the i i digimagearts Tutorial tif Today g p active image choose File gt Save As and save the file as Rose tif NOTE All open files are listed at the bot b Documents ies Movies amp Music tom of the Window menu A checkmark appears next to the active file ic Pictures New Folder Cancel Open Adding the Balloon Image Typically you locate an image within portions of photographs you desire to use These portions must be separated from the overall image before you can manipulate them Selecting and Cutting the Balloon There are several ways to select part of an image we will explore several of them 1 Select Balloon tif from the Window menu Window Show Rulers 2 Double click the Hand tool to size the image to fill your screen Magnification Window Mode 3 Select the Lasso tool Ne
117. menu select Paste or type Command V to add the Magnification balloon to the Tutorial tif image Color It 4 5 Tour Chapter 4 Combining Images 23 Window Filter Last Filter Levels Curves Adjustment Image Map TYF Y Fea Blur Auto Enhance Convolution Auto Contrast Noise 5 From the Filter menu select Adjustment gt Auto Contrast The filter is applied only to the active selection not the entire image 6 Select Auto Contrast again by selecting Filter gt Auto Contrast or typing Command F NOTE The last filter used is always listed as the first option under the Filter menu Select Adjustment gt Auto Contrast from the Filter menu or simply press Command F to apply the filter again with the same settings Window Tools Filter Last Filter Adjustment b Levels image Map gt Curves Blur gt Auto Enhance Convolution b Auto Contrast Noise gt Sharpen gt Brightness Contrast B Stylize gt Lighten Darken Lighten Darken Lighter 50 100 Cancel OD Original Scaling Width 3 03 gt ps x Height 3 57 510 units Inches a keer aspect ratio Mi Smooth scaling Reset Image Size 123K Cancel Scale 7 From the Filter menu select Adjustment gt Lighten Darken or press Command L In the dialog box that opens move the cursor to the small
118. mmand Command S saves the most recent version of the document When work ing on an existing document Color It saves all changes under the current file name and format If the document is new and has never been saved the Save As dialog below opens Save As Save Save As lets you name and save a new document or save an existing Save As untitled fad document under a new name a new file format or in a different location f 1 i 1 p a lt i gt m I Tutorial H Q search i The Save As command opens a Date Modified k k dialog with the current file name or Background tif Today hy w Balloon1 tif Today untitled for a new document flower tif Today Rosel tif Today Tutorial tif Today Format TIFF Y Options _ Save Selected Area Only New Folder Cancel Save i Color It 4 5 Manual Chapter 13 The File Menu 85 If you click the Save button for a document with a name that already exists in that folder a dialog r An item named Background tif already exists in this opens asking if you want to replace it TRE location Do you want to replace it with the one you are saving el a The Save Selected Area Only checkbox at the bottom is available only if a selection is active in the document If checked only the selected region will be saved as the new document NOTE Be sure the Save Selected Area Only checkbox is not checked if you me
119. mpuserve GIF Options File Type Signature dialog box opens Macintosh GIF Format 10 Check the Interlaced GIF and Minimize Color Table boxes Text File Binary File and click the OK button Options 11 In the Save As dialog box click OK _ Make Background Color Transparent wi Interlaced GIF Zil Minimize Color Table Cancel C OK k 42 Chapter 6 File Prep amp Output Color It 4 5 Tour 7 12 If the color depth is not correct for the gif format a The file Balloon gif must be converted Ce to 256 Colors before it can be saved in dialog box will open and ask if you want to convert to Compuserve GIF format 256 Colors Click the Convert button NOTE Once you have reduced the number of colors in an image the Canc W information for the larger number of colors is permanently lost You may change back to a greater number of colors but the information is not restored coc ap ence ca alae onvert able to be used in the conversion to help you enn adjust the image to make it look as good as Ordered Dither possible after the conversion O Mezzotint Choosing Diffusion from the Dither Style O Threshold at 50_ s area will give the best looking conversion dail from higher color depths Choosing Web Color Set Safe Colors from the Other pop up in the iad alga at Color Set area will use the 216 colors 6 Optimized Colors common to both the Mac and Windows plat other v Earth Tones r f
120. n Darken Difference performed Blend combines the colors of the original image with those of the image being pasted painted or filtered The Opacity slider controls how much of the original image shows through Add lightens the original image by adding the values of the colors you are pasting painting or filtering for example an area that has a value of 128 with a value of 50 added becomes a value of 178 Subtract darkens the original image by subtracting the values of the colors you are pasting painting or filtering for example an area that has a value of 128 with a value of 50 subtracted becomes a value of 78 Colorize keeps the luminance of the original image and adds the hue color of the new image By varying the percentages of the original and new images or paint you can create color tinting effects Color It 4 5 Manual Chapter 7 The Tools Palette 53 Multiply darkens the image by examining the darker areas of the original image and comparing it to the paste paint or filter operation being applied Lighten compares the value of each pixel in the original image with those of the paste paint or filter operation being applied and uses the lighter value Darken compares the value of each pixel in the original image with those of the paste paint or filter operation being applied and uses the darker value Difference compares the value of each pixel in the original image and inverts it based on the value of
121. n Color It The process to install these plug ins is a bit more complicated in Mac OS X 1 Hold down the Control key and click on the icon for the pen Color It program A shortcut or contextual menu opens Get Info Choose Show Package Contents show Package Contents Move to Trash W Color it Duplicate Make Alias Create Archive of Color It Color It Copy Color It Color Label 1of3 selected 2 06 GB available x 8vUv8e8 Oe 2 A window opens Double click on the Contents folder to Automator open it Enable Folder Actions Configure Folder Actions Stuffit p i Contents e 3 The Contents window opens l gt Double click on the MacOSClassic folder to open g B Info plist MacOSClassic PkgInfo 3 Resources 1of4 selected 2 06 GB available T MacOSClassic Saar 4 The MacOSClassic window Y opens Double click on the Color It Stuff folder to T open it Color It r Color Iti Stuff TWAINLIbX shib 1of3 selected 2 06 GB available 8 Chapter 2 Scanning amp Importing Color It 4 5 Tour e00 F Color it Stuff m 5 The Color It Stuff window ge i opens Double click on the Plug ins folder to open it Place your Photoshop compatible EF plug in file inside the Plug ins Catalogs Color It 4 5 Prefs Color Sets f folder then close the window E F e LZ E NOTE You will have to quit and restart Caniclutiane nis 5
122. n for the large number of pixels at these locations to overshadow the others in between 100 Chapter 15 The Image Menu Color It 4 5 Manual Compressed compresses the high peaks in the histogram making the distribution of the other values in the image easier to see Cumulative sums the number of pixels in the image that are darker than a selected color level The bottom portion of the pop up controls the type of display for the histogram Gradient displays a gradient range that depicts the light to dark color levels in the image Solid Black fills the histogram area with black Outline displays the histogram as a line Color It 4 5 Manual Chapter 16 The Selection Menu 101 16 The Selection Menu A Er The Selection menu contains commands that let you create save open and Document Mask manipulate selections and masks perform special effects like Drop Shadow Mask Operations and Extrude and save selections for use as a mask or a Web Image Map Select All Selection Type v SA Off Select None e elec The Selection Type menu offers three choices for selections Sig Selection Off The document has no selections or masks Ry Document Selection The document has a selection Grow Selection Shrink Selection Select Similar soa ete Document The document has a separate document Smooth Edges acting as a selection or mask Drop Shadow Masks control how paint paste and filter operations affe
123. n snaps both control handles to points on a single line but maintains the previous lengths Selecting a control point with the Control key held down permits the single control handle to be moved independently For more information on the Bezier tool see Chapter 7 The Tools Palette 6 Continue to outline the balloon using the Bezier tool Use the control handles to fine tune the outline s position 7 When the balloon is outlined and the cursor moves over the starting point a small open circle appears to the right of the cursor This indicates that clicking this point will close the outline path 8 Click on the starting point to close the path 9 Move the cursor inside the path and click to make the closed path a selection A small dotted line square to the right of the cursor indicates that the path will become a selection Once clicked the selection is indicated with moving black and white dotted lines 10 Copy the selection using Command C Scale Copy and Paste Besides basic features like cut copy and paste Color It provides a powerful scaling option you can use to alter the size of your image proportionally or non proportionally 1 Save and close the Balloon tif image 2 Select your Tutorial tif image from the Window menu or open it from the Tutorial folder if not still open from the previous tutorial chapter Window 3 Select Show Rulers in the Window menu Show Rulers 4 From the Edit
124. n the pointers at each end of the slider or entering a percent in the textbox gt 0 The effect of the adjustments to the image are shown Se fs in the After image You can choose the portion of the ree image to be shown in the Before and After boxes by clicking and dragging the selection rectangle in the O Live Cancel 9069 small image at the top left or in the Before view Reset Checking the Live checkbox applies changes to the entire screen and removes the Before and After views The Reset button returns the settings to their defaults Color It 4 5 Manual Chapter 17 The Filter Menu 109 Lighten Darken The Lighten Darken command Command L Before opens a dialog box to adjust the image levels Vary the amount of lightening or darkening by moving the slider bar clicking on the pointers at each end of the slider or entering a percent in the textbox The effect of the adjustments to the image are shown d in the After image You can choose the portion of the Lighter image to be shown in the Before and After boxes by j SS ae row clicking and dragging the selection rectangle in the 0 small image at the top left or in the Before view Cane Gas Checking the Live checkbox applies changes to the entire screen and removes the Before and After views The Reset button returns the settings to their defaults Brightness RGB The Brightness RGB command opens a dialog box
