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Creating lenses

Lenses let you view adjustments and special effects that you want to apply to an image. When you create a lens, the changes you make are not applied to the image pixels; instead, they are displayed on the screen through the lens. The lens is created as a separate object on a layer above the image background so you can edit the lens and the background image separately. When you achieve the results you want, you can combine the lens with the image background. When you export or print an image, the effects of the lens are applied to the exported or printed image.

You can create a lens to cover the entire image, or you can create a lens from the editable area of a mask. You can create as many lenses as you want for an image and assign a unique name to each. You can also use multiple lenses to apply successive changes to a specific area in the image.

Corel PHOTO-PAINT lets you create the following lenses:

When you create a lens, you must choose a lens type based on the change that you want to apply. However, the types of lenses are determined by the image’s color mode. For example, you cannot use a color lens on a grayscale image because there are no colors to modify. If you want to correct or adjust image color and tone, choose a lens type that corresponds to the adjustment and transform filters. For more information about using filters, see Adjusting color and tone. If you want to apply a special effect to improve image quality or dramatically transform an image, choose a special effects filter. For more information about special effects, see Applying special effects.

The picture of the man is an image object cut out from a darker image. A lens was applied to brighten the image object without permanently changing the image object or background.

To create a lens Back to Top

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You can also create a lens by clicking the New lens button in the Object manager docker. If the Object manager docker is not open, click Window Dockers Object manager.

To create a lens from an editable area Back to Top

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You can also create a lens from an editable area by clicking the New lens button in the Object manager docker after defining an editable area. If the Object manager docker is not open, click Window Dockers Object manager.


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