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The smart way of using Goo is to gently touch up an image, especially for expressions on people’s faces. A really cool tool within Goo is the Iron tool. It literally ‘irons out’ the original image in a different area of your image. The simulated effect is so realistic, the only thing missing is the smell of warm cotton.

The images created by KPT Goo can also be converted quickly into a movie to be published on the web for added impact. A movie is created by saving different images, or keyframes, to the filmstrip control panel in the Animation control panel. When you play the movie, KPT Goo moves between the images, much like a flip-book effect.

You can create a maximum of 64 keyframes per movie. To save the current image into a keyframe, simply click an empty keyframe. Removing, inserting, and re-arranging of keyframes is also allowed. Once done, click the Output button to enter the Make Movie dialog box and choose your settings. Once saved, anybody can then watch the movie using the Windows Media Player, or a QuickTime Player.

Flare Up

KPT LensFlare, adds glows, halos, and lens reflections to an image, simulating the reflections of a bright light on a camera lense or the lens of your eye. The sophisticated KPT LensFlare allows you to edit specific characteristics of the flare, from color, brightness, shape, glow, halo, streaks, to reflections.

Conveniently, the software provides a variety of streak-types to simulate the real-world effect of different light sources and lenses, such as flashlights, searchlights, home video camera lenses, or zoom lenses. The uninitiated may simply choose a flare from the Presets Library to add a realistic effect to an image.

Invoke the Materializer

In a battle with the evil demon Surapadman, Kartikeya suddenly materialized a throne for his messenger next to the demon-king, and business done, made it disappear as well. Instilled with the same powers, KPT Materializer lets you apply surface texture to an image or to a preselected portion of an image (Figure 06: Materialism).

Figure 06 Materialism:
Create the illusion of a surface material, complete with light reflectivity, tints and distortions. Deftly used, it could show a photo of fresh flowers wrapped as a bouquet in a digitally created transparant plastic.