Re: I must be fuddle-brained: Photo effects in Paint Shop Pro?
by "John R. Cox" <john(at)bestconnect.net>
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"Roger Stenning" <roger(at)isgwds.enterprise-plc.com>, <hwg-graphics(at)mail.hwg.org>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?St=E9phane_Bergeron?= <stephberg(at)videotron.ca> |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "St�phane Bergeron" <stephberg(at)videotron.ca>
To: "Roger Stenning" <roger(at)isgwds.enterprise-plc.com>; <hwg-graphics(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 8:32 AM
Subject: Re: I must be fuddle-brained: Photo effects in Paint Shop Pro?
> Hello Roger,
>
> At 01:36 PM 16/09/01 +0100, Roger Stenning wrote:
> >OK, here's a bone question.
> >
> >Suffering as I am from a cold that's leaving me befuddled of brain,
>
> Isn't that your normal state of mind Roger? ;-) j/k!!
>
> >Here's the gist of it. I have a photo that I want to turn into a
> >greyscale, but not a greyscale. Instead of the normal
> >black/white shades, I want to turn it into, say, blue/white, or even
> >green/white shades, for example.
>
> I don't know how to achieve this exactly in Paint Shop Pro as I don't use
> it but look for something called DuoTones in the help files and you should
> be able to get the effect you want. If you have access to Photoshop this
> can be easily done in it.
>
> >Now, I _think_ I need to mess about with masks, but for the life of me,
> >can't figure it out. I'm sure it's dead easy,
> >but there you are: One head cold, and the grey matter goes out the window.
> >Anyone give me pointers, please?
>
> You could do a similar effect using blend modes too (not masks). I think
> you have Fireworks too right? In any case, in Photoshop and even in PSP
> I'm sure, you could fill a layer above the image with a color of your
> choice (like blue) then change its blend mode to either Screen, Color or
> Tint and play with the opacity of that layer (Screen works best). In
> Fireworks you'd simply draw a rectangle of the same size as the image and
> also change its blend mode and opacity as above. In both Photoshop and
> Fireworks 4, the blend modes and opacity controls are in each respective
> apps layers panels. I have no idea where they are in PSP. In all cases it
> would look better if the underlying image was "greyscaled" first so you may
> want to make a copy of that image first.
>
> There are other non destructive ways to do this in Fireworks using effects
> but you asked for ways to do it in PSP. I'll tell you other Fireworks
> methods if you want later.
>
> HTH!
>
> St�phane Bergeron
>
>
>
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