Supplementary English-Only Training Materials
Note: These materials are offered only in English as supplementary examples for a deeper dive into Fiery LLC products.

Clip Art Viewer and Distressed Effect

This example shows the Clip Art Viewer and the Distressed effect filter.

Clip Art Viewer

  1. In a new workspace, go to Layout > Clip Art Viewer.
  2. In the ClipArt Viewer dialog, select the OpenClipart tab.
  3. Enter a search term to browse the clip art pages.
  4. To select an image, double-click it, and wait for the ClipArt Viewer dialog to close.
  5. In the workspace, when the cursor turns into the paste view, click to place the clip art.
    The PDF/SVG Import Options dialog appears.
  6. Select options for the clip art and click OK.

The clip art is placed on the workspace as an SVG (vector-based) file, which is fully editable using the Graphics Edit tools.

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Notes about clip art:

  • Browse local and network graphics
  • Add to favorites function
  • With an Internet connection, use OpenClipart for more options
  • Search functionality

Distressed Effect

  1. Select the clip art on your workspace, then go to Image > Fiery effects > Distressed.
    The Plug-in dialog appears. See Plugin Dialog.
  2. Select options in the Plug-in dialog and click OK.
    The Distressed dialog appears.
  3. Select image desaturation, tint color, preset masks, and generated texture. The preview displays the effect as the slider is adjusted.
    Hint: To see the original image, set the slider to 0.
  4. If you’ve set a value higher than 0 for preset mask, select the mask from the list.
  5. Select threshold light or dark colors and set the threshold, scale, and rotation.
  6. For more tint options, select Advanced Mode.
  7. Select the Generated Texture tab to select a texture color, horizontal and vertical streaks, thickness, noise, scale size, and texture contrast.
  8. When finished applying effects, click OK.

The clip art has a distressed effect.

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