Photo-Paint X4, colouring with new Photo Filter Lens

I have said it before, I am not running a tip & tricks blog on my website :-) . But just came to think about this new Photo Filter Lens we now got with the new Corel Photo-Paint X4, the image editing and illustration program that comes bundled with CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4. You can find the Photo Filter Lens in the Object´s docker as useal.

I felt I like to share this, because I just this moment used this myself, on a illustration I am doing for a magazine. I thought I could show you a way on how to use it, by using a photo of a car. For this you take a photo of a car, and then in the Object docker choose the Photo Filter lens. Choose colour, I choosed a green one. Then use either a mask tool or the eraser tool, and preferably a Wacom (Intuos3) tablet. And start removing left over colour. By opening the Channel docker, you will see that the layer for the Photo Filter is greyed ot in the channel. If you selected it, you will then see all non-green as a red mask, and make it even easier to mask, erase, remove the green you dont like. See attached image. Oh, and a pen tablet, such as a Wacom Intuos3, makes it much easier and faster to do this exercise. Simple.















Have fun!

Stefan Lindblad
Illustrator & artist