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KODAK DIGITAL GEM Airbrush Professional Plug-In Blending Controls
At any time you can
reset all of the
adjustments to their
default positions by
clicking the Default
button. The options you
choose will remain
changed as long as you
click OK and apply the
changes. If you click
Cancel the settings will
revert to the setting in
place when you last
opened the Plug-In.
Blending Controls
If
you are
using
Windows,
you can
move a
slider
in
single
increment
steps
using
the left
and
right
arrow
keys on
your
keyboard
once you
have
selected
it by
clicking
on it or
using
the tab
key. You
can also
use the
page up
and page
down
keys to
move the
slider
in
larger
increments,
or the
home and
end keys
to move
the
slider
to the
minimum
and
maximum
values.
This
feature
is not
currently
available
using a
Mac.
Blending - This slider determines how much of the Plug-In effects will be applied to the image. At zero percent it is the same as not running the Plug-In at all, at one hundred percent it is applying as much effect as possible. Move the slider back and forth to apply as much effect as you desire.
 Blending Modes - The Blending mode choices control how the smoothed image is blended with the original. The Lighten mode lets light details come through unaffected by the Plug-In. If you have darker details (as complexion problems) the Lighten mode will smooth them out but lightened details like reflections are unaffected. If you have reflections (details) on a model's face and you want them to remove, and you want shadows to stay use the Darken mode. If you want to soften the shadows and reduce the reflections use the Normal mode.Technically, Normal mode blends the images by averaging them, weighted according to the blending slider. For example, if the blending slider is set at 75%, the final image will be 75% of the smoothed image and 25% of the original added together. Normal mode is the best choice for images where the maximum amount of smoothing is needed. The Lighten mode blends the original and smoothed by choosing which is lighter, weighted by the blending slider. For example, if the blending slider is set at 75%, if the smoothed image is lighter than the original, the result will be 75% of the smoothed added to 25% of the original. Where the smoothed image is darker, the result is equal to the original. The lighten mode with the blending slider set at 100% is usually the best choice for portraits, because it preserves the highlights. The Darken mode works like the lighten mode, except the smoothed image is blended only in areas where it is darker than the original. This mode tends to be most useful for artistic effects, like smoothing a dark background. The blending modes and slider work very similarly to the layer blending modes and sliders in Photoshop.
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