125. n the top left corner of the image to enlarge the view If necessary hold down the Command key and click on the image to see the image in a 1 1 view first NOTE Press Option and click on the image with the the Magnifying Glass tool to decrease your view of the image Press Command and click with the Magnifying Glass tool to return to a 1 1 view of the image 2 Select the Eyedropper The Eyedropper is used to pick up a color from the picture or the Colors palette to be used with other tools To select a color from the Colors palette double click the Eyedropper to open the palette 3 Click in the top left corner of the image to select a fill or foreground color NOTE You can also select gradient colors present in the image Select the Eyedropper tool Click and drag within the image The Color Bar at the lower left corner of the Tools palette becomes a gradient The first color selected is at the left end of the gradient and the last color selected is at the right end 4 Select the Blur tool 5 Click and hold the Brush Type pop up 6 Select the round antialiased soft edged brush second from the left in the top row 7 Click and hold the Brush Size pop up 16 8 Select 10x10 as the brush size by dragging the cursor in the area to the left As you drag towards the upper left the brush size becomes smaller as you drag to the lower right the brush size becomes larger Brush Type Brush Size 9 Click and hold t
126. nDesign PICT is a universal format for interchange between Macintosh programs It is fine for on screen displays but generally is not supported on Windows PCs JPEG is a compressed format used mostly for Web graphics This format is viewable across multi ple platforms and operating Systems Macintosh and Windows PCs so it is often used to share images and is designed for photographs Some data is lost when the image is compressed PostScript is used mostly for export to other applications or for print output Paint is the old MacPaint file format Images saved in this format are 8 x10 72 pixels per inch black and white only Images larger than 8 x10 are cropped to that size from the center of the image CompuServe GIF is a compressed format used primarily for Web graphics that have large areas of solid color Not usually the best choice for photographs Photoshop 2 0 and 2 5 are used for export to other applications Selections may be saved as an alpha channel for programs that utilize them StartUpScreen is the format used to create a graphic for your Mac to display on your screen at startup Photone Prepress is a proprietary format that can only be opened in Color It or Photone Prepress It is used primarily for color separated images to be imported into other applications Scitex CT CT stands for continuous tone is a format used by some high end color separa tors for image assembly It is only available for CMYK im
127. nce to zoom in on the balloon s basket Se Filter Tools Window 2 From the Selection menu choose Selection Type Selection Type gt Selection Document Mask Mask Operations Select All Select None Invert Selection em Ed r ee beat wn yor rat ie Poe 23 L 3 Choose the Shape Selection tool 4 From the shape selector pop up at the lower left corner of the Tools palette choose the polygon option as in the example to the left 5 Outline the basket of the balloon by clicking around the basket When you return to the first point the basket is selected 6 Select the Sharpen tool y DE 7 Select the settings for the pop up options as shown on the left 8 Double click the Sharpen tool to display the ais a Intensity pop up intensity 50 0 9 Select the Intensity radio button and set the pop up C Gradient 50 0_ menu to 50 I 10 Click and drag the Sharpen tool over the selected balloon basket E j The sharpening effect is applied only to the area within the selection Before Sharpening After Sharpening 11 Save the image Command S Using the Balloon Mask Document Using the Balloon tif Mask document created earlier you will mask off the balloon in your image to darken around the right edge of the balloon Darkening behind the balloon contrasts it against the background so it appears to be floating 26 Chapter 4 Combining Images Color It 4 5 Tour 1
128. nd 0 to 255 for the Image Quality Cancel 0K The effect of the adjustments to the image are shown in the After image You can choose the portion of the image to be shown in the Before and After boxes by clicking and dragging the selection rectan gle in the small image at the top left or in the Before view 114 Chapter 17 The Filter Menu Color It 4 5 Manual Sharpen The Sharpen command opens a submenu of commands that sharpens fuzzy images by increasing the contrast of adjacent pixels Unsharp Mask opens a dialog box that allows you to adjust the image sharpness Adjust the Intensity by moving the slider bar clicking on the pointers at each end of the slider or entering a number from 1 16 in the text box The Percent text box determines the amount of sharp ening Values above 100 magnify the intensity of the sharpening The Level text box sets how much contrast and differ ieee must exist between the sharpening pixel and the original before replacing it Cancel OK The effect of the adjustments to the image are shown in the After image You can choose the portion of the image to be shown in the Before and After boxes by clicking and dragging the selection rectangle in the small image at the top left or in the Before view The Sharpen 1 and Sharpen More 2 commands are preset and have no dialog box The effect is applied directly to the image Stylize SS The Stylize command opens a submen
129. ne 18 From the Selection Type Selection menu Document Mask choose Select Mask Operations None or type Select All Command D Select None Tutorial tif x Invert Selection x Tutorial tif Mask Save Save As Window Mode Revert To Saved New View Split Screen Display At Resolution The balloon image becomes part of the image immediately below it 19 From the File menu select Save As and save the image in Save As nara E the TIFF file format Where Documents HA Format TIFF T Save Selected Area Only Cancel E i When asked if you want to replace the exist ing copy of Tutorial tif click Replace An item named Tutorial tif already exists in this location Do you want to replace it with the one you are saving Cancel F Color It 4 5 Tour Chapter 4 Combining Images 25 Sharpening Using a Selection Mask Masks are very powerful tools They function much like stencils to protect areas allowing you the ability to apply filters paint and to paste within or outside of the selected mask Two types of masks are supported in Color It document masks and selection masks Selection masks are created using any of the selection tools These are temporary masks used to protect the unselected area Document masks are actual files linked to the original document Document masks are used for blends special effects and image manipulation 1 Select the Magnify tool and click o
130. ng the Canvas Size een Filter Tools Window 1 From the Selection menu choose Selection selection Type Type gt Selection Document Mask Mask Operations Select All Select None Invert Selection 2 From the Window menu choose Show Rulers Show Rulers 3 Select the Crop tool from the Tool pop up Magnification 4 Click and drag to select the area in the image you desire Window Mode So for your background approximately 7 wide by 4 25 ew View i Sulit Screen gt high You can also check the size of your selection by Display At Resolution opening the Mouse Coordinates palette Tools gt 4 Tutorial tif Mouse Coordinates 5 Place the Crop icon inside of the selection The Crop tool automatically turns into a Scissor icon within the selection when you release the mouse 6 Click the Scissor icon inside of the selected area The portion of the document outside of the selection is deleted 7 Save your file Command S cee 8 From the Image menu select Canvas Size image Type The Canvas Size command lets you add extra space to the outside of an nanne image This can be very useful when combining images into a new single Scale image or when you want additional space around the outside of an image Change Resolution Canvas Size Crop To Selection 9 Uncheck the Keep aspect ratio checkbox New Dimensions Align 10 In the New Dimensions area set the Width 5 Width Horizont
131. nside the Color It Stuff folder see Chapter 2 Scanning and Importing for information on how to install plug ins If Color It is running when the plug ins are installed you must quit and restart the application for these plug in filters to be available The filters may appear in different sub menus on the Filters menu Color It 4 5 Manual Chapter 18 The Tools Menu 117 18 The Tools Menu Window The Tools menu lets you display or hide the different palettes set the v Tools antialiasing and drag updates for the tools and set the cursor style Colors Tools The Tools command Command T is a toggle that displays or hides the Tools palette Like most commands in this menu a eee aka check appears by the command when the palette is open AHE Clicking on the Zoom box in the top right corner of the title mOl bar of all palettes shrinks them to a reduced version to save OTABA i space Antialiasing m PY l V Drag Delay SIE See Chapter 7 The Tools Palette for a thorough discussion of Paint Dither the Tools palette Cursor Paint Controls Brush Options Mouse Coordinates Web Map Palette Animation Catalogs Hide Palettes tab Custom Selection Colors The Colors command Command Y is a toggle that displays or hides the Colors palette which is used to select and edit colors and patterns The number of colors available depends on the image type of the document Millions of Colors Thousands of C
132. nter 600dpi for a 600dpi printer etc You need never scan line art at more than 1 000dpi In most cases with multi color originals you will want to scan at the highest possible bit depth The more colors you capture the closer the image matches the original Higher bit depths also give you more precise control over filtering and image manipulations HALFTONES This one s a bit tricky generally you should scan at the same settings as for a continuous tone image but because of the halftone pattern you may need to experiment Unless your scanner plug in provides a method of descreening to reduce the effect of the pattern try applying a Despeckle filter followed by Unsharp Masking in Color It to help eliminate the unwanted pattern of the halftone dots Memory Requirements of Scans There are three factors which affect the size of the file created by a scan Physical size Physical size is the actual width and height of the area scanned All other things being equal an image that is taller or wider will be a larger file size Resolution The resolution of an image is number of picture elements pixels in an image usually measured in pixels per inch ppi or dots per inch dpi As the resolution increases more detail is captured and the file size increases Images scanned at higher resolutions more closely match the appear ance of the original image but there is a point where higher resolution ceases to improve the image see What Re
133. oard contained a selection it appears in the document with a white background This can be very useful when a separated image such as the balloon may need to be used again 22 Click the red Close button in Save changes to the Color It document MEM untitled 3 before closing the upper left corner of the window When asked in the dialog box that opens if you Cancel OK __ wish to save changes click the Don t Save button Here s another method to select and remove the balloon 1 From the Tool pop up select the Bezier tool The Bezier tool draws an outline with curves that can be adjusted 2 Click once on the lower left corner of the basket Then click on the lower right corner Clicking alone with the Bezier tool creates straight line segments 3 Select the Magnify tool I 4 Click on the bottom right edge of the balloon basket twice to enlarge the image view 22 Chapter 4 Combining Images Color It 4 5 Tour 5 Click once more at the top right corner of the basket Then click and drag down and to the left at the point where the passenger meets the bottom of the balloon Clicking and dragging creates curved outline segments As you drag the line is curved A small box called a control handle is created at the end of a straight line from your click point The control handles may be used to reposition a curve after it has been set Selecting a control handle with the Command key held dow
