User Guide

User Guide Neat Image

29 20-Nov-03

⇒ Click

and (the Move variant up / down buttons) or drag and drop variants in the list to

sort them according to the quality (for example, move the best variants to the top of the list to group

them for easier comparison).

⇒ Click

(the Delete variant button) or the Del key to remove the selected variant(s) from the list.

⇒ Click

(the Select variant button) or double-click a variant to select it as the best one and return

it to the filter (the filter settings will be automatically adjusted to produce this variant).

7. Queued processing

Neat Image can automatically process multiple images. To use this capability, create several image

filtration jobs, put them into the Filtration Queue and let Neat Image process the jobs one after

another.

You can also create new jobs while existing jobs are being processed in the background. It is possible to

create many jobs at once (batch) to filter many images with the same filtration parameters. You can also

change filtration parameters of any job at any time.

In this section, we explain in detail how you can use all these capabilities of Neat Image.

When you read this section, please make sure that the Auto create new job at startup setting in the

application options (use View | Options… menu item) is unchecked. If it is checked, the Filtration Job

Editor appears at startup instead of the Filtration Queue window. This option is checked by default to

make initial work with the program easier.

7.1. Filtration Queue window

When you start Neat Image, the

Filtration Queue window is

opened (see the above comment if

it is not).

This window contains the filtration

queue itself (in the left box), a set

of tools to create, edit, delete, start

and stop jobs (on the toolbar), and

the panel on the right with detailed

information about the queue as a

whole and about any single

selected image filtration job.

7.2. Creating new image filtration jobs

Neat Image processes filtration jobs by taking them one-by-one and applying filtration with specific

settings to each image. A single filtration job includes one image and one customized set of filtration

settings. You can create and configure one or more filtration jobs and let Neat Image process them.

To create one new image filtration job

⇒ Click

(the Create new image filtration job button) on the toolbar or select the Job |

New… menu item.