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Effects Descriptions

Add Noise

Granulates the image, creating a less-define image.

Options:

Level (0 to 1000)

Channel (Master, Red, Green, Blue)

Anti-Alias

Smooths the jagged edges of the picture.

Options:

Threshold - 0 through 255

Mask Size - 1 through 25

Filter - Vertical and Horizontal, Omnidirectional, Omnidirectional - Alternate Filter, Horizontal, Vertical, Diagonal

Auto-Trim

Trims the image, removing blank space, usually white space, around the edges.

Options: Threshold - 0 to 244

Average

Changes the color of each pixel in the image to the average color of pixels in its neighborhood. This results in a blur effect. You control the amount of blur by specifying the size of the neighborhood that is used for averaging.

Options: Sample size - 3 to 11

Bending

Bends the image around an axis.

Options:

Bending Settings include Value (-500 to 500) and Type (Normal, Vertically, Horizontally).

Exposed Area (Use Color, Stretch Image, Don't Change, Rotate)

Pivot (sets x,y coordinates)

Border Remove

Removes borders from 1-bit images. To fine-tune the performance of this feature, try modifying the values for White Noise Length, Border Percent, and variance.

Options:

Settings - Border Percent, White Noise, Variance

Border to Remove - Left, Right, Top, Bottom

Image Modification

Brightness

Changes the intensity, or brightness, of the image to the specified level.

Options: Percentage

Buttonize

Transforms the image to make it look like a 3D button by adding translucent bevels to the edges of the image.

Options:

Style - Rectangle, Rim, Round, Double Round

Bevel Width

Intensity

Color Resolution

Converts the image from any bits-per-pixel to any bits-per-pixel, letting you specify the palette to use. Also, when converting to 16-bits per pixel or higher, you can specify RGB or BGR color order.

Options:

Bits Per Pixel - 1 to 8, 12, 16, 24, 32

Color Order - Blue-Green-Red, Red-Green-Blue

Colored Gray Filter

Converts the processed images to grayscale, then enhances the color components based on the specified parameters. You can use the Colored Gray Filter to give images an old-fashioned look by adding a blue or brown color. Red Value Weight + Green Value Weight + Blue Value Weight must equal 1000. The software divides each value by 1000.

For example, if you set the Red Value Weight set to 500, the Green Value Weight to 250, and the Blue Value Weight to 250, the red value of each pixel gets 50% of the weight when determining the grayscale value. The green value gets 25% of the weight, and the blue value gets 25% of the weight when determining the grayscale value. This highlights or enhances the red in the bitmap, prior to conversion to grayscale. Upon conversion to grayscale, the red, green, and blue components of the output pixel are the same. Call this value G. Therefore, the RGB values for the pixel would be (G, G, G).

Once the grayscale value for the pixel has been obtained, the red component of the output pixel can be further modified using the Red Weight Factor Modifier value. The equation for this is as follows:

Goutput-red = G + G * Red Weight Factor Modifier / 1000

The green and blue components are found similarly, using the Green Weight Factor Modifier and the Blue Weight Factor Modifier values, respectively.

The Red Weight Factor Modifier, Green Weight Factor Modifier, and Blue Weight Factor Modifier values can be negative. A negative value results in a decrease in pixel intensity. A positive value results in an increase in pixel intensity.

Options:

Red Value Weight

Green Value Weight

Blue Value Weight

Red Weight Factor Modifier

Green Weight Factor Modifier

Blue Weight Factor Modifier

Contour

Performs a contour segment filter on the bitmap.

Options:

Option: Thinned Image, Linked Image - Black and White, Linked Image - Grayscales, Linked Image - Color, Segment Approximation - Color

Threshold - 1 to 254

Delta Direction - 1 to 64

Maximum Error - 0 to 255, with 5 being the most commonly-used setting

Contrast

Sets the contrast of the image.

Options: Percentage - -1000 to +1000

Crop

Trims the image, resulting in an image that is the size of the specified rectangle.

Options:

Use Percentage - 0 to 40

Use Dimension - Left, Top, Right, Bottom, with range from 0 to 32767

Cylindrical

Sets the cylindrical shape of the image.

