User Guide

Chapter 5: Editing
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Soft Light Adds soft highlights or shadows by darkening or lightening based on the
original image area's color values.
Hue Applies the hue value of colors in the edited image to the color of the
original image areas.
Saturation Applies the saturation value of colors in the edited image to the color of
the original image areas.
Color Applies the hue and saturation of the edited image to the image. This
blend does not affect the luminance of the original image.
Luminosity Applies the lightness value of colors in the edited image to the color of
the original image areas.
Dissolve Applies some pixels from the edited image layer onto the original image,
resulting in specks of color. The Opacity slider controls the amount of
speckling.
The blend mode and opacity controls apply to many of the editing tools and special effects
filters. When it does not make sense to have these controls, they are omitted. The blend mode
and opacity controls are not on the following tools: Crop, Resize, Distortion Correction,
Perspective Correction, RAW Processing, Rotate, Flip, Watermark, Add Text, Redeye, and
Repair tools.
Using the Color dialog box
The Colors dialog box appears in several places in Edit Mode when you select or apply a color.
You can use the Color dialog box to select a color in multiple ways and to adjust a color using
several different tools.