| |  | Red-Eye Removal: You can reduce the red-eyeoften found in photos with a few simple clicks. Red-eye reductionis accessible via the mini-enhance tool bar that pops up when youclick on an image in the book, card or calendar. It is also accessiblevia the Enhance Photo menu To use the red-eye tool, place the cursor and drag the box (you can make the box as large or as small as you'd like) around the area with red-eye. It is even possible to do multiple eyes at one time. After selecting the area, the Red Eye Removal box pops up. From that point, you either accept the suggested correction, or increase/decrease the sensitivity. When done, click the accept button to finalize the changes. Note: while the red-eye tool works extremely well, if a photo has red face paint on or is too red-toned, it is possible that the red-eye tool will try to correct other red colors. Therefore, it is best to select the area as close to the red-eye as possible to avoid this. |
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| | | Rotate: This feature will rotate the image 90 degrees (one quarter turn) clockwise (to the right). Images may need to be rotated if the original photo was imported in the incorrect orientation (landscape/horizontal instead of portrait/vertical, or vice versa). The photo can be rotated back to its original position, if desired. If you have an older operating system, there might be a lag time between clicking the button and the actual rotation of the image. If you click the Rotate button too fast or too many times, the image might take a few seconds to reorient itself to the desired position. |
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| | | Flip: This feature flips the photo to a mirroredimage of the original. Selecting the Flip button againwill not flip the image back to its original position. In order to flipthe image back, click on the Undo button. |
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| | | Black and White: This feature converts acolorimage to a black and white image. Selecting the Black and Whitebutton again will not convert the image back tocolor. In order to convert the image from black and white tocolor, click on the Undo button. |
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| | | Auto Adjust: This feature is designed for those images that may benefit from slight adjustments in tone, brightness, or contrast, such as:
| |  | Images that are slightly washed-out or over-exposed | | | | Images where the subject is underexposed and appears too dark because of a bright background | | | | Images where the picture may appear "flat" and may look better with a little more contrast |
NOTE: The Auto Adjust feature willnot correct out-of-focus images, images that have acolorcaste, or images that resulted from "special" settings onyour digital camera (e.g. sunsets or non-flash night/party scenes) norwill it make small image files large, or improve the resolution of low-resolutionimage.
If you want to revert your adjusted image back to its original state,click on the Undo button. |
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| | | Auto fit: This feature will automatically resizeyour photo so that it fits into the photo frame of the particular pagelayout you selected. To undo the auto fit, click on the Undobutton. |
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| | | Zoom In: Clicking on the Zoom Infeature will enlarge a photo in increments of 1%. Hold down the Shiftkey on your keyboard while you're clicking on the Zoom In button inorder to enlarge your photo in increments of 5% each time you clickon the Zoom In button.
NOTE: If the outline around your photo changes fromblue to RED, the resolution of this photo is below the recommended levelfor using the current zoom feature. The red outline around the photoindicates a less-than-optimum resolution. Please zoom out or use thephoto with a higher resolution. If this photo is not adjusted or removedfrom the book, card or calendar, it will not print as sharply as itappears on your screen. It is strongly recommended that you adjust orremove any images in your book, card or calendar that have red outlinesaround them. |
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| | | Zoom Out: Clicking on the Zoom Out featurewill reduce the size of the photo in increments of 1%. Hold down theShift key on your keyboard while you're clicking on the ZoomOut button in order to reduce the size of your photo in incrementsof 5% each time you click the button. . |
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| | | Move: This feature will re-position the photo withinthe confines of the photo frame. Click the Move buttonand then position the hand icon on top of the image you'd like to move.Click the mouse button to grab the photo and drag it into the desiredposition. When you have the photo where you want it, release the mousebutton. To get the image back to where you had it originally, clickon the Undo button. If the original picture filledup the entire photo frame (prior to re-positioning it), you could alsoclick on Auto Fit so that the picture will resize tofit the frame again. |
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| | | Crop: This feature allows you to select an area ofa photo you want to include. Any area outside of the area selected willbe removed from the image. In order to go back to the original photosize, click on the Undo button. |