134. of the Mouse Coordinates palette as you drag Ci 20 to get the proper size Hold the Shift key down to constrain to a perfect cir 9 Use the Rectangular Selection tool and select the area around the ball After the selection is made Copy it Command C for easy repetition of the image 44 Chapter 6 File Prep amp Output Color It 4 5 Tour 10 Move the ball to the upper left of the image as shown 11 From the Animation palette pop up select Add New New Animation Frame Set Loop Limit Set Frame Characteristics The new frame is selected in the Animation palette Add New Frame x 12 In the document Paste Command V to add the red Duplicate Frame s ball in the new frame 13 Position the ball as shown 14 From the Animation palette pop up select Add New Frame again 15 In the document Paste Command V to add the red ball in the new frame 16 Position the ball as shown 17 From the Animation palette pop up select Add New Frame again 18 In the document Paste Command V to add the red ball in the new frame 19 Position the ball as shown 20 To give the ball some flexibility choose Image gt Effect gt Stretch Shrink Drag the top handle down to flatten the ball a bit 21 From the Animation palette pop up select Add New Frame Repeat twice to add two more frames Animation 22 Click on frame 1 in the Animation palette to make it the current frame From the Selection menu choose Se
135. old usually set in a control panel sets the pressure level at which the pen begins to respond Any pressure level applied below this threshold will be ignored by the tablet If you are working with a tablet but the Tablet option does not appear check your connections and the tablet s control panel If the tablet is turned off or the settings are incorrect a warning message appears at the bottom of the palette Once the tablet is turned back on or readjusted the Tablet option box will be displayed The tablet is unavailable The Wacom driver is off Check all tablet settings O Controls The Paint Controls palette command Tools gt Paint Controls or Command U opens a palette that controls paint paste and filter operations For paste operations the slider adjusts the image in real time For paint and filter operations the slider must be set before the operation is performed O Controls Mode Opacity 100 Paint Range Paint is All Colors The Paint Range area of the palette can be hidden or shown by click ing on the small lever icon at the right side of the palette Mode Image is All Colors The Mode pop up menu controls the effect the operation has on the document The slid er sets the percentage of the effect For paste operations the slider adjusts the image in real time For paint and filter operations the slider must be set before the operation is Blend Add Subtract Colorize Multiply Lighte
136. olors 256 Colors or Grays 16 Colors or Grays or Black and White Back Frame See Chapter 8 The Colors Palette for a complete discussion of the Colors palette Paint Controls The Paint Controls command Command U is a toggle that displays or hides the Paint Controls palette See Chapter 7 The Tools Palette for a complete discussion of the Paint Controls palette Paint is All Colors Image is All Colors The Brush Options command is enabled when you select the Brush Air Brush Blur Sharpen Stamp Smudge Lighten or Darken tools from the Tools palette Selecting So the command opens the Brush Options palette allowing you to set several controls for a tool at one time The Gradient Spacing Repeat and Fade are common to all brush tools The slider and top option vary with the tool selected Opacity when the Orest 9 see Brush or Stamp tools are selected Pressure when Smudge is selected Flow when Air Ofa 8 0 _ in Brush is selected Intensity when the Sharpen Blur Lighten or Darken tools are ae selected See Chapter 7 The Tools Palette for a complete discussion of the Brush Options palette 118 Chapter 18 The Tools Menu Color It 4 5 Manual Mouse Coordinates Mouse The Mouse Coordinates command is a toggle that displays or hides the Mouse Coordinates palette Double clicking the Pointer also toggles this palette The top area indicates the percentages of colors at the cursor point
137. on the right to select a portion of the document For finer con trol click and drag in the view on the left Width Height O Display Pattern Tiled Checking the Display Pattern Tiled checkbox shows the pattern repeated in the box on the left Once you have selected a new area click the Grab but ton You are returned to the Pattern Edit dialog box Width Height Display Pattern Tiled 3 Clicking the Done button opens a dialog box where changes Save changes to the Pattern Set Default alas MEM Patterns before closing the pattern edit to the pattern set may be saved by clicking the OK button ino The new pattern is now saved in the set and will appear when the modified set is displayed the Colors palette Cr B Color It 4 5 Manual Chapter 9 The Web Map Palette 67 9 The Web Map Palette Map File The Web Map palette is a floating palette gt eso Default URL https www diginagearts cam h i d P P d dif 8 p b http www tropical paradise com gt t at 1S USE to create anda modi y we image maps It can be opened or closed from the Tools menu and can be closed by clicking on the close button at the upper left corner of the palette A web image map is a text file that describes the regions within a graphic that link to an HTML web page or location within a Web page When a viewer in a web browser clicks on this area on a web page they will be immediately transferred to that page or location 6 a mw
138. on tool also performs a Select All Color It 4 5 Manual Chapter 16 The Selection Menu 103 Select None The Select None command Command D turns off or deselects any current selection Invert Selection The Invert Selection command lets you select everything except the currently selected region This command is very helpful for creating masks Grow Selection The Grow Selection command expands the size of the current selection ee ese Enter the size from 1 to 16 pixels in the Width and click the Border button a Shrink Selection The Shrink Selection command reduces the size of the current selection E eon Enter the size from 1 to 16 pixels in the Width and click the Border button Cancel 5 Select Similar The Select Similar command selects all pixels in a document with the same color values as the active selection whether they are contiguous next to each other or not Feather The Feather command controls the blending between the active selection and the area surrounding it The greater the amount of feathering the wider the area where the image blends into the background Normal feathers half the width inside the selection edge and half outside Inward and Outward types feather ae only on one side of the selection edge Widths of 1 to 64 pixels may be entered Width pixels Border The Border command creates a feathered selection with the edge of the current selection as its center
139. one position the darker or more opaque the pattern appears 20 Save the image Command S 21 From the Window menu select the Rose tif Mask Save and close that image Adding Text Effects 1 From the Tools palette select the Text tool 2 Use the pop up menus to choose Times as the font Align Left and Bold 3 Click on the Font Size pop up menu and Choose Other The Custom Font Size dialog box opens 9 Point 10 Point Sa 4 Enter 42 for the point size in the dialog box Click 18 Point aa ea OK to close the dialog box 24 Point ele Pon ae 5 Type the word Ballooning 48 Point 72 Point NOTE To reposition the type box on the image hold down the Control key and click and drag the text box a y Other 84 4 Double click on the Text tool to make the type a selection 5 Select the Eyedropper tool from the Tools palette 34 Chapter 5 Special Effects Color It 4 5 Tour 6 In the Colors palette click the Eyedropper on the red square that is third from the left in the third row Drag down to the blue square that is third from the left in the eighth row as shown This creates a gradient blend between the colors that is displayed in the Color Bar on the Tools palette Colors may also be selected from an image the same way LJ 7 Select the Gradient tool from Tools pop up on the Tools palette i 8 Click just to the left of the selected type and drag horizontally
140. operations performed in a document in reverse order The number of undos are set in the General Preferences dialog Color It gt Preferences gt General When you switch to a different document Color It keeps only the most recent undo for the inactive documents The Redo command Command R lets you restore an action you reversed with the Undo command Like the Undo command Color It provides up to 16 levels of Redo When you switch to a differ ent document Color It keeps only the most recent Redo for the inactive documents The Cut command Command X removes the active selection from the document leaving a hole filled with the background color and places it on the Clipboard The Copy command Command C copies the active selection and places a duplicate of it on the Clipboard The active selection remains in the document The Paste command Command V places a copy of the Clipboard contents into a document while keeping a copy of the image on the Clipboard The Clear command functions much like the Cut command it removes the active selection from the document leaving a hole filled with the background color but does not add to the Clipboard 92 Chapter 14 The Edit Menu Color It 4 5 Manual Paste Into aoe untitled 2 Bok S12 x S42 pixels RGB Paste Behind untitled 2 S12 x 242 pixels Paste To Fit untitled 2 S12 x 242 pixels The Paste Into command puts the contents of the Clip
141. orms As you experiment with various Dither and Color Set settings the results can be viewed in the After image at the bottom of the dialog box Flesh Tones E Pastel Hues gt C OK Vivid Hues Web Safe Colors eine The Optimized Colors radio button has a pop up to select fewer bits to reduce the bit depth of the image and thus reduce file size The After preview shows the effect so you may choose the bit depth that best meets your needs or balances file size and appearance 11 Choose Diffusion from the Dither Style area and Web Safe Colors from the Other pop up in the Color Set area and click the OK button The image is now converted to a 256 color GIF image ready for use on the Web For more information on file types and color sets see Chapter 13 The File Menu and Chapter 8 The Colors Palette Color It 4 5 Tour Chapter 6 File Prep amp Output 43 Creating Animated GIFs An animated GIF is a special type of GIF file that contains multiple images that play back in sequence when displayed on a Web page Unlike many motion effects for Web pages no plug ins are required to view animated GIFs as they are supported by all Web browsers Following is the step by step process used to create two basic animated GIFs More information and specifics about the other options in the animation palette see Chapter 10 The Animation Palette A simple Cell Type Animation I Tools 1 From the Tools menu choose Animation
142. ost JPEG allows very high compression ratios 100 1 or more but at the baseline expense of fairly obvious blocky artifacts in the image The trade off is O Progressive between file size and image quality Most observers agree that ratios of High amp 10 1 produce a result that is visually indistinguishable from the original C Very High Generally the best setting in Color It s options for JPEG is High Cancel 0K JPEG compression is a multistage process It takes the image data and performs a regularizing process that makes it contain more repeating patterns than it did originally Decompression is the factor working against JPEG JPEG decompression takes considerably longer than opening GIF files so the time saved by sending a smaller file across the Internet is usually lost through the decompression process Thus the contents of your image and the relative importance of the accuracy of the color reproduction will determine the format to be used Color It 4 5 Tour Chapter 6 File Prep amp Output 39 Preparing An Image For Print CMYK Color Separation Converting an image to CMYK Cyan Magenta Yellow and Black is a process used in commer cial printing to reproduce full color images like photos in magazines Commercial printers print using these four process colors and Color It can save an image as a color separated CMYK image that may be brought into desktop publishing programs such as InDesign or QuarkX
