To fully work with images in Microsoft Word 2010, you need to learn how to work with image color settings. It will be useful to know how to apply artistic effects to a drawing, which can significantly improve appearance Images. This is outlined in this article with illustrative examples.
Adjusting the brightness and contrast of the image
Adjusting the brightness of an image involves making the image lighter or darker. When using these configuration tools, Word program 2010 automatically makes changes to the color range. That is, brightness adjustment for shadows, highlights and midtones is not available. Simply put, the adjustment is done using special patterns that have different degrees of exposure. Exposure, in turn, determines the degree of lightening/darkening.
Contrast is the ratio of the lightest areas of the image to the darkest. In color contrast, it is the difference in color shades. In Word 2010, brightness and contrast are adjusted using the same patterns. In turn, templates can have zero brightness or contrast values, which allows you to separately adjust the level of their values. In the case of fine tuning (the “Picture Format” window), the situation is similar.
To adjust the brightness and contrast of the image, do the following:
1st method.
- Select an image in Word document 2010 and go to the Format tab.
- In the “Change” group, click the “Correction” button and in the window that opens, select the desired brightness value from the collection of samples. If you need more fine-tuning, click on the “Picture Correction Options” button. The Format window will open on the Picture Settings tab.
- In the Brightness area, set the percentage you want and click Close.
2nd method.
- Click on the image in the Word 2010 window and context menu select "Picture Format".
- Go to the “Picture Adjustments” tab and set the desired brightness values.
The sharpness is changed in the same way. Decreasing the sharpness leads to blurring of the image, and increasing, on the contrary, increases the clarity of the image. However, this results in lost smooth transitions in the image, and its graininess increases.
Figure 1. Correcting sharpness, brightness and contrast
Image color adjustment
Image color adjustment allows Word 2010 to adjust color in terms of brightness, contrast, sharpness and saturation. By simple manipulations, you can give the image a look that corresponds to the assigned tasks.
Changing color saturation
Color saturation is the strength, intensity of the sensation of color tone. In other words, it is how strongly a certain color is represented in the palette, and how “pure” it is. “Pure” color means the minimal presence of pixels of other colors, their shades, as well as shades of the primary color. Saturation shows how a certain color looks under different levels of light. Saturation, or the intensity of a color, changes depending on the strength of the light. That is, the brighter the picture, the brighter and more saturated the colors in it - and this rule even applies to black and its shades. Without going into the details of color theory, we note that by changing the color saturation you can radically change the appearance of the entire image. Because with a change in color saturation, the composition of the image’s color palette completely changes.
To adjust the color of an image, follow these steps:
- Select the picture you want in your Word 2010 document.
- Click the Format tab, and in the Edit group, click the Color button
- In the window that opens, in the “Color Saturation” group, select the appropriate sample.
For more fine-tuning, follow these steps:
1st method.
- Right-click on the desired picture and select “Format Picture” from the context menu.
- Click on the “Picture Settings” tab in the “Picture Format” window that opens and go to the “Color Saturation” group.
2nd method.
- Click the "Color" button and in the window that opens, click "Picture Color Options."
- Use the Presets and Saturation panes in the Color Saturation group to set the options you want.
Figure 2. Image color settings
Color shade
Changing the hue of a color allows you to lower or increase the “temperature” of the image. Simply put, reduce or increase the saturation of warm or cool shades of color. An example of warm colors are shades of red, yellow, orange, and cool colors are shades of blue, turquoise and gray.
To change the color tone of a picture, follow these steps:
- Click the Format tab, and in the Modify group, click the Color button.
- In the window that opens, go to the “Color Tint” group and select one of the swatches.
For more fine-tuning, go to the “Picture Format” window and in the “Color Tint” group, set the desired values.
Recoloring an image
If you want to completely recolor the image, that is, give it a certain color ( color scheme), do the following:
1st method.
- On the Format tab, in the Edit group, click the Color button.
- In the window that opens, go to the “Recolor” group and select one of the samples.
2nd method.
- In the Format Picture window, click the Picture Color tab.
- In the “Recolor” group, click the “Recolor” button in the “Blanks” area, and in the window that opens, select the appropriate sample.
Artistic drawing effects
Using artistic effects, you can significantly improve the appearance of an image without resorting to the help of special graphic editors. There are a total of 23 effect samples available. Unfortunately, working with layers is not available.
