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Enhancement effects
The enhancement effects in the Photo menu allow you to accentuate certain
features in your images to make images look better or simulate a certain effect.
The following sections illustrate how to use some of these effects.
Enhance Lighting
Light and camera flash are two factors that affect image quality, as they control
the amount of light in a given photograph. However, many images are ruined due
to improper use of these two settings.
Enhance Lighting effectively repairs pictures by correcting light and flash errors.
It adjusts specified pixels' brightness and notes the play between highlights,
midtones and shadows.
To enhance an image's lighting:
1. Select Photo: Light - Enhance
Lighting.
2. Drag the Fill Flash slider or enter a
value to adjust the image brightness.
The higher the value, the brighter the
image becomes.
3. Adjust Enhance Shadows to
intensify the dark portions of the
image. This will amplify contrast,
thus creating a clearer picture.
4. Click OK.
Blur
This group of effects smoothen images by reducing fine image details and noise.
These also suggest an out-of-focus effect. Motion Blur and Zoom Blur can be
used to suggest fast camera or subject movement.
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