Chapter 1 - Basic info 152Chapter 11 - Using the softwareadjustinG colorsHow to edit defined colors onlyThe Color Editor allows you to select a narrow color area, and adjust this area without affectingother colors in the capture.The Color Editor tool is split by basic and advanced, Basic is created for standard editing,whereas Advanced provides a much more specialized tool for editing defined shades of color insaturation, brightness, hue and smoothness.Working in slicesWorking in larger areas of color will avoid the image to appear unnatural. The slice will allow youradjustments to all shades of the selected color slice.Select the color area to be adjusted using the basic color correction picker, now only one “pie-slice”is highlighted. The black circle indicates the picked color value, and the thin black lines indicatesthe end of the smoothness effect. Smoothness indicates how far the mixture will be applied, thisensuring a natural look to the selective changed colors. Images like the feathers, showing manycolors in the relation with each other, keep smoothness on a lower level.It is also possible to “just” select one color slice from the menu below the sliders. or chooseglobal if you want to affect all colors at once. This is however a more creative tool that shouldn’tbe used instead of colorbalance.To help you determining the areas that actually changes, you can check-mark “View selected colorrange” this will remove color from all not selected colors.Blocking entire color areasThe Color editor can be used not only to change colors, but also to saturate or desaturate specificcolors or groups of colors. Saturation is created to adjust up to 80% in both directions, so repeatde-saturation 2-3 times and you will have black/white areas whilst preserving other colors than theselected.Marking up the “view selected color changes” will automatically desaturate all notselected colors.You can make up to 30 selective color changes in one image.Original color Target color
