Nikon 4.2 manual Photo Effects Settings Menu, Effect menu, Enhance Dark Tones Auto button

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Photo Effects

The Photo Effects palette is used to convert pictures to black-and-white, sepia, or another monochrome tint, or to adjust the brightness of the cyan/red, magenta/green, and yellow/ blue channels.

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1 Display the Photo Effects palette

Select the tool palette containing the Photo Effects palette from the View menu (the default location is Tool Palette 1) and click the triangle at the top left corner of the palette.

2 If the Apply button is off ( ) , turn it on ( )

3 Adjust settings

Effect: Choose Black and White to convert the image in the active window to black and white, Sepia to convert the image to sepia, or Tinted to con- vert the image to another monochrome tint by dragging the balance sliders. Select None to use the balance sliders to adjust the brightness and contrast of the cyan/red, magenta/green, and yellow/blue channels in the original image.

Apply button

Settings button

Effect menu

Brightness/contrast

Enhance Dark Tones

Auto button

Cyan/red

Magenta/green

Yellow/blue

Balance sliders

Brightness/contrast slider: Drag the slider to the right to increase overall brightness and contrast, to the left to reduce bright- ness and contrast, or enter a value between –100 and +100 directly in the text box to the right of the slider.

Enhance Dark Tones: Select this option to bring out details in shadows.

Auto: Click this button to optimize brightness and contrast without affecting color balance. Enhance Dark Tones is auto- matically selected.

Balance sliders: Use these sliders to adjust the brightness and contrast of the cyan/red, magenta/green, and yellow/ blue channels, or enter a value between –100 and +100 directly in the text boxes to their right. If the image has been converted to black-and-white or sepia, only the brightness of shades originally in the selected channels will be affected. If Tinted is selected, the balance sliders control the choice of monochrome tint.

The Photo Effects Settings Menu

Clicking the triangle in the top right corner of the Photo Effects palette dis- plays the Photo Effects settings menu.

Option

Description

Copy to Clipboard

Copy current Photo Effects settings to the clipboard.

 

Select this item to load settings previously saved using the Save… option (see below). A dialog will be displayed where you

Load…

can navigate to the drive (volume) and directory containing the desired settings file (only files with the extension “.npe” will

 

be displayed). The settings in the Photo Effects palette will instantly revert to the saved settings.

 

Select this item to save Photo Effects settings to a named file. These settings can later be recalled using the Load… option.

Save…

Choosing Save… displays a dialog where you can choose a destination and file name for current Photo Effects settings.

 

Photo Effects settings are saved with the extension “.npe”.

Reset to Neutral

Reset Photo Effects settings to default values.

Recent files

Recent Photo Effects settings files (up to four) are listed at the end of the settings menu. Selecting a file from the list sets

the controls in Photo Effects palette to the saved settings.

 

The Settings Menu

The Photo Effects Settings menu can also be displayed by selecting Photo Effects from the Settings menu.

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