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29 chapters · 112 topics

Contents

01 Getting started

Open one of your own photos first Five areas, each with one job When you mess up

02 Feature 1 · A/B brushes

What the A/B brushes actually do A/B brushes in three steps Cross-document cloning Where you sample decides whether it works Clone repair inside the photo-repair panel Removing things you do not want

03 Feature 2 · Asset library

Where the asset library is and what is in it Line art plus reference: how dual images work Find assets by style and subject Add your own drawings to the library

04 Feature 3 · The brushes

Dozens of brushes: how to find one fast Pixel brushes vs vector brushes: know the difference Inking group: sketching and line work Impasto group: crayons and watercolour Ink group: calligraphy and freehand Special group: landscape elements in one stroke Nature group: realistic asset brushes Oil painting brushes and other special brushes

05 Feature 4 · Eight buckets

Nine buckets for different materials Plain bucket: tolerance is everything Gap closing and white-rim fix Gradient bucket: choosing among five Crayon bucket: four sliders decide if it looks right Picking between pencil, watercolour and ink buckets

06 Feature 5 · Portrait retouch

Portrait panel: four tabs, four jobs Beautify tab: how to balance seven sliders Reshape tab: what eight sliders can change Makeup: seven areas and eight presets Skin tab: how it differs from beautify Hair colour and hairstyle: five controls Auto beautify filter vs the portrait panel Portrait relight: choosing among five light positions Soft skin, skin tone, portrait background blur

07 Feature 6 · Smart repair

Smart repair: smear, release, done Smart speck eraser: specks and thin lines, cleaned automatically

08 Feature 7 · Background swap

AI background swap: cut the person out, change the backdrop Background textures: 55 canvas presets

09 Feature 8 · Pen tablet

Pen tablet: the four controls that appear Tuning pressure: curve, minimums and stabiliser No pressure or wrong pressure: three checks

10 Feature 9 · Smart line-art colouring

What it is: one-click colour for line art Two steps to colour Two kinds of result Five sliders and the main hue What works well How it differs from photo colour and hand painting

11 Feature 10 · Hold to Shape

Hold to Shape: refine a stroke by pausing

12 Feature 11 · Layer Onion Skin

Onion Skin: fade other layers so you can trace

13 Feature 12 · Alpha Lock

Alpha Lock: paint only where you already painted

14 Feature 13 · Clipping Mask

Clipping Mask: colour inside the shape below

15 Feature 14 · Symmetry Painting

Symmetry Painting: draw one side, get the others

16 Feature 15 · Circle & Overlap Pens

Circle & Overlap Pens: fill large areas fast

17 Feature 16 · Video production

Video Timeline: turn frames into animation Camera Moves & Transitions Soundtrack: add audio to your animation Export: MP4 video, GIF & PNG sequence Object Animation: animate strokes, images and text

18 Every tool in the toolbar

Toolbar: 16 cells, 57 tools Move, pan and the screen eyedropper Shape group: drawing all ten shapes Text: horizontal, vertical, art text Annotation: arrow, number badge and two mosaics Two erasers: hard edge and soft edge Eight retouch brushes: blur, light, saturation Local effects: focus blur, spotlight, desaturate Gradient tool: choosing among five Direct select: fixing a line you drew wrong

What layers are and why to use them Common layer operations Layer masks: reversible editing Saving: project or export

Five selection tools, which to use Adding, subtracting and feathering Cutting out and swapping the background What you can do inside a selection

21 Crop and size

Cropping in three steps Resizing: both directions cost something Common sizes at a glance ID photos: background swap and layout

Rulers: set them up before drawing Focus lines: comic speed effect Turning rulers off

23 Filters and colour

Using filters without ruining the photo A few counter-intuitive filters Colour adjustment values that work Smart colour vs auto beautify Black and white, and colourising

24 Photo repair

Photo repair in four passes Dust removal: setting sensitivity AI repair: paint where it should be fixed Colourisation switches

25 Batch processing

What batch processing does Three things before running a batch Batch watermark settings Compressing to a target file size

26 Files and formats

The .wci project: why to keep your master in it Opening PSD: what you get, what degrades Exporting PSD: when and what it becomes

28 Colour picker

Colour picker: choosing an exact colour

Slow or unresponsive AI features do nothing The brush paints nothing Fill leaves a white rim or does not fill Export looks different from the screen The app crashed — is my work safe? Interface looks small on a high-DPI screen Shortcuts do not work Suggestions and bug reports What this version cannot do

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