143. p The Zap tool deletes portions of a selection by clicking on them Multiple separate regions can be deleted at one time by clicking and dragging a line through them Scissors Be The Scissors tool cuts unwanted portions of a selection Color It 4 5 Manual Chapter 7 The Tools Palette 49 To use the Scissors tool click and drag through a selection to cut off unwanted regions When the mouse button is released the selection is divided into separate regions The Zap tool can then be used to delete regions With the Scissors tool selected a Line Width feature appears at the bottom left of the Tools palette Clicking on it opens a dialog box where the line width can be set Moving the cursor within the left box resizes the line widths as you move Holding down the Command key makes the sizing non proportional The width of horizon tal and vertical lines are displayed in the box at the upper right The Crop tool deletes any areas of a document outside of the current selection Only the portion within the selection is left as the entire document an mE After selecting the tool click on the document and drag to create the selection Grow d handles are placed at the corners of the selection Click on one of the handles and drag to resize the selection 7 Jaan Moving the cursor inside the selection changes it to a scissor cursor Clicking crops the document to the selected area Pesto tes mmm kh here fasta E
144. p aspect ratio independently Left Top The Align pop ups let you posi v Center v Center tion the present image within the Right Bottom area defined by the new docu ment dimensions The Units pop up lets you change measurement units to Pixels Inches Centimeters Picas or Points The Reset button returns the values in the Width and Height and to their original settings Crop to Selection The Crop to Selection command deletes any of the image outside of the current selection Only the portion of the image within the selection is left as the entire image Grow to Selection Balloon tif The Grow to Selection command Z99K 259 x B94 pixels ZO1 x 294 pixels 1S only available when part of the active selection is moved beyond the edges of the document Grow to Selection increases the canvas area of the document enough to include the active selection The additional area is filled with white This is useful when pasting an image larger than the current doc ument The Flip commands make the active selection or entire document appear as through they have been turned over Flip Horizontal flips the image left to right Flip Vertical flips the image top to Tea bottom EN rizonta Flip Ho Flip Vertical Color It 4 5 Manual Chapter 15 The Image Menu 97 Rotate arbitrary The Rotate command displays a menu with several commands for rotating the image for a document or selection gt Free Rotate
145. p tool 2 Click and hold the Brush Type pop up in the lower left of the Tools palette 3 Select the Brush Type second from the left in the top row 4 Click and hold the Brush Size pop up and select 2x2 as the Brush Size Brush Type 5 Click and hold the Stamp Operation pop up and Clone Clone Snapshot Snapshot Last Last Aligned Relative Aligned Undo Saved select the Clone Relative option 6 Press Option and click near the middle imperfection Stamp Operation When you press Option the Stamp tool places a reference mark that is used as the point on the image from where the Stamp tool copies 7 Click and drag over the imperfection Fixing the Fix Sometimes after you fix an imperfection it still is not quite right 1 Select the Smudge tool from the pop up 2 Smudge the imperfection using a Smudge Size of 7 and a Pressure around 60 3 Save the image Command S Adding the Rose If you plan to use an image that has been separated from a larger image on a regular basis you should save the separated image to a different file as we did with the balloon in the Selecting and Cutting section earlier in this chapter This saves time as you do not have to repeatedly cut the desired portion of an image from a larger file These cut out images can also be converted and used as masked images The rose you will be working with in this section of the tutorial has been saved in this manner The Magic
146. pboard images are scaled to fit The Clear command deletes the contents of the Scratch Pad The Save command saves the contents of the Scratch Pad The Revert command undoes any changes to the Scratch Pad since the last save Clicking the Eyedropper checkbox turns tools moved over the Scratch Pad into the Eyedropper tool Clicking on the Scratch Pad then selects the color at the point selected Patterns Pattern fills can be used like any other fill with selections as paint for brushes etc Color It comes with many patterns Patterns and sets can also be created or modified lassie Patbaris The Pattern Set pop up lets you choose from the patterns Cool Patterns and sets stored in the Pattern Sets folder in the Color It Stuff wv Default Patterns folder More Patterns 1 0 More Patterns 2 Select a pattern by clicking on the sample square The select V 1 Gradient Patterns ed pattern has a grey frame around it and the pattern appears in the selected color square at the top of the Colors and in the Tools palettes The scroll bar and scroll arrows at the bottom of the palette can be used to make more of the patterns in the set visible A pattern may be used as a fill or as paint for a brush Any attributes that can be applied PY a brush such as style size and opacity can be used Clicking the Edit button opens the Pattern Edit dialog box where patterns can Tang ae be created or modified Clicking on a pattern square selects it an
147. por tion of the image to be shown in the Before and After boxes by clicking and dragging the selec tion rectangle in the small image at the top left or in the Before view De Speckle The De speckle command opens a dialog box used to reduce noise in an image Adjust the Intensity by moving the slider bar clicking on the pointers at each end of the slider or entering a number between 1 and 16 in the textbox The effect of the adjustments to the image are shown in the After image You can choose the portion of the image to be shown in the Before and After boxes by clicking and dragging the selection rectangle in the small image at the top left or in the Before view Quick Dust off The Quick Dust off command helps to remove small specks and imperfections within an image The command is pre set and has no dialog box it is applied directly to the image Remove Scratches The Remove Scratches command opens a dialog box where dust marks scratches and other small imperfections can be minimized or removed from an image The Scratch Size slider controls the size of the imperfections to be removed As the Scratch Size increases more detail is lost in the image The Image Quality slider helps to replace some of this lost detail It can be set from 0 to 255 Adjust the controls by moving the slider bar clicking on the pointers at each end of the slider or entering a number between 0 and 16 in the text box for the Scratch Size a
148. r It 4 5 Manual Chapter 7 The Tools Palette 45 7 The Tools Palette The Tools palette is a floating palette that contains tools that let you view select and modify documents CGA ole z i The palette is closed by clicking the close button in the top left corner The Tools Palette PAIE command in the Tools menu Command T is a toggle which opens and closes the FB palette The palette is moved by clicking on the title bar at the top and dragging it to a olla new position The Antialiasing command in the Tools menu is a toggle which turns 7 om a antialiasing on and off for many tools Additional Tools ETE Several additional tools are available in the pop up menu in the upper right side of the v EE Gradient Tools palette When a tool is chosen it appears above the pop up pointer when the Lighten menu closes Darken Tools can be re arranged within the main tool display and between the display and the additional tools pop up See Editing the Tool Palette at the end of this chapter for more Zap Bs Scissors 4 Crop information amp Bezier Kernel Modifier Tool Shortcuts Several shortcuts are available by using modifier keys Unless otherwise noted under the review for an individual tool the following are common for all tools Shift constrains the action of the tool to horizontal or vertical movement Option changes to the Eyedropper tool Spacebar changes to the Mover tool
149. r mode similar to the Full Screen mode except the menu bar is hidden as well Although hidden the menu bar will appear when the mouse button is held 46 Chapter 7 The Tools Palette Color It 4 5 Manual down as you click in the menu bar area at the top of the screen See Chapter 19 The Window Menu for more information on these modes Double clicking on the Mover zooms the window to fill the screen and resizes the document view to Fit Double clicking again changes the view to 1 1 Option Mover drags an outline of a mask This is useful for positioning when one document is the mask for another Magnify The Magnify tool lets you reduce or enlarge your view of the document S Clicking and dragging the Magnify tool over a region fills the window with that region when the mouse button is released Double clicking on the Magnify tool sets the document view to 1x magnification Command Magnify tool sets the document view to 1x magnification and centers the click point in the window Option Magnify tool sets it to reduction mode Eyedropper The Eyedropper tool lets you pick up a color from the document When you select it a color bar and an area selector feature is added to the bottom of the Tools palette _ ll Clicking in the document fills the bar with the color at the point clicked Clicking and dragging fills the bar with a gradient blending from the color where you first clicked to the color where you released
150. r the Brush or Stamp the intensi ty of the Blur Sharpen Lighten or Darken and the flow of the Air Brush The Wider and Thinner commands vary the size of the Brush Air Brush or Stamp The Farther and Closer commands vary the spacing of the tool selected this overrides the setting in the Spacing option The Faster and Slower commands vary the repeat rate this overrides the setting in the Repeat option This works best with the Air Brush to control the frequency of spray The command name indicates the direction in which the variable will change as you Closer increase the stylus pressure for example greater stylus pressure with Wider selected produces a wider stroke as you paint greater stylus pressure with Thinner selected produces a thinner stroke as you paint NOTE Each tool saves its own tablet settings between uses The percentage setting represents the sensitivity of the stylus A sensitivity of 50 means that each change in pressure will result in a corresponding change in the current option At low per centages greater pressure is required for even small changes in the option chosen At high per centages even small pressure changes result in a large change in the option The amount can be selected with the slider at the top of the palette or with the pop up using the Edit or Other choices discussed under the Opacity option NOTE While tablet sensitivity controls the pressure sensitive options the tablet thresh
151. r the image when converting The preview at the lower right shows how changing options will affect the final appearance of the image after conversion NOTE The Color Set area does not apply when selecting Custom Dither from the Print dialog box 90 Chapter 13 The File Menu Color It 4 5 Manual Print Preview Horizontal Alignment ae C Center Right Vertical Alignment Center Cancel l Bottom OK Clicking the Preview button in the Print Format dialog opens a window with the options to position the image on the printed page size either by using the horizontal and vertical alignment buttons or by clicking and dragging the image itself Click OK when the image is where you want it on the page Color It 4 5 Manual Chapter 14 The Edit Menu 91 14 The Edit Menu Image Selection 1 The Edit menu contains commands that allow you to cut copy paste clear Undo celeco cee and fill a document or a portion of a document Redo AR Undo Copy 98 The Undo command Command Z reverses the last action performed in a Paste i document The menu displays the last action taken that can be undone such as Clear Undo Selection at the top If the change can t be reversed the Edit menu Paste Into displays Can t Undo Paste Behind a nt Color It provides multiple levels of Undo you can undo up to 16 of the last Fill Frame Redo Cut Copy Paste Clear
