Chapter 1. Overview

1.1 Introduction to PhotoSir

PhotoSir is a photo editor software, which combines the functions of image processing, instant matting, batch operation, picture collage, customized printing, watermark adding, creation sharing and etc. It also provides users with abundant materials including special effects and templates. With simple operation, amateur users can also create their own arts, making image editing achievable with no difficulty.

1.2 Why PhotoSir

PhotoSir is a super handy image processing software, a collection of client software, online resources and cloud services. Through years of understanding and refinement of image processing algorithms, artificial intelligence and product interaction,

PhotoSir allows everyone to quickly grasp the skills and techniques of image processing, and become a creative master. PhotoSir connects image producers and consumers together, building a closed-loop ecosystem of image applications including creative design, editing, processing and sharing.

Most of the times, you can complete image editing, poster production and so on within a few steps by using PhotoSir. There are dozens of special effects and filters as well as 40 kinds of text deformation preset in the system.

As a matter of fact, Yeeheart insists to produce a software with intelligent operation. You can tell from its integrated AI, automatic matting, automatic identification of human body, background changing, image synthesis operation with ease. Smart graphics, dynamic and adjustable, making images design convenient.

PhotoSir provides online templates, pictures, facilitate users to produce slides background and document illustration. Also, stickers, mirage, masks, borders and other objects for quick creation. All colors, textures and images can be used as brushes to sprinkle creative inspiration at will.

The creation and templates in PhotoSir constitute a self-recycling ecosystem. Image transfer, management and storage, allowing you to quickly transfer between different devices.

Besides, PhotoSir supports 1 billion pixels images. With the concept “Easier to Do, Do the Better”, the goal of Yeeheart Technology is to provide users with first-class products and services!

Chapter 2. Starting Operation

2.1 Install

Open your browser and put the website name of Yeeheart Technology: www.yeeheart.com to enter the official page. We can directly see the "Download" in the page or "Support&download" in the upper menu bar. Click to enter the download page.

Click to download the installation package, and click Next in the dialog box that is displayed. Follow the software installation guidance until the software is successfully installed. The PhotoSir icon is displayed on the desktop.

2.2 Login/Register

2.2.1 Start Window

After successfully installing the program, double-click the icon to start the software. The main program interface and the launch window dialog box are displayed.

Startup window instructions

1) Product related information is displayed in the startup window.

2) Click the small box of "always display during startup" to cancel, and then click the button of "Direct Entry", the startup window will not be displayed in the subsequent using.

After the startup window closes, the Home page is displayed by default.

The home page recommends selected templates and various materials for you. Click to view more wonderful materials, so as to provide a good environment for you to create. Each piece of work is excellent and splendid.

2.2.2 Log in and Sign up

"Log in" and "Sign up" are displayed in the upper right corner on the home page. Click to log in or sign up as a new user.

In the dialog box that is displayed after you click, your Email address is needed to be signed up or log in. Click the corresponding small box, enter your email, and then click "Get verification code", and then enter the received verification code, click "Confirm" at the bottom. Please use the verification code to log in for the first time, and register as PhotoSir user after login.

The registered user can click "Switch to Login with Password" and directly enter the account and password to log in.

In Sign up option, it’s the place for you to set up a password for next time log in.

For users who have subscribed PhotoSir full version, you will receive a 16 digits activation code. Click the upper right corner, activate, input your license to activate your account.

2.3 Interface Layout

2.3.1 Homepage Layout

The menu bar at the top of the home page, the product logo on the far left, and the "Home page" next to the logo (when we edit other pictures, click the mouse to quickly switch to the home page).

Minimize: Click the upper right corner to minimize the software. The product icon is displayed on the taskbar at the bottom of the operating system. Click the icon back to the interface.

Restore: Click the upper right corner to make the software zoom out on other open web pages, click again to maximum.

Close: Click the upper right corner to exit, double-click the product icon on the desktop to restart.

2.3.2 Operation Interface

Click "Edit", "New", or "Open" in the system home page, you can enter the image editing interface. The functional partitions of the interface are as follows:

Common function area: including switching editing state, new, open, save, save as, print and other common functions;

Edit function area: a sub-function area dedicated to image editing, including Select object, Add selection, Magic pen, Lasso, Bucket, Add text, Add WordArt, Brush, Eraser, Pressed pen, Bezier, Add shape, Pan move, Deform;

Attribute/Add Object: object attribute setting, add pictures, stickers, mirage, frame and text. (The attributes of different objects will be described later.)

Canvas Workspace: The working area that displays the currently edited image, including the ruler and canvas.

System Setting

Overview: Run as the system default settings, can also be customized. Users can set the software, personal setting, fill in the invitation code, and submit feedback. Click the pinion button in the upper right corner of the home page, the setting window will pop up.

Software Setting: You can close or open the startup page displayed at startup, login with the default password, automatic login at startup, display ruler, switch ruler units, switch languages, set the font size and style of the interface.

The interface style currently includes cool dark and cute. The following picture shows the cute style:

Invitation Code: You can fill in the membership invitation code to activate the membership.

Shortcut key:

Feedback: Users can submit the problems and suggestions encountered in the process of using the software.

The staff of PhotoSir will contact the user immediately after receiving the feedback and solve the problem for the user.

Personal Setting: You can set or change the login password. Click the corresponding text box and enter the new password (6-16 letters and digits). After obtaining the verification code, enter the password and click "Save Setting" to change the password. In personal setting, you can click "Logout" below to exit the login status of PhotoSir.

Interface display before login:

Interface display after login:

Chapter 3. Image Editing

With powerful photo editing functions, PhotoSir supports basic operation such as zooming in and out, stretching, rotating, re-sizing, selection, cropping, deleting, brightness, order, contrasting, shadowing, brush, fill color, gradient, pattern and background. You can also experience adding selection, pictures, stickers, text, phantom at the same time. We will introduce the use of each kind in the following sections.

In the upper tool bar displays the basic tools for common operations, and all functions can be seen on the left. After clicking the corresponding button, the setting page will be showed in the right "Attribute Setting Area".

3.1 General Operation

The general operations of image editing include the following functions:

3.1.1 New

Click the "New" button in the common function area, or use the shortcuts “Ctrl + N” to create a new canvas or canvas from a template. On the right, you can name the canvas and set its width, height, resolution, and background color as below:

Create New Canvas:

Click the function bar on the right, choose a template from preset documents: “Recently”, “Favorite”, “Photo”, “Print”, “Web Page”, “Mobile” and “Painting”.

After setting relevant parameters, click the "Create" button, and a new image document will appear in the "Canvas Workspace" according to the set attribute values.

Using Templates:

Click the function bar on the right to select "Seasons", "Festival", "Graduation", "Christmas" and many others. You can also enter keywords in the input box to search for the them.

Click the required template to preview the template style. Click the "Close" button to close the preview image. Click "Download and Open" to create and use the template canvas.

3.1.2 Open

Overview: Browse the local folder and quickly select the photos to be edited.

Steps:

1) Click the "Open" button, or use the shortcut Ctrl + O, the “Open file” dialog box , as shown in the picture below:

2) Browse the local folder and select the file supported format. Open the file and edit it in the canvas workspace.

File formats supported by PhotoSir include:

*.jpg *.jpeg *.bmp *.tif *.tiff *.gif *.png *.hmd

Among them, hmd is the specific project file format of PhotoSir.

3.1.3 Save/Save as

Overview: Save the current image document or the template version to continue editing.

Steps:

Click the "Save" / "Save As" button or use the shortcut key Ctrl + S/Ctrl + Shift + S to pop up the Save dialog box. Name the file and select a saving type. Click "Save" below.

Support formats: *.hmd *.pdf *.jpg *.png *.tif *.bmp

Notice: If the file opened by the user is in hmd format, or saved as hmd format for the last time, click "Save" again, the dialog box will not pop up "Save as", and the current hmd file will be directly covered.

3.1.4 Print

Overview: Print the image.

Step:

Click the "Print" button, or use the shortcut key Ctrl + P to print the document, provide the printer selecting, paper size, print quantity, format, print position and other related Settings.

3.1.5 Copy/Paste

Overview: Copy and paste selected object.

Step:

Click the “Copy” / “Paste” button, or use the shortcut key Ctrl + C/Ctrl + V, the function is applied to pictures, stickers, phantom, animation and other objects.

3.1.6 Undo/Redo

Overview: Undo the previous operation and redo the next one.

Step:

Click “Undo” , “Redo” button, or use the shortcut key Ctrl + Z/Ctrl + Shift + Z, to adjust your creation, undo or redo the operation, supporting multi steps recovery.

3.1.7 Align

Overview: Align multiple objects.

Step:

Click the "Align" button to adjust the alignment of multiple objects. Select at least two objects to use the alignment function. (Press Ctrl to select all objects.) We support left, center, right, top, center, and bottom alignment.

The effect of using the center alignment is as follows:

3.1.8 Delete

Overview: Delete the selected object.

Step:

Click the "Delete" button, or use the shortcut Delete, delete the current selection of pictures, stickers, phantoms, animations and other objects.

3.1.9 Zoom In/Out

Overview: Zoom in/out the canvas.

Step:

Click the "Zoom In" / "Zoom out" button or manually enter the percentage value to adjust the canvas display size. You can also use the Ctrl + =/+ or Ctrl + - shortcut to enlarge or reduce the image.

3.1.10 Image Setting

Overview: Object Attribute Setting.

Step: Click button on the right to display the attribute setting interface, and set the attributes as required.

3.1.11 Canvas Cutting

Overview: Cut to fit in required size

Step: Click the button on the right to display the attribute setting interface. Set the size according to the requires and click "Confirm" to complete the setting. You can also directly choose the usual size.

3.1.12 Upload

Overview: Upload the image files to my photos.

Method:

Click the "Upload" button or use the shortcut Ctrl + U to upload the current edited picture to your own album.

The function requires users to register, successfully log in to the system and remain online.

The upload dialog box is shown in the picture below:

To the left of the dialog box is a list of albums for the currently logged in user. The three buttons below the list are "Add Album", "Edit Album", and "Delete Album".

