2013

Photo Handling 259
By placing the blurred copy with the 'hole' created by the transparency effect over the
sharp original, the blended result shows the sharp face area through.
Creating copies of any object requires a single key press, or click (drag with right
mouse button). Blurring a photo takes a single drag on a blur slider of the
PHOTO
TOOL
, applying a gradated transparency is just another click-drag in the
TRANSPARENCY TOOL, and finally positioning the photos on top of each other takes a
second. So the whole process takes a few clicks, drags and just a few seconds in
MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013.
Photo display quality
MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 can display photos in one of five useful quality
levels. The top two settings smooth the screen pixels so avoiding visible pixels or
rough sections along the edges (anti-aliasing). Change the quality level using the
QUALITY entry in the WINDOW menu.
VERY HIGH
QUALITY
(DEFAULT)
Displays images using bicubic sampling. This displays images at
the best quality, particularly for large hi-res images that are scaled
down or zoomed out a lot.
HIGH QUALITY
Anti-aliasing on, but images are rendered faster and at lower
quality.
FULL COLOR
No anti-aliasing, thus showing individual pixels. This can be useful
when you're zoomed in and you need to clearly see the separate
image pixels. The downside is that images generally look poor
when reduced or enlarged resulting in clearly visible pixelation and
jagged "staircase" edges, especially if you rotate the image.
OUTLINE WITH
BLEND STEPS
Is particularly useful for seeing outlines of the various steps of a
blend. Blends are not supported in MAGIX Page & Layout
Designer 2013 but imported .xar files could contain blends.
OUTLINE
Only object outlines are shown. This is useful for finding and
selecting objects that are difficult to see due to other objects in
front of or behind them.