152. re described under the Brush tool earlier in this chapter The Filter List pop up shows the same filters that are available by choosing Filter gt Convolution gt Kernel Y Blur Heavy Select a filter from the list choose your brush shape and size and begin paint Blur Light aE on the document The chosen filter will be applied to the area painted with Blur Medium the brush See Chapter 17 The Filter Menu for more information about filters Dark Shadow East Dark Shadow North Editing the Tools Palette You can edit and save custom tool sets in Color It Tools can be placed wherever you wish within the palette and specific attributes can be assigned to each tool For example two brushes can appear in the same palette one with a round shape and one with a diagonal shape with different opacities To edit the Tools palette click on a tool and hold down the mouse button As you drag the mouse an outline of the tool follows the pointer When the outline is moved over another tool that tool is highlighted Releasing the mouse button places a dupli cate of the selected tool in that position and the tool originally in that position is moved to the Additional Tools pop up list Tools in the pop up can be moved to the main tool display as well NOTE The Allow Editing of Tool Positions checkbox in the Tool Preferences dialog Color It gt 60 Chapter 7 The Tools Palette Color It 4 5 Manual Preferences
153. reen ORTES with the highest resolution when multiple screens are used On Size None Thin Thick Alternate Screens keeps the same number of windows on each Color Gray screen when multiple screens are used On Main Screen opens all windows on the screen containing the menu bar the main monitor Mi Dither on monitors without enough colors C Display color channels in color Checking Display at Resolution displays documents in the same M Show image info in header of windows physical dimensions as they will print out If this is not checked all Color Unit documents are displayed at 72dpi thus a 300dpi document Cancel OKe appears on screen roughly four times its size 300 72 4 167 _ ee Checking Fit in Window displays documents so the entire document fits within the window The Document Border area controls borders surrounding the document image in the main window None displays the image without a border Thin displays a 4 pixel wide border Thick ee displays a wider border around the image The Color pop up menu lets you select a Black border of Gray Black White or Other Color which opens the standard Apple Color White Picker to choose a color Other Color 78 Chapter 12 The Color It Menu Color It 4 5 Manual Checking Dither on monitors without enough colors dithers images if your monitor does not support as many colors as the document contains Checking Show image info in header of
154. rences are About Plug In grouped in the submenu and include General Display SESE Files Tools Rulers and Separation Services Display Files Hide Color It Hide Others 3H Tools Show All Rulers Quit Color It HO Separation Color It 4 5 Manual Chapter 12 The Color It Menu 77 General Preferences The Startup area controls what happens when Startup Gaar pimesi Color It first starts The Startup With pop up With Amount z5 of color table Untitled Document lets you select Untitled Define Document When M After opening New Dialog Document New Dialog Restore floating windows _ Before saving Open Dialog Open Dialog or N othing Clipboard Undo v Nothing The Define Document i Export to other applications Levels of undo 1 16 button active only when Untitled Document is iaa chosen opens the New Image dialog box where Arter Long Operations E Auto Save on Scan Import options are set for the document appearing at L Flash menubar startup The options are described in Chapter 13 Play System Beep Cancel E The File Menu The Clipboard area controls images copied to the clipboard Checking Export to other applica tions stores the image in a form useable by other programs The Mode pop up lets you select Hoal Normal Dither or Transparent modes In Transparent mode pure white areas of the Dither image become transparent when pasted into other applications Transparent
155. reparation amp Animated GIF for step by step examples 72 Chapter 11 Catalog Palettes Color It 4 5 Manual 11 Catalog Palettes Catalog palettes are a convenient method of cataloging images in thumbnail form actimp Each catalog may hold up to 200 thumbnails Images to be cataloged may be in any of Image the formats Color It opens and may reside on your hard drive or on stock image and PhotoCDs Catalogs may also be automatically created when multiple images are acquired from a scanner or digital camera if the Acquire import auto save box is checked in Preferences Color It gt Preferences gt General See Chapter 14 The Edit Menu for more information E As with other palettes in Color It the floating catalog palettes may be closed by click r ing the close box in the top left corner Catalog palettes will have a scroll bar with arrows if more images are in the palette than are visible and the palette may also be resized by clicking and dragging the size box in the lower right corner to display more H Yellowstone Fa iH of the images ina palette Window Catalog palettes are created under the Tools menu Tools gt J Tools l Catalogs gt New Catalog Colors i Create New Catalog A dialog Paint Controls box Brush Options Name for new catalog pens Mouse Coordinates vf Web Map Palette Eo where Animation the new Catalogs j New Catalog palette can be named 2 Open o
156. rns applying gradients to selections creating drop shadows and feathering In the next chapter we ll discuss how to prepare the images we ve created for print output or for display on the web and to create animated GIFs Color It 4 5 Tour Chapter 6 File Prep amp Output 37 6 File Preparation After creating an image file preparation may be necessary depending on how it will be used File Formats Color It can save images in many different formats Each has its own advantages and uses Saving Images in Specific Formats 1 Open any image 2 From the File menu select Save As 3 Enter a file name in the Save Image As field 4 Select a format in the Format pop up menu ee PCT 5 Click the Options button if available PostScript Several file formats have important Options choices for more information see Paint Chapter 13 the File Menu Compuserve GIF i i i Photoshop 2 0 5 Select the appropriate options and click OK Photoshop 2 5 StartupScreen 6 Click Save Photone Prepress scitex CT QuickTime PICT PNG What Is The Best Use For Each Format Each format is appropriate for specific uses For more information on each format and the specific options available see Chapter 13 The File Menu TIFF is primarily used when the end result is printed output It is generally the best format to use when creating graphics to be brought into desktop publishing programs such as QuarkXPress or I
157. rush ar ahs ast on the Tools palette No DarkShadow Nonheast sliders or controls are Dark Shadow Northwest featured just the before Dark Shadow South and after view as shown kernel Dark Shadow Morth T T Cancel KD 112 Chapter 17 The Filter Menu Color It 4 5 Manual Custom Convolution Convolution Size o lo im o b BER v None Horizontal Vertical Horz Vert Radial v One Auto Sum Other v None Scale 24 Offset Difference Sub Diff The Custom Convolution command opens a dialog box that lets you create and or apply a convolution filter to a docu ment or selection A convolution filter is an area operator The filter looks at an area performs a math ematical operation and then decides how to Untitled change the center pixel Symmetry Divide by l The Size pop up lets you choose from several types of grids The Symmetry pop up menu lets you choose between None Horizontal Vertical Horz Vert or Radial The Divide by pop up menu lets you choose between One Auto Sum and Other The Post Process pop up menu offers None Scale Offset Difference or Sub Diff Subtract Difference The center pixel cell in the grid is the point all convolution kernels calculate for Select a grid cell by clicking on it and enter a number in the box The Test button lets you apply the convolution to the After image to see the effect The New button r
158. s Clicking the button again repeats the operation on the newly changed color The Tint button opens a dialog box where a value from 20 to 20 can be entered The starting color square is tinted by the value entered in the next square and repeated to the ending square for 5 the second square is 5 lighter the next 10 lighter etc Positive ranges lighten the selected colors negative values darken the selected colors The Scratch Pad allows you to experiment with Color It s brush tools test changes to nz portion of the image without changing the original image and store a range of colors for use on the original AE The commands in the Options pop up menu let you import Paste From Clipboard images into the Scratch Pad Clear Save Revert Oo The Grab From Image command lets you grab a portion of the document and place it _ on the Scratch Pad When you select the command a dialog box appears where you can 1 7 select a portion of your document to copy to the Scratch Pad 64 Chapter 8 The Colors Palette Color It 4 5 Manual To make a new selection move the cursor over the selection rectangle then click and drag the rectangle to select a different portion of the document For finer control move the cursor over the box on the left then click and drag to nudge the selection Once you have selected a new area click the Grab button Select new scratch pad fragment Cancel Pad Cli
159. sequent painting does not reflect changes made by the earlier Snapshot painting the original image is still available for painting with the Stamp Last Undo returns the stamped area to its state before the last operation performed Last Saved returns the stamped area to its state as of the last save Double clicking Stamp opens the Brush Options palette Option Stamp and clicking sets the reference point for the Stamp tool Smudge The Smudge tool smears the document with the fill foreground color or the colors in the document The effect is similar to dragging your finger across wet ink Selecting the Smudge tool adds a number of pop up features to the bottom of the Tools palette The Brush Type and Brush Size pop ups are described under the Brush tool earlier in this chapter The Smudge Options pop up opens a display with several choices As you change the pressure settings by moving the eh cursor over the bar a black pointer shows the current level Smudge Options and a gray pointer the previous level The percentage changes Orascom to indicate the current pressure The percentage indicates the Smudge Fill Color amount of color blended with the background 100 smudges an exact copy of the brush stroke over the top of the document The lower the pressure percent age the shorter the smudge effect is drawn into an edge The bottom portion lets you choose whether the smudge uses the fill color or the document image The curren
160. similar to Brightness Contrast but with individual sliders for the red green and blue channels Adjustments are made by moving the slider bar click ing on the pointers at each end of the slider or enter ing a percent in the textbox Checking the Lock checkbox links all 3 sliders togeth ee ee jp fo fx The effect of the adjustments to the image are shown in the After image You can choose the portion of the k W ioch P j image to be shown in the Before and After boxes by Oc ese Ba C clicking and dragging the selection rectangle in the O Live Cancel OK small image at the top left or in the Before view Checking the Live checkbox applies changes to the entire screen and removes the Before and After views The Reset button returns the settings to their defaults Contrast RGB The Contrast RGB command opens a dialog box similar to Brightness RGB with individual sliders for the red green and blue channels Adjustments are made by moving the slider bar clicking on the point ers at each end of the slider or entering a percent in the textbox Checking the Lock checkbox links all sliders together Q fo xs The effect of the adjustments to the image are shown q E j gt in the After image You can choose the portion of the image to be shown in the Before and After boxes by i a plo f clicking and dragging the selection rectangle in the Loc eset O small image at the top left or in