The area on the upper right of the dialog box is a list of pictures for the currently selected album. Below are the "Upload" and "Cancel" buttons.

If the album list is empty, the user must add the album first before uploading it. Click "Add album" button, the dialog box is as shown in the picture below:

Enter the name of the album you want to name in the album name field. The maximum number of characters is 16. Click “Confirm “ button or “Enter”, album added successfully, the left album list will be automatically refreshed. Click the "Cancel" button to cancel the current operation.

Select an album and click the "Edit Album" button to change the current album name.

Select an album and click the "Delete Album" button to delete the currently selected album. The album can be deleted even if it is not empty, so be careful when deleting it. The software will prompt the user with the following message for reconfirmation.

Select an album, click the "Upload" button, the current edited picture will be uploaded to the corresponding album. The left album list will be automatically refreshed, showing the currently edited image in the photo list of the album. As shown in the picture below:

Click the "Cancel" button to close the current dialog box and exit the upload operation.

3.1.13 Sharing

Overview: Share your files to other platforms

Method:

Click the "Share" button or use the shortcut key Ctrl +l to share the current edited works to a third-party platform. You can choose "Current file" or "local file" to select files and the path to share. Currently, there are sharing links and sending pictures.

3.1.14 Browse

Overview: Preview your work.

Method:

Click the "Browse" button or Ctrl+B to expand the preview image. Click the image to preview.

3.2 Attribute Setting

Overview: You can fill the canvas with background, resize the image/canvas, and rotate.

Method:

After the canvas is created, it jumps to the canvas editing interface. The toolbar on the left and the canvas attribute setting on the right, including background filling, image/canvas adjusting, and rotating.

3.2.1 Background Fill

Click "Background Fill" button, below are 5 small squares: None, Color, Gradient, Texture and Picture in order.

①Solid color: click "Color", and the color selector box will pop up. You can select the color mode and the grid mode.

HSV is a color system that is even more commonly used in people's lives, on TV remote controls, in drawing palettes, because it fits better with the way people describe color - what color it is, how dark it is, how bright it is.

H - Hue, is what we usually call red, green, if you divide it more finely, there may be magenta, grass green, etc.; in the HSV model, the hue is described in degrees, where red corresponds to 0 degrees, green corresponds to 120 degrees, blue corresponds to 240 degrees.

S - Saturation, the shade of color (0-100%), for a color such as red, we can use pink, scarlet, blood-red, purplish red to describe it, corresponding to the time of painting watercolor that is a pigment plus different portions of water to form a different saturation.

V - Value, is the purity, brightness of the color (0-100%), this is more common when adjusting the screen brightness.

After setting the desired color value and other parameters, click ''OK'' to finish the relevant color settings.

We see the letters R, G, and B at the top of the color picker, which is the most commonly used color palette in computers, R for Red, G for Green, and B for Blue. Through the input RGB value, red, green and blue light source mixed together in a certain amount, to form a color.

In the grid mode, the preview effect will appear when the you click the color to be filled. If the color is what we want, click "confirm" below the color selector.

The color selection of grid mode is shown in the picture below:

In Color selection mode, click the small circle on the right color column to select a range of colors. Move the circle in the color box to select different colors. As shown in the picture below:

CMYK: printing four-color mode is a color printing mode, using the principle of mixing the three primary colors, plus black ink, a total of four colors mixed and superimposed, forming a "full-color printing" four standard colors are: C: Cyan, also known as 'sky blue ' or 'blue'; M: Magenta ; Y: Yellow; K: blacK, CMYK is a print used to rely on reflective of color patterns. The CMYK format can be used in the production of printed materials.

②Gradient: click "Gradient", the gradient selector box will pop up. We can see that there is a color bar on the top, and the gradient mode can be set as linear gradient, radial gradient, and fan-shaped gradient. Let's use the grid mode to illustrate the effects of different gradient modes.

In the Gradient editor, the color scale is the red triangle icon under the gradient band in the image. The "color" above is used to edit the color scale. Click the small circle, and the red triangle will follow the movement, click the color you need and drag the color label shows a different gradient effect.

Click on the blank space of the gradient area to add the gradient icon. Drag the gradient icon to the left to delete it. There should be at least two colors in the gradient area.

Gradient direction setting: Click the direction setting box, with the red dot as the center, move back and forth to create different gradient styles.

The linear gradient effect is as follows:

A radial gradient means click to define the center of the circle, the direction of the mouse stroke is in the direction of the outward radius. The rendering is as follows:

Fan-shaped gradients start at the point where the lines are underlined and follow the direction of a full circle. The rendering is as follows:

③Texture: click "texture", you can choose rice paper, cloth, stone, metal, leather, wood, carpet, natural, wallpaper, map, shape, Polaris, ripple, the following picture is the effect of an image in golden texture.

④ Picture: click "Picture", you can choose local files, images online, albums online and other pictures, you can directly click the right picture bar and browse the material in your computer when using local pictures.

3.2.2 Image adjusting

Click "Adjust image" in the right attribute bar, input width, height and resolution in the corresponding space, click "Apply" below to change the size.

Before adjustment, the picture is as follows:

The adjusted image is as follows:

3.2.3 Canvas setting

Click "Canvas Setting" on the right attribute bar, click the lower part to locate, lengthen or cut the canvas, then modify the corresponding values of width and height under "New Size".

3.2.4 Rotate the canvas

Click "Canvas Rotate" in the right attribute bar, click "- 90°" and "+ 90°" at the bottom to rotate the canvas in the direction.

3.2.5 Layer tools

Layer style is a set of editable properties given to the object, you can set different properties for a single object, often used in graphic design, poster production.

Mixed mode: means that when the image is overlaid, the pixels of the layer above and below are mixed to get another image effect.

1）Normal

Each pixel edited in normal mode will directly form the result color, which is the default mode and the initial state of the image. In this mode, you can adjust the parameters of layer opacity and layer fill value to show the next layer in different degrees.

2) Darken

Darken mode compares the brightness between the drawn color and the base color when blending, and the colors that are brighter than the base color are replaced, and the colors that are darker than the base color remain unchanged. In darken mode, view the color information of each channel and select the darker color of the base color and the mixed color as the result color.

3) Multiply

Multiply mode is used to view the color information in each channel, and it can be used to create a slide effect of light penetrating the layer. In fact, the base color is multiplied by the mixed color, and then divided by 255, you get the color value of the result color, the result color is always darker than the original color.

4) Color Deepen

Color deepen mode is used to view the color information of each channel to make the base color darker so as to show the mixed color of the current layer.

5) Lighten

Lighten mode has the opposite result of color deepen mode. By comparing the base color with the mixed color, pixels that are darker than the mixed color are replaced and pixels that are brighter than the mixed color are left unchanged, thus giving the whole image a brightening effect.

6) Screen

Screen mode is the opposite of the multiply mode, which looks at the color information of each channel and combines the base color of the image with the mixed color to produce a third color that is lighter than both colors, which is the blending effect obtained by multiplying the drawn color with the complementary color of the base color and dividing by 255. The color of the effect converted by this mode is usually very light, as if it had been bleached, and the resulting color is always a brighter color. When processing the image, sometimes the picture is underexposed and the whole is dark, you can use the screen mode, you can clearly see that the whole image will become brighter.

7) Fade

Fade mode is used to view the color information of each channel, by reducing the contrast to make the base color brighter, thus reflecting the blended color. The layer order affects the result. The brighter ones become brighter and the darker ones become less bright, reducing the contrast.

8) Linear Fade

Linear fade mode has the opposite effect of fade mode, it lightens the color by increasing the brightness, producing a brightening effect that is stronger than both screen mode and fade mode. It works by looking at the color information of each channel and then reflecting the mixed color by increasing the brightness to make the base color brighter.

Color information in the image is minimized when mixing with white; mixing with black does not change.

9) Overlay

Overlay mode is actually a blending mode of multiply mode and screen mode. This mode is to superimpose the mixed color and the base color on each other, which means that the underlying image controls the layer above it and can make it lighter or darker. Areas darker than 50% will be darkened using the multiply mode, and areas brighter than 50% will be brightened using the screen mode.

10) Soft

The effect of the soft mode is similar to that of a diffused spotlight shining on an image. This mode determines whether the final effect of the image will be lighter or darker depending on the lightness or darkness of the mixed color. If the mixed color is brighter than the base color, the resulting color will be brighter.

11) Strong

Strong mode is a combination of multiply mode and screen mode. It produces a glare effect, which determines whether the final effect is lighter or darker depending on how light or dark the current layer color is. If the mixed color is brighter than the pixels of the base color, then the result is brighter; if the mixed color is darker than the pixels of the base color, then the result is darker. This mode is essentially similar to soft mode, except that its effect is a bit more intense. In strong mode, pixels in the current layer that are brighter than 50% gray will make the image brighter; pixels that are darker than 50% gray will make the image darker, but pure black and pure white in the current layer will remain unchanged.

12) Different

The different mode compares the brightness of the mixed color with the base color. The pixel value of the brighter color is subtracted from the pixel value of the darker color, and the resulting difference is the pixel value of the final effect.

13) Exclusion

The exclusion mode is similar to the different mode, but the exclusion mode has high contrast and low saturation, and the effect is softer and brighter than the different mode. When white is used as the mixed color, the image is rendered by reversing the base color; when black is used as the mixed color, the image does not change.

14) Introduction of layer style window:

Layer style is different from the curve color scale and other direct changes to the object pixel editing method, but similar to the current version of the [shadow] or [mixed mode]. That is, the layer style does not directly change the pixel of the object, but on the object superimposed on a number of "style" can be adjusted separately parameters.

Mixed options preview:

① Bevel and Emboss

The bevel and emboss include inner bevel, outer bevel, smooth, clear and soft emboss. Although they are in the same options, the results produced are very different.

②Stroke

Use color, gradient color, or pattern to paint the outline of an object, text, or shape on the current layer, for shapes with sharp edges.

③Inner Shadow

Add a shadow to the inner edge of an object, text, or shape to give the layer a sunken appearance; the inner shadow effect works better for text objects.

④Inner Glow

Add a glowing effect from the edges of a layer object, text, or shape inward.

