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Getting started with Visualizer Photo FX.
When you run Visualizer Photo FX for the first time, you will find many features that can help you enhance and improve the layout of a photo. It can also help you clean up disturbing areas and boost the content of the image, which you will learn more about in this tutorial.
I recommend downloading and using this photo, as not all photos will have the same outcome of the features I am about to introduce you to.
Getting started.
Once you have opened the image above inside Visualizer Photo FX you should start by resizing it. From the document icon, choose "Resize image..." from the menu.
As you can see on the illustration below I have chosen a width value of 650 pixels (the height is automatically calculated if the Stretch to canvas is not checked).
Before we continue to add any effects we need to choose a foreground color from the color picker. For this tutorial we will be using the black color. From the color panels in your toolbar, click on the first one to select a foreground color from the color picker.
Once you have launched the color picker select the monochrome option and select the black color from the right side palette, or type in these values in the RGB fields (R: 0 G: 0 B: 0).
Let's add a frame to our photo. We need to enter the frame size we want to use, and this can be done by changing the value in the Frame option in the upper panel. Enter 30 as your pixel width.
Now you can right click on the photo and select Add picture frame, and you will see that a picture with the selected black color will be drawn outside of your photo.
Time to bring in a little more fun, because this is where we will begin to modify the layout of the actual photo. From your toolbar click on the Photo mask button.
You will notice that you have two dropdown menus to choose from. The first dropdown menu is the categories, and the second dropdown menu contains all the mask effects for your selected category.
Let's start by selecting a category, and as our first mask we will use the FX Default Light Masks. Now from the second dropdown menu (Canvas), select (1:1) Gradient Light - Bottom to Top. Click the OK button when you are done.
The effect can be seen immediately, however, we may need to tone down the effect a bit so it doesn't become to dominant for what we are trying to achieve. To do this will need to fade the changes we made into our previous task. Tone it down to 30% as illustrated below.
Let's go back to the Photo Masks, and this time we will select a new category and a different photo mask. Select the FX Default Photo Masks from the category, and we will use the first option available from the second dropdown menu, which is (4:3) Clouds Black & White. Click the OK button when you are done.
We will also tone down this effect as the photo may have become too dark, so fade the FX to 50% as illustrated below.
Now that we have added our Photo Masks and modified the layout of the photo, we can wrap things up by boosting the colors and sharpening the layout.
First let's click on the Auto Colors button from the toolbar.
Then we can click on the Light Correction, which can also be found in the toolbar.
As our last thing to do we need to click on the Auto Contrast button boost the content of the image.
That's it. You're done!
I hope this tutorial will get you started with image enhancing and improvements using Visualizer Photo FX. This was the basics, however, you can combine the features in many ways which can have various results on the outcome of an image. |
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