User Guide

Chapter 5: Editing
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Double-click with right
mouse button
(or SHIFT+ double-
click with left mouse
button)
Automatically sets the darkening compression to optimum
for that area of the image.
CTRL+ double-click
with left mouse button
Increases the amount of brightening around that tone level
while decreasing the brightening in the rest of the image.
Use this method to quickly brighten a specific subject or
area to bring it out of the image.
CTRL+ double-click
with right mouse button
Increases the amount of darkening around that tone level
while decreasing the amount of darkening in the rest of the
image.
Scroll up or down with
the mouse wheel above
the image
Increases or decreases the amount of brightening applied
at that tone level in the image. Both the image and the
graph show the changes.
SHIFT+ scroll with the
mouse wheel above the
image
Decreases or increases the amount of darkening applied at
that tone level in the image.
Hold down "A"
+scrolling or
+dragging with the left
mouse button
Sets the brighten Amplitude slider directly.
Hold down "A"
+SHIFT
+scrolling or
+dragging with the
right mouse button
Sets the darken Amplitude slider directly.
Click and drag up and
down on the image (left
mouse button).
Increases or decreases the amount of brightening applied
at that tone level in the image. Both the image and the
graph show the changes.
(Only works if the image is actual size - no zooming.)
SHIFT+click and drag
up and down on the
image (left mouse
button).
Decreases or increases the amount of darkening applied at
that tone level in the image.
(Only works if the image is actual size - no zooming.)
CTRL+ any direct
adjustment (above).
Automatically maintains a constant amplitude and prevents
clipping.
Using Ctrl + any adjustment, constrains and reshapes the
curve, for example, if you are increasing the brightness of
the mid tones of the image, the brightening of the dark
and light areas of the image decreases.