Options:

Value (-100 to 100)

Type (0 = Horizontal; 1 = Vertical)

Deskew

Rotates the image to straighten it. This method typically is used to automatically straighten scanned images. The calculated rotation is limited to 10 degrees in either direction. This feature is intended for images, such as scanned documents, that are mainly horizontal lines of text. The results are unpredictable with other types of images.

Options: None

Despeckle

Removes speckles from the image. Typically, this feature is used to clean up scanned images, such as FAX images. This option removes 1-pixel speckles, and shrinks some larger speckles. Therefore, in some cases, larger speckles can be completely removed by running it more than once.

Options: None

Dilate

Dilates the image by enlarging each pixel exponentially according to the file's composition.

Options:

Type (Omnidirectional = 4; Horizontal = 5; Vertical = 6; Diagonal = 7)

Dot Remove

Finds and removes dots, specks, and blobs of various sizes in 1-bit documents. The dots, specks, and blobs may or may not be all black. This option works only on 1-bit black and white images.

Options:

Use DPI

Use Dot Dimensions

Use Diagonals

Dot Dimensions - Minimum and Maximum Dot Width

DPI Resolution

Options:

Resolution (set width and height in dpi)

Lock sets width and height to the same value.

Default returns the values to 96 dpi.

Edge Detector

Threshold ranges include the following:

Note: The threshold is applied on channels separately.

Possible values for indicating which filter to apply.

257 - Detect the vertical edges - Sobel.

258 - Detect the horizontal edges - Sobel.

259 - Detect horizontal & vertical edges - Sobel.

513 - Detect the vertical edges - Prewitt

514 - Detect the horizontal edges - Prewitt

515 - Detect horizontal & vertical edges - Prewitt

301 - Detect vertical & horizontal edges - Laplacian

769 - Detect general edges - Laplacian

771 - Detect general edges - Laplacian

772 - Detect the diagonal edges - Laplacian

773 - Detect the horizontal edges - Laplacian

774 - Detect the vertical edges - Laplacian

1025 - Detect north edges - Gradient

1026 - Detect north east edges - Gradient

1027 - Detect east edges - Gradient

1028 - Detect south east edges - Gradient

1029 - Detect south edges - Gradient

1030 - Detect south west edges - Gradient

1031 - Detect west edges - Gradient

1032 - Detect north west edges - Gradient

Emboss

Applies an emboss effect to the image, letting you specify the depth and direction of the effect.

Options:

Direction - North, North-East, East, South-East, South, South-West, West, North-West,

Depth - 0 to 1000

Erode

Brightens an image by enlarging the bright regions of the original image.

Options:

Type (Omnidirectional = 0; Horizontal = 1; Vertical = 2; Diagonal = 3)

Flip

Flips the image from top to bottom.

Options: None

Gamma Correct

Adjusts the intensity of colors in the image by changing the gamma constant that is used to map the intensity values. Intensity values ideally follow a logarithmic progression, because the eye perceives changes in intensity as being equal when the ratio of change is equal. For example, we would see a change from 0.1 to 0.2 as being equal to a change from 0.2 to 0.4. Gamma is a standard constant that is used to calculate the progression. For most CRTs, the gamma constant is in the range of 2.2 to 2.5. Because this value is an unsigned integer, the value is 100 times the actual gamma value. For example, you must enter 235 in the Value box to set a gamma value of 2.35.

Options: Value - 1 to 499

Gaussian Blur

Applies a type of filter that is especially good for grainy or speckled images. In this type of effect, pixel weights are not equal. They decrease from kernel center to edges according to a bell-shaped curve called Gaussian.

Each pixel in the image being processed is blurred based on neighborhood pixels. The Size parameter determines the size of the neighborhood to consider when blurring a pixel. The result is a blurred version of the original image.

Options: Size, 1 to 50

Gradient

Options:

Direction

Grayscale

Converts a 1-, 4-, 8-, 16-, 24-, or 32-bit image to an 8-, 12-, or 16-bit grayscale image.

