Adjusting images

Brightness (exposure compensation)

This feature corrects the brightness of the entire image. You can set the exposure compensation value by moving the slider or entering a value. You can also increase or decrease the exposure compensation value by 1/3 EV each time you click the [+] or [-] button. When you click the [Reset] button, the value returns to its default.

White Balance

Creative Style/Creative Look

You can set the color rendering style. Select a style from the presets.
The Creative Style/Creative Look name and setting details are the same as those of the camera you are using.

Contrast

Contrast: When you click the [+] button, the contrast increases and the impression of the image becomes harder. When you click the [-] button, the contrast decreases and the impression of the image becomes softer.

Highlights: You can adjust the brightness of the brightest part. This function is convenient when you want to reduce clipped highlights.

Shadows: You can adjust the darkness of the darkest part. This function is convenient when you want to reduce clipped shadows.

Whites: You can adjust the brightness over the entire histogram based on the white level. This function is convenient when you want to adjust the dynamic range of the entire image.

Blacks: You can adjust the darkness over the entire histogram based on the black level. This function is convenient when you want to adjust the dynamic range of the entire image.

You can adjust the degree of fade in [Fade].

D-Range Optimizer

When [Auto] or [Manual] is selected, the D-Range Optimizer analyzes the scene and processes highlights and shadows individually to correct them to their optimal brightness and tone balances. When [Manual] is selected, you can perform fine-tuning for the appropriate amount using the [Amount] slider.

Highlight color distortion reduction

When [Advanced] is selected, the high-luminance areas (highlights), such as sky shot under very bright lighting conditions are adjusted and reproduced with a more natural tone.

Color

You can adjust the hue and saturation of the image.

Shading Compensation

Physical characteristics of the lens result in less illumination in peripheral areas of the image. You can compensate for this phenomenon by adjusting the center and peripheral areas separately.

Sharpness

In order to sharpen an image, set the level of enhancement for the contours.

Noise Reduction

When [Auto] is selected, automatic correction is performed at a level suitable for the image. If you select [Manual], you can adjust the amount of noise reduction, correct color noise (roughness of colors), and reduce edge noise.

Lens Correction

You can correct phenomena caused by physical characteristics of the lens, such as distortion and chromatic aberration.

Tone Curve

Histograms and tone curves for all the channels (RGBY) are displayed.

You can drag the tone curve to adjust each channel.

The horizontal axis indicates the brightness level of the original image, and the vertical axis indicates the brightness level of the adjusted image. Since the brightness levels of the input image and the output image are the same before adjustment, the tone curve is a straight line at a 45-degree angle in the upper right.

Select the channel ([Y (Brightness)], [R (Red)], [G (Green)], or [B (Blue)]) that you want to adjust from the drop-down list. Drag any point on the tone curve to the desired position in order to change the curve and adjust the brightness of the image. Dragging toward the upper left-hand corner makes the image brighter, and dragging toward the bottom right-hand corner makes it darker. To set a control point, click on a point in the area. The tone curve will go through the specified control point.

Select [Reset] to reset only the currently selected channel. Select [Reset All] to reset all the channels.

Display Control

You can display clipped shadows, clipped highlights, and out-of-gamut colors. [Details]

Px. Shift Multi Shoot. Correction

You can reduce noise that appears at the edges of images in Pixel Shift Multi Shooting. This noise is caused by vibrations, etc. You can adjust the amount of correction using the slider.

This panel is displayed only when you select an ARQ image shot with Pixel Shift Multi Shooting.

Version Stack

RAW data in the ARW format can contain multiple sets of image-processing data. Therefore, you can save multiple sets of results from various edits as groups of parameters in one RAW file.

• Displaying the version stacking window

  Click in the locked palette and open the [Version Stack] palette.
  A list of versions of the currently selected image is displayed. An asterisk (*) appears next to a version that has been modified.

  

• Creating a new version

  When you click (Create New Version), the currently selected version is copied and added as a new version.

• Switching versions

  Click a version in the version list to select and edit it.

• Setting a version as the “Current Version”

  The version to be used as the default version when a particular version is not specified is called the “Current Version.” In the versions list, click a version to set as the “Current Version,” and then click [Set to Current Version]. The next time you launch the application, the selected image will be the “Current Version.”

• Deleting a version

  Click a version in the versions list, and then click (Delete Selected Version). You cannot delete the “As Shot Version.” If you delete the currently edited version, the preceding version becomes the currently edited version. If you delete the “Current Version,” the preceding version becomes the “Current Version.”