Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP2 - KDE 08-05-2008 Manual page 278

Restoration
Provides an all-inclusive treatment to images suffering from all sorts of digital de-
fects, such as noise and scratches.
Noise Reduction
Remove artifacts, such as those caused by dust on your lens or sensor. Compensate
for pixel noise caused by high ISO settings of your digital camera and reduce noise
and artifacts in low quality scans.
Lens Distortion Correction
Compensate for barrel and pincushion distortion of your images caused by the use
of strong wide-angle or telephoto lenses.
Anti Vignetting
Compensates circular shades (vignettes) at the edges or in the center of your image
that were caused by the use of strong wide-angle or telephoto lenses.
To observe the functionality of the Fix options, look at Inpainting, for example. Assume
some dust or scratch on your lens ruined an image. To remove this kind of artifact,
proceed as follows:
1 Open your image.
2 Use the mouse cursor to select the area to which to apply the fix.
3 Select Fix > Inpainting or press Shift + I .
4 Determine the method to use to remove the artifact:
5 If you opted against using any of the preset filters (in the Preset tab), open the
6 Click OK to apply your settings and modify the image accordingly.
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• Choose one of the preset options (Remove Small Artifact, Remove Medium
Artifact, or Remove Large Artifact) and proceed with
• Set the filter parameters on your own. Proceed with
Smoothing and Advanced Settings tabs and adjust the settings to your needs.
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