The outdoor awning, over the outdoor tables by the red house to the right, is empty and without any logo or text, which gives me an excellent opportunity to add text or a logo on top of it. This lightens up the top of the parasols. I apply contrast using the Effect Tool > Dodge & Burn > and Dodge Highlights instead of Burn Highlights as we used earlier. Looking at the Parasol just behind the sun rays, I can see that this needs more contrast. On the red building to the right, I repeated Dodge & Burn quite extensively, adding more contrast, depth and darker shadow. In my photo it makes the plaster and cement look more real and adds depth. Each coat of the exact same paint, or in this case, each coat of Dodge & Burn, makes it darker. This gives me the freedom to paint the shadows and contrasts on to the image with the Effect tool, like painting with Gouache water colour paint, traditionally used by illustrators and designers before the age of computer graphics. On some mask objects I repeated the Dodge & Burn effect like a paint brush. However, before I use the Dodge & Burn tool I first use the Mask tool to copy and paste those parts of the image, and save them as separate objects in the Object Manager Docker.
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I also applied Dodge & Burn effects, increasing shadow effects with the Effects Tool > Dodge & Burn > Burn Highlights, on the windows and facade of the buildings.
I now clean up parts of the mask I don’t want to keep using the Eraser Tool ( Toolbox > Eraser Tool). 172, 162).Īlso adding a Contrast Enhancement Lens Object effect, placed hierarchically under the Tone Curve object and with a Input Value Clipping of 12 – 255. While selected, I applied a Tone Curve Lens ( Object > Create > New Lens > Tone Curve) to increase contrast, making dark areas darker and with a rather soft S-Curve (Values in the dialog window: Black approximately 51,54 and White approx. So I will end up with one mask object of the sky. When I am done, I simply delete any mask objects I don’t want to keep. I make 2-3 duplicates of the mask, so that I can apply different changes to the sky, and quickly turn the specific objects on or off. This way I only make adjustments to the sky, and not the entire image, when I use the Lens Object Adjustment features. Next, I used the Mask Tool to mask the sky and copy and pasted this ( CTRL+C, CTRL+V), to create a Group object with it. I then adjusted the opacity of the brush stroke object by tweaking the Opacity slider at the top of the Object Manager Docker. I now painted 7 sun rays from the sky down onto the street towards the square, using white color. I increased the width of the nib slightly using the Nib Size settings in the Property Bar.
I chose the Art brush > Large Soft from the drop-down list in the Property Bar.
I start by creating a New Object in the Object Manager Docker ( Object > Create > New Object), and using the Paint Tool( Toolbox > Paint tool), and a soft edge brush nib to add sun rays. I noticed the shadows under the outdoor seating and the tree at the bottom right corner of the picture and will have that in mind later on. But what is good, is that it’s possible to work with the light and shadows and contrasts. Open the photograph in Corel PHOTO-PAINT X7 and look at where the present lighting is coming from.
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