Making Image Adjustments 35
Introduction to image adjustments
A major part of photo-editing is making corrections (i.e., adjustments)
to your own near-perfect images. Whether you’ve been snapping with
your digital camera or you've just scanned a photograph, at some point
you may need to call on PhotoPlus’s powerful photo-correction tools to
fix some unforeseen problems.
For photo-correction, several methods can be adopted. You can use a
combination of:
• Image colour adjustments: For applying colour adjustments to
a selection or layers.
• PhotoFix: For making cumulative corrective adjustments from
within a studio environment.
• Retouch brush-based tools: Red Eye, Smudge, Blur, Sharpen,
Dodge/Burn (for exposure control), Sponge (for saturation
control), Scratch Remover.
If you work with raw images you can make image adjustments on your
unprocessed raw file (before interpolation). See Adjusting raw images on
p. 41.
Overview: Adjusting image colours
PhotoPlus provides a number of different adjustment filters that you can
apply to a selection or to an active standard layer. Typically, these
adjustments are used to correct deficiencies in the original image.
The adjustment can be applied in one of several ways:
• via the Adjustments tab, as an adjustment layer (non-
destructive).
