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Photo Pos Pro custom styles

With Photo Pos Pro Style Picker dialog box you can easily create, edit load and save beautiful styles, for example:

The Style Picker dialog box

The Style Picker dialog box (figure no.1) enables you to select backgrounds/paintings/filling styles using a wide variety of sub-dialog boxes and commands. The dialog box contains three major sections with which you can create, edit, load and save a wide variety of styles, from simple one-hue styles to complex styles with patterns, textures, color transitions and more. The three sections are:

Style Type section.
Advanced section.
Style Preview section.

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1) The Style Type Section (Figure 1.1)

This section contains the style colors/pattern options:

Transparent - Creates a blank (transparent) style.

Custom Color - Creates a simple single color style using a custom color. To select the color click on the

button.

Color Transition (Gradient) - Creates a style using a wide variety of custom color transitions (Gradients). To set the color transition click on the button to open the Color Transition Picker dialog box. For more info about the Color Transition Picker dialog box please click here.
Custom Pattern - Creates a patterned style using a custom pattern. To select the pattern click on the button to open the Patterns dialog box.
Custom Image - Creates a patterned style using a custom Image. To select the image click on the button to open the Image dialog box.

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2) The Advanced Section (Figure 1.2)

This section contains the style opacity and transparency mask options:

Opacity Control - The Opacity defines the level of Opacity of the painted style. When its value is 100 (Max. Value) the style will be entirely opaque. When using the style with this value, the places on which it is used will be covered entirely by the painted style. When the level of opacity is below 100, the opacity of the style will decrease (it will become transparent) so that the places on which the painted style is used will not be entirely covered (it will be possible to see the places on which the painted style is used beneath the painted style). As the value of Opacity decreases, the transparency of the style will become greater.
Texture Options:
- No Texture - No texture will be used for the style.
- Custom Texture - Creates a style with transparency mask using a custom texture. To select the texture click on the button to open the Textures dialog box.
Grid Type - Creates a style with transparency mask using a custom Grid Type.

3) The Style Preview (Figure 1.3)

This section contains the style Preview, Load and Save options:

Preview Box - This box presents the preview image of the current style.
Save Style Button - Pressing this button will save the existing style for later use.
Save Style As Button - Pressing this button will open the Save As dialog box used to save a new copy of the current style for later use.
Load Style Button - This button is used to open existing style files. Pressing on this button will present the Open dialog box where you can select the style file you wish to open.

Color Transition Picker dialog box

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The Color Transition Picker dialog box (figure no.3) enables you to select custom color transition using a variety of commands. The dialog box contains four major sections with which you can create and edit a wide variety of color transitions from simple two-hue linear color transitions to complex none-linear transitions. The four sections are:

Gradient Colors section
This section contains the colors option that made up the transition:
- Two Colors Fade - Creates a two colors gradual transition. To select the colors click on the buttons.
- Three Colors Fade - Creates a three colors gradual transition. To select the colors click on the buttons.
- Transparent Fade (Color -> Trans.) - Creates a gradual transition of the selected color to a transparent color. To select the color click on the button.
- Custom/Complex Colors - Creates a custom colors and complex transitions. To select the custom transitions click on the button to open the Custom Gradient dialog box.
- Default Gradient - Creates a gradual transition using the software default gradient (Figure 2.5).
Gradient Shape section
This section contains the shape option that made up the transition shape:
- Linear Gradient - Creates a linear (line) shaped transition.
- Circular Gradient - Creates a Circular shaped transition.
- Rectangular Gradient - Creates a Rectangular shaped transition.
- Custom Shape Gradient - Creates a Custom Shape transition. To select the custom shape click on the button.
- Radial Shape Gradient - Creates a Radial-Type Custom Shape transition. To select the custom shape click on the button
Gradient Preview section - This section contains the gradient preview and the Inverse Colors and Offset controls. The Offset controls enabling a synchronization change in the gradient on the screen, the Inverse Colors Order control inverse the gradient colors paint order of each (basic) transition cycle
Advanced section:
This section contains advanced color transition commands that will help you to get pro results:
- Zoom In/Out - Sets the size of a one (the basic) transition cycle size as it will be created.
- Angle - Sets the angle of the transition which will be used.
- Center Point (x) and (y) - Sets the central point of the transition shape which will be used.
- Wrap Mode - Sets the wrap mode of the transition which will be used.
- Color Rotation - Rotates the transition colors circularity.
- Cycles - Sets the number of color cycles in ONE (the basic) transition cycle size.
- X-Y Proportion - Sets the proportion between the width and the height of the transition shape.
- BG. Color & Opacity - Sets the background color and the background opacity of the transition.
- Center Color & Opacity - Sets the center point color and the center point opacity of a radial shape transition.