To give your drawing an artistic effect, do the following:
1st method.
- In the window open document click on the desired image.
- Go to the "Format" tab in the "Edit" group and click on the "Artistic Effects" button.
- In the window that opens, select the appropriate sample.
2nd method.
- Right-click on the picture and select Format Picture from the context menu.
- In the window that opens, open the “Artistic Effects” tab, then click on the “Artistic Effects” button and select the appropriate sample.
Figure 3. Artistic effects
For more fine-tuning, use the Transparency and Size artistic effect options.
- “Transparency” - allows you to adjust the transparency level of the applied effect. The greater the transparency, the less changes made to the drawing when applying the effect will be reflected and vice versa.
- “Size” - determines the “density” of the applied effect. So for the “Watercolor” effect this is the brush size, for the “Light Screen” effect this is the grid size, etc. The lower the value, the more accurate the changes made and vice versa - it all depends on what type you want to set for the picture.
Please note that setting parameters is only available after applying the effect to the drawing.
Transparency of individual color pixels
To give an image a special effect, you can “bleach” pixels of a certain color. A similar approach can be used, for example, if you want part of the text to be visible through the drawing.
To set the transparency of pixels of a certain color:
- Click “Set transparent color” in the window for changing the color of the picture - the cursor will take the form of a pencil with an arrow.
- Select an area of the image with the required color and left-click - the pixels of the specified color will become completely transparent.
Figure 4. Final version of the drawing after settings
Conclusion
At this stage of development of Word 2010, it is necessary to be able to change the image in terms of color saturation, brightness, contrast, etc. This will allow you to quickly and efficiently adjust the image without resorting to the help of specialized graphic editors. Fortunately, there are now more than enough opportunities for working with images in Word 2010, which in scale can be compared with individual graphic editors. But, even if you are not faced with the task of becoming a graphics processing specialist, you need to know the basic concepts. Actually, the main ways to adjust images were outlined in this article.
I often see nice photos, informative, clear, beautiful, but..... with gray background! Those. I understand that the photograph was taken on white, but the photo is gray! A white background shows the work much better. So I decided to make MK for people like me - people who are not capable of mastering Photoshop, but want to post beautiful photos.
(No advice on mastering Photoshop, please! I’ve been periodically trying to learn how to work with it for 3 years, but I can only figure out something by constantly looking at MK and online manuals on FS, and when I need to process 10-20-30 photos, it’s unrealistic - I’ll have to sit for a week, because... If I don't look into step-by-step FS tutorials, I start to get lost )
So, I photograph 50/50: with light from a window at the brightest time, or under a lamp, which I adjust so that it gives even light to the surface being photographed. In 90% of cases, the techniques shown in this MK are enough for me to process photos.
This MK shows how to improve photographs in which objects are located on a white background or the photographed objects themselves have large “spots” of white.
On each computer on which the package is installed office programs Microsoft Office, there is a photo editing program Microsoft Office Picture Manager. (Note - in the version for Win. 7 the program is called "Picture Manager")
1) Open the photo by right-clicking on the photo through Microsoft program Office Picture Manager.
2) In the window that appears with the photo at the top, click on the button that says “change picture”
3) A menu appears on the left with photo editing options
4) in this menu click on the inscription “color”
5) in the submenu that opens there is a button “improve colors” - just click it
6) After clicking this button, when you hover your mouse over the photo, instead of an arrow, we see a “sight”. This is the whole point of processing!
7) On the background (or on the product itself - on its white part) select the lightest place - i.e. the point where visually the light source gives the most of this same light. We point our “sight” at this area and click. The program automatically equalizes the white balance so that at this point inside the sight the color becomes pure white and, accordingly, automatically equalizes the colors throughout the photo, adjusting them to the new conditions - this is the most “lightened” area.
8) If we don’t have enough lightening and want to lighten it more, select the area next to the whitest (i.e., slightly noticeably non-white) and click on it with the crosshair. The photo brightens a little more.
8) If you aimed the sight somewhere in the wrong place and the result did not suit you, you can always press either the “back” arrow (signed “1” in the photo) or select Edit--Cancel in the top menu.
