Image Editing

Before you can work with images, they need to be imported into the StudioLine Image Archive. For details, see the chapter “Loading Images” in this manual.

Click “Edit” on the QuickStep Bar.

This opens a launch panel “Edit Images” (see below), which gives you quick access to image tools, descriptors and classifications. Click on "Apply Image Tools".

Image Toolbox

In StudioLine, you edit your pictures by applying image tools to them. Each image tool performs specific functions against a picture. For instance, there are tools to rotate and crop, adjust color tones, correct red-eye issues, as well as various special effect filters.

For each image, StudioLine will save the tools and settings you chose and apply them before an image is displayed or otherwise used. The master copy in the Image Archive remains unchanged. This way, you can experiment with image tools, change settings or reverse any actions – even months later.

Selecting an Image Tool

The image toolbox can be accessed from the QuickStep Bar, the “Image” menu, the toolbar menu linked to the image toolbox button, or by clicking the “Image Toolbox” button near the bottom of the Image Archive pane.

To access a specific image tool, click the tool in the toolbox panel. The tools can also be accessed directly from the "Image" menu or the "Image Toolbox" toolbar button, where they are grouped by function:

Preprocessing

These tools perform initial corrections such rotate, crop, red-eye correction, ICC color profiles and resizing, all of which should occur before optimizing colors, exposure and other aspects.

Correction

These tools are used to optimize your images, e.g., by correcting blurring, improving exposure and addressing color shifts.

Effects

With effect filters, you let your creativity run wild.

Working with the Image Tools Pane

When you select an image tool it opens in the image tools pane. As you select more image tools, they too will be added to the image tools pane. If there is insufficient room for all image tools, then click on an image tool title bar to minimize it. You can also undock an image tool by clicking the appropriate button.

Click the “Dock Image Tool” button to re-dock the tool to the image tools pane.

Applying an Image Tool

To apply an image tool to a picture in the Image Archive, select the particular picture by clicking on it with the left mouse button, then select an image tool. A panel opens with the settings for the selected tool. Use the various controls to change the tool settings.

StudioLine will immediately update the picture to show the effect.

There is no need to confirm your actions with an “OK” button. All tools and settings can easily be changed or reversed at any time.

Image Preprocessing Tools

One of the key features of StudioLine is the ability to apply a complete set of image optimizations to an entire series of similar pictures. For proper image alignments, to crop unwanted borders or to correct the dreaded pupil discolorations in people or animals (red-eye/pet-eye effect), use the appropriate tool from the “Preprocessing” section of the “Image Toolbox” panel.

Since pre-processing tools are specific to each picture and would not be copied to other images, they are omitted from the “Active Image Tools” list which is documented later in this chapter.

Crop and Rotate

If you simply need to change a photo from horizontal to vertical alignment (portrait vs. landscape mode) or vice versa, click the “Rotate Clockwise” or “Rotate Counter-Clockwise” button on the toolbar.

These buttons will record the appropriate settings in the "Crop and Rotate" preprocessing tool.

The "Crop and Rotate" tool performs a number of tasks:

Rotate: If your camera has no orientation sensor, then you will likely need to rotate portrait images by 90°.

Mirror: This can be helpful if a slide or transparency was scanned bottom side up.

Crop: Use the cropping knife handles in the panel to trim off any scanning margins or to define a better cut-out area.

Align: If the camera was tilted or an image was not perfectly aligned in the scanner, you can place the alignment handles along a known vertical or horizontal line in the image.

Choose Aspect Ratio: Enter the desired aspect ratio and then select the "Fix" checkbox. Now the horizontal and vertical cropping knife handles will always move together so that the resulting cut-out area will maintain the chosen aspect ration.

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