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386 The Photo Tools

Auto-Enhance
Brightness
Contrast
Color Saturation
Color Temperature
Hue Control
Blur / Sharpen
Compare with original

In this tool you can adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, temperature, hue, and
blur/sharpen. You can either enter values directly into the text fields or use a small pop-
up slider for adjusting the values interactively.

Pop-up slider controls
The pop-up sliders can be used in one of two ways:

1. Click and release the pop-up arrow. The slider control now remains on screen and
you can adjust the values as many times as you like by dragging the slider control.
Alternatively, if the mouse is held over the control, the mouse-wheel can be used to
make small adjustments up or down. The slider will hide when you click anywhere
else in the document.
2. Or you can click & hold the mouse button down, and drag over the slider bar to
adjust the value. When you release the mouse the pop-up vanishes. This is a
quicker more direct way, since it requires only one click & release to alter the
values.

Auto Enhance
Clicking the "ENHANCE" button will analyze the overall brightness and contrast of the
picture and automatically adjust the enhance values to obtain the best image. It is
particularly effective with under-exposed (dark) images. After applying automatic
enhancement to a photo you can adjust the values that were chosen, using the controls
to the right of the "enhance" button. Clicking the "COMPARE" button will restore the
original, clicking it again restores the last enhance values.
Brightness/Contrast/Color Temperature/Saturation/Hue

Brightness Contrast Saturation Color Temperature

The image is altered as you adjust these values. The saturation alters the color intensity.
At the minimum setting of -100 this will make a picture black and white. The Color
Temperature control makes a picture more ‘warm’ or ‘cool’. The Hue control applies a
particular color tint to the image and allows you to control the intensity of the selected
color.