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Sharpening – Epson PhotoPlus User Manual

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Enhancing: Playing with Your Images

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If you want to see a small area of your image

enlarged in the Before and After windows, click the

Pan Mode box.

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Click Auto to have PhotoPlus make the tone

adjustment automatically. You see the mapping

curve change to reflect the modified image.

5

Slide the Highlight control to the right to expand the

highlight area. This also increases contrast in the

midtones. Slide the control to the left to reduce the

highlight area and darken the image.

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Slide the Midtone control to the right to lighten the

midtones or to the left to darken these areas.

Adjusting the midtones (also known as gamma

value

) does not affect the highlights or shadows.

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Slide the Shadow control to the right to reduce the

shadow area and lighten the image. Slide it to the

left to expand the shadow area and darken the

image. This also increases contrast in the midtones.

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Click OK when you’re finished.

Sharpening

Sharpening

You can use the Sharpen tool to give your image a more

focused look, with harder edges. Follow these steps:

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Select the area you want to change, or make sure no

area is selected to change the entire image.

2

Click the Sharpen button

or choose Sharpen

Sharpen

from the Enhance menu. The Sharpen dialog box

appears:

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