How to blend colors
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How to blend colors
In Microsofts Digital Image Editor there was a nifty tool called "Blend". For example if I had a bright yellow sun against a bright blue sky and wanted to eliminate the sun I could, for lack of a better word, brush the yellow into the blue causing the two colors to blend nicely. Is this possible in Paint Shop Pro??
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The Smudge and Push tools might be of use to you. I think by default you can find them on the same toolbar button as either "Lighten / Darken" or "Smooth" when you click the tiny little down-arrow on the side of it.
Smudge does pretty much what you'd expect and can be a nice messy way to mix up colors in an image. Push kinda "picks up" the pixels where you first click the brush and "drags" them across your picture as you move the mouse.
There's also "Change to Target" (found in the same place) which'll let you gradually change just the hue/saturation/lightness of an area of your picture that you brush over so that those values gradually conform to the color you've got selected in the mixer.
Lastly "Color Replacer" (should be on the same little drop-down too). Here you set the mixer up with - for the foreground - the color you want and for the background - the color you want to replace. Then just brush over your image and wherever the pixels are close to the background color, they get changed into the foreground color.
In general terms, for removing objects from a scene, the Clone Brush is often the best choice. Hold down SHIFT and click part of the picture that could replace the area you need to blank out, you'll see a little cross appear there. So in the sky/sun example where you want to remove the sun, you'd shift click a nice area of sky that could be re-used to cover up that sun. Then just brush over the sun. The cross moves around relative to the brush and the pixels underneath the cross get "cloned" into the brush location.
Alli
Smudge does pretty much what you'd expect and can be a nice messy way to mix up colors in an image. Push kinda "picks up" the pixels where you first click the brush and "drags" them across your picture as you move the mouse.
There's also "Change to Target" (found in the same place) which'll let you gradually change just the hue/saturation/lightness of an area of your picture that you brush over so that those values gradually conform to the color you've got selected in the mixer.
Lastly "Color Replacer" (should be on the same little drop-down too). Here you set the mixer up with - for the foreground - the color you want and for the background - the color you want to replace. Then just brush over your image and wherever the pixels are close to the background color, they get changed into the foreground color.
In general terms, for removing objects from a scene, the Clone Brush is often the best choice. Hold down SHIFT and click part of the picture that could replace the area you need to blank out, you'll see a little cross appear there. So in the sky/sun example where you want to remove the sun, you'd shift click a nice area of sky that could be re-used to cover up that sun. Then just brush over the sun. The cross moves around relative to the brush and the pixels underneath the cross get "cloned" into the brush location.
Alli
