Page 386 - Xara Designer Pro X17

386 The Photo Tools

The Highlights brightness controls the intensity of the highlights (bright areas) in a photo.
This allows you to bring out the detail in the highlights which might not normally be
visible. Bear in mind though that there may be areas in certain photos which have all the
detail in the highlights "crushed" or totally burnt out, in which case the control will have no
effect.
The slider is initially positioned on the far right of the slider scale as it is assumed that
you would always want to decrease the intensity.
X-Process effect

Cross processing simulates a photographic processing technique which historically used
the 'wrong' chemicals to develop film - thus resulting in some dramatic contrast and
saturation effects. Designer Pro and other photo editing programs achieve this by
manipulating the red, green and blue color channels. Use the slider to experiment.

xprocess, crossprocess

Blur/Sharpen

This control blurs images if the slider is dragged to a value below 0, and sharpens
images when dragged above 0. For sharpen it's recommended that only small values be
used, and typically only on images that have been reduced in size a lot. You can enter
blur values larger than the -100 maximum value available on the slider. E.g. entering -
400 will produce a very blurred image.
Enhance photo colors

Normally the ENHANCE controls will apply to the whole of a selected photo - but if you just
want to make changes to a particular color within your photo then use the ENHANCE
PHOTO COLORS option. You might want to change the color of the sky or tweak the
brightness and contrast of a patch of grass for example. Additionally there is also the
option to make a selected color transparent.