Use Sepia to give your photos an old fashioned look. Select [Filter | Sepia] to add this effect to your image.
Pictures are often dark or underexposed. By using the Auto Levels feature, the brightness and contrast levels can be adjusted to improve picture quality.
FotoCanvas supports ACD Image plug-ins. There are 14 compatible image formats. If you are running ACDSee, FotoCanvas will support over 40 image formats!
You can add or subtract from a selection by holding down the <Ctrl> key or <Shift> key while creating the selection marquee with your mouse.
Filters, Adjustments and Image enhancements can be applied to both floating and anchored selections. Make a selection and click a toolbar button or menu item. Blend modes and Opacity only apply to floating selections.
You can load images from your scanner or digital camera with FotoCanvas' Acquire command. To access this feature, select [File | Acquire setupà].
The Exposure feature can be used to enhance images that are either too dark or too light.
You can create a selection from portions of the image not currently selected by clicking [Selection | Invert].
The Blend mode and Opacity settings affect all the drawing tools. If you want to see some transparency when drawing, try changing these settings.
The Rotate command turns an image by a desired angle.
To save desktop space, the Tool Options can be "rolled up" into the title bar by clicking [View | Options | Interface] and enabling a roll up type.
The "skinned" appearance of the on-screen controls can be turned off by selecting [View | Options | Interface] and then clearing the [Windows/toolbar pattern] checkbox.
FotoCanvas's image filters only apply to truecolor (24 bit) images. If a desired effect is not available, convert the image to Truecolor. Click [Color | Truecolor].
You can use the mouse wheel to navigate around your image. Using the mouse wheel will scroll up or down. Holding down <Ctrl> scrolls left or right and holding down <Shift> scrolls up and down fast.
You can open more than one FotoCanvas window. Click [File menu | Open] to select an image, or [File | New] to create a new image.
The Eyedropper, Pencil, Line, Airbrush, and Flood Fill tools use the alternate mouse button to apply the secondary color selected in the Color Picker.
You can create your own eraser! Click the Pencil tool, select the color to match the canvas color, and select a line width in the Tools Option box.
Clicking the arrows between the primary and secondary colors switches them around.
Holding down a mouse button while using the Eyedropper tool changes the color when you move.
Panel Help provides a short description of the tool when you hover the mouse over it. When you click a button to use the tool, a brief explanation of the steps to use the tool is provided.
To maintain image quality when resizing, use a setting of 66% or 50%.
Feathering a selection makes the edges appear much smother to the eye. Check the [Feather Selection] checkbox in the Tool Options when making a selection or click [Selection | Feather].
An Anchored selection is part of the image. A Floating selection is a copy of a portion of the image.
Cropping helps to remove extra color from the edges of scanned images.
The toolbars, Color Picker, Tool Options and Panel Help can all be moved or docked by holding the bar at the end of the window and moving the object where you would like it.
Right-click on a toolbar to bring up the customization menu. If you add too many buttons to the toolbar, change to small buttons, or create a floating toolbar and resize it to fit the screen.
Click [File | Revert] to load the latest saved image with no changes.
Combine a tool, blend mode and opacity to create interesting effects. The image must be a Truecolor image.
