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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
and draw around the area of the photo you want to modify.
Then go to the Photo Enhance Tool
and start to modify the photo using the controls on the infobar.
The mask shape is converted into a shape with enhance transparency applied. The shape is also grouped
with the photo, to form a Photo Group
. This means as you move or otherwise transform the photo, the enhanced shapes move/transform with it.
The enhance shape is also clipped to the edges of the photo.
For more information on using Enhance transparency with photos, see the Photo Tool
chapter.
Note that you can't apply the Blur/sharpen effect to enhance transparent objects, except if they are
applied as part of a Photo Group, as described above.
Profile
You can change the rate of change of transition between the start and end of transparencies. This applies
to all single stage graduated transparency types except three point and four point (where the option is not
available)
To change the profile of a transparency:
1.
Select the object.
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