Home - Light Developer - Locally adjusting by a list of areas
A selected area is a mask over the image. Within the selection, where mask value is 255, functions and filters take effect. Outside it, no change happens.
The mask value, varied from 0 to 255, refers from non-selected to whole-selected. A feather function can be used to define the half-selected area, which controls the gradients of the effects.
The selected area makes it possible to adjust a photo locally. But that's not all. Considering this case: multiple selected areas are needed for different processing parameters, what will happen in traditional software and the Light Developer?
For traditional software, the workflow may look like this:
- Select areas and store it to list
- Restore first area
- Call a function to adjust this area, click OK
- Restore another area
- Call a function to adjust this area, click OK
- Repeat above steps…
While in the Light Developer, the workflow can be optimized to this:
- Select areas and store it to list.
- Call a function, adjust current area, click Apply
- Change to another area, different parameters, click Apply
- You may change functions, but in each function, you can adjust each area without quitting.
The ‘Filter Dialog’ can switch areas by clicking on the mask button.
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