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The Picture Options tool provides a single window to edit general image settings such as rotation, tone, white balance, and exposure.

To set the picture options:

1. | From the Tools menu, click Picture Options.

2. | Open the Rotation drop-down menu and select a pre-defined rotation value from the list.

3. | Open the Tone Curve drop-down menu and select a pre-defined tone-curve value from the list.

Note: When the tone correction is set to Camera the curve that is selected in the camera will be applied. When it is set to High, Low, Not so high, Really high, Really low, or Normal the background tone contrast curve changes. The Low settings preserve highlight detail but delivers a flatter less contrast image. High settings boost the contrast but will lose some highlight and shadow detail.

1. | To adjust the white balance, click the New WB option

2. | Open the New WB drop-down menu, and select a pre-defined white-balance value from the list.

3. | To adjust the highlight and shadow levels in the image, click to turn on the AutoLevel option.

4. | In the first text field, edit the numbers to set the shadow level percentage. (Higher numbers increase the shadows.)

5. | In the second text field, edit the numbers to set the highlight level percentage. (Higher numbers increase the brighness of the highlights.)

6. | To use the highlight recovery feature, drag the Highlight slider to increase or decrease the brightness of the highlights.

Note: Highlight recovery restores detail to the highest stop of an image. Values between 25 and 50 are effective for most images; however, the effect might vary depending on the camera model and the white balance mode.

1. | To set the light exposure level, drag the slider to the right of the center point ot increase the brightness of the image and to the left to decrease the brightness of the image.

2. | To reset the exposure level to the original setting, click Exposure.

Note: When setting the New WB options, if you edited the Click White levels using Bibble 4.0, the color balance levels will appear to be incorrect if you open the image in Bibble 4.1 or later. This inconsistency is due to an internal programming change in later versions of Bibble. To correct this problem, open the image in Bibble 4.1 or later and resample the Click White setting.

Related Topics

Understanding Basic Image Editing Tools

Understanding Advanced Image Editing Tools