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The Photo Tools

Introduction

The PHOTO TOOL provides a direct and very fast way of cropping, adjusting the brightness
levels and sharpening photos, even for ultra high-resolution images. This tool provides:

• One-click auto-enhance your photos; this is particularly good for dull, underexposed
images.
• Manually adjust the brightness, contrast, color saturation, photo color temperature and
blur or sharpness of photos.
• Crop images. This is "live crop" so you can un-crop and adjust the crop at any time.
• A single-click "Compare" function to quickly compare changes against the original.
• Easy copy / paste all photo enhance edits between different images.
All these operations are interactive with live update. As you adjust the values, the image
is updated instantly. They are also all non-destructive, meaning that your original image
is not altered and you can always adjust or remove any adjustment.

There is also an anti-redeye tool.

Photo Tool Benefits
There are three major benefits of this tool:

1. It's non destructive
2. It's very, very fast, even for huge images
3. Photo Edits require no memory.

For more information on these benefits over other photo editing tools, see the Photo
Handling Chapter.

Using the Photo Tools

To access the PHOTO TOOLS, move your mouse pointer over the Camera icon in
the main toolbar on the left of the window. A flyout bar appears with icons for
each of the available photo tools.