161. sing any degradation to the image Original Distort Optimize Colors The Optimize Colors command Command E improves images displayed on monitors with fewer colors than in the image for example viewing a Millions of Colors document on a 256 color screen Color It 4 5 Manual Chapter 15 The Image Menu 99 Get Info The Get Info dialog box displays document information The top area lists basic information Ballaon tif Info File Type shows the document s file format se ag Lae ee a Eee gee Creator shows the name or four character creator reator Color It width 259 f f Size 312K u o o identity of the program which created the docu ment Artist Digimage Arts a Calor kid Dawe om Size is the amount of space the document occu Computer Apple Macintosh ples 1n kilobytes k when open Device Make Image Type lists the number of colors in the doc Device Model ument Description Width is the size of the document in pixels Height is the size of the document in pixels Cond GD The second Size shows the size of the file when stored on a disk This may differ from the Opened File Size because documents on disk may be compressed Depending on the block size of the disk on which the image is stored a second size in parentheses lists the disk space the actual file itself requires The following information can be entered in the textboxes below that are saved with the document Artist The name of
162. solution Should I Use To Scan earlier in this chapter The dpi of a scanner or printer refers to the number of pixels scanned or spots of ink printed in a square inch 300dpi means that each square inch of an image is broken into 300 rows and 300 columns creating a total of 90 000 cells Likewise a 600dpi image contains 600 rows and 600 columns which is a total of 360 000 cells Thus a 600dpi image contains not twice as much but 10 Chapter 2 Scanning amp Importing Color It 4 5 Tour four times as much information as a 300dpi image Bit Depth or Color Depth Bit depth determines how many different colors can be stored in an image determined by the Image Type in Color It Generally greater bit depths more closely match the colors in the original Image Type Bits per pixel Number of Colors Black amp White line art 1 2 16 Colors 4 16 256 Colors 8 256 Thousands of Colors 16 65 536 Millions of Colors 24 16 777 216 Most scanner software will show you the size your file will be based on these factors Color It calculates the file size in the New Image dialog box as well Image Type Millions of Colors Fill With Width Sea 2 Cz 3 Height Resolution 72 00 F Image Size 806K Cancel New Here s some examples of how increasing the bit depth or resolution affects the file size Physical Image Size 2 x 2 Resolution Bit Depth File Size 72 dpi 1 B amp W 3 k kilobytes 300 dpi 1 B amp
163. splay are used to make adjustments in the curve The Pointer tool selects a region of the map The Pencil tool makes free form modifications to the map The Line tool draws straight lines in the map The Fixed Point tool places a point when you click on the curve that holds the curve to that value at that point Clicking and dragging on the curve moves it smoothly around any fixed points You may also click and drag to reposition any set points Double clicking creates nine evenly spaced points on the curve The Curve tool draws a 1 6 gamma curve in the map Dragging the curve horizontally produces a shallower curve dragging vertically produces a steeper curve SS The Map pop up menu lets you open existing image maps and save new maps Default Map The Channel pop up is identical to the pop up described earlier in this chapter under the Levels command Composite Red Green Blue The Slider pop up lets you adjust Brightness Contrast Gamma and Posterization of the Brightness Contrast image Adjustments can be made by moving the slider button or clicking the pointers at Gamma each end The Reset button returns the settings to their defaults Posterize The preview selection image Before and After images and the Live checkbox all function as described under the Levels command earlier in this chapter 108 Chapter 17 The Filter Menu Color It 4 5 Manual Auto Enhance The Auto Enhance command is a quick method of
164. t Sim CL Birthday Photos Date Modified Today Today Today E Food jpg smile jpg B The Twins tif Cancel Open Q search The Rename catalog command opens a dialog box where a new name may be entered for the current catalog The Rename image folder command opens a dialog box where a new name may be entered for the current image folder The Delete catalog command opens a dialog box where you may choose Cancel Delete Catalog Only just the thumbnail images or Delete Catalog and Images both the thumbnails and the original images The Add image command opens a stan dard Open dialog appear where an image may be chosen to be added to the catalog The frontmost open image in Color It may be added by selecting the Add active image command Q search Date Modified Today Today Birthday Travel Images New Folder The Add thumbnails from command opens a dialog box listing the available cat alog files by default these files are stored in the Catalogs folder inside the Color It Stuff folder Selecting a catalog name imports the thumbnail images from that catalog into the current catalog 74 Chapter 11 Catalog Palettes Color It 4 5 Manual A Image Catalog Catalog Images Image Earth tif a Sim Birthday Photos fa The Twins tif Today Today Today Today New Folder fal fam C Travel Images Nari SS AT Date Modified O Ol
165. t selection is marked with a black border Pressure 40 56 Chapter 7 The Tools Palette Color It 4 5 Manual If you want a finer adjustment open the Brush Options palette and use the Pressure eee F option to change the percentage The amount can be selected with the slider or with e EE the pop up using the Edit or Other choices described under the Brush section earlier in this chapter Double clicking on the Smudge tool displays the Brush Options palette wot E Shift Option Smudge uses only the fill color when smudging Lighten Fey Painting with the Lighten tool lightens the image under the brush Selecting the Lighten tool adds a number of pop up features to the bottom of the Tools palette The Brush Type and Brush Size pop ups are described under the Brush tool earlier in this chapter The Lighten Amount pop up opens a dialog box that lets you adjust the effect As you change the settings by moving the cursor over the bar a black pointer shows the current level and a gray pointer the Lighten Amount previous level The percentage readouts change to indicate the current settings Double clicking on the Lighten tool displays the Brush Options palette Option Lighten changes to the Eyedropper tool Darken Painting with the Darken tool darkens the image under the brush Selecting the Darken tool adds a number of pop up features to the bottom of the Tools palette The Brush Type and Brush Si
166. the paint or filter operation being applied The Paint Is and Image Is pop up menus let you select from several different options errr The All Colors command uses every color in the Colors palette Selecting All Colors Current Gradient for both operations performs a normal paste filter or paste operation Equal To Not Equal To The Current Gradient command uses the colors in the Tools palette color bar The eradient is created when you drag the Eyedropper tool across the image or when you drag the Eyedropper from one color to another in the Colors palette In the Equal To or Not Equal To commands clicking the color bar opens the current 256 color palette where you can choose any color you wish Only the colors in the image which are equal or not equal to the one selected will be affected by the operation to be performed Eraser ie E Two features appear at the bottom of the Tools palette when the Eraser is selected EA The left feature selects a square or round shape The current shape has an outline around it The pop up menu on the right side lets you select a size for the Eraser The current size has an outline around it Select the size from the Eraser Size pop up by moving the cursor over the shape you wish The Eraser tool wipes away the image leaving the background color Double clicking the Eraser erases the entire image Option Eraser acts as an un erase tool returning the erased area to its state befor
167. theirs or for display on Web pages only need a resolution of 72 pixels per inch 1 Press Command O and open an image Selection Filter T 2 From the Image menu select Change Resolution aoe Tine 3 Hf the numbers in the X and Y Channel i Size textboxes in the Resolution area Width 1600 00 are not already 72 change them to Height 1200 00 that number Scale Change Resolution p Resolution 4 Check Keep aspect ratio to main tain a uniform proportion width and height in your image C Convert to If this box is not checked the X and Y res eee aapt aiia olution may be changed independently of _ Keep pixels constant hoh M Smooth scaling each other Image Size 7 3 MB 5 Click the OK button C Reset Cancel OK 6 From the File menu select Save As The file formats that can be used for the Web are CompuServe GIF vai JPEG or PNG We ll use GIF for this 3 example Where Documents NOTE Some images are more difficult to convert than others Such images v TIFF z Options usually photographs may be better Hees a saved as a JPEG file in Millions of Colors PostScript eee Paint Ccancei GD A 7 Choose Compuserve GIF from Compuserve GIF Dhatnehan a N S the Format pop up 8 For use on the web file names must have three letter Save As Balloon gif p extensions Be sure the file name ends with gif 9 Click the Options button The Co
168. ther Hide Palettes tab The Open other command opens other catalog files not Ar presently visible All open catalog files are listed at the images Drag pey atl caus bottom of the Catalogs submenu Faint Wither Pea ae i A nt A i as I ni g a The Catalog pop up at the top of the palette lists the available thumbnail catalogs Yellowstone Falls To display another catalog in the that palette select one of the catalog names from Lighthouse Tower the list Birthday The Image pop up lists the thumbnails in the current catalog Selecting an image v Travel Images thumbnail from the list brings that thumbnail to the top row of images Once a catalog file is created a triangle at the top right Catalog opens an Action pop up menu with commands for working Travel mages action gt Rename catalog with catalog and images me Rename image folder Delete catalog a 7 Add image J Add active image Add thumbnails from EEE Delete selected image s Add folder of images Gather images to Open new catalog palette Color It 4 5 Manual Chapter 11 Catalog Palettes 73 Rename Current Catalog Cancel oK New catalog name Rename Image Folder Image The Twins tif is currently located in folder Desktop If you rename this folder all catalog files will be updated to use the name you supply New folder name Enable All Documents lt g
