![]() If you're not 100% happy you're free to adjust any of the sliders in the tools as you see fit. The second tool is the Sharpen tool to give cleaner details. ![]() The bottom tool is the same as the Relight tool and brings out shadow details, tames highlights and sorts out contrast. The underlying engine maps out the tonal range of the image and adjust the image accordingly. A lot of work you say? Well, a single click of the mouse to apply Soft Wow, et voila! 'Soft Wow' is a two-tool stack that adjusts shadows, highlights, contrast and sharpness all at once and does it according to your specific image! Right, so the prelim stuff is over, let's get down to the nitty-gritty of this blog and play with Styles! I want more detail in the shadows, better highlights and increased sharpness, I also want greater tonal separation on the plasterwork. See, the toolstack on the right is empty. Non-destructive editing means that you can undo or change a crop even after saving your work (remember, the resulting file is not the original but contains a link to it.) I find this especially useful in seascapes where you want a flat horizon, just align the horizon along one of the horizontal grid lines and you're done, easy! One point to note about the Rotate and Crop tools is that they're the only tools that are not on the tool stack (in fact, from what I can tell it's effectively one and the same tool,) so you can change the crop at any time. When you click it a grid overlays the image, simply rotate the grid until the image is properly framed, hit enter and it's automatically cropped to fit. I use the Rotate tool from the upper toolbar to straighten the image. Unlike the prior blog that worked on RAW, this time it's a TIFF file scanned from a slide (remember those?) The image, taken at the beautiful Nizwa Fort in Oman, is nice but I want better tonality, I also want it black & white. (as you can see, mine have horrible names like 'Style Number 1', really meaningful!)Īn example is the best way to learn, so let's create a Black and White image using Styles, and while we're at it, we'll look at the Crop and Straighten tools, something we never used last time. you can save your own edits as a Style and you can apply them to other images with one click. Want to simulate an image taken with infra-red film? There's a Style for that. See the left of the screenshot from the last blog. Styles are a set of predefined LZ tool stacks that enable amazing 1-click changes to your image. Once again, the non-destructive nature of LZ means my original image is unscathed. To be honest, I can't always pre-visualize how an image will turn out before applying a Style, so a lot of times I apply one thinking it will work, only to undo it after. Last time I gave an overview of working with LightZone, today I'm going to touch on the Styles, and for Black and White images in particular. I hope I don't take as long on the next one! It's been awfully long since I last did a blog entry, a lot of real life got in the way of my online life, so apologies for those waiting for the second Lightzone beginners installment.
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