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6.4 Image Adjustment
JS says:
“The Image Adjustments are another powerful tool in Cyberview, which with experimentation, can
deliver results which are just as good as those obtained with Silverfast”.
He does then confess that this is a slightly sarcastic sideways swipe at Silverfast, and it cannot be
disputed that Silverfast offers many more options. To which I can only add my own sarcastic
observation – “A German with a sense of humour, whatever next”.
All of the image adjustments available in Cyberview, may also be offered in an Image Editor in a
more user friendly format, e.g. in Photoimpact, Highlight Midtone Shadow can be defined as a
numerical offset, and the Before and After pictures are much larger than the Cyberview thumbnails.
Irfan View and other Image Editors also have a batch mode for applying one set of adjustments to
multiple pictures.
6.4.1 Apply Image Adjustments to Selection or Frame
All the Image Adjustments described in sections 6.4.2 - 6.4.4 can only be applied to slides which
have been pre-scanned.
• Select the required pre-scan from the Thumbnail Panel (section 6.3.3).
• Click the Image Adjustment icon on the Cyberview Toolbar. The Image Adjustment pop-up
window is displayed with 3 Tabs – Variations, Colour Balance and Curves and Levels. See
sections 6.4.2 - 6.4.4 for details of each Tab.
The checkbox label Apply to all frames means Apply to all pre-scans. This is only useful if all
the pre-scans need the same set of corrections. Personally, I prefer to scan using only basic
settings, and apply corrections with the Image Editor afterwards to those scans which need
them.
By default, the Selection Area for each pre-scan (section 6.3.4.1) is the whole Frame. If a Selection
Area has been defined, which is smaller than the Frame, then the following points apply:
• Clicking the Image Adjustment icon causes only the Selection Area to be displayed in the
Image Adjustment window, and the chosen adjustments will only be applied to the Selection
Area. The same effect is achieved by clicking the arrow to the right of the Image Adjustment
icon, and clicking “Selection” (see picture Apply to Selection below).
• Clicking the arrow to the right of the Image Adjustment icon, and clicking “Frame” causes the
complete Frame to be displayed in the Image Adjustment window, but the chosen adjustments
will only be applied to the area of the Frame outside the Selection Area (see picture Apply to
Frame below).
• The above points only apply to the currently selected pre-scan. If Apply to all Frames is
selected, the Image Adjustments are applied to all Frames, i.e. any Selection Areas are
ignored.
Original Apply to Selection Apply to Frame
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