Tuesday, December 12, 2006

New PixBuilder features for photo editing and images processing

Usability enchantments

New version of PixBuilder studio is released, so now you can read a new photo editing features overview. First of all we glad to introduce a great usability enchantment that makes your photo editing work really fast and comfort. Since new PixBuilder version assignable shortcuts are present. You can tune shortcuts as you want using simple and intuitive interface. For making this goal please follow steps below. Select Main menu -> Options -> Keyboard shortcuts. First of all you can customize shortcuts as in the main graphic editors like an Adobe® Photoshop® or Corel PaintShop Pro, to do this just select necessary preset in list. Also you can set necessary shortcut for any function or tool you want. Select the function or tool in hortcut tree and press new shortcut. New shortcuts apply automatically after pressing Ok button in shortcuts window.

Color management for photo editing

You can enhance your photo editing abilities with new color management functions. Let's observe these functions.

1) Color temperature

This tool is available by selecting Main menu -> Colors -> Color Temperature. Color temperature function gives you a way for a simple photo colors editing. By setting single parameter you can change your photo colors from “hot” to “cold”. For example you can easily remove any red or blue color hue. If source photo has some red hue that makes it non-realistic, you can easily correct this by changing a color temperature.

2) Red/Green/Blue tool

The Color Balance tool allows you to change your photo colors from RGB to CMY color space. Red/Green/Blue tool allows you to change colors in a whole RGB color space. You can easily add or remove any color influence by changing corresponding option.

3) Colorize function

Now you can easily convert you grayscale photos into color-rich images. By changing hue, saturation and lightness options you can set a necessary color for your grayscale image.