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TABLE 2. Effects in Photo-Paint 9 continued -
Blur, Color Transform, Contour, Creative and Custom Filters .
New effects are marked (*). The entire effects menu has been rearranged in alphabetic order. The thumbnails showing these effects are probably not really appropriate to clearly show the effect. Sorry about that. The best thing to do is to get yourself a copy of PP9 and try them out for yourselves. In almost all cases there are many variations and multiple slider controls for each effect. Most of those shown here are merely the default settings for each effect. Literally hundreds of thousands more are possible using individual adjustments for each effect.

Effect Family	Effect Name	Effect Description	Example (original)
Blur  Filters	Blur filters change the pixels of your image to soften them, smooth their edges, blend them, or create motion effects. You can blur the entire image or use a lens to select and blur image details. To optimize the effects you create using the blur filters, Corel PHOTO-PAINT provides a special control dialog box that lets you access four of the blurring effects. You can access this dialog box by clicking Effects, Blur, Tune. For information about using the Tune Blur dialog box, see "Working with the Tune Blur filter." The Blur filters are:
	Tune Blur	a special dialog box that lets you access four of the blurring effects. These effects are represented by thumbnails that let you soften or sharpen an image focus and adjust the amount of noise it contains. You can use the Tune Blur filter to improve image quality or to create exciting visual effects
	Directional Smooth	smoothes the regions of gradual change in an image while preserving the edge detail and texture. You can use this filter to subtly blur the edges and surfaces of images without distorting the focus.
	Gaussian Blur	produces a hazy effect, blurring the focus of an image according to Gaussian distribution, which spreads the pixel information outward using bell-shaped curves
	Jaggy Despeckle	scatters colors in an image, creating a soft, blurred effect with minimal distortion. It is most effective for removing the jagged edges that can appear in line art or high-contrast images.
	Low Pass	removes sharp edges and detail from an image, leaving smooth gradients and low-frequency areas
	Motion Blur	creates the illusion of movement in an image
	Radial Blur	creates a blurring effect that spins around or radiates outward from a central point
	Smooth	mutes the differences between adjacent pixels to smooth the image or image area without losing detail. It is especially useful for removing the dithering that is created when you convert a paletted image to the RGB color model. The Smooth filter produces a more pronounced effect than the Soften filter.
	Soften	smoothes and tones down the harsh edges in your images without losing important image detail. The difference between the Smooth and Soften filters is subtle but is often apparent when images are viewed at high resolutions
	Zoom	blurs pixels outward from a center point. The pixels closest to the center point are the least blurry.
Color  Transform	Color transform filters let you create dramatic effects by changing the color of your image. You can apply some of the color transform filters to an entire image, or to part of an image using a lens. The color transform filters are:
	Bit Planes	reduces the image to basic RGB color components and emphasizes tonal changes
	Halftone	gives your image the appearance of a color halftone. A color halftone is an image that has been converted from a continuous tone image to a series of dots of various sizes to represent different tones.
	Psychedelic	changes the colors in your image to bright, electric colors such as orange, hot pink, cyan, and lime green
	Solarize	transforms colors in an image by reversing image tones
Contour  Filters	Contour filters detect and accentuate the edges of objects, items, and selections in your image. The contour filters are equipped with controls that let you adjust the level of edge detection, the type of edges that are selected, as well as the color of the edges that you define. The contour filters are:
	Edge Detect	detects the edges of items in your image and converts them to lines on a single-color background
	Find Edges	locates edges in your image and lets you convert these edges to soft or solid lines
	Trace Contour	traces image elements using a 16-color palette
Creative  Filters	Creative special effects filters use a variety of shapes and textures to transform your image into abstract art. Use craft items, crystals, fabric, glass, game pieces, frames, whirlpools, or raindrops as the foundation for creating something wild or wonderful with your image. The creative filters are:
	Crafts	transforms images into the following craft shapes: puzzle, gears, marbles, candy, ceramic tile, and poker chips
	Crystalize	converts images into crystals
	Fabric	transforms images using the following textiles: needlepoint, rug hooking, quilts, strings, ribbons, and tissue collage
	Frame	frames your image using one of 150 preset frames, another image, or an area defined by a mask
	Glass Block	makes your image look like it is being viewed through thick, glass blocks
	Kid's Play	transforms your image into the following shapes: lite pegs, building blocks, finger paint, and paint by numbers
	Mosaic	breaks your image into unequal, elliptical pieces to form the appearance of a mosaic collage
	Particles	adds sparkle to your image by adding white or colored bubble and star particles
	Scatter	distorts images by scattering pixels
	Smoked Glass	applies a transparent, colored tint to images
	Stained Glass	transforms images into stained-glass artwork
	Vignette	creates an elliptical, circular, rectangular, or square frame around your image
	Vortex	produces a whirlpool around a center point that you select in an image
	Weather	applies snow, rain, and fog to images
Custom  Filters	Custom filters offer you a wide range of tools to transform your image. You can create an artistic media painting, overlay your image with a customized Bitmap, adjust and sharpen the image balance, or use a variety of blur, sharpen, and edge detect effects to edit the image. The custom filters are:
	Alchemy	transforms images into artistic media paintings by applying brushstrokes to images in RGB color
	Band Pass	adjusts the sharp and smooth areas on images
	Bump Map	adds texture and patterns to your image by embedding its surface with a relief based on the pixel values of a bump map image
	User Define	creates Blur, Sharpen, or Edge Detect special effects by letting you type values in a matrix that represents a single pixel in images

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