Satori makes quick work of tints. Open the Geometry Action palette and select both the Rectangle tool and the Filled button, then switch to the FX-1 tab and hit Tint.
Choose the colour and move the slider across to set the strength of the tint – the larger the number, the stronger the colour will be.
Pull the cursor over the area you want to tint and Satori will do the rest.
Grids are the perfect way to give your project a more professional look, enabling you to make sure everything is correctly lined up.
To switch on grids in Satori, select View, Palettes, Toolbars and choose Grid, Constraints to bring up the Grids toolbar.
Hit the Set-up Grid Values button. In the values window click the Only Display Safe Area button and set the Safe value to 90 per cent.
Feeling a bit over-exposed? Use the Colour Correction tool to improve washed-out pictures or photos. Oh, for goodness sake, not that man again.
Add coloured tints to your photos with one of Satori’s
many and varied special effects. Mmm, lovely…
12 A work of art
Ever fancied hanging an Andy
Warhol-esque picture of yourself on the wall? Luckily for you Satori includes a striking
effect based on the eccentric pop artist.
Use the Set by Pixel box to select how you want to space out your grid – for example, every 20 pixels – and click OK. Satori will now draw the grid across your text.
Use gridlines to work more precisely on your drawings, and feel free to include photos that don’t feature this particular person
If the colour of your image isn’t correct, Satori’s Colour Correction Curve can give you greater control over the final result.
Open the curve by going to the Layer menu and pulling down to Colour Correction.
When the Colour Correction window appears, click on the Curve tab. Now, if your picture has a blue tint that is washing out the photo, for example, select the Apply to Blue option and drag the points on the curve down and to the right.
This decreases the amount of blue found in the picture. The curve can also be used to alter the Red and Green components of an image or even its entire tone – just pick Apply to All.
Every new brush stroke or shape is recognised by Satori as an object in its own right.
Clicking on the Object button found at the bottom of the Actions palette opens the Object picker, which lists every object that makes up the finished picture.
You can select any particular object by clicking it, and press Select for Edit to highlight it on your Canvas or Rename to give it a particular name.
After you’ve gone to all the trouble of creating a particular effect, such as the soft-focus one we show you how to create on page 87, chances are you’ll want to use it again in the future.
Save yourself the trouble of recreating it step-by-step by saving the entire effect as a CanvasFX filter.
Once you’ve completed the effect you want, select File, Save As.
Satori is one of the few graphic packages that can open and edit Photoshop PSD documents.
Just make sure that every layer of the PSD document is saved in RGB mode, as Satori doesn’t support Photoshop’s CMYK option, unfortunately.
Remember that fewer objects on a picture means faster loading and saving times of the file later.
17 Layer upon layer
You can add as many layers as you wish while working on a Satori project.
Make sure that you check the Convert Canvas to CanvasFX filter format box, and click on OK. Highlight all the options in the Select FX Replacement Bitmap window which will then pop up, and again hit OK. Your newly-created effect is now safely stored away in the CanvasFX folder, ready for you to apply to any new images.
The best way to add a logo to a photo or design is to use Satori’s mapping tool. That way you can make it the right size and get it in the right place. From the Geometry Action palette, highlight both the Rectangle and Filled buttons before moving over to the Map tab and clicking the Use Mapping button. Use the Thumbnail browser to search for your logo and then select Keep Aspect to make sure that the logo remains the same shape no matter how big it is.Position the logo where you want it to be on your picture and drag the mouse across it to create a rectangle the size you want the logo to be. When you release the mouse button a scaled copy of your logo will replace the rectangle.
To bring an
individual layer to the top, simply click on its thumbnail, hold down the mouse button and
drag it to the top of the list.
You can also copy layers by holding down the [Ctrl] button while you’re
dragging them. When released the layer will be magically copied to its new position.
When you’ve finished your work you can export the Satori canvas as a number of the major bitmap file formats, including TIFF, JPEG or BMP.
To do this, select File, Save As. Choose a format and a name for your work, then click OK.
This will bring up the Save Bitmap As window, which enables you to set the size of the image you want to output as well as the DPI . Once you’ve set everything up the way you want it, click OK.