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The Photo Tools 279
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.
Hue
The
HUE slider lets you choose the color to
apply and the
STRENGTH slider sets the
intensity of the color change applied.
Blur/Sharpen
This control blurs images if it's taken below zero, and sharpens images above 0. For
sharpen it's recommended that only small values be used, and typically only on
images that have been reduced in size a lot. You can enter blur values larger than the
-100 maximum value available on the slider. E.g. entering -400 will produce a very
blurred image.
Easy crop
While in the Enhance tool you can drag on the handles shown around the edge of the
selected photo to quickly adjust the cropping of the photo without needing to go into
the Clip Tool.
Cropping or clipping images
The simplest way to clip a photo is just start dragging on or across the photo with the
ENHANCE TOOL selected. The clipping is performed instantly after releasing the
mouse. The resulting clipped photo has clip handles around it, where you can adjust
the clip borders afterwards.
This is a non-destructive operation meaning that you can both adjust the clip region
after you've copped the image and even un-crop to restore the whole image. A way to