One
of the most important features in any post production graphic application
is color management, whether it be to handle white balance, saturation or
color shifting. In Artizen all these requirements were closely considered
when the Color Balance filter was developed. The Color Balance filter
combines powerful functions that enables users to correct virtually any
type of color issues your photo has and produces virtually any type of color
effect you want such non standard black white photos.
Artizen 2.8 pushes the Color Balance filter to a
new level of power by using our new Color Matching System technology via
the Red, Green, Blue, Cyan, Yellow and Magenta options. This is similar
technology used by the Hue Balance filter but in the Color Balance filter
it uses predefined colors which cover the entire color spectrum.
Original Photo with no
adjustments.
Temperature - This option enables users to adjust the overall
look of an image by changing the perceived temperature of a scene or
correcting the white balance of your image. Usually blue is considered
cool and red hot, but in nature the opposite is true.
Hue - Typically in the computer world colors are thought of only
in RGB, but this isn't the only way to work with color values. The Hue
option enables users to adjust all 3 color channels using a single option.
Like the Temperature control, Hue is an excellent way of correcting color
shifting and white balance.
RGB Adjustments - Similar to the Temp and Hue options, these 3
options enable users to correct color shifts and white balance but on a
individual color basis since color shifts don't always affect each color
equally.
Boosting color values
using the Saturation option
Saturation - Controls the brightness of colors in
a photo, with
-100% being a black and white image, 0% being unchanged color level and
100% being colors boosted.
Vibrancy - Like Saturation, controls the color
brightness of your photo but rather than applying this correction to all color levels
equally it varies depend on the initial level of the colors. This option
can be applied linearly or non-linearly depending on how you want to boost
colors. By default Non-Linear is selected.
Red, Green, Blue, Cyan, Yellow and Magenta
- Work like the Hue Balance filter,
which only affect the adjust Hue. This allows for very accurate color
correction flexibility unlike Saturation and Color adjustments which apply
their affect to the entire image regardless of the Hue. To illustrate
this, the Saturation example above shows how the entire photo colors have
been boosted, while the example below shows how everything except the
Blues have been boosted. In many situations increasing the saturation to
get a specific color in a photo to a desired saturation level could cause
other colors in the photo to get over exposed and detail is lost.
Boosting color Red,
Green, Yellow and Magenta Hue while reducing the Blue and Cyan color
values.
Grayscale - Unlike changing the Saturation value to -100%, this
option enables you produce any type of black and white image. You first
check this option and then adjust any of the values above and it changes
the type of black and white image you will get.