⑤ Satin

Apply a shadow to the inside of the layer object, interacting with the shape of the object, usually creating a regular wave shape, producing a smooth polished and metallic effect.

⑥Color Overlay

Overlay a color on the layer object, i.e. fills the object with a layer of solid color to which the style is applied. You can select any color from the "Set Overlay Color" option via the "Select Overlay Color" dialog box.

⑦Gradient Overlay

Overlay a gradient color on the layer object, i.e. fills the object with a layer of gradient color. You can also choose to use other gradient colors through the Gradient Editor.

⑧ Pattern Overlay

Overlay a pattern on the layer object, i.e. fills the object with a consistent repeating pattern. Additional patterns can be selected from the "Pattern Picker".

⑨ Outer Glow

Add a glowing effect from the edges of a layer object, text or shape to the outside, with a facility parameter to make the object, text or shape more beautiful.

⑩Projection

Add a shadow effect to the back of the object, text or shape on the layer. The projection parameters are "Mixed", "Opacity", "Angle", "Distance", "Expand" and "Size", etc. By setting these options you can get the desired effect.

Introduction to the list of layers:

The small lock of the layer list is to lock or unlock the layer.

The eye of the layer list is to show/hide the object of the layer.

: New adjust layer

: Merge layer

: New image layer

: New layer

: Remove

3.3. Select objects

Overview: This function is used to select objects, applied to pictures, stickers, phantoms, animations, text, brushes, shapes and many other different objects.

Methods:

Click the button shown below.

Click the target object in the canvas. After it’s selected, a control block is displayed around the object, and a shortcut toolbar is displayed on the upper right of the object. As shown in the picture below:

The circular control block around is used to stretch the object and change the size and proportion of it. The control block right above is used to rotate the object. The shortcut toolbar on the right corresponds to:

Move Top: put the selected object in the top layer of all objects, so that all of it is displayed.

Move Forward: moves the selected object up a level relative to the current level.

Move Backward: moves the selected object down a level relative to the current level.

Move Bottom: places the selected object at the bottom of all objects;

Delete: deletes the currently selected object.

Lock Object: locks the position and size of the currently selected object.

Select Object: Click to close/open the object. The object cannot be stretched or moved.

Note: The above operations can be canceled/redone.

When the target object is located below other objects and is completely occluded, only clicking on the canvas will not select the target object. In this case, you can select objects in Object List on the lower left page. The procedure is as follows:

①Click the Layer button at the lower left corner to expand the object list;

② After the object list is expanded, click the schematic diagram of the target object, as shown below:

At this point, the target object becomes selected, as shown in the picture below:

Click the "Eye" button in front of the corresponding object in "Object List" to hide/display it.

Click the "Delete" button next to the corresponding object in "Object List" to delete the current object.

Click the "Lock" button next to the corresponding object in "Object List" to lock the current object.

Click "Root Object" to edit the name of the object.

3.4. Add images

Overview:

This feature adds pictures to the canvas area. You can add local pictures, online pictures/albums, mobile pictures, and pictures created by AI.

Method:

Click "Select Object" on the left to provide a preview of the picture object in the right panel. Click the required picture to add it to the canvas.

3.4.1 The paths to add an image

1) Local files: click to select "Local Files" on the right, choose to browse local files, select a folder to view all images in the folder.

Click to select the picture to add, the effect is as follows:

2. Online pictures: click to select "Images Online" on the right. Online pictures include dozens of categories, such as contest, gardens, plants and etc. Online images support keyword search, enter the classification you need to quickly find the material. Click the desired picture, and the picture will be added to the canvas.

   

3. Online albums: click "Albums Online" on the right, select the album list on the left, click to add the picture to the canvas (this function requires that the user has registered as a PhotoSir user, successfully logged in to the system and kept online).

   

3.4.2 Attribute Setting of the Image

After the image is added, select a single image object in the canvas, and the "Attribute Setting area" on the right will display the following:

Note: See Section 3.4.1 Adding an Image with instructions.

3.4.2.1 Rotation

Overview: This function can rotate the selected object horizontally, vertically or at any angle.

Methods:

1. Click the picture on the canvas to edit , select the object, it will appear around the adjustment box, a small black dot will be seen. Press the left mouse button and click the top black rotation handle, slide the rotation handle left and right to rotate the angle of the object.

   

2. Click “Attribute Setting” to adjust the angle of your object. As shown in the picture below:

   

Users can directly click "horizontal flip", "vertical flip", "CCW 90°", "CW 90°" to perform the corresponding rotation; also, you can input the angle value in the "Rotation Angle" box and click the "Rotation" button to perform rotation. The following is a rotation of 50°:

Click the "Restore" to restore selected object to the initial state before rotation.

Note: The above operations can be canceled/redone.

3.4.2.2 Location and Size

Overview: The function can do free stretch, deformation stretch and preset stretch (built-in position size in the software) of the selected object, swiftly adjust the position and size of the picture.

Method:

Free stretching: click the object to see the adjustment box. The user can not only drag the adjustment box to freely stretch the image, but also change the free stretching parameters under the "position/size" on the right. Users can also enter values in the "Free Stretch" input box to adjust the position and size of the object. As shown in the picture below:

Note: Click the button below the free stretch to lock (unlock) equal size of the stretch object. As shown in the picture below:

Deformation stretch: click the object and the "Deform" on the left toolbar, click a point around the object, hold the button and slide to make a deformation effect.

The original:

After deformation:

Align to: Click "Align to" to adjust the alignment point of the picture. On the right, you can choose Restore to the original scale, Fit canvas, Covered canvas, equal stretch, and display percentage.

The following picture is the effect of "Restore" :

3.4.2.3 Brightness and Contrast

Overview: Brightness refers to the light and shade degree of the picture, contrast refers to the difference between the dark and bright image, that is, the difference between the maximum/minimum gray level of the image. This function can adjust the brightness/contrast of the image, so that the image has a clear light and dark effect.

Method:

After selecting the object, click "Brightness/Contrast" in "Attribute" on the right. In the command box that pops up, drag the pointer to the left or right under the scroll bar or directly input a value. As you drag the pointer to the canvas area, the image preview will appear. Adjust the object's brightness and contrast according to the effect you want, and click "Confirm" below to apply the effect. As shown in the picture below:

Click Curve, drag the diagonal line to make comprehensive adjustment to the picture, click "Confirm" below to apply. As shown in the picture below:

The curve is constructed as follows: the gray scale on the horizontal axis corresponds to the distribution of the brightness value in the original image, and the vertical axis corresponds to the distribution of the edited brightness value. If we open the dialog box, we will see that the "curve" always goes along a standard diagonal line. In other words, the curve goes in the same direction before and after editing. We can set points on the curve by clicking on this line. These points can be moved up, down, left or right. The bottom left area corresponds to the dark tones in the image, the top right area corresponds to the highlights, and the middle area corresponds to the middle tones.

■ If the curve bents upwards to the left, it will increase the overall brightness of the image, as darker tones are now turned to brighter ones.

■ If the curve bents to the bottom right, the overall brightness of the image decreases, as brighter tones are switched to darker tones.

■ If the upper right curve bents upwards (brightening) and the lower left curve is bent downwards (darkening), the contrast in the middle of the image will be improved. This is because the lighter tones are further brightened and the darker tones are further dimmed. In other words, the difference between the brighter and darker areas of the image becomes larger. This curve is S-shaped.

■ If the curve moves in the opposite direction, in the shape of a question mark, the result is the opposite: brighter tones are darkened, darker tones are brightened, and the image's contrast is reduced and gray.

3.4.2.4 Opacity

Overview: In the image processing, there will be several layers, the degree of opacity, can make more than two pictures superimposed on each other, to form a new display. This function adjusts the opacity of an object.

Method:

After selecting the object, click "Opacity" in object list, hold down the button and drag the "Opacity" scroll bar around to see the preview effect of picture adjustment in the canvas. Adjust to the appropriate position and release the button. The effect is shown in the picture below:

3.4.2.5 Shadow

Overview: This function can set color, direction and distance of the shadow of the drawn graph object, so that the image reflects the three-dimensional effect.

Method:

Click the "Shadow" to adjust the text shadow, drag to select the direction and distance of the shadow, choose the shadow color, pick the color in the pop-up color selector and click “Confirm”.

The effect is as follows:

3.4.2.6 Setting a Mask

Description: PhotoSir provides images with various shapes of masks, presenting the edge smooth shapes, fit into the background, provide great convenience for creative writing, including art, symbols, shapes, animals, calligraphy and so many different styles of mask classification, with rectangles, ellipses, petals, body shape, birds and other specific mask.

1) Preset mask:

①. After selecting the object, click "Mask" on the right, and you can select various types of mask materials such as custom, art, symbol, rectangle, rectangle, ellipse, calligraphy, etc. Click to use the mask effect, as shown in the picture below:

There’s 3 options below Mask column：blank mask, homomorphic mask and AI main mask.

2) Custom mask:

Click the right button after selecting the object, find "Set as Mask" in the list that pops up. You can also use the shortcut key Ctrl+Alt+G to set it. The mask mode of the custom mask can switch gray value, red channel, green channel, blue channel and current mask. When selecting different mask modes, you can see the corresponding preview effect in the right box. As shown in the picture below:

Click "Set as Mask" on the right and select "Custom" , you can see the peacock mask just set. Other methods of adjusting masks can be found in the "Operating Methods of Built-in Masks" above.

If you want to remove the mask effect of the object, click the "No mask" above the mask classification to remove the mask effect.

3.4.2.7 Setting frames

Overview: frame is a kind of transparent special object, mainly decorating photos, text or other objects. PhotoSir has online frame resource which can be dynamically updated in real time, convenient for users to add and operate.

Method:

1. After selecting the object, click "Frame" on the right to select art, lace, cartoon, e-commerce and many other styles. Click to generate the effect, as shown in the picture below:

   

2. If you want to remove the frame, click the "No Frame" button above the classification to remove the effect, as shown in the picture:

   

3.4.2.8 Replacing images

After the object is selected, click "Replace Image" on the right to select local picture, online picture/album. Select picture and click to replace the image, as shown below:

To use “Albums Online”, it requires the user has registered as a PhotoSir user, successfully logged in to the system and remains online.

