The Levels Tool has been moved inside the Photo Tool fly out and renamed Brightness Levels Dialog. A new Curves option adds the
ability to edit the brightness levels by dragging the curve as shown.
Perspective Correction Keystoning is the name of the exaggerated perspective that results from shooting at extreme angles. The
new Perspective Correction function works best with verticals. In the example shown above left, I applied a Default Perspective
Envelope with the Mould Tool to a photo and then made a bitmap copy. I left the white area of the bitmap to show how much I
altered the image. The bottom right amazingly is after I applied Perspective Correction!
The Create Panorama function has been improved though I am taking it on faith since I did not use the old one very much. There are
two versions of this feature, Create Panorama, which is built in and produces a good result. If you need more control, click
Panorama Studio which launches Panorama Studio, an external utility.
Being lazy, I made five small bitmaps from an original photo shown in the middle. Both panorama functions did a good job at
stitching the segments back together. But Panorama Studio was able to reconstruct more of the top and bottom of the image.
EXIF No that is not a typo for EXIT. EXIF stands for Exchangeable Image File Format (I know because I Googled it!) This information
is contained in most images taken with a digital camera and can be helpful when editing a photo. I am not sure how, however. But if
one of you clever members would like to educate me, feel free to bring me up to speed.
This is included in the photo section but it also applies to the Freehand and Brush Tool. The example above was made using the new
Enable Trace Mode drawing feature to cut a hole in a mask. In effect the tool detects sharp contrast between two shapes and
magnetically snaps the line you draw to the outline of the shape. It works best with high resolution images with well defined areas,
at high zoom factors.
