MEDIASTUDIO PRO USER GUIDE298BRUSH PANEL: OPTIONS TAB (RETOUCH TOOL)Dodge increases the amount of luminosity in an image, making areas lighter.Burn reduces the amount of luminosity in an image, making areas darker.Blur blurs the edges of an image making them less distinct.Sharpen sharpens the edges of an image thereby making them more distinct.Tonal adjustment controls the amount of highlight, midtone, and shadow in animage. Highlight works by adjusting the whitest or brightest parts of an image,while Midtone adjusts the colors that fall between the dark and light areas of animage. Shadow works by adjusting the blackest or darkest parts of an image.Smudge smears the colors in an image as you drag your mouse.Saturation adds more intensity to colors, making them appear stronger. Clickingthe Desaturation button removes intensity from colors, making them lighter.Warping distorts an image as you drag your mouse.Transparency determines the transparency of the paint as it is applied.Wet adds water to the paint, making it blend more smoothly with the colors of animage.Dry removes water from the paint, making it appear more distinct from the colorsof an image.Smear controls the amount of paint overrun.Note:The available attributes for each brush that can be modified in the Options tabvary depending on the currently selected Retouch tool.Recording macrosMacros give you the ability to record specific brush strokes made witheither the Paint or Retouch tools and use the exact same stroke order againon future frames. Macros can make common, repetitive editing tasks gomuch faster and far more easily as well as create "on-the-fly" animations.When you create a macro, it is stored in the Production Library and whenyou apply it, you have a number of options to control how it plays itselfback over each frame in a video sequence.
