Fireworks 8 Dream Trip (2): Image editing surface

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The first part: Panel contents

This section is mainly for a few new panels to give a brief explanation, so that we quickly add to the Panel has a comprehensive understanding and control.

　　First, image editing panel

As shown above, we can find a few common bitmap processing tools ("Red eye elimination", "Blur, Passivation, Dodge, branding are already integrated into this panel, and of course, by clicking on the tool buttons on the toolbox, you can still achieve some of the effects you need, and" image editing " The advantage of the panel is that some of the tools that need to be selected are listed directly, and it is more convenient to use them naturally.

The tools that are integrated into this panel also include common "warp tools" and "Warp commands", the integration of the transform tool is not really significant, but the integration of the transformation commands is really faster, and the appearance of the "Adjust Colors" command makes the color content of the bitmap much more direct, In the command also added the "Convert to gray tone", "Convert to tan tone" two commands. In fact, these two conversion effects in the previous FW version has appeared, is still in the version of FW8, they have another way to access is: Select Menu "Command | creative | Convert to Jin-tone (convert to grayscale image)" command. In this section, we'll look at a small example of how to quickly use several commands on the image editing panel.

The integration of filters and view options is a very good change for users who just use FW, which allows most novice users to use the FW's accessibility better, and can quickly produce a good picture by using common filter actions.

　　[Instance 1. Making old photo effects]

1. Open a picture that needs to be processed. Select the Open Picture object, select the Adjust color/auto levels command on the image editing panel to make the image appear more natural color effects, and after this step the effect is shown in the following illustration.

2. Then select the "Adjust Color/convert to tan Hue" command on the image editing panel, and the image in the edit area becomes the effect shown in the following figure. After this step, we have to implement the "old photo" effect has basically been presented, but we continue to do some additional operations, so that the old photos of the effect more natural.

　　Hint: In fact, the operation of this step in the property inspector on the filter frame can be clearly displayed, that is, the image made a "hue/saturation" adjustment.

3. Then select the "Filter/Sharpen", "Filter/Sharpen" command on the image editing panel to highlight the edge of the lotus petals.

4. Next, select the "Filter/Add Miscellaneous" command on the image editing panel, and make the settings shown in the following figure in the "Add clutter" box that pops up.

5. Select the Filter/blur, filter/further blur command on the image editing panel to see the effect shown in the following figure. Old, old effect is more obvious, oh, don't worry, not finished, there is a process behind it seems a bit necessary.

6. Select the Dodge tool on the image editing panel, at the same time in the property inspector as shown in the following figure, notice the "range" select "Half-tone", "size" not too big, "exposure" number is not too large, the specific settings see the following figure:

7, set up, drag the mouse, in the picture at random draw a few, this will add some random scratches effect, make the overall "old" feeling more realistic, please see the figure below.

8, select the "Eraser" tool on the toolbox, the edge of the photo part of the erasure process, the same, and the previous step to add scratches on the same way, at random erase some you think the photo should be lost edge can, this example after the operation of the picture below the image below:

9, finished, finished.

　　Summary: This example mainly learned the "Adjust color/convert to Tan tone" command, while the "filter" command and the use of bitmap processing tools, so that the new "image editing" Panel has a more comprehensive understanding. For the details of the View Options section, you can do it in a practical application, and I'm sure you'll find that using them will make our work faster and more efficient.