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From Rosie: |
If you hold
down the ALT button on your keyboard you can draw a new shape
on top of an old one without moving it by mistake. |
| From MaryLou: |
To make a Path
Shape from the center out, hold down the CTRL key on your
keyboard while dragging.
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from MaryLou→ |
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AutoSave automatically saves your
working file to protect unexpected loss. You can set the
intervals of AutoSave to work in Preference: Open and Save. |
| Use
Effect: Photographic - Star Filter to add star-like
glitters to your image's bright areas. |
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Use Object: Match Background Color to
seamlessly blend an object into it's background that
possesses similar color information. |
| Use
Effect: Blur - Flatten Uneven Areas to blend stitched edges
of two different images. |
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Use Effect: Blur - Edge Preserving Blur to
smoothen areas without affecting sharpness of edges.
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Create animated GIFs that simulate falling snow, spreading
clouds, rising bubbles, and more using Effect: Creative -
Particle Effect. |
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Use the Texture Fill Tool in the Tool Panel or
drag a texture preset from the EasyPalette to change your
image background. |
| You
can store up to 99 selections in the Selection Manager.
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In Crop Tool, select Shield Cropped Area
on the Attribute Toolbar to cover the image parts outside the
crop region. You can choose the color shield that you want to
use from the Ulead Color Picker. |
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Adjust the document printout size by clicking and
dragging the document handles. |
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Change the printout order by dragging
and dropping thumbnails in the Print Multiple (File: More
Print Function - Print Multiple) workspace. |
Use
the Rectangle Slice Tool to slice your Web page quickly
and conveniently.
Select the Slice Tool, then right click an object and select
Slice Around Object to snap a slice cell snugly around the
object.
To select multiple slice cells, hold down [Ctrl] and select
cells with the Pick Tool. |
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Export your Web page to FrontPage: go to File:
Save for Web - As HTML. Select Export to Microsoft
FrontPage. |
| Hold
down [Ctrl] or [Shift] while clicking a swatch or gradient to
select more than one. |
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Use Edit Active Objects Only to paint or
modify active objects that are overlapped by other
objects. |
| While
browsing through the menu, highlight the command you wish to
look up and press [F1] for a detailed description.
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Convert a folder of images to any file
format or any data type by using File: Batch Convert. |
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Adjust images that are too dark by using Format: Equalize. |
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Select multiple objects by clicking the
desired object while holding down the [Shift] or [Ctrl] key. |
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Accelerate Web page loading by dividing an image into
smaller pieces and fine-tuning the output setting of each
cell, simply use the Slice Tool on the Tool Panel. |
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Combine two opened images by using Edit:
Stitch. |
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Right-click on any Gallery thumbnail to find more available
features in PhotoImpact. |
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Create a duplicate object by pressing
[Ctrl] while dragging the object. |
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Fill an image with a tiled object by pressing [L] while
dragging the object to the document. |
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Make a selection on an image to use it as a
mask in another image by pressing [M] while dragging the
selection. |
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Minimize misalignment from a straight line when trying to
move objects horizontally or vertically by pressing the [Shift
]key while dragging. |
Display any region of the image without
using the scrollbars by clicking the Global Viewer icon,
located on the lower right hand corner of the edit window.
Invoke the Global Viewer window by pressing [G]. |
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Show or hide all toolbars and panels by pressing [Tab]. |
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Keep the Visual Open dialog box
available for use after opening a file by clicking the
thumbtack at the upper right hand corner of the window. |
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Draw straight lines with the Spline Tool by pressing the
[Ctrl] key while drawing. |
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Select all paths and objects created with the
Path Tool while in Continue Draw Mode by pressing [Shift+Ctrl+A].
Note: You must have another object in your workspace. |
| Text,
font and style settings of Text objects cannot be modified
after applying Object: Convert Object Type - Text/Path Object. |
To view more Tips, in PI go to Help/Tip
of the Day.
To view ALL the Tips, go to C:\Program Files\Ulead Systems\Ulead
PhotoImpact 8\Tips\pi8.tip (open the file using Notepad). |