In 5-6, maximum 8 “poke” I always manage to get a pretty decent white background. This process takes about 3-4 minutes at most. If we are satisfied with everything in the resulting lightened photo, click the return button in the left menu (indicated “2” in the photo)
10) After trimming, click “ok”. If you have cut off too much or just want to “re-crop” - the “back” arrow or Edit--Undo will return the photo to the “uncropped” view.
Here, for example, is what the photo looks like before and after such processing, which took me 3 minutes of time:
I hope this MK will help those who do not own FS make photographs of their works more pleasing to the eyes of our customers.
P.S. - the rest of the photo editing capabilities in this program are quite poor, so apart from the capabilities shown in MK, the rest are not even worth trying.
We constantly take photographs – of our children, family and friends, nature, pets. Sometimes the quality of our photographs does not completely satisfy us, and sometimes it simply upsets us. Therefore, the question of how to improve the quality of photography is not at all idle, but very relevant.
In a programme Corel Photo-Paint There is a wonderful plugin - simple and intuitive - Image Correction Laboratory.
This plugin transforms a photo.
In this tutorial we will improve the quality of our original photo. Let's make it more contrasting and rich.
Let's prepare our photo for further graphic work with her. For example, in order to insert your photo into a ready-made template frame.
So. Let's open the Corel Photo-Paint program, starting with version X3. Let's open our photo that we want to improve.
On the Menu Bar we will find the command – Settings.
And then in the open tab, select this plugin - Image Adjustment Laboratory.
Here's what we'll see:
In the viewing window we have two photographs - one - Original, the other - Working view– the results of our color correction will be visible on it.
Let's look at it in detail top panel in the Laboratory window.
1. Rotate photo 90 degrees counterclockwise.
2. Rotate photo 90 degrees clockwise.
3. Panorama allows move the image in the Source Photo window.
4. Enlarge photo– or from the keyboard – F2
5. Reduce photo or from the keyboard – F3
6. Photo display to the size of the Source window or F4.
7. True 100% display photo.
8. One viewport– Working view. The original window is not present in this option.
9. View in two windows– original photo and working view.
10. Split View – in one window: Original photo and Working view. You can move the image separation line arbitrarily.
Let's go back to our original image.
We pressed the button - Create Snapshot and Auto Adjust.
Let's look at it in detail operating buttons in the Laboratory window:
1. Create a photo. Be sure to press this button before editing to save initial version photo, and then press it every time we make some noticeable changes to the photo.
2. Auto-tuning. Corrects image color and tone using standard automatic functions.
3. Reset to original state. There are times when we are not satisfied with the result from Auto Adjust or we did not save the original photo and the final result is not satisfactory.
4. Tab – Saved options appears after we press the button - Create a snapshot. Here are thumbnails of the image that we edit and save.
Click on any thumbnail and the selected image will appear in the Working View window.
Why do we need to save different editing options?
To select the most suitable image option.
Summarize. Often the quality of a photograph can be improved by simply using Auto settings.
What if you want more?
Now let's look at the right tab in the Laboratory window.
Here we can manually adjust changes in color, tone, saturation, brightness and other parameters that improve the photograph.
We simply move the slider in the parameters column. And the result will be reflected immediately in the Working View window.
Often the composition requires some kind of stylized photographs.
If our image requires a certain color tone, then we can add new colors to it or, conversely, reduce and mute the colors.
We will first reduce - Saturation. Let's move the slider to the left.
Then let's move it a little Temperature slider towards orange.
Let's add brightness and contrast to the photo. Let's move the sliders a little to the right.
And we constantly see and control changes in the photo in the Working View window.
Let's increase it a little Intermediate tones.
Let's save this option.
In two other options we can experiment with different color tones.
On axis – Hue– first move the slider to the left side towards the pink color.
Let's get a photo in pale purple tones. Let's save this option - button - Create a photo.
And in this case the runner Hue We've gone a lot to the right. We will also keep this style of photography.
The next option is almost bleached, but not to a gray tone, but rather in a sepia style. Save.
Here we will still return to our version, which we received from Auto settings.
Just click on the miniature, which is our second after the saved source.
A little let's add this version of the photo brightness, contrast.
Temperature and saturation Let's turn it down a little.
Now we can select photo option, which suits us most. Open the thumbnails and look in the Working View window.
When we press the OK button, we will save the image that is in the Working View window.
After this practical lesson, you will confidently choose the desired brightness and tonality for your photograph.
