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356 Photo Handling

The selection region is shown with an animated ‘crawling ants’ outline.

Now select the PHOTO ENHANCE (on page 382) tool and adjust the brightness slider (you
can also adjust contrast, saturation, temperature and blur/sharpen).

This is what the photo now looks like, with a rather obvious brightened area. Using the
Transparency tool you can adjust the strength of the effect.

In this example the transparency has been graduated across the area, so the effect
fades right to left.

Just select the TRANSPARENCY TOOL and adjust the main transparency slider. To create a
graduated fade like in this example just drag across the image in the TRANSPARENCY
TOOL. This shows an arrow indicating the direction and size of the graduated