169. this dialog box to every frame in the animation Frame Characteristics may later be set individually frame by frame as needed Experimentation is probably one of the best ways for you to see what effects various setting have on the animation Settings may be changed on the fly while the animation is running It is important to remember that the document window itself is where the K 72x 7Zpixels 286Colers Current Frame is displayed and where the frame contents are created or modified When the Run button is clicked the document window is where the animation is shown O The Animation palette is where frames are selected or rearranged Clicking on a frame thumbnail selects it and makes it the current frame displayed in the document window Shift clicking is used to select multiple frames Frames are rearranged in the Animation palette by click ing on a frame thumbnail to select it and dragging to a new location A frame outline moves with the cursor The vertical white lines between frames becomes bold when the spot between the two adjacent frames is selected in the example to the left frame 5 is being moved between frames 2 and 3 Once over the new location release the mouse button to place the selected frame s in that position Frames may be added deleted or repositioned while the animation is playing in the document window The best way to learn the Animation palette is to actually create an animated GIF See Chapter 6 File P
170. three pointers on the bottom of the histogram control the Input levels shadows Gamma midtones and highlights and increase the contrast Values can also be entered for each in the textboxes above the histogram dis play The Output levels reduce the contrast Values can be entered in the textboxes or the two pointers on the Output bar can be moved Output D Live Cancel The effect of the adjustments to the image are shown in the After image at the lower left You can choose the portion of the image to be shown in the Before and After boxes by clicking and dragging the selection rectangle in the small image at the top left or in the Before view The Channel pop up menu lets you select which channels are displayed in the histogram Red Green Blue or Composite all individual channels combined e Composite Red Green Blue Color It 4 5 Manual Chapter 17 The Filter Menu 107 Whole Image The Display pop up menu adjusts the histogram display Selected options are marked Selection Only with a bullet e Normal Normal includes all the blacks whites and colors in the image No Black White No Black White ignores all pixels at the first index 0 and the last index 255 Some filters group pix Compresaay els at these extreme positions so it is common for the large number of pixels at these Cumulative locations to overshadow the others in between Gradient Solid Black Compressed compresses the high peaks
171. to make that palette v Tools visible if it is not already Colors O Toast Animation Paint Controls Brush Options Mouse Coordinates Web Map Palette Animation Catalogs afoje i ag New Animation Set Loop Limit Set Frame Characteristics r J ro m Teh a a a a a a a a a a a E O E Aga New Frame Duplicate Frame s Ravwarce Mirder 2 From the pop up triangle at the right of the palette choose New Animation A specialized New Image dialog box opens 3 Enter the following settings Color Set 256 colors Fill Color Set With White Width Height 72 pixels Resolution 72 Fill With pixels per inch Then click the New button A new standard document window SK 72x 72pixels 256Celrs appears Just like in still images in Color It this is where images or frames are created and manipulated Width Height Resolution 72 00 e Pixels Inch Image Size 5K Cancel New C Mouse 4 From the Tools menu choose Mouse Coordinates The palette opens Sane This will help make it easier to create our shape E l 71 5 From the Tools palette select the round Shape Object tool 6 From the Frame Fill pop up on the Tools palette e 0 choose Fill only Frame Fill Frame Only f Ony f and Fin Cements 7 From the Colors palette select the fourth E Fi color square from the third row down for our fill color red in the document as shown L Watch the item measure section
172. toggle that controls when pastes object and line screen redraws are updated as you move or draw them The normal setting with no check mark next to the command in the menu has no delay With large or complex objects the screen redraws may be slow Activating the command shows only an outline of an item as it is moved and redraws according to the settings in Edit gt Preferences gt Tools Paint Dither The Paint Dither command is a toggle that indicates when a document has been dithered Dithering creates the illusion of a third color by placing pixels of different colors next to one another using blue and yellow to create green for example Cursor J Teeiean The Cursor command displays a menu where a cursor style can be selected The com Crosshair mand applies to all tools except the Hand Magnify Dropper and Text tools Either Tool SS Icon or Crosshair views may be chosen The Brush Size is a toggle that displays an outline showing the size and shape of the current 4 brush tool as it moves for finer control of brush stroke placement Custom Selection The Custom Selection command opens a dialog box where a custom selection can be created See Chapter 7 The Tools Palette for more information 120 Chapter 19 The Window Menu Color It 4 5 Manual 19 The Window Menu window The Window menu controls how documents are viewed All open documents choa tuer are listed at the bottom of the Window menu The active document is ident
173. ts specific file for mat by limiting the types of files shown All Files shows all files regardless of format If you choose one of the other formats such r Pi New Folder Cancel Open as TIFF only files in that format will be shown 84 Chapter 13 The File Menu Color It 4 5 Manual Open Recent Edit Image Selection Filter Tools wi The Open Recent command displays a submenu of the last ten documents opened in Color It for quick access The Clear Menu command at the bottom removes all files listed Open Recent Se in the Open Recent submenu arth ti Lightning tif Save Clouds tif Save As Liberty tif Building Corner tif Scan Import Background tif Export p Tutorial tif Rose 1 tif Page Setup Balloon 1 tif Print atk Revert To Saved Clear Menu Close The Close command Command W closes the active window If more than one document is open the next open window comes to the front If you made changes to the document since it was last saved Save changes to the Color It document P a Background tif before closing a dialog appears asking if you want to save the changes If the k document is new and has never been saved the Save As dialog described below opens Don t Save closes the docu Don t Save Cancel OK ment without saving any changes Cancel returns you to the document and OK saves the latest version document Save The Save co
174. ttern second from the left in the top row see Back Frame Fill left When you do so the selected pattern appears in the Fill rectangle at the upper left corner of the palette Cool Patterns Default Patterns You can also create your own cus tom patterns by clicking the Edit button to the left of the patterns pop up menu 11 Select the round antialiased Brush Type 10 Select the Air Brush tool rae 12 Select the Brush Size of 30x30 13 Click and hold the Spray Options pop up Color It 4 5 Tour Chapter 5 Special Effects 33 Te 14 Click and drag over the top section to select a Flow of 80 Click again and drag over the bottom section to select a 46 sec Repeat Rate m 15 Double click the Air Brush icon f The Brush Options palette opens Spray Options Repeat Rate 46sec 16 Click on the radio button for the Fade section at the bottom Click on the pop up menu O Fow a00 17 In the pop up menu Choose Other A dialog box opens Se ae 18 In the Other dialog box enter a value of 20 Click OK to close the dialog box Value 20 pix 7 19 Click and drag the Airbrush around the Add to list rose image O sacra E rla O Repeat 46 sec Fade 576 0 a pix al Cancel Sa As you move the Airbrush tool around the rose the mask protects the rose itself and the pattern appears only on the image outside of the rose With the Airbrush the longer you hold it in
175. u convert any pattern into one of three types Direct Color patterns always appear exactly as they were created All of the color information of the original picture is saved and it is not be affected by changes to the fill or background colors Gradient Color patterns are displayed using the colors displayed in the color bar at the bottom the Tools palette when the Gradient tool is selected The grays in the pattern will be directly replaced by the colors in the color bar The white regions of the pattern use the colors at the left side of the color bar the darker regions of the pattern use the colors at the right side of the color bar EEEE This gradient E with these colors gives these results pean Two Colors patterns use only solid white and black The white is replaced with the color at the left end of the color bar the black is replaced with the color at the right end of the color bar Checking Display Pattern Tiled fills the left end of the Modify Pattern dialog box with the pattern 66 Chapter 8 The Colors Palette Color It 4 5 Manual Clicking the Grab button at the bottom of the Pattern Edit dialog opens Default Patterns another dialog where either the entire active document or a portion of it may be used to create a new pattern Enter numbers in the textboxes to set the Width and Height in pixels for the pattern Patterns may be up to 256 by 256 pixels Click and drag the selection rectangle in the view
176. u with commands for altering the visual appearance of the image The Mosaic command opens a dialog box that lets you group pixels into mosaic squares The filter averages the color values of the pixels within the square and changes them all to that value Adjust the Levels by moving the slider bar clicking on the pointers at each end of the slider or entering a value between 2 to 64 in the text box The effect of the adjustments to the image are shown in the After image You can choose the portion of the Cancel OR image to be shown in the Before and After boxes by clicking and dragging the selection rectangle in the small image at the top left or in the Before view Color It 4 5 Manual Chapter 17 The Filter Menu 115 Solarize The Solarize command applies an image map that changes the image by inverting the upper 50 of the colors The Video command opens a submenu with commands for adjusting images for video use NTSC Video Safe The NTSC Video Safe command changes the image to eliminate extremely dark Ad or light saturated colors which do not display well on standard NTSC video Compressed devices such as televisions and video recorders O Cropped The Compressed radio button remaps gray levels of 0 255 to 12 243 Cancel OK The Cropped radio button remaps gray levels by changing all levels below 12 to 12 Cancel PP pP 8 y y 8 8 All levels above 243 are changed to 243 De Interlace The De Interlace
177. ument mask is active the original document appears in the Document Mask submenu with a bullet in front of it Open Mask Clouds Mask Henk When the original document is active the current document mask appears in the Open Mask Document Mask sub menu with a diamond in front of it Clouds Mask Operations aver Mack The Mask Operations command displays a menu with commands for modifying masks Selection To Mask Mask To Selection Invert Mask reverses the mask image White becomes black black becomes white 30 black becomes 70 black etc Selection To Mask converts an active selection in the original document to a new Document Mask Anything inside of the selection in the original is white unprotected in the mask anything outside of the selection in the original image becomes black protected in the Document Mask Add Selection Subtract Selection Add Colors Subtract Colors Palette Colors To Mask This differs from a Selection mask which only temporarily masks part of the original document The Selection To Mask command creates a mask document which may be used over and over Mask To Selection does the reverse of the Selection to Mask command it uses the areas in the Document Mask to create a selection in the original document Add Selection adds a selection from the original document to the Document Mask Subtract Selection deletes a selection from the original document from the Document
