User Manual

Advanced Controls
Advanced controls reveal the full power of the Beauty plug-in, with preview modes to examine
different aspects of this plug-in’s behavior, while specifically adjusting the level of smoothing or
coarsening you want, the amount of texture to preserve, and which additional features of the
subject you want to recover from this operation to fine tune the result.
 Show Split View: Turns on a split-screen view that displays a grid of four images
(in clockwise order from upper left): the smoothed or coarsened image, the Texture
Recovery mask, the Feature Recovery mask, and the final result. The Split View works
best with the Full Screen Viewer enabled (press Shift-F) while the Inspector is shown at
right, so each quadrant is large while you make your adjustments.
Smoothing
These parameters let you adjust how much smoothing to apply to the image.
 Smoothing Threshold: Raising this value increasingly smooths textures above
the Texture Threshold (below). Using this control and leaving Diffuse Lighting at 0
preserves the contrast of the lighting on the feature you’re smoothing.
 Diffuse Lighting: Another method of softening texture, but in such a way that the
lighting of the subject also appears to become more and more diffuse (Similar to setting
Midtone Detail to negative values).
 Preview Smoothed: Lets you view the image with only smoothing applied by the
Smoothing Threshold and Diffuse Lighting sliders, with no texture recovery.
Texture Recovery
These parameters let you adjust how much texture to put back into the smoothed result.
 Texture Threshold: Lets you set the threshold at which detail is reintroduced to the
image. Texture Threshold must always be equal to or lower than Smoothing Threshold,
so lowering Smoothing Threshold may also result in lowering Texture Threshold.
 Add Texture: Lets you exaggerate recovered texture (at values higher than 1), or
minimize recovered texture (at values less than one).
 Preview Texture: Lets you view the isolated texture mask that’s being recovered by
the Texture Gain and Texture Threshold sliders, so you can fine tune what you want to
preserve.
Feature Recovery
These parameters let you recover edge detail.
 Recovery Amount: Lets you set the threshold at which detail is reintroduced to the
image. Texture Threshold must always be equal to or lower than Smoothing Threshold,
so lowering Smoothing Threshold may also result in lowering Texture Threshold.
 Preview Recovery Area: Lets you view the mask that’s being generated by the
Recovery Amount slider, so you can fine tune what you want to preserve. Preserved
detail is white, discarded detail is black.
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