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Photo Impact Object Clone Painting

If The Easy Palette is not open, press Ctrl + F1, the palette will open (4). Click on the Galleries icon and select the Sky gallery and double click on the Blue icon. Notice how the gradient changes colors? Experiment with the different effects contained in this gallery such as Fading. When you have an effect you think will make a good background you can add some clouds to complete the sky.

To add some clouds, in the Tool Panel click on the Clone Tool (1)(next to last), select the last item in the menu (Object Clone). In the Attributes bar click on Open and navigate to the Ulead folder. Under Samples,open the Object Clone folder. Select cloud.UFO for your object.

Once the clouds are painted, you still have options to manipulate them. Try switching to the Pick Tool (1 - 1^st icon) and moving individual clouds to improve your sky. The clouds can be resized, individually or as a group using the Transform Tool (1 – 4^th icon). I sometimes use the Easy Palette Layer Manager (4 – 3^rd icon from left) to view and select objects to group for resizing. Most of the time I choose the objects I want to use in a painting before I begin to paint. I make 3 or 4 different sizes so I can just paint, using a small group for distance and the larger ones to work towards the foreground. This is faster for me. You can still manipulate them if you want to. It is a matter of working styles. Some of you will like this method and some won’t.