User Guide

Chapter 5: Editing
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Done Click to apply your changes and close the tool.
Cancel Click to discard all changes and close the tool.
You can make fine adjustments to any of the sliders in Edit Mode by placing the
cursor over the slider and moving the mouse wheel one click forward or back.
Using the Light EQ tab
The Light EQ tab has two sets of sliders. The top set
is for brightening. The lower set is for darkening. The
dark-to-light gradient on each slider indicates that
you brighten that tone band when you move the
slider up (top row of sliders) or darken that tone band
when you move the slider down (bottom row).
Between the two sets of sliders are two horizontal
bars graded from black to white. These bars indicate
that sliders on the far left affect the dark tonal bands.
The sliders on the right affect light tonal bands.
Moving a slider changes the light in that particular
tonal band.
In the middle of the bands are two orange graphs
that change as you adjust the sliders to represent the
amount of darkening and lightening throughout the
tonal range of the image. The two gray graphs show
the maximum amount of brightening or darkening
that you can apply before clipping begins. If you push
a slider too far, the clipping is shown in bright pink.
To increase contrast within a tonal band without changing the brightness, apply brightening
and darkening simultaneously in equal amounts by dragging the upper and lower sliders up and
down, respectively. The area between the top of the upper graph and the bottom of the lower
graph indicates the amount by which contrast is increased.
To use the Light EQ tab:
Do one of the following:
x Drag the tone band sliders up or down depending on which light bands you want to
adjust.
x Type the exact number into the number boxes or increment the numbers to make precise
adjustments.
x Click the # Tone Bands drop-down list to increase or decrease the number of tone band
sliders.
x Click
(or press E) to see any over-or under-exposed pixels.
x Click
to apply settings automatically.
x Click Done to apply your settings and close the tool.