|
From:Corel
|
See Product Page
|
User Rating: Amazon Sales Rank:#6734 |
| |
2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
Very Nice Painting Program,, 2008-04-05
As soon as I loaded this program onto my computer I opened a photo I took of a red sky sunset. Using the sharpening tool I changed a pleasant and pleasing photo into something stark and a bit frightening, something that you might find on the cover of a Stephen King horror story. Frankly I didn't expect the control the sharpening tool gives. After saving a copy of the photo, I went to the undo command in the Edit Menu and quick as a wink, my photo was back to it's old, fuzzy, pleasing self again.
The sketching tool turned the photo into sort of a wintery looking thing I didn't like very much at all, but after a bit of playing around with it I turned up something that looks like I might have drawn it. Now I'm an artist. I never would have believed it. The lighting tool works a treat as does the brightness and contrast. I can see that I'm going to be playing with a lot of my old photos. I can hardly wait.
1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
A Little Frustrating at First, 2008-04-05
The program installed with ease, just the way you expect it to on a Mac, putting the application in my applications folder. Eager to use the software, I put the application in my dock, then dropped a photo on it. The photo was on its side, so I went up to the menu and rotated it to the left (counterclockwise). Then using the rectangular selection tool, I selected an area to crop and there the fun stopped. There is no menu command for crop. I'm a Photoshop person, I live in it all the time, so for me to be frustrated at a simple paint program is saying something. Mac people don't like going to the help menu, at least not straightaway. But go to the help menu I did, found the shortcut key to crop, but it didn't work, so I guess I have more reading to do. Again, I'll say, this should be a very simple procedure and I know you can do it in this program, so I'm going to stop writing for a bit and see if I can figure it out.
Well, back to the help menu and I did figure it out. Only took a minute or so. Not intuitive, but once you know, it's cool. I suppose Photoshop wasn't all that intuitive at first, more so than this though, at least for the simple commands. Still, I have to admit the crop tool is way cool.
However, I seem to be having problems adjusting the brightness and contrast on my cropped image. The program thinks I want to frame it and it only wants to adjust the edges. I'm missing Photoshop, but I'm not giving up just yet. Back to the help menu and it's telling me I'm doing everything right, however the contrast isn't adjusting. I'm running an iMac with Tiger, System 10.4.10 and I shouldn't be having this problem. Okay, on to something else.
The eye dropper and the paint bucket didn't work and now I know something's up. Checking around my canvas and the palettes at the side of my screen, I see the program automatically made a second layer when I cropped the image. Why did it do that? Anyway, now that I see what the program is up to I can check out the tools.
I'm pleased to say, brightness and contrast work fine now that I'm in the right layer (which shouldn't have created in my opinion), as does everything else. I can recommend this program, but you'll have to do a bit of reading to figure it out, however, once you learn to think like it does, you shouldn't have many problems.
|
|
|