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The Basic Adjustments tool provides controls to adjust several image editing options such as tone curve, white balance, exposure, saturation, contrast, highlight recovery, fill light, sharpening, and noise reduction. This tool includes a magnification viewer that shows pixels magnified up to 400 percent.

For more information about these image editing features, see the Understanding Basic Image Editing Tools and Understanding Advanced Image Editing Tools topics.

To edit images using the Basic Adjustments tool:

1. | From the Tools menu, click Basic Adjustments.

2. | To rotate the image, open the Rotation drop-down menu and select 90 CCW (ninety degrees counter-clockwise), 90 CW (ninety degrees clockwise), 180, or None.

3. | To adjust the tone curve, 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 built into the camera will be applied. When you set the tone curve 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 image with less contrast. High settings boost the contrast but will lose some highlight and shadow detail.

1. | To adjust the white balance of the image, click the New WB check box.

2. | Open the New WB drop-down menu and select a pre-defined lighting condition parameter from the list.

Note: When you select Click White, Bibble activates the click-white cursor to let you click on an area of the image to select the new white balance value.

1. | To adjust the highlight and shadow levels in the image, activate the Auto Level option.

2. | In the Shadows (first) field, edit the number to set the shadow percentage (higher numbers increase the shadows).

3. | In the Highlights (second) field, edit the number to set the highlight percentage (higher numbers increase the brightness of the highlights).

4. | To set the midtone light exposure level, drag the Exposure slider to increase or decrease the brightness of the image.

5. | To reset the exposure level to the original setting, click the 0 button.

6. | To adjust the saturation of the colors in the image:

o | Move the Saturation slider to increase or decrease the color saturation in the image. A value of -100 removes all color to create a black and white image. A value of +100 increases color saturation to the highest level.

o | To reset the color saturation to its original levels, click the 0 button.

1. | To adjust the contrast between colors in the image:

o | Move the Contrast slider to to increase or decrease the contrast between colors.

o | To reset the contrast to its original levels, click the 0 button.

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

Note: Highlight recovery restores detail to the overexposed areas 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 reset highlights to the original level, click the 0 button.

2. | To use the fill light feature, drag the Fill Light slider to increase or decrease the amount of light in the darker areas of the image.

Note: Fill light softens the shadows in the image. Values between 0 and 1.5 are effective for most images. Note that the fill light feature makes adjustments to images based on the contrast level set in the Fill Light dialog box.

1. | To reset the fill light to its original level, click the 0 button.

2. | To adjust the sharpness of the image, drag the Sharpening slider to increase or decrease the overall sharpness of the image and the contrast between neighboring pixels.

3. | To reset the sharpness to its original level, click the 0 button.

4. | To adjust the noise levels in the image using Noise Ninja functionality, drag the Basic Noise Ninja slider to the right to remove pattern noise from the image. Dragging the slider to the left increases the contrast between pixels.

5. | To have Bibble apply image editing features to enhance the image, click the Auto Correction check box.

Related Topics

Understanding Basic Image Editing Tools

Understanding Advanced Image Editing Tools