Livepicture Manual

LIVE PICTURE WORKSHOP NOTES 2005 v.3 Copyright Les Walkling Live Picture Workshop CONTENTS Part 1: Introduction • Understanding Live Picture 4 Part 2: Setting up Live Picture • Document Setup 7 • Preferences 8 • Memory Management 9 • Interface 10 • File Formats: IVUE and FITS 11 • Positioning Tools 12 Part 3: Working with Layers • Layer Elements 15 • Masks and Stencils 16 • Image Layers 17 • Editing Tools 21 • Colorize Layers 22 • Color Correction Layers 23 • Balancing a Photographic Image 25 Part 4: Compositing Images • Silhouette Layers 27 • Luminance Masks 28 • Colour Compensation Masks 29 Part 5: Paths and Alpha Channel Masking • Path Tools 31 • Compositing with Alpha Channels 35 • Importing images with Alpha Channels 39 Part 6: Colour Management • Working with ICC Profiles 41 • Proofing 42 Part 7: Building Images • Creating New Images 45 • Bibliography 46 Copyright Les Walkling 2005 2/46 Live Picture Workshop Part 1 Introduction Copyright Les Walkling 2005 3/46 Live Picture Workshop Introduction Understanding Live Picture Live Picture is a unique resolution independent digital imaging program that allows the seamless manipulation and editing of high resolution digital files in real time. It is also the most ‘photographic’ of any digital editing application in terms of its effects and the resulting ‘fine print’ luminosity of its images. First conceived of and coded by the French inventor Bruno Delean in the late 1980’s as a method of placing on the new Macintosh desktop computers of that time, powerful image editing capabilities that…