Flare Effects Description

Color Effects Exposure Exposure lightens or darkens your whole photo. Using Exposure will create the effect of over- or underexposing your photo, and therefore is best for strong lightening or darkening. Overexposing your photo will brighten it until the lightest area of your photo is all white; underexposing it will darken it until the darkest area is all black. Be aware that using exposure will cause you to lose detail in the brightest or darkest areas. To avoid this, try using Midtone Brightness instead. Midtone Brightness Midtone brightness lightens or darkens the middle tones of your photo while having relatively effect on the brightest and darkest tones. Adjusting the midtone brightness effectively changes the slope of the transition between dark and light areas, without modifying these extremes. If the exposure of your photo is right, this is the best effect for lightening or darkening the image, since it will not lose any image fidelity when used moderately. © 2011 The Iconfactory & ARTIS Software Saturation, Brightness, Contrast Saturation, Brightness, and Contrast are the three basic color controls. Increasing Saturation makes the colors in your photo more intense, and decreasing it makes them closer to greyscale. When the exposure of your photo is not directly balanced, increasing the contrast will emphasize the light or dark areas. Use Brightness (which brightens or darkens the whole image without limit) to adjust for extremes when changing the Contrast. Tint Tint overlays a color on the photo; it’s like adding color in the print process of a physical photo. Depending on the Blending Mode you use with tint, you will get very different effects; we recommend checking out Multiply, Screen, and Overlay. Using the opacity with Tint is also very important. Tint is particularly helpful for certain vintage effects; for more photographic effects, use Color Filter. Duotone Duotone is like black and white, except that you choose the two tones used. The photo’s black areas are replaced by the Dark Color and the white areas are replaced by the Light Color. Tones in between the extremes are gradually mixed between these two colors. Duotone can be used conservatively—for example, making the dark color a dark brown and the light color a light yellow to create the impression of a faded black & white photo—or more adventurously— say, by making the Dark Color white and the Light Color black to create a negative image. Duotone is very powerful, and experimenting with it can create very interesting and unexpected results. © 2011 The Iconfactory & ARTIS Software Color Filter Color Filter works similarly to using a physical color filter on your camera—that is, putting a colored piece of glass in front of the lens. Any saturated color works great with the Color Filter, however there are two classic usages: Use yel- low to orange to make your phot…