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Strength |
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Controls the strength of the contrast enhancements. A value of 100 gives the maximum increase in both local and global contrast enhancements. The default value is 70. |
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Color Saturation |
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Controls the saturation of the RGB color channels. The greater the saturation, the more intense the color. A value of 0 produces a grayscale image. The value affects each color channel equally. The default value is 46. |
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Luminosity |
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Controls the compression of the tonal range, which has the effect of adjusting the global luminosity level. Moving the slider to the right boosts shadow details and brightens the image. Moving it to the left has the opposite effect, and gives a more "natural" look to the resulting image. The default value is 0. |
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Microcontrast |
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Sets how much local details are amplified. A higher value gives a 'sharper' look. The default value is 0. |
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Smoothing |
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Controls smoothing of the contrast variations throughout the image. This setting has an
important influence on the look of the tone mapped image. High values give a more "natural"
look, low values a more "artificial" or "painterly" look.
Smoothing is available in two modes. In the default mode, it is in a form of a slider, and in the "Light" mode in the form of buttons. The effect on the image differs depending on the mode. The "Light" mode was the only mode in version 1.0 of the plug-in (and version 3.1 and earlier of Photomatix Pro) and tends to produce a more "surreal" or "magic light" effect. |
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White Point - Black Point |
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Both sliders control how the minimum and maximum values of the tone mapped image are set. Moving the sliders to the right increases global contrast. Moving them to the left reduces clipping at the extremes. The White Point slider sets the value for the maximum of the tone mapped. The Black Point slider sets the value for the minimum of the tone mapped image. The default value is 0.25% for the White Point setting and 0% for the Black Point setting. |
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Gamma |
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Adjusts the mid-tone of the tone mapped image, brightening or darkening the image globally. The default value is 1.0. |
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Color Temperature |
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Adjusts the color temperature of the tone mapped image relative to the temperature of the HDR
source image. Moving the slider to the right will give a "warmer", more yellow-orange colored
look. Moving the slider to the left gives a "colder", more bluish look. A value of 0 (default)
preserves the original color temperature of the HDR source image. |
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Saturation Highlights |
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Adjusts the color saturation of the highlights relative to the color saturation set with the Color
Saturation slider. Values higher than 0 increase the color saturation in the highlights; values
lower than 0 decrease it. The default value is 0.
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Saturation Shadows |
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Adjusts the color saturation of the shadows relative to the color saturation set with the Color
Saturation slider. Values higher than zero will increase the color saturation in the shadows.
Values lower than zero will decrease it. The default value is 0.
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Micro-smoothing |
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Smoothes out local detail enhancements. This has the effect of reducing noise in the sky for instance, and tends to give a "cleaner" look to the resulting image. The default value is 2.
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Highlights Smoothness |
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Reduces the contrast enhancements in the highlights. The value of the slider sets how much of
the highlights range is affected. This control is useful for preventing white highlights from turning grey, or uniform light blue skies becoming dark blue-grey. It is also useful for reducing halos around objects placed against bright backgrounds. The default value is 0. |
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Shadows Smoothing |
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Reduces the contrast enhancements in the shadows. The value of the slider sets how much of the shadows range is affected. The default value is 0.
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Shadows Clipping |
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The value of the slider sets how much of the shadows range is clipped. This control may be
useful to cut out noise in the dark area of a photo taken in a low-light situation. The default value
is 0.
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