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Standard Mode vs Basic Mode
PhotoImpact 10 has two work modes, Basic and Standard.
Basic Mode features a simplified workspace with larger buttons
and the most common functions whereas the Standard Mode displays
all of the functions. We will be using the Standard Mode
in this tutorial.
To check your mode, click Workspace on the Menu
Bar. If the Standard Mode is greyed out, that means you are already
in the Standard Mode. If not, click Standard Mode now.
Warning: If
you switch from Standard to Basic Mode, and you have custom settings,
you will lose all your custom settings.
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Let's get started!
Open a new RGB image 400x400 pixels. Select the Path Outline
Drawing Tool, Custom Shape - heart; Mode - 3D round, Border -
4, Depth - 30.
Note: You may need to click on the material button to set
the border.
Use a colour of your own choosing to draw a heart shape
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With the heart still selected, go to the Easy Palette,
select the Material Attributes Gallery/Metallic and double click
on Copper 3.
Right click and select to duplicate the gold coloured heart twice
and arrange as in the diagram.
Select all three hearts, right click and then click on Align/Center
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Select the middle one of your heart shapes and click on mask.
Everything should be faded now other than your selected heart.
Click on paintbrush, colour black and very carefully erase the
overlapping part of the heart frame as shown in the diagram.
Deselect the mask.
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Select the third heart shape and click on mask again and using
the paintbrush in much the say way you did before, carefully erase
the overlapping part as shown in the diagram.
Deselect the mask.
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Open 3 photos you would like to use. Select the first of your
photos and click on the Path Drawing Tool. Change the Mode in
the attributes bar to Selection. Choose custom shape S08 (the
heart shape) and draw it on your photo. Move the heart about until
you are happy with the area you wish to cut out. Right click and
convert to object.
Using the pick tool, move your heart shaped photo selection onto
your main working canvas and close the original photograph.
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Using the transform tool and holding down the shift key, resize
your photo to fit within one of the gold heart shapes, sharpen
if necessary and send to the back. Follow the previous steps with
all 3 photographs and you should now have something like this
diagram.
Right click to Select All, right click again and choose to Merge
as Single Object.
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Phew! that's the most difficult part done! Are you
still with me?
Ok, what we have to do now is to create the outer heart, so click
on the Path Outline Drawing Tool. None of the settings should
have altered, so draw a large heart shape and place it as shown
in the example on the left.. Right click to Select All, right
click again and choose to Merge as Single Object.
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Using the path shape outline tool again but this time
select ellipse shape with a border of 1 and draw a small oval shape.
Right click and select to duplicate it 3 or 4 times and place in
a line. Select each of them, right click and select to Align/Align
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Move this chain to the center top of your outer heart
frame. Create one more link and place it at the bottom tip of the
center heart frame.
Open the downloaded jewel or use one of your own, resize and
put it into position just overlapping the lower chainlink. With
the chainlink selected, click on mask, click on paintbrush black,
and erase a very small section at the top of it to give the effect
that it is attached to the jewel. You may have to enlarge your
image here to see exactly what you are doing.
Deselect the mask.
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Right click to Select All, right click again and choose to Merge
as Single Object.
Save your pendant frame as a transparent gif and you've finished!
That wasn't so bad was it? :-)
Shown here is another one I did using the same photographs but
with a different preset and different jewel. I'm not sure that
I like the jagged edge look that the preset gave it though.
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