User Manual

Image Adjustments and Effects 47
Introduction to image adjustments
A major part of photo-editing is making corrections (i.e., adjustments) to your
own near-perfect images. Whether you’ve been snapping with your digital
camera or you've just scanned a photograph, at some point you may need to call
on PhotoPlus’s powerful photo-correction tools to fix some unforeseen
problems.
For photo-correction, several methods can be adopted. You can use a
combination of:
• Image color adjustments: For applying color adjustments to a
selection or layers.
• PhotoFix: For making cumulative corrective adjustments from within
a studio environment.
• Retouch brush-based tools: Red Eye, Smudge, Blur, Sharpen,
Dodge/Burn (for exposure control), Sponge (for saturation control),
Scratch Remover.
Overview: Adjusting image colors
PhotoPlus provides a number of different adjustment filters that you can apply to
a selection or to an active standard layer. Typically, these adjustments are used
to correct deficiencies in the original image.
Each adjustment can be applied in one of several ways:
• via the Adjustments tab, as an Adjustment Layer. (Non-
destructive).
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• via PhotoFix (Non-destructive)
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• via Image>Adjus t on a standard layer. (Destructive).