Options:

Weight

Half-tone

Converts a 1-, 4-, 8-, 16-, 24-, or 32-bit image to a halftoned bitmap. A halftoned bitmap is a 1-bit bitmap that has been dithered for black and white printing or display. If the bitmap is originally 1-bit but is not black and white, this method changes it to black and white.

Options: Angle - -360 to 360

HistoContrast

Increases or decreases the contrast of the image, using a histogram to determine the median brightness. This method finds the median brightness of the image; then brightens the pixels with values above the median and darkens the pixels with values below the median. This is more sophisticated, but slower, than the Contrast feature, which uses the middle possible value, 128, rather than finding the actual median.

Options: Percentage - -100 to 100

Hole Punch Remove

This feature detects and removes hole punches, common in scanned documents. The feature works only on 1-bit black and white images. Hole punch configurations may consist of 2 or more holes.

Options:

Measure Unit

Hole Location

Hole Dimensions - Use Default Dimensions, Minimum Width, Minimum Height, Maximum Width, Maximum Height

Hole Punch Count - Use Default Count, Minimum Holes, Maximum Holes

Hue

Changes the hue of colors in the bitmap by rotating the color wheel. This feature can rotate the color wheel in either direction. A 180-degree rotation in either direction changes each color to its complement. Positive rotation takes red toward green, green toward blue, and blue toward red. Negative rotation has the opposite effect.

Options: Angle - -360 to 360

Impressionist

Dabbles the image such as an impressionist artist would do.

Options:

Horizontal Dimension (1 - 100

Vertical Dimension (1 - 100)

Intensity Detect

Filters the image to detect colors in a specified intensity range. Intensity levels range from 0 to 255 for each color plane, red, green, and blue. This feature processes each plane separately. If a value falls within the range, it is raised to 255, and if it falls outside the range, it is lowered to 0.

Options:

Low - 0 to 255

High - 0 to 255

In Color:

The color used to fill those pixels having an intensity value between Low and High. This setting has no effect if the Channel parameter is set to MASTER. If for example the Channel is set to RED, then the red component of In Color will be used to fill the pixels having a red component value between Low and High.

Out Color:

The color used to fill those pixels having an intensity value less than Low or greater than High. This parameter has no effect if the Channel setting is MASTER. If for example the Channel setting is set to RED, then the red component of Color Out will be used to fill the pixels having a red component value less than Low or greater than High.

Channel:

MASTER = 0 (Grayscale Channel)

RED = 1 (Red Channel)

GREEN = 10 (Green Channel)

BLUE = 100 (Blue Channel)

Invert

Inverts the colors in the image, making it like a photographic negative. This feature can also be used to invert the color of a 1-bit image, making the black white and the white black.

Options: None

Invert Text

Inverts the colors in the image, making it like a photographic negative. This feature can also be used to invert the color of a 1-bit image, making the black white and the white black.

Options:

Measure Unit

Invert - Minimum Width and Minimum Height

Black Percent - Minimum and Maximum

Image Modification - Show Changes as Color Selection, Black Area, White Area

Laplacian Filter

Filter Value - 1, 2, 3, Diagonal, Horizontal, Vertical

Line Remove

Removes horizontal and vertical lines in a 1-bit black and white image. This method removes horizontal and vertical lines from scanned text documents. If the lines pass through text, the parameters can be set to remove or preserve the text. This method works only on 1-bit black and white images. To fine-tune the performance of this feature, try modifying the values for Wall, Gap Length and variance.

Options:

Measure unit:

Remove - Horizontal, Vertical

Dimensions - Minimum Length, Maximum Width, Wall Height, Max Wall Percent

Optional Processing - Line variance, Maximum Gap, Remove Entire Line

Line Segment

Place line segments of an image on a black background.

Options:

Filter Value (Horizontal, Vertical, Left to Right Diagonal, Right to Left Diagonal

Max Filter

Erodes dark objects by the amount that you specify. This is a more controlled version of the omni-directional erosion filter that you can set with the Binary Filter option. You control the effect by specifying the size of the neighborhood that is used for calculating each pixel value. For example, for 8x8, pass a value of 8. Each pixel is replaced with the maximum value of its neighborhood.

