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, Area Listthe 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.