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==== Image Enhancement ==== | ==== Image Enhancement ==== | ||
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**Note:** This filter changes colors linearly, which may lead to losses in the upper and lower color ranges. | **Note:** This filter changes colors linearly, which may lead to losses in the upper and lower color ranges. | ||
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==== Color Balance ==== | ==== Color Balance ==== | ||
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By selecting “All Colors” use the slider “Shadows-Highlights” for fine-tuning your color selection. | By selecting “All Colors” use the slider “Shadows-Highlights” for fine-tuning your color selection. | ||
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==== Color ==== | ==== Color ==== | ||
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==== Despeckle ==== | ==== Despeckle ==== | ||
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==== Text ==== | ==== Text ==== | ||
- | The Text Tool has a special ability. | + | {{: |
- | The upper section of the panel defines the text to be displayed. | + | The upper section of the panel defines the text to be displayed. The default insert text is the system descriptor “Copyright”. The descriptor name is always bracketed with paired percentage (%) signs to look like this: **< |
- | The middle section of the Text panel defines the font, style, shading, and shadow color. | + | The middle section of the Text panel defines the font, style, shading, and shadow color. |
- | Font size remains constant for all picture sizes (thumbnail, zoomed, image viewer). | + | Font size remains constant for all picture sizes (thumbnail, zoomed, image viewer). |
Further down you’ll find a slider. | Further down you’ll find a slider. | ||
The bottom section of the Text panel defines position and orientation. | The bottom section of the Text panel defines position and orientation. | ||
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==== Invert Image ==== | ==== Invert Image ==== | ||
- | Using this tool’s slider converts your image into its negative opposite by exchanging the colors to their RGB-complementary opposite and inverting brightness. | + | {{: |
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- | **Note:** This tool can only be effectively used on black and white negatives. | + | |
+ | **Note:** This tool can only be effectively used on black and white negatives. Inverting color negatives results in an orange cast. | ||
==== Find Edges ==== | ==== Find Edges ==== | ||
- | This tool finds the edges and outlines in your image and makes them increasingly more prominent on a sliding scale of 0-100. | + | {{: |
==== Transparency ==== | ==== Transparency ==== | ||
- | The Transparency tool adjusts the degree of opaqueness from fully see-through (the image is not visible at all) to fully visible (no transparency). | + | {{: |
**Note:** A fully transparent image can be marked by dragging the marker frame on top of the estimated position of the image in your workspace. | **Note:** A fully transparent image can be marked by dragging the marker frame on top of the estimated position of the image in your workspace. | ||
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==== Invert Mask ==== | ==== Invert Mask ==== | ||
- | This tool inverts the transparency of an image. | + | {{: |
==== Smoked Glass ==== | ==== Smoked Glass ==== | ||
- | The Smoked Glass tool is useful where a lot of text is to be superimposed on an image making it easier to read. The tool gives a defined area in the image a colorization as well as reduced transparency and added blurring, reminiscent of smoked glass. | + | {{: |
==== Simple Backdrop ==== | ==== Simple Backdrop ==== | ||
- | A transparent or semi-transparent image can be given a colored background with this tool. | + | {{: |
==== Emboss ==== | ==== Emboss ==== | ||
- | The Emboss tool adds a three-dimensional feel to your image that gives the illusion as if it had been embossed. | + | {{: |