Applying special effects in bitmaps
You can apply a wide range of special effects to bitmaps, such as three-dimensional (3D) and artistic effects.
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Special effect category
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3D Effects
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Lets you create the illusion of depth. Effects include Emboss, Page Curl, and Perspective.
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Art Strokes
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Lets you apply hand-painted techniques. Effects include Crayon, Impressionist, Pastels, Watercolor, and Pen & Ink.
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Blur
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Lets you blur an image to simulate movement, speckling, or gradual change. Effects include Gaussian Blur, Motion Blur, and Zoom.
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Camera
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Lets you simulate the effect produced by a diffusion lens
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Color Transform
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Lets you create photographic illusions by using color reduction and replacements. Effects include Halftone, Psychedelic, and Solarize.
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Contour
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Lets you highlight and enhance the edges of an image. Effects include Edge Detect and Trace Contour.
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Creative
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Lets you apply various textures and shapes to an image. Effects include Fabric, Glass Block, Crystallize, Vortex, and Stained Glass.
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Distort
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Lets you distort image surfaces. Effects include Ripple, Blocks, Swirl, and Tile.
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Noise
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Lets you modify the graininess of an image. Effects include Add Noise, Remove Moire, and Remove Noise.
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Sharpen
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Lets you add a sharpening effect to focus and enhance edges. Effects include Adaptive Unsharp, High Pass, and Unsharp Mask.
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Plug-ins
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Lets you use a third-party filter to apply effects to bitmaps in CorelDRAW. An installed plug-in appears at the bottom of the Bitmaps menu.
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Adding plug-in filters to CorelDRAW provides additional features and effects that you can use to edit images. You can add plug-in filters, and you can remove them when you no longer need them.
Left to right: Add noise effect, Zoom blur effect, Solarize color transform effect, Edge detect contour effect, Sharpen effect
Left to right: Original image, Emboss effect, Cubist artistic effect, Mosaic creative effect, Distort pixelate effect
CorelDRAW automatically inflates a bitmap so that a special effect covers the entire image. You can disable automatic inflation and manually specify dimensions for the inflated bitmap.
To apply a special effect
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Click Bitmaps, choose a special effect type, and click an effect.
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Adjust any special effect settings.
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To add a plug-in filter
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Click Tools  Options. |
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In the list of categories, double-click Workspace, and click Plug-ins.
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Choose a folder containing a plug-in.
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To remove a plug-in filter, click a plug-in folder from the Plug-in folders list, and click Remove. |
To inflate a bitmap manually
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Click Bitmaps Inflate bitmap Manually inflate bitmap. |
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In the Width and Height areas, do one of the following:
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In the Inflate to boxes, type the number of pixels that should make up the dimensions of the inflated bitmap.
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In the Inflate by boxes, type the percentages by which to inflate the original bitmap.
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To inflate the bitmap proportionally, enable the Maintain aspect ratio check box.
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To automatically inflate the bitmap to cover the entire image, click Bitmaps Inflate bitmap Auto inflate bitmap. |
Applying special effects in bitmaps