Options Sample Size - 3 to 11

Median

Changes the color of each pixel in the image to the median color of pixels in its neighborhood. This is similar to the Average method, but it is used for noise reduction, rather than a blur effect. You control the effect by specifying the size of the neighborhood that is used for calculating the median value. For 8x8, pass a value of 8.

Options: Sample Size - 3 to 11

Min Filter

Dilates dark objects by the amount that you specify. This is a more controlled version of the omni-directional dilation filter that you can set with the Binary Filter option. You control the effect by specifying the size of the neighborhood that is used for calculating each pixel value. For example, for 8x8, pass a value of 8. Each pixel is replaced with the minimum value of its neighborhood.

Options: Sample Size - 3 to 11

Mosaic

Imposes a mosaic effect on the image by dividing the image into tiles of a specified size and changing the color of all pixels in each tile to the average color of pixels within the tile.

Options: Tile Size

Motion Blur

Increases or decreases the contrast of the image by the level, or percentage, that you specify.

Options:

Size

Angle

Unidirectional

Multiply

Multiply by designated factor.

This feature increases or decreases the brightness in an image by multiplying the colors in the specified image by a value equal to the Factor value divided by 100.

For example, if Factor is 131, the colors in the specified image will be multiplied by 1.31).

Oilify

Applies an oil-painting effect to the image. You control the effect by specifying the size of the neighborhood that is used for calculating the pixel value. For example, for 8x8, pass a value of 8. You increase the size of the neighborhood in order to decrease the amount of detail in the resulting image.

Options: Sample size - 3 to 11

Pixelate

Image appears as pixels (blocks) of color.

Options:

Pixelate (Mode - Rectangle, Radial; and Type - Maximum, Minimum, Average)

Width (period or frequency)

Height (period or frequency)

Pivot (x,y coordinates)

Opacity (0 to 100)

Polar

Image flows instead of having true definition.

Options:

Conversion Option (Rectangular to Polar, Polar to Rectangular)

Exposed Area (only available if conversion is set to Rectangular to Polar) Options include Don't Change, Stretch Image, Use Color)

Posterize

Imposes a poster effect on the image by quantizing the image's colors to a specified number of color levels per plane. For example, two levels means two of red, two of green, and two of blue.

Options: Levels per color plane - 2 to 64

Prewitt

Options: Horizontal, Vertical

Punch

Punches a hole at a specified location in an image.

Options:

Punch Settings include Value (-500 to 500) and Stress (0 to 1000). Stress is only available when Value is set to zero or higher.

Exposed Area options include Use Color, Stretch Image, Don't Change.

Pivot options set the x,y coordinates for hole punch area.

Radial Blur

Creates a radial blur of a section of an image. Select the area by cursor position.

Options:

Radial Blur settings include Size (2 to 100) and Stress (0 to 15).

Pivot options set the x,y coordinates for radial blur area.

Radial Wave

Creates a radial wave of a section of an image. Select the area by cursor position.

Options:

Radial Wave settings include Type (Period or Frequency), Length (1 to 57), Phase (-36000 to 36000), and Amplitude (1 to 100).

Exposed Area options include Use Color, Stretch Image, and Don't Change.

Pivot options set the x,y coordinates for radial blur area.

Resample

Resizes the image, using interpolation and averaging to produce a higher-quality image than is achieved with normal resizing. This method will take more time to complete than the normal resize operation, however.

Options:

Width - px

Height - px

Keep Aspect - true or false

Resize

Resizes the image to a new width and height. This changes the storage requirements of the image, and is not the same as scaling the display - zooming out or zooming in.

Options:

Width - px

Height - px

Keep Aspect - true or false

Ripple

Produces a wave-like ripple effect on the image.

Options:

Frequency - 1 to 100

Height - 1 to 100

Direction - Horizontal, Vertical

Rotate

Rotates the image by the degree specified, and lets you define the background color to be uncovered.

