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The Image Right-Click Menu

The Image right-click menu is accessed by clicking the right mouse button in the Image Window.

Note: Many of the commands in this menu have keyboard shortcuts, and you may configure your own custom shortcuts.

Note: you may use the mouse wheel to zoom the the preview image.

  • Set Shadow creates a shadow point at the location on which you right clicked. The shadow point is selected by you as the darkest point that contains significant detail, or detail that is important to the interpretation of the final image. A maximum of one shadow point may be created per image, and some images, notably high key images have no shadow at all.
  • Set Highlight creates a highlight point at the location on which you right clicked. The highlight should be the brightest point that needs to retain detail, and it must be neutral. Not all images have a highlight.
  • Set Neutral specifies that the point that you right clicked on should be modified to contain no color. You may create multiple neutral points, and they may be useful in RGB or wg-CMYK modes. Only one neutral is used in Lab mode. The HSB color space ignores neutral points, since it is incapable of reducing the saturation of one color without also de-saturating all the colors of the image.

  • Contrast Pin adds two points to each curve, one at each end of the curve's color worm. You may then click and drag on the margin of one or more of the curves and rotate the two points relative to one another, changing the contrast of your image at the location you clicked.
  • Mark adds a colored triangular marker to each curve to flag the location image sample value. This may be used to designate a particular object or color of interest in a image, generally to indicate that the marked part of the curve should be kept relatively steep. For more discussion, see the description of BOS's workflow.
  • Quick Pin This sub-menu pins the current set of color curves to a variety of colors by creating control points on the curves. Being a "quick" pin, no sample point is created on the image by any of these commands.
    • Pin to Current - adds (pins) control points to the color curves to maintain the current color values at the designated image location.
    • Pin to Neutral - pins the color to a neutral value
    • Pin to Picker - pins the color to a value chosen using Photoshop's Color Picker.
    • Pin to Foreground - pins to Photoshop's foreground color
    • Pin to Background - pins to Photoshop's background color.

  • New Sample Point creates an eyedropper sample point at the location on which you right clicked. This sample point initially serves as an indicator of color values, but it may be changed to modify the specified color values in a variety ways, including curving a color to a specified hue, brightness, or color value.
  • Select All Sample Points Selects all the sample points in the image.

  • Mask Source submenu This sub-menu lists all the possible mask channels.
  • Blur Mask submenu This sub-menu controls the amount of blur applied to the mask.
  • Invert Mask - inverts the mask, so that light areas become dark and vice-versa.

  • Hide Ribbon - hides or shows the Ribbon Control. You may also type ctrl-R to do this, or use the menu item in the upper left corner of the main window to show the Ribbon when it is hidden.


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