3.4.2.9 AI Cutout

Overview:

PhotoSir uses AI algorithm to separate the human body and the background in the picture, realizing one-button matting. It implements changing the background and image merging, which greatly improves the efficiency.

Method:

Select the object, click the "AI Cutout" under the "Attribute" on the right, the user can adjust the matting tolerance according to the picture, click matting online, the figure and the original background separates.

The original:

After matting:

3.4.2.10 Pens

Select the object, click "Pressed Pen" in the left toolbar to select the Pressed, Clone, Lighten, Darken, Erase foreground, Restore foreground, and Eliminate.

1) Pressed pen

Click the brush, you can adjust the color and size of the brush. Click the object you want to edit, hold down and drag the mouse. The effect is as follows:

2) Clone

Click Clone to adjust the color and size. Click the picture and drag the mouse to clone the object. The effect is as follows:

3) Lighten

Click lighten to adjust the color and size. Click the picture, hold down and drag the mouse to paint the object. The effect is as shown in the picture below:

4) Darken

Click the darken brush to adjust the color and size. Click the picture,hold down and drag the mouse to darken the object. The effect is as shown in the picture below:

5) Erase the foreground

Click the eraser to adjust the size and opacity. Click the picture, hold down and drag the mouse to erase the object. The effect is as follows:

6) Restore the foreground

Click the brush to adjust the size and opacity. Click the picture, hold down and drag the mouse to restore the erased object. The effect is as follows:

7) Eliminate

Adjust the brush size and range. Click the picture, hold down and drag the mouse to eliminate the object according to the background color. The effect is as follows:

There are three ways to adjust the size (thickness) of the brush: (1) Hold the small dot on the drag bar and slide around to adjust it; (2) directly enter the value in the long square box "Size"; (3) click the 8 preset white dots below. The adjustment method of compensation range is the same as that of brush size adjustment method ② and ③.

When all the brush parameters are set, we move the mouse to the canvas area, hold down the button to smear the outline of the object to be eliminated, completely cover the object to be eliminated, and be careful not to exceed the scope of the covered object. After rough smearing, you can see the effect of elimination. In order to show a even precise picture, we have to enlarge the picture again to do the operation, until the best effect is achieved. If there are a lot of objects to eliminate, use them a few more times.

3.4.2.11 Background Fill

The background fill under "Attribute Settings" on the right of the “Add image” can be filled with color, gradient, texture, and pattern. The operation is the same as that in Section 3.2.1 Background Filling. For details, refer to this section.

3.4.2.12 Crop by Outline

Clicks the object, appears the adjustment box. Stretch it, the parameter will change accordingly, after you adjust to the appropriate size, click “Crop by Outline”. It will automatically identify the picture outside the canvas, and the picture will be cropped into the canvas.

After cropping:

3.5. Add a selection

Overview:

The selection is divided into regular and irregular. All selections that can be defined by shapes are regular ones, such as rectangles, squares, circles, and so on. In addition to regular selection are irregular ones, as the name implies: there is no specific shape, such as polygons, lasso, etc.

Features: The selection is a closed dashed (ant line) area, it can be any shape, there is no open selection. Once the selection is created, most operations are only valid within the selection. To operate on the entire image, you must first deselect the selection.

Ant line: The selection is a closed area of dashed lines, which are also called ant lines because they resemble a swarm of moving ants. Within a layer, the area surrounded by the ant line is editable, and the area outside the ant line is not editable. Example: Once you have chosen your selection, you can move, enlarge, shrink, delete, create a new selection layer, and so on.

Method:

You can add a selection to a canvas or object. We use the rectangular marquee tool as an example.

After the picture is inserted, click the small white triangle in the function bar on the left side, and different shape models will appear. The corresponding text will appear when you lightly placed on each icon (as shown below). You can choose the shape according to the characteristics of the picture and your own needs.

Click the rectangular marquee, click and hold the button at an appropriate position in the image, drag to draw the desired selection, release the button, you will see a flowing dashed line around the area, and the dashed line trace outlined is the selected area. After selecting a selection, the attribute settings on the right of the selection include: selection method, parameter settings, selection information and operation.

1) Selection method: refers to the method of selection. As shown in the following picture, the order is: new, select all, add, reduce, public, and different set.

① New selection: This is to create a new selection. Click "New" on the right toolbar. In the state of new selection, the new selection will replace the original selection, which is equivalent to re select after deselecting. This feature can also be used to deselect an existing selection by simply clicking the selection tool in the image. The diagram below:

② Select all: select the whole picture. Click "Select All" on the right toolbar to edit the whole picture.

③ Add selection: As the name implies, add selection area. Click "Add" on the right toolbar. There are two ways to add a selection. First, if the new selection is outside the old one, two closed flowing dashed boxes will be formed.

As below:

Second: the new selection and the old selection intersect each other, then only a dotted box appears.

As below:

④ Reduce the selection: this is to reduce the selection of areas. Click "Reduce" on the right toolbar. There are three ways to reduce the selection. First, if the new selection is outside the old selection, it will have no effect.

Second, if the new selection intersects the old selection, the area where they intersect is subtracted. As below:

Third, If the new selection is within the old selection, it will form a hollow selection. As below:

⑤ Public: this is to retain the intersection of the two selection, click on the right toolbar "intersection", in the original selection draw a intersecting new rectangular marquise.

As below:

⑥ Different set: it is the part outside the intersection of the new and old selection. Click the button on the right toolbar "difference set" to draw a new rectangular selection box at the original selection.

As below:

The above selection tools are common to all methods, and apply to any selection tool.

Parameter setting (feather depth) : refers to the range of the selection feather, in pixels (px) value. Click to input numbers or click up and down the small arrow can adjust the feather value.

The feather is to make the edges of the selection soft, so that the image inside the selection can naturally transit to the image outside , in order to achieve a good fusion. The feather value depends on the experience. The larger the feather value, the wider the blur range, and the color becomes soft. On the contrary, the smaller the feather value, the narrower the blur range.

Selection information: Displays the pixels, position, size, color and percentage of the selection range in the whole picture.

It can also be used to analyze the material composition in the minerals:

Selection operation: refers to the operation done on the selection. As shown in the picture below is: move, copy, deselect, image clipping, fill, delete, cancel, canvas clipping.

① Move: refers to the adjustment of the location of the selection. Click "Move" under "Selection Operation" in the right toolbar, place the cursor in the selection, hold down and drag to move to the new position, and the size of the selection will remain unchanged after moving.

And when your cursor is placed in the selection, the adjustment box will appear around the original selection, you can adjust the size of the selection.

② Copy: Click "Copy" under "Selection Operation" in the right toolbar, and the contents in the selected shape will be copied on the canvas.

As below:

③ Reverse: select all parts except the current selected range, for example, there is a picture, there is a person, a bird, there is a white background. When you have chosen the person, click "Reverse" means choosing: the picture without this person.

④Crop: click "Crop", only retain the content of the selection. As below:

⑤Fill: only for the selection of the image to fill, with solid color, gradient, texture, pattern, the following is the effect of filling the solid color. As below:

⑥Delete: click "delete" under the "selection operation", the contents of the selection will be eliminated. As below:

⑦Cancel: namely cancel the selection. After the click the original selection will be eliminated.

⑧Canvas Crop: cut the area outside the selection, keep the part of the selection. Click "Cut" to retain part of the image in the selection. As below:

Irregular selection tool

1) Magic Pen: it is mainly used to select areas with similar colors. For some images with obvious demarcation lines, the magic stick can quickly cut out the images.

When the line is clear, you can directly use the tool. As an example, we here use the magic stick to select part of the image of a black dress.

Click the magic pen in the function bar on the left, move to the object, and click a point on the black dress, set tolerance, then the black dress will be selected.

At this moment, we can move, fill, delete and do other operations on the selected area. The following is the filling image effect:

The second one is used when you want to select by skip, in other words when you want to select non-adjacent pixels in the photo, such as the blue sky that is not adjacent to each other in the photo below. Click on the Magic Stick and make sure the tree layer in the canvas is selected. Then move to the canvas and click anywhere in the blue sky in the photo. You can see the area inside the ant line is circled, as shown below:

Click "add", you may find that the mouse pointer changes, the magic pen appears a "+", which means it is to add selection, based on the original selection, it adds new selection area, click other blue area, the stick selects the blue pixels that are next to each other.

Click "reduce", is to minus the selection, and the most obvious feature is the lower left corner of the mouse pointer appears "-", click the selected area, the original selection will be cleared up, as shown in the figure below:

Here we focus on the "tolerance" of the magic stick, which is not involved in other selection tools. The most important attribute of the magic stick is "tolerance". It is the allowable error, in this case the allowable range value, which is actually the approximation in the automatic selection of similar selection.

In magic stick, "Tolerance" under "Parameter Settings" can be filled within a value of 0-255. The smaller the value, the more similar the selected color is to the color at the click, and the smaller the selection range is. Conversely, the higher the value, the greater the difference between the selected color and the color at the point of click, and the greater the selection range. So it is necessary to set the tolerance properly.

2) Lasso: there are many special shapes in the process of graphics. In this case, the lasso can be of great help in depicting the edges of the contour, so as to select the irregular shape. The lasso is useful for drawing hand-drawn line segments for the borders of a selection. It allows you to quickly create the general selection that you want, which is much more flexible than rectangle and ellipse.

Lasso can be like a brush, draw through the cursor movement (forming a selection), after drawing, the selection can be adjusted, fill and etc. When you click lasso, the mouse pointer will change to a lasso style, click and hold the mouse over the layer to draw the selection. We import a material image, select lasso, shown as below:

We hold the button (can't let go) and drag along the edge of the main body, will generate line with no anchor point (also known as the fastening point), along the butterfly's outline, start tracing. Release the button only after the line is closed, otherwise the head and tail will automatically close. And then you circle the butterfly.

3) Polygon: This tool is one of the lasso, which can form straight lines between points. It is a relatively straight tool, and can overlap the end and end to generate a selection. Therefore, it is generally used to cut some regular shapes, such as books, tables, windows and so on.