Uses the center of the bitmap as the center of rotation. It can rotate the bitmap clockwise or counterclockwise up to 360 degrees in hundredth-of-a-degree increments. It can resize the bitmap to accommodate the rotated height and width, or it can retain the original height and width, cropping the bitmap as necessary. It lets you specify the background color to fill any new area created by the rotation. Note - The only images that are interpolated are 8-bit grayscale images. For best results, all gray values should be in the image's palette. If the rotation doesn't give the expected results, you can call Grayscale - 8 to change the image into a proper grayscale image. 12-bit and 16-bit grayscale images that don't have a palette. Grayscale images can have a palette if they have been loaded from certain DICOM images 16-bit color images 24-bit, 32-bit, 48-bit and 64-bit color images.

Options:

Clockwise Angle

Resize

Background Color

Saturation

Increases or decreases the saturation of colors in the image. Negative values decrease the saturation of colors. Positive values increase the saturation. The saturation level is increased or decreased by a percentage of its present saturation level. For example, an increase of 20% of the current saturation level L raises the new saturation level L1 to a value of L + 0.20 * L. Likewise, increasing the saturation level 100% doubles the saturation level, L1 = L + 1.0 * L. Decreasing the saturation level 100% sets the new saturation level to 0. This process is carried out for every pixel.

Options: Percentage - -1000 to 1000

Sharpen

Increases or decreases the sharpness of the image. Negative values decrease the sharpness of the image. Specify -1000 for minimum sharpness. Positive values increase the sharpness. Specify +1000 for maximum sharpness.

Options: Percentage - -1000 to 1000

Shear

Skews image based on angle specified.

Options:

Clockwise Angle (degrees): sets degree of shear, from -45 to 45.

Background: select a background color.

Horizontal: selects axis for rotation (vertical is default).

Spherize

Rounds a section of an image, as specified in the x,y coordinates.

Options:

Spherize - Value (-500 to 500)

Exposed Area - Use Color, Stretch Image, Don't Change, Rotate

Pivot - x,y

Shift and Difference

Creates an outline of an image on a black background.

Options:

Filter values (Diagonal, Horizontal, Vertical)

Smooth

This feature smooths the text in scanned text documents. This option works only on 1-bit black and white images.

Options:

Bump/Nicks Length

Favor Long Bump/Nicks

Favor Short Bump/Nicks

Image Modification (Show changes as Color Selection: black area, white area)

Sobel

Horizontal

Vertical

Solarize

Applies an effect that mimics the accidental exposure of photographic film to light. It does so by inverting all color data with an intensity value greater than or equal to the threshold that you specify.

Options: Threshold - 1 to 255

Stretch Intensity

Increases the contrast in an bitmap by centering, maximizing, and proportioning the range of intensity values. Unlike the Contrast feature, this option always retains the original number of different intensity values. Ordinary contrast adjustments can lose values at the high and low ends of the scale.

Options: None

Swirl

Transforms the image by making it look as if it were swirled from the center.

Options: Degrees, -360 to 360

Unsharp Mask

Masks sections of the image.

Options:

Amount (0 - 500)

Radius (1 - 1000)

Threshold (0 - 255)

Apply mask on (RGB color space, YUV color space)

Wave

Creates waves of the image.

Options:

Wave Settings

Exposed Area - Use Color, Stretch Image, Don't Change

Wave Shear

Creates curves of the image.

Options:

Wave Settings - Direction (Horizontal, Vertical); Scale (1 to 100)

Exposed Area - Don't Change, Use Color, Stretch Image

Wave Curve - Curve Mode (Curve, Linear); Flip (Both Directions, Vertically, Horizontally)

Reset

Load

Save

Wind

Creates illusion of wind action.

Options:

Strength - (2 to 100)

Direction (Angle) - (-360 to 360 degrees)

Opacity - (0 - 100)

Zoom Blur

Zooms in on a section of an image and blurs that area.

Options:

Zoom Blur - Size (2 to 100), Stress (0 to 100)

Pivot - x,y coordinates

Zoom Wave

Zooms in on a section of an image and waves that area.

Options:

Zoom Wave - Frequency, Amplitude, Phase, Zoom Factor

Exposed Area - Use Color, Stretch Image, Don't Change

Pivot - x,y coordinates