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Getting Started with Paint.NET

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Product type Book
Published in Dec 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783551439
Pages 136 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Stylize effects


All Stylize effects do the same thing; they detect the edges of your image and accent them in various ways. Stylize has four effects: Edge Detect, Emboss, Outline, and Relief.

By detecting the edges and highlighting them, it can give your images an interesting 3D quality:

Edge Detect

Edge Detect has only one control: Angle. This determines the angle of your edges. Edge Detect will remove all the color from your image except for the color within the edges:

Emboss

Emboss also has Angle as its only control. It turns your photo into a gray-scale image but makes all the lines look raised or embossed.

Outline

Outline takes all the edges of your image and turns them black against a white background. It has two controls: Thickness, which controls how thick the black outlines will be, and Intensity, which determines how intense the edges of the black line will be.

Relief

Relief leaves the color of your image intact but "raises" the image lines just like Emboss. This will give your image...

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