Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Arianne Taylor

Charla Pereira

Jeffrey Alan Herold

Nicholas R Barling

Anthony Neil Dart

March Rogers

Joshua Baber

Paul Ronald Ray

Ian Mikutel

Omeed Chandra

Jason Blackheart

Sarah Elizabeth Sykes

Ana Ruth Resendez Rodriguez

ArunKumar Narayanan Kotiedath

Nick R Barling

Document authoring that involves illustrating pen input in an authoring environment is herein improved to provide greater control of colors and patterns for representing the pen input in a graphical user interface. Colors and patterns are provided as effects that are applied to the illustrated pen input so that multiple textures or colors may be applied to the illustrated pen input without requiring the user to manually signal a switch in texture or colors or using multiple objects to represent the pen input. In various aspects, effects may be layered on top of each other, and the effects may be stretched or tiled depending on the size of the illustrated pen input.

Ink effects

Document authoring that involves illustrating pen input in an authoring environment is herein improved to provide patterns with higher perceptibility for representing the pen input in a graphical user interface. Colors and patterns are provided as effects that are applied to the illustrated pen input so that multiple textures or colors may be applied to the illustrated pen input without requiring the user to manually signal a switch in texture or colors or using multiple objects to represent the pen input. In various aspects, the patterns used in effects are created with a greater perceptibility, so that users will more readily recognize the effect, with various layers of a contrast basis image imparting a perceptible pattern and a background color image imparting colors for an enhanced ink effect definition.

High perceptability ink effects

Display screen with graphical user interface

Display screen with animated graphical user interface

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