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Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide
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6 Using Special Effects
After you have touched up your photos, you can transform these images using
the many tools that Picture It! provides. Some special effects—such as the film
grain filter—mimic effects from traditional film photography. Other special
effects—like the chrome and glowing edges filters—give you access to the
creative possibilities unique to digital imaging.
Creating Cutouts
Compared to working with just one layer, creating cutouts gives you more
control and more options for editing images. You can use cutouts to edit with
more precision, fixing problems that only exist in part of the photo. Or, use
your imagination to make cutouts into funny or fantastic scenes.
You can create cutouts from any part of a larger picture, which enables you to:
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Apply filters or other effects to a limited area of a photo.
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Duplicate part of an image within a photo.
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Combine parts from two or more photos.
From the original image (upper left), a cutout was made of the front most bottle. In the upper
right image, a filter was applied to the background. In the lower left photo, the bottle cutout
was copied to make more bottles. In the final photo, the background was replaced altogether,
putting the bottle in a totally new setting.
Cutting a hole
in a photo
You can use the trim
tool if you want to
remove just a part of a
photo—such as cutting
a hole. The trim tool is
located on the
FormatFormat
FormatFormat
Format
menu.