The polygonal lasso can be used by clicking the mouse, moving it to another place, and clicking again to form a straight line segment, which will eventually be closed, the same way as the lasso above.

Swipe the mouse over the edge of the object in turn, it will form a straight line connected to the anchor point, when the ends connect, there shows a dot, the last click will produce a closed selection. Click the key points on the screen to connect them in a straight line, and then the polygon area can be formed. The final effect is as follows:

3) Color range: by specifying the color or gray level to create a selection, you can accurately set the color and tolerance to control the selection range. An image with a solid background, a non-solid background with a gradient, or some slight color difference is adoptable.

Click the color range button, move it to the canvas area, click the color to be selected, and set the tolerance range and emergence depth.

The following is when green is selected:

"New", "Select All", "Intersection", "difference Set" in "Selection Mode" under selection Settings; "Feather Depth" and "Selection Operation" in "Parameter Settings" are all general functions, please see the rectangle selection instructions above.

3.6. Add stickers

Overview: Sticker is similar to clip art in office software. It is a single transparent picture, which can quickly realize creative work. PhotoSir’s built-in sticker materials currently cover 20 categories, such as landscape, birds and flowers, animals, plants, flowers, robots, fireworks, titles, Party building, etc. The specific materials are still growing.

Method:

1) Click the "Sticker" button in the left toolbar or the "Add Object" button next to attribute settings on the right to select the sticker.

2) Abundant stickers are displayed on the right. The stickers include dozens of categories, such as competition, Party building, classical garden, Chinese style and plants, which will be updated continuously in the future. You can select by label according to your needs, or click "Search" and enter the category you need to find the materials you need. The stickers marked "more" in the lower right corner are series stickers. Click to view other sticker materials. Click your favorite sticker, sticker is added to the canvas.

3) Select the added sticker, move it to the appropriate position, and drag the mouse around the expansion box to adjust the size, and rotate the angle.

3.7. Mirage

Overview: The Mirage is one of PhotoSir’s unique features, it is composed of a set of different shaped material, it can render the whole picture, such as heavy flower raining, bubbles floating, and so on, it can also set the object scale and quantity, being the random distribution or in order, users can be creative and are given more choices. Click “Mirage”, an online object can be added from the preview window.

Method:

1) Click "Add Object" on the right and select "Mirage".

2) A variety of mirage resources are displayed on the right. Right now, the mirage includes dozens of categories such as competition, landscape, flowers and birds, animals, bubbles, festivals and plants, and will be updated continuously in the future. You can find the required material through the label according to your needs. Click the favorite one, the corresponding object is added to the canvas.

3) Click the mirage in the canvas area, and you can customize it through the setting panel on the right. Once it is selected, drag the mouse to move the object.

①Random distribution: click the drag bar dot under the number of seals and the zoom ratio of seals, and drag the mouse(or directly input the value). The preview effect will appear in the canvas on the right. Release the button to generate the effect.

②Order: click small dot of the row space, column space and stamp scaling, and drag the mouse(or directly input the value). The preview effect will appear on the canvas on the right. Release the button to generate the effect.

3.8. Frame

Overview: The frame is a transparent special object, which is mainly used to decorate photos, text or other objects. PhotoSir has online frame resource which can be dynamically updated in real time, convenient for users to add and operate.

Method:

1) Click “Frame” under “Attribute” or "Add Object" on the right and select "Frame".

2) The list of frames is displayed on the right. The frames include dozens of categories such as art, lace, cartoon and e-commerce, which will be constantly updated in the future. You can find the frame template you need by labels. Choose the appropriate frame, so the frame is added successfully.

3.9. AI Create

Overview: PhotoSir AI Create enables beginners to generate beautiful paintings by simply entering some descriptions. Currently, there are two major categories including art and artistic styles, each category contains more than 10 types of series. Select one of the material category required in your process of production, input the prompts.

Operation:

Click the "AI Create" icon on the right sheet, select the style of painting, start to generate, wait for your drawing to appear. Everyone can become a creative master with the help of AI.

In the description box, you can click "try your luck" to randomly generate prompts, or you can write down simple words describing the picture you want in the "description box", the more details you describe, the closer the generated paintings will be to the proposed requirements. Click "Start generating" to create the artwork within seconds.

Generating Size: For advanced users with professional art background or certain artistic attainments, there are more options for them to help creators express their needs more precisely.

1) Generating size: Generate pictures with regular size settings.

2) Generated quantity: the number of images to be generated.

3) Fittable description: higher values will make the generated paintings fit your text description more closely;

4）Quality and detail: increasing the number of operations will improve the quality of the picture, while it will increase the processing time.

5) Generation mode: Choosing different modes will have a subtle distinction on the generation.

6) Random painting ID: Each painting has a unique ID, and variants can be obtained by entering a specific painting ID.

7) Evade description: The text description after inputting circumvention will not appear in the picture content.

3.10. Generate pictures by pictures

Overview: Generate pictures by pictures is mainly a picture generated by inputting pictures and descriptions jointly controlled.

Operation:

1) Import selected object: It is to import the file of canvas area into the reference box of picture generation.

2) Delete: the file material in the reference box of the picture generation will be deleted.

3) Change: It is to clear the reference picture of the picture generation, and upload the another picture from the local file to the box.

Generate parameter settings can be referred to 3.9.

3.11. Bucket

Overview: The main function of the Bucket is to select a color or a pattern for a specific area to fill.

Method:

Click “Bucket” on the left to paint the area in the canvas.

Click the area to be filled, the types are also diverse, including color, gradient, texture, picture and so on.

3.12. Add pictures

Overview: Add a picture as an object.

Method:

Click "Add Object" on the right, select the picture to be added.

3.13. Add text

Overview: The function of adding text of PhotoSir supports multi-line input, text size and shape change dynamically with the stretching of the outer frame, font selection, text color, thickness, font size, typesetting alignment as well as a variety of deformation methods, dynamic setting text shadow, which is a text tool with rich features and convenient operation.

Method:

1. Click "Add Text" on the left, and the text box will appear in the canvas. Double-click the text box to input the required text.

   

After entering the text, click the text, and the right panel can set the attributes of the text.

1) Custom: includes font color settings, font size, text options, alignment settings

①Font setting: Contains mainstream fonts such as Chinese regular script, Song style, Microsoft Yahei, STXingkai, NSimSun and up to dozens of other fonts. Select the appropriate font and the text input in the canvas text box will change accordingly.

②Color adjustment: click the color, select the desired color and click Confirm, then the text in the text box on the canvas will change accordingly, as shown in the picture below:

③Size: Drag the scroll bar or directly enter the font size, and the text size of the text box on the canvas changes with it.

④Text options: the text in the text box on the canvas can be bold, underline, middle line, etc., click to operate. The following is an example of an underline:

⑤Align setting: you can set left, right and center alignment for the text box on the canvas. The alignment applies to the specific area.

2) Shadow: click "shadow" to adjust the text shadow, drag to select the direction and distance of the shadow, select the color of the shadow, choose a color in the pop-up color selector and click “Confirm”.

The effect is as follows:

1. Opacity: click “layer” at lower left corner, select "opacity" and drag the scroll bar to adjust the transparency and make the font color have a depth effect.

As shown in the picture below:

3.14. Add WordArt

Overview: PhotoSir provides the text creation of art and design, supports multiple lines of input, text size and shape change dynamically with the stretching of the outer frame, font selection, text color, thickness, font size, layout and alignment, etc., it can set text outline, filling mode (color and gradient color, design & images filled), supports multiple deformation, dynamic text shadowing; It is a text tool with rich functions and convenient operations. PhotoSir art word can add many special effects, and the specific parameter settings vary with the artistic effect.

Method:

Click "Add Art Word" in the left toolbar, and the text box will appear in the canvas. Double-click the text box to input the required text.

After adding the art word, the right panel can set the attributes of the art word, including custom, shadow, deformation, opacity and canvas clipping.

1) custom: includes font setting, alignment setting, contour setting, text filling

① Font setting: It contains mainstream fonts such as Chinese regular script, Song style, Microsoft Accor black, STXingkai, NSimSun and up to dozens of other fonts. Select the appropriate font and the text input in the canvas text box will change accordingly.

You can also adjust the space and size of words and set the effect of bold, italic and horizontal and vertical switching. Click to the corresponding button to operate. In addition, you can also stretch around the text box to adjust the font size.

② Align Setting: You can set left, right, center and justify for the text box on the canvas. The alignment position mentioned here refers to the text box range. Click the required alignment you need.

The justify effect is as shown below:

Outline setting: Click the color, select the desired color from the color box, press "Confirm" below, the color of the text box will change accordingly.

The larger the pixel value of the contour setting, the thicker the edges of the text. The following figure shows the effect of adding the contour setting:

④ Text filling: You can choose solid color, gradient, texture and pattern filling in the text on the canvas.

Pure color effect: click "Color", select the desired color from the color box that pops up, and then click "Confirm", as shown below:

Gradient effect: click "Gradient", adjust the color and direction settings in the gradient selector, click "Confirm", as shown in the picture below:

Texture effect: Click "Texture", PhotoSir has preset with many texture patterns, including cloth, stone, metal, leather, wood, carpet, natural, etc. Here we choose one of the metal, the effect is shown below:

Picture filling: Click "Picture" to select local pictures, online pictures and albums, click the mouse to instantly fill. Here we have selected landscape from the online image, and the effect is as follows:

2) Shadow: click "shadow" on the right to adjust the text shadow, drag to select the direction and distance of the shadow, choose the shadow color in the pop-up color selector and click Confirm.

The effect is as follows:

3) Shape: click "Shape" on the right, and dozens of shapes are built into PhotoSir for selection. Select the desired shape, and the text in the canvas will change accordingly. The diagram below:

4）Opacity: click “layer” at lower left corner, select "opacity" and drag the scroll bar to adjust the transparency and make the font color varies with color effect.

As shown in the picture below:

5)Crop by Outline: click the "attribute" under the "Crop by Outline", stretch adjustment box around the clipping range, the right canvas height, width parameters will change with your stretch, adjust to the appropriate size, click on the right blue "Crop by Outline".

