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Skyline Tutorial PhotoImpact 10.
(Can be done with earlier versions of PI).

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Description:

Turn a photo into a mask and use it as a background using PhotoImpact's great coloring tools

Skill Level:

Beginner / Intermediate. I assume you know where the tools are in PhotoImpact.

Additional Files:

A photo, a font and several objects of your choice or you may use mine.

Please download the materials from here

Author: Wouter Démoet.

Terms of Use: Please read

NOTE:

Save your work often. I suggest you read the entire tutorial, before you start. And if you need help, or if you have any suggestions, please don't hesitate to contact me at wouter@demoet.nl

Instructions:
Open your copy of PhotoImpact 10 and click: File: Open and browse to your PhotoImpact folder in your Program Files. Usually the path is: \C\Program Files\Ulead Systems\PhotoImpact 10\ In that folder click on the Samples folder and there you will find a photo with the name: Skyline. Click on that photo to open it in PI. Ctrl+D to duplicate it and close the original. We will use this photo as a mask. For that we need to convert it to grayscale first. In the Menu bar click on Adjust - Convert Data Type - Grayscale (8-bit) Your photo is without colors now, only grey tones. Go to Adjust again and click: Level. Change the second parameter at the bottom to 0.90 and click OK. The result will be that there is a bit more black in the image, so it will be easier for PI to pick it up, when we use the Import Selection command later on. This image is a mask now. Open a new canvas. In the box that opens check: Active Image and the new image will have the same dimensions as our mask. In the Menu bar click on Selection - Import Selection. This command can only be used to grayscale images. In the new box that opens you will see this: It is the mask we just created. Click OK. You will see a selection on your white canvas. It does not look like much, but all the data of the mask is there. As you can see PI uses the lighter parts of our mask to render the selection. We need the darker part, so right click and: Invert. Right click again: Convert to Object. As you can see in your Layer Manager, the clouds are an object now. You can close the mask image now. Go to Edit - Fill - Gradient tab. Please use these settings: My colors are #446D8C and #A6B472. Fill type: Top - Bottom. Right click: Shadow with these settings: Keep selected. Effects: Fills and Textures - Texture Filter with these settings: Texture is emboss001.bmp : Click OK. Apply Current Frame Effect to Image. Deselect. Fill the background (Base Image) with: #D1DFE9. Effects: All - Particle Effect with these settings: Clouds. Increase the Density to 12. Click the Advanced button and then check the Emitter radio button and continue with these settings: Click OK - Apply Current Frame Effect to Image. Menu bar: Adjust - Brightness and Contrast - Gamma Correction 0.60 . Your image should look similar to this: Do you still recognize our original image ;-)
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Instructions:

Open your copy of PhotoImpact 10 and click: File: Open and browse to your PhotoImpact folder in your Program Files. Usually the path is:
\C\Program Files\Ulead Systems\PhotoImpact 10\ In that folder click on the Samples folder and there you will find a photo with the name: Skyline.

Click on that photo to open it in PI. Ctrl+D to duplicate it and close the original. We will use this photo as a mask. For that we need to convert it to grayscale first. In the Menu bar click on Adjust - Convert Data Type - Grayscale (8-bit) Your photo is without colors now, only grey tones. Go to Adjust again and click: Level. Change the second parameter at the bottom to 0.90 and click OK.

The result will be that there is a bit more black in the image, so it will be easier for PI to pick it up, when we use the Import Selection command later on. This image is a mask now.

Open a new canvas. In the box that opens check: Active Image and the new image will have the same dimensions as our mask.

In the Menu bar click on Selection - Import Selection. This command can only be used to grayscale images. In the new box that opens you will see this:

It is the mask we just created. Click OK. You will see a selection on your white canvas. It does not look like much, but all the data of the mask is there. As you can see PI uses the lighter parts of our mask to render the selection. We need the darker part, so right click and: Invert. Right click again: Convert to Object. As you can see in your Layer Manager, the clouds are an object now. You can close the mask image now.
Go to Edit - Fill - Gradient tab. Please use these settings: My colors are #446D8C and #A6B472. Fill type: Top - Bottom.

Right click: Shadow with these settings:

Keep selected. Effects: Fills and Textures - Texture Filter with these settings: Texture is emboss001.bmp :

Click OK. Apply Current Frame Effect to Image. Deselect. Fill the background (Base Image) with: #D1DFE9. Effects: All - Particle Effect with these settings: Clouds. Increase the Density to 12.

Click the Advanced button and then check the Emitter radio button and continue with these settings:

Click OK - Apply Current Frame Effect to Image. Menu bar: Adjust - Brightness and Contrast - Gamma Correction 0.60 .

Your image should look similar to this:

Do you still recognize our original image ;-)

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