178. until the cursor is just to the right of the end of the type as shown Holding down the Shift key when dragging constrains the cursor movement to a vertical or horizontal direction a m 9 When you release the mouse button the gradient shown F regina EPE in the Color Bar fills the selected type a A e a E ee E i E_ 4 8 34 7 2 Oo TREE Filter Tools Win 10 From the Selection menu choose Drop Shadow 11 In the dialog box set the Feather slider to 5 the Selection Type Document Mask Mask Operations E Intensity Intensity to 60 gt e ae a gt 60 e and the Offset to Grow Selection Offset 4 pixels both j Le arra o Shrink Selection horizontal and Select Similar vertical Click OK Feather Border Smooth Edges Drop Shadow Extrude The type now has a soft natural looking drop shadow beneath it 12 Press Command S to save the image 4 oe Adding and Subtracting to Selections r 1 Select the Square Selection tool I 2 Create a square as shown at the left 3 On the Selection Calculator area that appears on the lower right on the Tools palette Select the Plus button The Shift key is a shortcut for the Plus button on the Selection Calculator 4 Create a second rectangle to join with the first Notice how the two rectangles joined to form one selection 5 From the pop up at the lower left corner of the Tools palette select the circu
179. use With Color It you can create original works or manipulate existing images with ease This manual contains a Tutorial Tour section Chapters 2 6 that takes you step by step through the basic operations of the program This is the best way to learn how to use Color It A reference section follows that explains the features offered by the program arranged by palette and menu System Requirements e A Macintosh computer with a G3 or greater PowerPC chip G3 G4 or G5 or a Macintosh with an Intel chip Intel based Macs utilizing Apple s Rosetta technology e At least 6 megabytes of random access memory RAM e A hard disk with at least 10 megabytes free e Mac OS X version 10 0 or above Color It 4 5 will not function in OS 9 or before e Video that supports at least 256 grays or colors The Color It Program Package The Color It package includes the Color It CD ROM which contains the Color It program and a _pdf version of this Manual Before You Begin Make a Backup of the Color It program Your Color It license permits you to make a backup copy of the Color It program just in case anything happens to the original CD We recommend your safely store the original and backup disks in separate places Make a Backup of the Color It program No this is not a misprint we really want to emphasize the importance of making a backup especially if you purchase and download a copy from our web site If you do not make a backup an
180. w View Split Screen v Display At Resolution 4 Click and hold the Set Lasso Range pop up Balloon tif Rose tif 5 In the Lasso Range display select Normal Lasso Range Dark Col Light Col ars coors IgM ceos Teg adjusts 6 Click and drag the Lasso to draw a circle SHB V eado ds H 1 Opt alas et gt EA You do not need to closely follow the edge of the balloon part of the image see the image that follows 7 Release the mouse near your starting point to complete the selection The edges of the selection show moving black and white dotted lines also known as marching ants to indicate the active selection 20 Chapter 4 Combining Images Color It 4 5 Tour a Ae Balloon tif 398K 3 29 x 5 47 inches RGE Lasso area Scissor area Zap area This selects the balloon area of the image You can also use the other selection tools to reach the same results Selections are used by certain tools and procedures in Color It to define areas Select the Magnify tool Click on the bottom right edge of the balloon basket two to three times to enlarge the image view 10 Select the Scissors tool from the Tool pop up if e 11 Click and hold the Scissors Size pop up located on the bottom of the Tools palette 12 Select 2x2 as the Scissors Size H 2 NOTE To cut with the Scissors click at the start point and drag to create small cuts around the shape Each cut must overlap When you rea
181. windows displays the file size measurements in units set in the Ruler Preferences dialog box and the file type at the top of all document windows untitled 2 S60 x 342 pixels Check Display values in percentage if you wish to do so File Preferences J TIFF The Format pop up menu selects the Macintosh PICT default file format that appears in the JPEG Save dialog for new files PostScript Paint The Options button opens a dialog box Compuserve GIF allowing you to set format specific prefer habits No ences The options for each format are discussed under Save As in Chapter 13 File Preferences File Preferences Format TIFF Y Options n at C Prompt for Options each Save As Save Painting Data Only C Create Previews Create Thumbnail Icons Photoshop 2 5 Temporary Files Temporary files virtual images will be Startu pSc reen E stored on the following checked volumes Photone Prepress The File Menu Macintosh HD C Add gt Scitex CT QuickTime PICT Checking Prompt for Options each Save emove e e PNG As opens the Options dialog each time a Info Save As is performed Cancel OK Checking Create Previews creates a preview of the document that is displayed in the Open dialog box Checking Create Thumbnail Icons creates miniature views of the document for the icon views in the Finder For both of these options the Mac OS X operating system actually provides bett
182. xtrude The Extrude command creates a 3D appearance for selections and type The left side of the dialog box gives a visual reference to the extrusion s positioning The Distance slider controls the depth of the extrusion Values are entered by moving the slider bar clicking O Select on the pointers at each end of the slider or entering a Cancel OKR number of pixels in the textbox The Direction radio buttons control the angle of the extrusion Click the button that corresponds to the direction you wish The Operation radio buttons let you choose between Fill Solid filling the CHEOR extrusion area with a solid color such as the example above or Select making the oe extrusion a selection on the active layer which can later be modified as shown in the example at the left Show Hide Marquee The Show Hide Marquee command Command H is a toggle which controls the display of the moving dotted lines showing the edges of a selection Pick Up Put Down Selection This toggle command lets you pick up and move a selection or place a selection while keeping it active Use Selection As Mask When checked this command lets you paint or perform other operations within a selection on the active layer while protecting the area outside of the selection Color It 4 5 Manual Chapter 16 The Selection Menu 105 Add to Web Image Map This command adds the active selection to the Web image 380 x 255 pixels 256
183. y in the catalog or just Selected Images Only A dialog appears where a location may be selected for gathering the images Would you like to move all of the images in the catalog or just the selected ones C Travel Images lt Q search Name Date Modified Balloon Today Checking the Delete Originals check me Big Smile JPG box will permanently remove the origi Clouds Today 13 f th so Fire Sky Today na images rom eir ongina Opening_Image Today location e Opening_Image html Today fa Roseman Bridge Today Sunset Clouds Today 24 Water Background Today Delete Originals fi Create New Catalog The Open new catalog palette command in the Action pop up functions the same as the New Catalog command in the Catalogs submenu A dia Cancel C 0K log box appears where the new palette can be named Syren Up to three catalog palettes may be open at one time When 6 mace aalo a Cataig Catalog more than one palette is open thumbnail images may be Eea enp rars ragem Action added to another catalog by dragging and dropping from EE one catalog palette to another Holding down the Option a key when dragging between palettes moves the thumbnail 1 Va image from the original catalog to the destination catalog E othe Twinstit P all Fii x Smile jpg x x Yellowstone Fa x 76 Chapter 12 The Color It Menu Color It 4 5 Manual 12 The Color It Menu
184. y a gradient click on it from the scrolling list on the left click on a different gradient to change The selected gradient appears at the top The triangle pointers indicate a Remove chosen color at that point in the gradient Colors can be removed from a gradient by clicking on a pointer and dragging it away from the display 4 Ea Ea v To add a color to a gradient click on a l j E Gradat SREERRREEEEE square The standard Apple color picker w w w opens Select a color click OK and it See x appears in the display showing a blend with the colors on either side The color can be repositioned by dragging the pointer to any other square Each color bar can contain up to 16 colors for gradients a all T Append The Append button lets you add custom gradients from other documents The Remove button removes a selected gradient from the scrolling list NN T Gradate Checking the Gradate checkbox for a gradient shows the colors CO smoothly blending into one another Unchecking the Gradate DM cradate checkbox changes the colors to solids with no blending of colors NOTE See the section on the Eyedropper tool earlier in this chapter for more information on creating gradients Filter Tool Kernel The Kernel tool applies certain filters to an image with the brush settings Selecting this tool adds several pop up features to the bottom of the Tools palette The Brush Type and Brush Size pop ups a
185. your images look truly cool an amaze your Sharpen More 2 frends FrVYAsY FF FY 32 Chapter 5 Special Effects Color It 4 5 Tour 5 Special Effects After finishing this section of the tour you will understand why Color It is such a powerful image editing program Color It is limited only by your imagination when it comes to producing special effects Have fun and don t forget Undo Command Z when unexpected results occur Pattern Effects Air Brushing with Masks 1 Press Command O and open your Tutorial tif image 2 From the Selection menu choose Document Mask gt Open Mask and open the Rose tif Mask 3 From the Window menu select the Tutorial tif image TPE Filter Tools Window 4 From the Selection menu choose Mask Selection Type Operations gt Invert Mask Document Mask TEETE TT MEE This inverts the mask making the rose opaque black and the background transparent white Teds Filter Tools Window 5 From the Selection menu choose Selection Selection Type Type gt Document Document Mask 5 Off Mask Operations l Sd Selection Select All A Select None D EA Er Document invert Selection k 6 Select Colors in the Tools menu or press Command Y to open the Colors palette Window 7 Click the Fill rectangle at the top right of the Colors palette and click the Pattern button underneath it on the right 8 Select Cool Patterns from the pop up menu 9 Select the pa
186. ze pop ups are described under the Brush tool earlier in this chapter The Darken Amount pop up opens a dialog box that lets you adjust the effect As you change the settings by moving the cursor over the bar a black pointer shows the current level and a gray pointer the previous Darken Amount level The percentage readouts change to indicate the current settings Double clicking on the Darken tool displays the Brush Options palette Option Darken changes to the Eyedropper tool Paint Tools The paint tools are the Shape Object Line Paint Bucket Text and Gradient All Shape Object The Shape Object tool lets you draw filled shapes Selecting this tool adds a number of pop up El features to the bottom of the Tools palette The Shape pop up on the left opens the Shape Selector that lets you choose from 11 predefined shapes or create a custom shape Choose a shape by moving the cursor over the shape and releasing the mouse The chosen shape then appears in the Tools palette Choosing Custom from the pop up menu or double clicking on the Shape Object tool opens the Custom Shape dialog box See the Custom Selection discussion under the Shape Selection tool earlier in this chapter for more information Color It 4 5 Manual Chapter 7 The Tools Palette 57 In the Frame Width pop up moving the cursor within the upper left box resizes the line widths as you move Holding down the Command key makes the sizing non proportional

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