CorelDRAW Help | Applying new bitmap effects

Quick links to procedures on this page:

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To apply the Smart Blur effect

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To apply camera effects

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To apply custom effects

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To apply texture effects

Applying new bitmap effects

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In CorelDRAW, you can apply several new special effects to bitmaps, including artistic effects; camera effects for adjusting the color and tone of photos; and texture effects for creating stone, plastic, relief sculpture, and other textures. While applying an effect, you can zoom by using the mouse wheel, or pan by dragging the image.

For more information, see Applying special effects in bitmaps.

The Time machine effect recreates photographic styles from the past.

The new special effects are

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Smart blur — blurs an image but retains the edge detail. This effect is useful if you want to retain the sharp lines and edges, such as the ones that form the letters in text, when you export an image to a file format that would normally reduce the amount of detail. This effect is ideal for removing noise and artifacts from JPEG images or removing wrinkles from photos.

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Colorize — lets you replace all colors in an image with a single color (or hue) to create a duotone image. You can then adjust the saturation or vividness of the color. A color with 100% saturation contains no white. A color with 0% saturation corresponds to a shade of gray. With this effect, you can create various single-color images. For example, a brownish hue can create a sepia effect, simulating the color of old photographs.

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Photo filter — lets you simulate the effect of placing a colored filter in front of a camera lens. You can choose the color of the filter and then adjust the color density and luminosity.

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Sepia toning — simulates the look created when you take a photo with sepia film. Sepia-toned images are similar to black-and-white photos (also known as grayscale photos), except the tones are brown instead of gray.

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Time machine — lets you walk your image back through history to recreate some popular photographic styles from the past. You can choose from seven styles, which range from the year 1839 to the 1960s.

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Alchemy — transforms images into artistic media paintings by applying brushstrokes to images. You can create a brush and specify color, size, angle, and transparency settings. You can also choose from a variety of preset brushes, and save customized brushes.

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Bump-map — adds texture and patterns to an image by embedding its surface with a relief based on the pixel values of a bump map image. The pixel values of the bump map image represent surface elevation. You can use a preset bump map or load a custom bump map image. You can specify the surface and lighting properties of the effect.

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Cobblestone — makes an image look as though it was created with cobblestones. You can specify the size, spacing, and granularity of the cobblestones.

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Elephant skin — gives an image a wrinkled look by creating an overlay of wavy lines. You can specify the age of the elephant skin (up to 100 years) as well as the skin color.

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Etching — transforms an image into an etching. You can control the depth of the etching, the amount of detail, the direction of the light, and the color of the metal surface.

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Plastic — makes an image look as though it is made of plastic. You can specify the image depth, as well as the color and angle of the light shining on the plastic.

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Relief sculpture — transforms an image into a relief sculpture. You can set the smoothness of the relief, the amount of detail it contains, the direction of the light, and the surface color.

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Stone — gives an image a stone texture. You can specify the amount of detail, the density of the pattern, and the angle of the light hitting an image. You can apply a preset stone style or create and save a custom stone style as a preset.

To apply the Smart Blur effect