Touch-Up Tab

This tab offers numerous tools for enhancing and styling your photos. From basic fixes to creative effects, these tools make your projects truly personal.

Tip: See the Editing Photos Directly section for more photo tools.

Touch Up Category

Crop

This tool adjusts the edges of an image. Select a photo or graphic, click the Touch Up category, and then click the Crop button. Your image will appear in a new preview window with cropping handles at the corners. Drag the handles to change the edges. Click the Done button to apply your changes.

Tip: Cropping doesn’t alter the original photo, so you can change the edges again later.

Brightness

This tool adjusts the brightness of an image. Select a photo or graphic, click the Touch Up category, and then click the Brightness button. Click the Darker and Brighter buttons to change the appearance. Click the Done button to apply your changes.

Red-Eye

This tool fixes red pupils in flash photos. Select a photo or graphic, click the Touch Up category, and then click the Red-Eyebutton. Choose a brush size, and then paint over the red eyes in the photo to turn them black. Click the Done button to apply your changes.

Airbrush Effects Category

Monochrome & Sepiatone

These two tools allow you to convert a portion of an image to gray or brown to better emphasize the rest. Select a photo or graphic and click the Airbrush Effects category. Click the Monochrome or Sepiatone button, select a brush size, and then paint on your photo. Click the Done button to apply your changes.

Rub Through

This tool inserts an image behind the selected photo or graphic, and then allows you to erase portions of the top layer to blend the two images. Select a photo or graphic and click the Airbrush Effects category. Click the Rub Through button. A file-browser window opens. Load a photo for the background layer and choose a brush size. Paint over the front photo to reveal the background one. Click the Done button to apply your changes.

Tip: You can load multiple background images by clicking the New rub-through Image button.

HP Photo Creations Manual, v1.3 Copyright 2004–2010 Visan/RocketLife

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