In order to highlight the scope of the same shape clipping, we change the background to a more vivid color (the background filling method is the same as above). The clipping effect is shown in the following figure:

3.15 The Brush

Overview: PhotoSir has researched and summarized brushes in detail. All materials can be used as brushes, including color, picture, phantom and other materials. Currently, there are basic brush, comic brush, sketch, watercolor, oil painting, marker, texture, stamp, sketch, adjust, acrylic, outline, special effect brush, supporting to adjust brush size, color, opacity, pressure and higher levels of advanced settings.

Methods:

Click "Brush", the tool name will be displayed when the mouse taps.

The brush tools from top to bottom are basic, cartoon, sketch, water, oil painting, mark pen, texture, stamp, pixelate, adjust, dry roller, outline, and effect.

3.15.1 The application of Brush

1) Select the desired brush, move the mouse to the canvas area, and drag to draw an image.

2) Click the color, and you can select the brush color in the box that pops up, or you can directly use the shortcut key F for operation.

3) Click the small dot on the scroll bar of "Size", "Opacity" and "Pressure" and slide the mouse around to adjust the brush size and opacity. You can also enter a value to adjust the brush size and opacity by yourself. If the preset of basic settings are not well-pleasing, you can click advanced settings for in-depth adjustment.

4) After the required materials are added, each material becomes a separate movable and adjustable object. Click the first movable object icon , and then click to rotate, move, delete and other operations on the object.

3.16. Add shape

Overview:

PhotoSir supports smart shapes, all shapes contain control points, which can be expanded and deformed. There are 18 kinds of shape objects, such as rectangle, circle, star, etc. Each kind of shape supports setting line width, wire frame color, filling mode, etc.

Method:

1) Click "Add Shape" in the left toolbar, select the shape through "Shape Settings" in the right attribute bar. Move the mouse pointer to the canvas area, and click or drag in the canvas to draw a shape.

Wire frames can be set to adjust its color and width. Click the color to change its color in the pop-up selector. The input line width can be set to different needs. Shape filling is available.

Click Colorless, Color, Gradient, Texture, Pattern to fill the shape.

3.17. Pan Move

Overview:

This feature can translate the canvas as a whole, making it easy to view the canvas contents when the canvas is large.

Method:

Click "Pan Move" in the left toolbar, move to the canvas area, hold down the button, and drag the canvas to translate.

The following figure shows the effect of moving to different positions (before panning) :

After panning

3.18. Canvas Cropping

Overview:

This function can customize the scale of canvas and set the lock size, proportion, swap width and height before clipping. Provide a variety of commonly used stamps, profile photos, examination photos, e-commerce, proportional cutting.

Method:

Click "Canvas Crop" on the top toolbar, clipping canvas while stretching according to your needs(not tick lock), on the right side of the width and height parameter values will change with stretching or cut in from the right set of input the width and the height, or choose the commonly used size at the bottom, set the locking size, proportion, swap the aspect ratio, and click Confirm to cut.

3.19 The special effects

Overview: A special effect is usually created by computer software that does not normally occur in real life. PhotoSir has special effects, including blur, ripple, vortex, pencil, 3D rotation, image rolling, Mosaic and dozens of other effects.

Method:

After selecting the object, click "Effect" under "Attribute Settings" on the right to select blur, sharpen, ripple, vortex, pencil, 3D rotation, image scroll, Mosaic, glass and other effects.

3.19.1 Blur

Select the "Blur" effect, you can choose the Enhanced and Gauss on the right.

Gauss blur, also known as Gaussian smoothing, is a widely applied to image processing. It is usually used to reduce image noise and reduce the level of detail. The blurring technique creates an image that looks like it's being viewed through ground glass, which is very different from the out-of-focus imaging of a lens, bokeh, and normal lighting shadows.

Click the special effect, the corresponding command box will appear, drag the "radius scroll bar" or directly input the value, the larger the radius value, the greater the blur, you can see the picture preview in the effect box, click the "Confirm" below to generate a blurred picture.

3.19.2 Sharpening

Sharpening is to compensate the contour of the image, enhance the edge of the image and the gray jumping part, so that the image becomes clear. It can be divided into spatial domain processing and frequency domain processing. Image sharpening is to highlight the edges, contours, or features of some linear object elements on the image.

When you click "Sharpen", you can select USM sharpening, edge Sharpening, and depth sharpening on the right.

①You can set the quantity, radius, and threshold through USM sharpening. Click “USM Sharpen”, drag the scroll bar in the command box, and click Confirm to view the effect.

②The edge sharpening can set radius. Click "Edge Sharpen", drag the scroll bar in the command box, and click "Confirm" below to view the effect.

③The amount of deep sharpening can be adjusted. Click "Deep Sharpen", drag the scroll bar in the command box, and click "Confirm" below to present the effect.

3.19.3 Feather

The principle of feathering is to make the connection between the inside and outside of the selection blur and gradually change to natural connection. It is an important tool for image processing. The feathering value depends on experience, the larger the value, the wider the blur range, and the color becomes soft. On the contrary, the smaller the value, the narrower the range of feathering.

Click "Feather", you can choose the circle, ellipse, rectangle, square, diamond, heart, light shape on the right.

After clicking a feather effect, you can set "color", "shape" and "depth" in the setting box and preview. After setting the parameters, click "Confirm" below.

The diamond shape feather effect is as follows:

3.19.4 Deform

There’s 5 types of special effects in Deform column: wave, whirl, sphere, 3D rotate and roll.

Click “Wave”, you can choose the direction, and change the parameters in the pop-up box.

The following picture shows the vertical wave:

Click "Whirl", you can drag the slider to set the depth in the setting box, click “confirm” to preview.

Click "3D Rotate", you can adjust the direction, angle and thickness by dragging the slider. Click "Confirm" to generate a 3D rotation effect.

Click "Roll", set X and Y parameters in the pop-up box to preview.

The rolling effect of the image is as follows:

3.19.5 Artistic

As users can see on the right sheet, we do have effects such as Noise, Stylized, Graphic, Artistic and Others. Here we would like to introduce you the Artistic effect, which is interesting and enjoyable.

The type of Artistic effects: Candy, Kandinsky - composition, Feathers, Picasso - Ramis, stained glass Mosaic, Van Gogh - Starry sky, Munch - Scream, Hokusai - waves, Francis - Udine and advanced Style.

Click to see various art styles.

3.20 Filter

Overview:

Filters are mainly used to achieve a variety of special effects on the image. The operation of filters is very simple, but it is difficult to get a perfect picture when operating. The filter of PhotoSir includes four seasons color style, warm and cold colors, brightness and contrast adjustment, saturation and color balance adjustment, negative image effect, gray effect, 3D gray level, exposure effect, etc.

Method:

Select the object, click "Filter" under "Attribute Settings" to select color style, adjustment, Scale, and Binary.

3.20.1 Color Style

Click "Color style" filter, choose Cold Blue, Soft Green, Cyan, Purplish, Lilac, Yellow on the right side, click to generate the filter effect.

Users can also customize the filter effect. Click "Custom", drag the bar or directly input the value to adjust the red in the filter preview box, green and blue parameters, and click “Confirm” to generate the filter effect.

3.20.2 Color Adjustment

Click "Color Adjustment" filter, you can select Gray, Negative, 3D gray, Filter, Hue/Saturation and Rinse effect on the right.

①Click "Gray", "Negative", "3D Gray", "Filter" without adjusting parameters can directly generate a filter

②Click the "Hue/Saturation" filter, choose the color in the filter preview box, and drag to adjust the value. After all adjustments, click "Confirm" below, and the corresponding filter can be generated.

③Click the "Rinse" filter and drag the bar to adjust the factor in the filter preview box. After adjustment, click "Confirm" to generate the corresponding filter.

3.20.3 Color Scale

Color scale is an exponential standard for the brightness of an image, which is also known as the color index. In digital image processing tutorials, it refers to the grayscale resolution (also known as amplitude resolution). The color fullness and fineness of the image are determined by the color level. It refers to the brightness but has nothing to do with the color, although the brightest is only white, the least bright is only black.

Click "Scale", you can choose "Auto", "Advanced" on the right. Among them, “Advanced” is available for the ordinary member above.

Let’s specifically introduce the use of “Advanced”:

①Click the "Advanced" icon to call out the adjustment window. As shown in the picture below:

②The window is shown in the picture below. You can use "Preview" during the adjustment process, it will display the adjusted effect on the original picture in real time.

③Click "Cancel" button to cancel the current setting and restore the original picture to the initial state.

Click the "Reset" button to reset the parameter value to the initial state.

④You can choose "RGB", "red", "green", "blue" four channels, in order to facilitate the use, PhotoSir also increases the "gray" channel. When you select the "Gray" channel, PhotoSir will convert the original image (color) into gray level image, and extract relevant values to display in the "Color Scale Setting" interface.

Unlike other software, PhotoSir display the percentage of pixels of different levels in the "input level" histogram. Up to 4 levels are displayed. Values less than 0.01 are not displayed.

3.20.4 Binary

Image Binarization is to set the gray value of the pixels on the image to 0 or 255, that is, the whole image presents a clear black and white effect.

In digital image processing, binary image plays a very important role. The binary image reduces the amount of data in a image greatly, so that the contour of the target can be highlighted.

PhotoSir extends the concept of image binarization. The target output image can contain not only 0 or 255, but also any 2 different colors, even transparent color output.

Click "Binary", you can select "Auto" and "Custom" on the right. Among them, “Custom” is available for the ordinary member above.

We will introduce the use of customized binarization specifically:

①Click the "Custom" icon to call out the window. As shown in the picture below:

②The "Custom" window is shown in the picture below. After setting the parameters, click "Confirm".

③Click "Cancel" button to cancel the current setting and restore the original picture to the initial state.

④Click the "Reset" button to reset the parameter value to the initial state.

3.21. Right Mouse button

Click the right mouse button on the canvas or selected object, and the shortcut function bar will be displayed. From top to bottom, it is: place on the top layer, move up one layer, move down one layer, place on the bottom, delete object, select object, lock object, merge rotation, set as customized mask, save as image file, and reference line. The reference line includes create reference line, clear reference line, lock reference line, hide reference line; the function bar will display corresponding functions according to the selected object (if the function is gray, it is currently unavailable).

