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05 May 2006 Dear StudioLine
User:
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StudioLine Picked
as Shareware of the Week
"Each week Microsoft and WUGNET feature a Windows shareware application demonstrating the very highest programming standards possible today. Each application selected for this award is exhaustively reviewed under all operating situations and of the applications submitted less than two percent make the cut." |
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Leave
a Lasting Impression with StudioLine
Make sure that your images look as brilliant as they deserve. The key ingredient is true-to-life colors. The "White Balance" tool is ideally suited for that task – it is intuitive and its speed can't be matched. Remove Color Hues
with White Balance Tool
Unnatural hues result when the camera's automatic white balance cannot assess the lighting conditions properly. This is more likely to occur with artificial light, but can also happen when certain combinations of sunlight and shadows are present (like in the sample used later in this workshop article). The outcome is photos with an undesirable color tone, such as blue or red. Easy to do…
This workshop will walk you through the steps of removing a color hue. To follow along, you can click here to download our sample photo from our web site.
Detecting
Unnatural Color Hues
· Choose "White Balance" from the toolbar to open that image tool, which turns the mouse pointer into an eyedropper.
· Either in the image viewer or on the thumbnail, move the eyedropper to an area in the picture that you know should in fact be gray or silver, no matter how dark or light. (In our sample image, we marked three such spots for you. Just point the eyedropper in the center of one of the red circles.)
Viewing Component
Color (RGB) Values
The "White Balance" panel continuously shows the share of the red, green and blue components at the current spot. The intensity for each component color is represented as a number between 0 (dark) and 255 (bright). In the screen shot above, we positioned the eyedropper on the air intake frame. To be a perfect gray, the frame should have three identical values for its component colors, e.g., an RGB value of 135|135|135. The RGB value at this spot, as illustrated below, turned out to be 112|134|159 instead. The blue color component is higher, thus giving the air intake frame an unnatural blue hue.
Removing a Color
· After locating a supposedly gray spot in an image with the eyedropper, simply click the mouse button. StudioLine will correct the color hue for the entire image. ·
If you are not satisfied with the result,
click the button "Pick up As always the case with StudioLine, you can easily copy the white balance settings to other images that might be affected by the same hue. Have fun giving it a try with one of your own pictures. You'll be amazed how brilliant your pictures will turn out. |
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Questions,
Feedback, Suggestions?
Thank you for trusting StudioLine with your treasured moments. Your comments and suggestions are helping us expand our lead in the field of digital image archiving, editing and sharing. We are always looking forward to hearing from you. Best regards, |
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