Tab and Source Category - Colours

Main Colours

The Main Colours Tab consists of 7 Sources that, reading left to right, have been increasingly simplified. Main Source 1 is the original picture and Main Source 7 has more detail around the objects in the centre of the image.

Bright Colours

The Bright Colours Tab consists of 14 Sources and is similar to the Sources in the Main Colour Tab except that, depending on the original photograph, the first set of 7 are reddish in colour and the next 7 are a selection of saturated colour images.

Pure Colours

Under the Pure Colours Tab you will find 11 Sources. The first seven are increasingly simplified as you read left to right and the last 4 have been increasingly blurred. The Pure Colour Sources are an effective way to enrich other colours that you have already used and they can be quite startling to look at when you increase the Contrast on the

Brightness/Contrast Mixer.

Posterised Colours

The Posterised Colours Tab offers 30 Sources to choose from and they are arranged in 6 Blocks as follows:

• Block 1 consists of 7 increasingly simplified Sources (apart from the seventh - see Main Colours) that have been quantised in colour space.

• Block 2 consists of the first 4 Sources from Block 1, but the Sources have been smoothed before quantisation.

• Block 3 consists of the first 4 Sources from Block 2, but more smoothing has been applied.

• Block 4 consists of 7 Sources from Block 1, but these have also been geometrically warped.

• Block 5 consists of 4 Sources from Block 2, but these have also been geometrically warped.

• Block 6 consists of 4 Sources from Block 3, but again these have been geometrically warped.

Distorted Colours

The 20 Sources included in the Distorted Colours Tab let you add some ‘wobble’ to your pictures. Artists tend not to paint in straight lines, so if you first lay down a Warp Colour wash, you can add some artistic style to your work. Sources 19 and 20 will help you create some stunning abstract pictures.

Rippled Colours

ArtMasterPro offers you the ability to add coloured texture to your artwork via the 14 Rippled Colours Sources - so if you are looking for a similar effect to an oil painting these should help you. There are two sets of 7 Sources that have first been increasingly simplified and then two types of rippled or distorted effects (one for each set of 7) have been used.

Frazzled Colours

To compliment the Rippled Colours there are another 14 coloured textured Sources to be found under the Frazzled Colours Tab. Again there are two sets of 7 Sources that have first been increasingly simplified and then two types of frazzled or distorted effects (one for each set of 7) have been used.

Smudged Colours

The 14 Sources under the Smudged Colours Tab are set in two sets of 7. The first sets of 7 Sources have had the whiter and brighter areas exaggerated, and spread-out causing a light smudgy effect. The second set of 7 Sources have had the darker areas exaggerated and spread-out causing a murky smudgy effect.

Blurred Colours

There are 15 Sources under the Blurred Colours Tab. Reading left to right the Blurred Sources 1 to 5 have been increasingly blurred, and Sources 6 to 10 have been simplified and then increasingly heavily blurred. Sources 11 to 15 have been less simplified and then increasingly lightly blurred.

Monochrome

If you click on the Monochrome Tab, you will find 11 black and white Sources. Sources 1 through 7 are coloured brown and have been increasingly simplified, and Sources 8 to 11 have been increasingly blurred. If used delicately via the Mixer these Sources are useful in helping to push or pull back colours and regions on the Canvas; and of course you can always click the Invert icon to achieve a different effect.

Note: To turn a brown coloured Source to monochrome, simply de-saturate it by pulling the H/S slider downwards – the read-out at the top should say 50,0.

Retouch

Under the Retouch Tab, you will find 17 Sources that will help you fix some of the basic problems that you might come across with a photograph or a scanned image. Source 1 is the original photograph/image you loaded into ArtMasterPro, and the functions of the other Sources, in ascending order, are set out in the list on the next page.

Source Number Function Description

2 & 3 These Sources are from the Highlights Tab, and are included here if you want to add back some ‘sparkle’ into your picture, for example in eyes and hair.

4 & 5 These are Pure Colour sources that will let you enhance colours that have become de-saturated. For example, quite often a camera with a fixed-flash will de-saturate lips and the skin on cheek bones, and these Sources will assist you in putting the colour back in.

6 & 7 You may want to soften objects in your picture, perhaps those in the background, so these two blurred Sources will help you achieve this.

8 & 9 These Sources have been processed in a way that will help you remove small-scale objects, streaks, scratches, or lines that lie vertically on your image. These types of blemishes are common on scans of old photos or slides.

10 & 11 These Sources have been processed in a way that will help you remove small-scale objects, streaks, scratches, or lines that lie horizontally on your image. These types of blemishes are common on scans of old photos or slides.

12, 13, 14 15, 16 & 17 Pictures with red-eye(s) are usually ruined – but by using these Sources and applying the Palette to the Canvas carefully, you can successfully remove the problem.

Solid Colours

To access the Colour wheel, click on the Solid Colours Tab. You can then click on a colour, to be found around the perimeter of the Solid Colour Tab and the central pane will display all the different shades of the colour.

Alternatively, once you have selected the Solid Colours Tab, you can click on the Colour Maker button and use the Swatches, HSB or RGB options to make the precise colour you are looking for. Or you can click on the Colour Picker button and select a colour from the Canvas.