1) Move Top: Place the selected object on the top level of all objects, so that all of them are displayed.

2) Move Forward: Moves the selected object up one level relative to the current level.

3) Move Backward: Move the selected object down one level relative to the current level.

4) Move Bottom: Place the selected object at the bottom of all objects.

5) Delete: Delete the currently selected object.

6) Select Object: Click to close/open the object control point. The object cannot be stretched or moved.

7) Lock object: Lock the position and size of the currently selected object.

8) Merge rotations: Merge the rotated object attributes and adjust the object control points.

Object after rotation:

Merge object attributes after rotation:

9) Set as Mask: Select the object and set as customized mask. The selected object will be set as mask.

User customized masks are displayed in Mask - customized Masks (need to be logged in).

10) Save as image file: Save the selected object in image format.

11) Guides: Move your mouse to the ruler, hold down the left button, drag to the canvas, find the appropriate position to release the mouse and drag the guides.

New: Click to pop up a window, and you can set the horizontal and vertical directions of the line. You can input the value of the position. Click the unit drop-down box to switch the unit pixel, millimeter, and percentage.

Clear: Click to clear all lines in the canvas.

Lock: Click to lock lines inside the canvas. The newly created lines are not locked.

Hide: Click to hide lines in the canvas. The newly created lines are not hided.

12) Other functions: Click the red box in the following figure above the editing interface to shrink the tool area.

Chapter 4. Collage

PhotoSir provides a variety of collage mode, with corresponding templates in each mode. Users can switch to the picture browsing state at any time, which is effortless to select and switch different collage photos.

Click the "Collage" at the home page to enter the interface, as shown in the picture below:

4.1. Smart collage

Overview: Smart collage provides templates with various shapes from 1-16 pictures, users can choose different templates according to their own needs.

Method:

Click "smart collage", select the template on the right and change the canvas area to the corresponding template style. Here, we use 3 images for layout example, as shown in the following figure:

Select the photo you need to insert the collage. Two methods can be used to insert pictures:

①Double-click the blue area in the template, pops up the picture selection dialog box, users can directly insert the picture;

②Click Pictures in the upper right corner to view local image and insert.

Click the collage of a picture, displays the picture setup dialog box. Click on the selected image (after the image is selected, the red dotted line is displayed around the image), and users can adjust the size and relative position of the photos in each loading template by dragging the interval bar, supporting dynamic settings of border, spacing, rounded corner size, can also be used for each selected photo zoom, horizontal, vertical flip, left, right 90°rotation, etc. (Check "Do the same for all pictures", the settings will be applied to each picture). Drag the picture can also adjust the position of the picture, change the layout of the photo.

Click the spread button and set the canvas, you can adjust the width, height, space and filling background.

Click "save" (shortcut key Ctrl+S), enter "file name" and select the saving type (supporting jpg, png, bmp), click "save" to save the collage as a picture.

Click "print", determine print settings, you can print the current collage. As shown in the picture below:

Click "Edit", you can copy the current collage to the editing interface. At this point, the college is inserted into the canvas as a picture. As shown in the picture below:

By default, the image is automatically displayed in the pieces to the maximum scale. When zooming out, it will limit the scope to ensure that there are no gaps in the pieces.

4.2. Creative Collage

Overview: Creative collage provides multiple pieces of irregular shape combination template, such as heart, Cupid's arrow, diamond and other dozens of shapes, and constantly updated. One click to load, and you can get brilliant photos!

Method:

Click "creative collage" to enter the interface. Select the template on the right and the canvas will change accordingly.

The operation such as picture inserting and canvas settings are basically the same as those of smart collage. Please refer to "4.1 Smart Collage".

4.3. Tile

Overview: Tiling provides horizontal and vertical combining of up to 12 pictures, users share these pictures at one time.

Method: Click "Tile" to enter the interface.

Click the small icon to open the folded area, where you can adjust the format. Choose vertical or horizontal according to your needs. Here we use vertical direction as an example.

Other operations such as inserting and adjusting picture is similar to smart collage and creative collage, please refer to “4.1 smart collage”.

Vertical:

Horizontal:

Click the [X] button in the upper right corner to exit the interface and return to the main interface. If there’s content and not saved when exiting, it will prompt you to save. Click "Yes" to save (the same as "save" above), and "no" to exit the collage interface.

Chapter 5. Batch processing

PhotoSir provides batch processing tools, including: batch naming, batch conversion, batch zooming in/out, batch rotation, batch watermark, PDF generating and etc, greatly improving the speed of image processing, quick and fast.

Click "Batch" at the home page to enter the interface, as shown below:

5.1. Batch Renaming

Overview: Batch renaming is naming the selected picture with specified name and serial number.

Method:

Click "Rename" to enter the interface. Then select the image directory to convert.

Click "Select All" to select all images in the current directory. Click “Deselect” to deselect the current selection. In “File Format”, you can select image files of different formats. (Supporting jpg, jpeg, png, bmp, and gif formats.)

After the selection, you can set the target folder, input the file name and file number in the parameter setting on the right. Click "Save", it will start to name the selected files in batches.

The picture exported is as follows:

5.2. Batch Conversion

Overview: Batch conversion is to converting selected images to a specified file format.

Method:

1) Click "Convert" to enter the interface. The selecting steps are the same as those in Batch Renaming. For details, see 5.1 Batch Renaming.

2) Click the parameter settings and confirm the target format. Currently, the system supports PNG, JPG, BMP, and TIF. You can enter a value to adjust the file compression quality. After setting the parameters, click "save" below.

5.3. Batch Resizing

Overview: Batch resizing is to scale or enlarge the selected pictures to the specified size.

Method:

1) Click "Resize" to enter the interface. The selecting steps are the same as those in Batch Renaming. For details, see 5.1 Batch Renaming.

2) Set parameters, select the target folder to be saved, and then click the "Save" button below to batch processing.

5.4. Batch Rotation

Overview: Batch rotation is to rotating the selected picture to the specified angle in batches.

Method:

1) Click "Rotate" to enter the interface. The selecting steps are the same as those in Batch Renaming. For details, see 5.1 Batch Renaming.

2) Set parameters in any angle, select the target folder to be saved, click the "Save" button below to process.

5.5. Batch Watermark

Overview: Batch watermark is the function of adding watermarks to selected pictures.

Method:

1) Click "Watermark" to enter the interface. The selecting steps are the same as those in Batch Renaming. For details, see 5.1 Batch Renaming.

2) Set parameters on the right, input the watermark text, adjust the font size, transparency, set the watermark position (tiling can be selected for the full picture watermark), you can preview the picture on the top, after setting, select the target folder to be saved, click the "Save" button below to batch processing.

The tiling watermark is shown in the picture below:

5.6. The PDF

Overview: PDF generating is the function of batch synthesis of selected images into a PDF file.

Method:

1) Click "Batch to PDF" to enter the interface. The selecting steps are the same as those in Batch Renaming. For details, see 5.1 Batch Renaming.

2) Set parameters, select the target folder to be saved after setting parameters, and click the "Save" button below to batch process.

The PDF is as follows:

5.7. Video

Overview: This function is to composite a video from selected images.

Method:

1) Click "Generate Video" to enter the interface. The selecting steps are the same as those in Batch Renaming. For details, see 5.1 Batch Renaming.

2) Set parameters, you can add music, set the playing time of a single piece, etc. After setting, select the target folder to be saved, and click the "Save" button below to batch process.

5.8. PDF to PNG

Overview: Batch converting PDF files into PNG format.

Method:

1) Click "PDF to PNG" to enter the interface. The selecting steps are the same as those in Batch Renaming. For details, see 5.1 Batch Renaming.

2) Set parameters, select the target folder to be saved, and click the "Save" button below to batch process.

Chapter 6. Picture Browsing

Overview: Picture browsing supports browsing local and online pictures in the most concise way. You can flip through pictures from one page to the next, or zoom in and out of pictures. Basic information of pictures will be displayed in the upper right corner of pictures, and common operations such as rotation and deletion of pictures are supported.

Method:

1. Click the "Browse" button at the top of the home page to enter the interface, as shown in the picture below:

   

1. Click [<] [>] or use the keyboard arrow keys [->] [<-] can control the picture you browsed.

2. Click the icons to rotate 90°CCW or CW of the current picture. Below is the effect of 90°CCW rotation:

1. Click "Edit", you can go back to edit the current picture.

1. Click "Delete", then pops up a confirmation dialog box for deletion, click "Yes" to delete the corresponding pictures.

2. Click the [X] to exit the browsing interface.

Chapter 7. Online Sharing

Overview: You can share local pictures or design works through QR codes or links to your friends.

Method:

1. When your picture processing is done, click "share" at the top of the toolbar, or using the shortcut Ctrl + I, it will generate a link or directly share the images to your friend, you can also share pictures on the WeChat or other instant messaging apps/social media. Current or local pictures are optional. The sharing dialog box will pop up as shown in the picture below:

   

2) The left side of the dialog box displays the current edited image. The user can zoom in and out by using the mouse wheel, or hold down the left mouse button to move the image to view.

3) The right side of the dialog box displays the control properties of sharing. Users can share pictures by sharing links or entering mobile phone numbers. Share Linking: links can be expired in 30 minutes, 7 days, a year or permanently valid, click the small circle, select to "create Shared links", the share links (including the url and code in 4 digits) and qr code (qr code contains links and code) are created. Users can click "Copy URL and code" to share. You can also send the QR code to share.

The following is the picture received by the phone:

 

4) Click the [X] button in the upper right corner to exit the sharing dialog box and return to the editing interface.

Chapter 8. Case introduction

8.1. Signature Matting

Signature Matting is to cut out your signature on a signed page. PhotoSir supports various formats of the image, for instance, JPG, PNG or TIF.

Firstly, locate Matting Signature in the left area of homepage, shown as below:

Click to select the picture with the signature required, in the blink of an eye, the operation is done.

