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Touchup Ribbon

Artisan 5.0 contains painting capabilities that allow you to "touch up" a photo or image. You can think of menu options on the Touchup Ribbon as similar to a digital painting application (e.g., Corel Painter).

The Touchup Ribbon includes the following menu items:

Menu Item

Description

Brushes Section

See Touching Up a Photo for more details on using the Touchup menu options.

New Canvas Creates a new painting canvas and allows you to start painting anywhere on the page, regardless of the photo or image selected.
Paint Paints only on the selected photo or image.
Clone Copies pixels from one area in the selected photo or image to another.
Smudge Smears pixels from the selected photo or image as you click and drag over it.
Lighten Lightens an area of the selected photo or image as you click and drag.
Darken Darkens an area of the selected photo or image as you click and drag.
Blur Blurs an area of the selected photo or image as you click and drag.
Colorize Adds a color filter over portions of the selected photo or image as you click and drag.
Increase Color Intensifies the primary color(s) of a portion of the selected photo or image as you click and drag.
Decrease Color Decreases the intensity of the primary color(s) of a portion of the selected photo or image as you click and drag.
Erase Removes portions of the selected photo or image as you click and drag.