PhotoImpact 8 Spot Filter
Photographers will love Photo Impact 8's
new Spot Filter, which lets you highlight a central focus
in a photo, while obscuring the rest of it. It's a great effect
for adding an artistic, glamorous look to an ordinary photo,
and it's very easy to do. To follow along with the tutorial,
right click and save my flower photo below.
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- Open up the photo in PhotoImpact 8. Choose Effect,
Photographic, Spot Filter to open the Spot
Filter dialog box. On the left side is a representation
of the original, Before image. On the right side is a representation
of the After image, which shows the results of edits to
the filter. The default Filter type is a Sand spot filter
with a red filter color.
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- The filter Types vary significantly, including
Sand (a hazy look), Grain (applies a bumpy, uneven texture),
Soft (blurry and smeared) and Spot (applies a selected color
around the effect boundaries). For this tutorial, select
"Color spot filter."
In the left side Before image, drag the red dot in the
middle of the Spot Radius so that it's right between the
two main flowers. The area covered by the inner and outer
broken lines around the radius will be highlighted by
the spot light.
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- On the right side of the dialog box, edit the
boundary's Radius to a value of 90. This will enlarge
the area of highlighting. Edit the Edge softness
value to 45 to sharpen up slightly the edge amount of blur
between the spot and the effect area. The Filter amount
is grayed out for the Color spot option, but when available,
you may edit the filter's strength (brightness). Edit the
Color amount to 75 to strengthen the color saturation of
the effect. From the Color box, you may select a color for
the Color spot effect. Right click and choose Eyedropper
to open the Eyedropper dialog box. To darken everything
outside of the spot light area, pick a dark green from the
image for the Color effect and click OK to close the Eyedropper
box. The right side of the Spot filter dialog box looks
like this now.
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- Click OK to apply the Color spot filter. If you
really want to gild the lily a bit, add a Star Filter to
further highlight your central focus.
Now that you're familiar with the options available in
the Spot Filter dialog box, you'll want to experiment
with other colors, or some of the other Filter types.
Below are a couple of examples of what you can do with
this filter, including Soft spot and Grain spot, respectively.
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This is a sample tutorial from Stephanie’s PhotoImpact
Tutorial CD.
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