| There are various tools and guides in PhotoFiltre and PhotoFiltre Studio that will help you immensely whether
you are creating a web site or designing something like a flyer. Above you see one of these tools.
This may be a boring tutorial but I advise you to read through it and get familiar with these features if you are not familiar with them.
They will help you down the road and you will need them with some of my more advanced tutorials in the works.
Above you will see a screen capture of the bottom of my PhotoFiltre Window. The Numbers and explanations below will correspond to the
numbers in the image above.
If you would like to follow along and have the same numbers create a new image 200 x 200 pixels. Now start in the top left hand
corner and draw a rectangle 100 pixels wide x 50 pixels high.
1) The first set of numbers (200x200) are the dimensions of your image or composition. If you were to go to:
Menu = Image / Image size and change the dimensions of your image these numbers would change to those new dimensions.
2) Number 2 above, (16M) represents the mode of your image. In this instance RGB 16 million colors. If you were to go to:
Menu = Image / Mode / Indexed and choose something like 64 colors this number would change to 64 reflecting the 64 color mode you have
chosen.
3) Number 3 above, (X:Y = 42:170) is the current position of your cursor. Move your cursor around and you will see it
change.
4) Number 4 above, (0,0==>99,49) represents the starting and ending positions of the current selection or object.
In this instance our object starts at pixel 0,0 (Top Left Coordinate) and ends at pixel 99,49 (Bottom Right Coordinate). If you move
your selection to the center of the image for example these numbers will change to reflect the new position. 5) Number 5 above,
(W=100,H=50) represents the size of your selection or object. 6) Number 6 above, (W/H=2) represents the width to
height ratio of our selection or object. In our example here the width is 2 times the height. If our selection was 50 pixels wide
and 100 pixels high then the number would be .5 since the width would be 1/2 the height. Learning the information on this bar will help
you quite a bit down the road if you plan on doing some precise design work. |