Free PDF Manual Guide

Ulead Photo Explorer makes digital photography fun on the PC. It combines tools for acquiring, viewing, organizing, adjusting, and printing digital images in a single easy-to-use interface. Photo Explorer is a must-have companion for digital camera, scanner, and video camera users, or for anyone who needs to manage and share digital images and other media.
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To create a unique portrait using a custom Stamp built from family photos.
Making your photo Objects:
1. Choose 6 – 10 snapshots family members. The photo you want to use as your main image object should be made from at least a 5″ X 7″, better still, an 8″ X 10″. The other objects should range from 1/2″ to 1″ in height to give your stamp some variation. Scan them into your computer or have a friend do it for you. I sometimes use a digital camera or have a digital version made when my film is processed at my local Photo Center.
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Ulead® Photo Explorer 8.5 lets you spend more time enjoying photos, music and videos and less time finding them. It’s the all-in-one solution for owners of digital cameras, camcorders, scanners or anyone who wants to make it easier to keep track of their media.
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Using the technique described below, you will be able to produce special edges on your scanned photographs (such as the examples shown on page 3). The secret to quick and easy success is using Photoshop’s Quick Mask feature in conjunction with certain Filters.
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This tutorial shows how to create photo realistic 3d models from a digital image processed in Photoshop. You will also learn how to use Illustrator paths in Maya, texturing, basic lighting and rendering, how to apply textures and how to parent the building components.
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I. Smoothening the Photo
1. Open the jpg-image in Photoshop
2. Filters Blur Gaussian blur (radius: around 2-6. Should be really unsharp)
3. Edit Fade gaussian blur (mode: Darken). This step must be made immediately after blurring, else you will not find it in the Edit menu…
4. Filter Blur Smart Blur to smoothen out the picture. mode: “normal”, quality: “high”. Radius (0.8) and Threshold (25)
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Bring a focus point to your photographs by making them black and white and highlighting one area by colorizing it.

Step 1: Open your original picture in Photoshop and add a Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer to it from your Layer pull-down menu (Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Hue/Saturation).
Step 2: Give the Layer a Name and choose OK.
Step 3: Move your sliders for Hue & Saturation all the way to the left so that -180 shows up in the Hue box and -100 shows up in the Saturation box and press OK.
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To introduce a 10 Step Workflow for making your digital photographs look better in Photoshop. The workflow will be reviewed then applied to a variety of images. As you’ll discover, each step can be approached in different ways and some steps are optional. This basic workflow will provide you with a framework for approaching your own photo editing needs. You will have a framework to know “what to do when” in Photoshop to make your images better.
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Photo Editing Tips
1. Open or Acquire the Image
• Choose File Open as normal –or–
• Acquire the Image from a Scanner or Digital Camera
o Click either the Scanner or Camera icon on the
Toolbar Select the Device Click OK
2. Adjust Brightness & Contrast
Makes an image lighter or darker and allows you to make parts of it stand out or blend in more
• Choose one of the Brightness/Contrast toolbar icons or Format Brightness & Contrast
• Click an image to adjust. A thumbnail preview is provided as well as real-time changes to the image.
• Adjusted too much? Click Reset or Undo.
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Contents:
2. The basics Working at high magnification, inserting layers, and sampling color
5. Let’s airbrush! Using the airbrush to smooth over defects and enhance features
6. Clone me… Using the clone stamp tool to clone patterns and textures
7. Did someone say Warhol? Adjusting levels and using filters
8. Get me out of here (additional exercise) Using the magic wand, lasso, and eraser tools to cut out and clean u
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