You can drag this pointer as you go to keep track of your place in the tutorial.
For this tutorial you need to load PhotoImpact's Full Edit Workspace, so all tools will be availble:
Open the wd-delft-colours.jpg. Open the wd-delft-clipart image. Hit Ctrl+D on your keyboard to duplicate and close the original.
We are going to turn this image into a mask. In the Menu bar: Adjust - Convert Data Type - Grayscale. Depending on your settings,
PhotoImpact will create a new grayscale image or convert the original image to grayscale.
Click to open a new white canvas and in the dialogue box that opens, check the Active Image box like so. PhotoImpact will create a new image
with the same dimensions as the mask. If you would make the new image larger, you will get lines around your mask. We don't want that.
Right click on the new image and select: Import Selection. In the box that opens you will see the mask we just created.
Click OK. Rc.:
Invert. Rc.: Convert to Object. Keep selected. Menu bar: Edit - Fill - Color tab. Rc.: on the small color box and select Color on Screen.
This will turn your cursor into an eyedropper. Click on colour # 3 of the colour chart you opened in the first step of this tutorial and click OK.
DESELECT.
Your image should look similar to this.
Pick up your Magic Wand
from the Toolbox. In the Attribute Toolbar use the following settings. Make sure the + sign is checked.
(this will allow us the make more than one selection). The (Search) Connected pixels box should be checked too.
Click inside the white parts of the feathers of the peacock to select them. You may need to zoom in a bit:
Keep selected. Rc.: Expand/Shrink. Expand your selections with 1 pixel:
Rc.: Convert to Object. Menu bar: Edit - Fill - Color tab: Rc.: on the small color box and select Color on Screen.
Click on Colour #11 of the colour chart and click OK. Deselect.
With the Magic Wand select the necks and wings of the peacock like so:
Rc.: Expand/Shrink. Expand the selection with 1 pixel. Convert to Object and fill with colour #14 of the chart. Deselect.
Using the Magic Wand select parts of the tulips and the heads of the peacock like so:
Rc.: Expand/Shrink. Expand the selection with 1 pixel. Convert to Object and fill with colour #6 of the chart. Deselect.
Using the Magic Wand select parts of the tulips and the parts of the tails of the peacock like so:
Rc.: Expand/Shrink. Expand the selection with 1 pixel. Convert to Object and fill with colour #15 of the chart. Deselect.
Using the Magic Wand select the remaining parts of the tails of the peacocks like so:
Rc.: Expand/Shrink. Expand the selection with
2 pixels. Convert to Object and fill with colour #6 of the chart. Deselect.
Change the Similarity setting in the Attribute Toolbar to 48:
Using the Magic Wand click on all the remaining white parts
within the plate like so:
Don't expand the selections this time. Convert to Object. This time we will fill the object with a gradient using the colours # 15
and #12 of the colour chart like so:
Keep selected. Rc.: Select All Objects. Rc.: Merge as a Single Object. Keep selected. Menu bar: Photo - Noise - Add Noise - Options:
Deselect. Fill the Base Image with
a gradient using colour #11 and colour #4 of the chart.
Menu bar: Effect - Fill & Textures - Texture filter with these settings:
Rc.: All. Rc.: Border. Create a 4 pixel Inward Border:
Convert to Object. Fill with colour #3 of the chart. Deselect.
Click on the plate to select. Rc.: Shadow with the following settings:
Keep selected. Menu bar: Effect. Xero - Porcelain with the defaul settings.
Deselect. Rc.: Merge All. You're done. Add your name or watermark. Optimize and save your work as a jpg.
That is all, I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial as much as I liked writing it for you.
your work often. I suggest you read the entire tutorial,
before you start. Where it reads "Rc" in this tutorial, it means right click.
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