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Enhance
Enhance transparency allows you to modify any part of your design using the Enhance Photo Tool, just
as if it was a photo. For example you can draw a shape over any part of your design, apply enhance
transparency to it and then adjust the brightness of just the area of your design which is covered by the
shape.
Applying Enhance transparency
To apply enhance transparency:-
1.
Draw or select the shape to which you want to apply the enhance transparency effect.
2.
Go into the Transparency Tool and select "Enhance" from the transparency type list on the
infobar.
3.
The shape seems to have disappeared from your page! That's because it will only apply
enhancements to objects underneath it, and you've yet to specify the enhancements it will apply.
The object should still be selected however.
4.
Switch into the Photo Enhance Tool. Turn up the brightness using the control on the infobar.
Now you can see that the area covered by your shape is brightened compared to the area
outside the shape.
5.
You can adjust brightness, contrast, saturation and temperature.
6.
Move your shape around, or transform it and it always applies the photo enhancement(s) to the
area underneath the shape.
Normally you'll also want to apply some feathering to the shape using the Feather Tool
, to soften the edges of your shape and blend it into your design.
Photo editing with Enhance transparency
When you apply enhance transparency as described above, the shape remains as an independent object
that is not tied to any photos or other objects in your design (unless you go on to manually group it with
other objects of course). Because you will most commonly want to use this effect when editing photos,
there is a better way to use Enhance transparency which is more suited to working with photos.
To apply enhance transparency to part of a photo, select the photo, go into Mask mode
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