We take a photo with handwriting in this case, and here’s how it shows:

You can save the writing as different types, such as PDF, PNG, JPG and etc. On the right side, there’s also some adjustment you can make. For example, choose a different color or switch to different filters. As you can see, the operation is as easy as pie.

Next time when you need to send workmates a signed document, just open PhotoSir and generate your own e-signature.

8.2. Color Scale

Take the following photo as an example, you can use level adjustment to create a fancy photo by PhotoSir.

According to the input color levels, the darkest brightness of the photo is less than 0, which is between 15 and 20. The percentage of dark part is 75%, much higher than that of light part. The overall picture is dark, and there is not enough contrast.

Firstly move the black field slider to 18 so that the darkest part of the photo had a brightness value of 0 (pure black). As you can see, the contrast of the photo has increased.

Then move the medium gray slider to the left to make the photo less dark and more light.

In this way, we get a more detailed photo. As can be seen from the histogram at this time, the ratio of pixels at the right bright part is too small. We can move the white field slider left, as shown below:

It enhances the light part and makes the photo more sunny. Here's a before and after comparison.

Before:

After:

8.3. Designing of interior soft decoration

Shown as below:

Let's learn how to do it.

Step 1: Firstly, open PhotoSir, and we enter the home page. Click "New" in the menu bar above the home page to create a blank canvas. We set the canvas parameter width x height to 1280 x 768, the resolution to 300 pixels, the background color to white, and the title to be "Soft Decoration Design". You can also name and set the required size in the function bar on the right.

As shown in the picture below:

Step 2: We fill the canvas with background. Click the properties on the right and find the background fill. The background can be filled with solid color, gradient, texture and pattern, which can be selected from local and online pictures or albums. Click "Texture", which has many categories, we can search for the required material through the label or enter the keyword, then continue to click the selected material object (the preview effect will be displayed in the canvas), then fill the corresponding background.

Step 3: Click "Add Shape" in the left toolbar. In the setting panel, click the trapezoid icon in "Shape Setting". Secondly, click the "Outline Setting" color to select red, input line width value, the larger the value is the shape of the contour is more obvious; Then select texture in "Shape Fill" (also gradient, solid color and pattern). After setting, move to the canvas area, hold down and drag the mouse, adjust the size and release the button. (select the shape you need) The upper trapezoid was filled with "texture" → "beautiful board", the lower one was filled with "cloth art".

Click “Select Object”, and move the cursor to the canvas to select the shape object. At this moment, the adjustment box and the rotation handle will appear around the object. Hold down the button to drag and stretch around to adjust the size of the shape, change its position, etc., when you click the rotation handle, you can rotate the trapezoidal angle at will.

Step 4: Click "add object" → "picture" on the right. Select the local image and choose the desired items from the list below.

After adding a picture, select the object, and the adjustment box will appear around it. Drag and stretch the adjustment box to adjust the position and size of the object, and you can also change the parameter settings of "Position/Size" in the right property panel.

Step 5: When the sofa and tea table are added, add wallpaper pictures. We click the wallpaper to choose, add special effects to make a 3D picture. Go to "Effects" → "3D Rotation" in the properties pane on the right.

Click the desired angle, the special effect setting box pops up. Click the small circle on the left of "horizontal" or "vertical", drag the small white circle on the "angle" and "thickness" drag bar to amend the angle and thickness (you can also input the value directly). PhotoSir has abundant special effects, including blur, ripple, vortex, pencil, etc., and there are sub-categories under each category.

Step 6: Select the object, then click "Copy" and "Paste" above the top toolbar, rotate the copied picture horizontally, drag and stretch the adjustment box to change the size of the object to a suitable position.

Step 7: The same as step 4 of adding a figure picture, select the picture just added, click the "matting online" in the right functional area, set the tolerance and press the button , so that the image of the person will come out.

Step 8: After the subject is cut out, we can see that there are still some small flaws in the portrait. Then we can use the "Restore the Foreground" in the "Adjust Brush" to fine-tune the image. Click on the right side of the ribbon adjustment brush, click on the select "restore" icon , cursor to the canvas area, hold the left mouse button where defects resumed sliding before erasing the content of the (such as defective range is too small, the mouse is bad positioning, we can click on the "+" in the top toolbar to enlarge the area).

8.4. Pimples Removing

Comparison after using "Pressed Pen":

Let's learn the method to remove facial spots:

Firstly, open the "PhotoSir", click the "Open" button in the upper toolbar, select the photo to be modified, click "Open" to enter the editing page, start to edit the picture.

Click the picture to select the object (only after the object is selected can the operation be performed), click the "Pressed Pen" icon, and adjust the brush to the appropriate size.

Tip: There are three ways to change brush size.

①Click the dot icon ② Drag the "Size" bar ③ Enter the size value

Secondly, click the spot in the photo, wipe back and forth, you can eliminate the spots. For little spots that are difficult to remove, click the "+" in the upper toolbar, enlarge the picture, and repeat the above operation, so as to achieve a ideal effect.

After repeated modification and polishing, a picture of smooth face is done! You don’t need to be afraid of the spots!

8.5. Artistic

"Artistic" means "to depict or treat in an attitudinal, nonrepresentational way". It is a complete simulation of real art techniques.

In many cases, as opposed to realism, it refers to the way in which the artist deviates from the original impression when describing and interpreting an event or object. It is a concrete expression of the diversity of artistic creation. For example, in the shooting scene of a movie, some directors may blast a lot of blood and violence, while some directors may deliberately avoid the reality, and describe a look, a few pigeons, no whistling bullets, but thrilling as the same.

From the perspective of designing, many elements are based on the concept of artistic to a great extent. From furniture design, to clothing, to electronic art and architecture.

You can look around and observe.....

For example, the real apple and the artistic "apple" (as below) :

If you haven't heard the term of "artistic", take a look at these images:

Original image

Normal image

The result of blending original art styles into normal pictures

That’s the process of “artistic”!

It can also be called style transferring, that is, the style of an image with artistic characteristics is transferred to an ordinary image, so that the image retains the original content, mixed with a unique artistic style as well, such as cartoon, cartoon, oil painting, watercolor, ink and so on.

Is this the feature we've all been waiting for? We are studying in the art major, how to make a photo more artistic, or turn the photo into a sketch or cartoon? PhotoSir's new feature will give your "random shots" a touch of art, producing a painterly or impressionistic picture.

The original:

Rendering 1:

Rendering 2:

The original:

Rendering:

Here we take the first original picture as an example, introduce the stylized method of PhotoSir in detail.

Firstly, double-click "PhotoSir" to run the software, enter the home page of "PhotoSir". Click "Open" in the menu bar at the top of the home page, select the picture to be edited, and then click "Open" at the bottom to enter the picture editing workspace.

Enter the image editing interface. If you only need to add stylized effects to the whole image, just select the image object and find "Effects" → "Artistic" in the property settings panel on the right. Currently, there are templates including: candy, kandinsky-composition, feather, picasso-ramis, stained glass inlay, van gogh-starry sky, Munch-scream, hokusai-waves, Francis-udine, high stylization.

Click on the desired effect, and the image area will display the effect.

Take a look at adding a Artistic effect only to the background.Open the image, click "Copy" and "Paste", and the same two images will appear. Hold down the Ctrl key to select both images and click on the alignment to make the two images coincide exactly, as shown below:

Click the object list on the right, and we can see that there are two objects. Click "subject" to put the object name for distinguishing.

Select layer 1, click "Matting Online" in the right area, comes out the main image of the character, and the preview image can also be seen in the object list.

Next we select Layer 2 to add a stylized effect to the underlying image using the same method as above, which we won't repeat here.

We found that some parts of the portrait don’t coordinate with the background during matting. We can hold down the button and click the "Restore Foreground" brush in "Brush". Move to the image area and daub the areas that need to be modified.

Chapter 9. Online Application Tools

9.1. Remove Background

Overview: Online editing of images, intelligent separation of image foreground and background, and subsequent secondary editing of images.

Operation: Click the Remove Background icon in the home page, jump to the local project file, select the image for online editing and open it, then you can enter the operation page of automatic image recognition, and display the effect after the recognition is completed.

Effect as shown:

9.2. Super-Resolution

Overview: Image super-resolution enhances the image detail texture and reduces the image noise while enlarging the image resolution, supports 2-4 times resolution enlargement, supports original resolution enhancement, and supports multiple modes of different effects of output.

Operation: mouse click on the super resolution in the home page, jump out of the local project file, select the image to be edited and enlarged to open, you can enter the operation page of automatic image recognition, after entering the operation page, set the required parameters in the online super score setting box to complete.

9.3. AI Face Effect

You can find this tool through the home page or by selecting the picture in the canvas, as shown in the figure:

There’s three sections in Face Effect function, including beautification, face shape retouch and Auto Makeup, and eighteen options, which can be adjusted intelligently after three-dimensional positioning of the face by AI algorithm, and the previous complicated and tedious operation can be completed with one key to get the final natural beauty related effect.

Skin Beauty

You can adjust the parameters for face dermabrasion and whitening by draging the buttons to change the numbers, click Apply to start processing. You can undo the operation through the bottom button, or you can switch the effect of the original picture at any time.

Before and After

Face Slimming

Mainly used for the face slimming, the effect is shown below:

Portrait

The portrait beauty will adjust the final effect intelligently and dynamically for the most natural state.

Cheek slimming

With part of the basic facial effect, while the cheekbones can be adjusted by changing the parameters.

Face slimming

Shape the whole face without skin whitening treatment

Manual

Three-dimensional face slimming by parameter adjustment

Jaw slimming

A very obvious face slimming effect mainly for the lower jaw, but no skin resurfacing or whitening.

Eyes reshaping

Provides parameter adjustment for eye enlargement, eye spacing, inner eye angle, outer eye angle, and eye opening.

Chin reshaping

Fine tuning of the chin by chin length and chin thinning

Nose reshaping

Nose, length and height can be adjusted as shown in the picture.

Mouth reshaping

You can fine-tune the width and height of the lips and the philtrum of the person.

Auto Makeup

Seven kinds of makeup can be chosen, you can decide the strength of the makeup, as shown in the effect.