Pro-Edit

 The Pro-Edit system is designed to correct
event images as efficiently and consistently
as possible.

Starting Pro-Edit

After you have selected the images for your event and you are in
the Edit Category menu of the event wizard.
Click on the menu item ProEdit.

The ProEdit window will appear.


Select an image to work on form the thumbnail strip by clicking on it.
The image will appear in both preview windows


 

Selecting Guide Images

Guide Images can be used to compare color and density
to a set of standard images or to a previous event that you have
created.

Click on the Guide Selector Button


The Guides selector will appear. You may choose a previous
event or set of images to help you edit the current event.


Click on one of the guide thumbs to open it in the guide preview.
You can keep this guide in this window by choosing the
Hold Guide Image. If you choose Show Original Image each
time you change images the original will appear in the guide preview.

Image Editing

You can use the slider bars or the "+" and "-" buttons
to alter the
red/cyan
green/magenta
blue/yellow
plus density/minus density
low contrast/high contrast
sharpen/blur
of the Image.
At any time you can press the
"reset all controls to O" to reset.

You may also try the
Auto Density Balance
Auto Levels Balance
to improve an image.
The Hold Corrections will maintain the current corrections
for each image opened.

You can use the Auto Settings button to fine tune the Auto
corrections settings. The reset brings to back to normal.

Image Crop Tool
 

Double click on the image being edited. The red selector crop guide will appear.



To size the crop guide:
Smaller:
Click the right side of the red selector with the Right - Mouse button and
move to the left.
Larger:
Click the right side of the red selector with the Right - Mouse button and
move to the right.

To move the crop guide:
Click the center of the red selector with the left-mouse button and move it.



The crop guide will remain on all images until you turn it off by
double clicking on the red selector.
IMPORTANT NOTE: any image that the crop guide appears on will
be cropped when the Save Edits to Originals is clicked. This
is very useful when doing large numbers of images that all need similar
cropping.

Save Edited Image

When you decide to save the image
click on the Save Edits to Original button.
If the Open Next Image After Save is checked
the next image in the event will open, or you may choose
from the thumb strip.
If any image that is opened has been edited the
Restore to Original Image button will be present.
This will remove all editing from that image.