Home - Light Developer - Locally adjusting by a list of areas

A selected area is a mask over the image. Within the selection, where mask value is 255, functions and filters take effects. Outside it, no change happens.

The mask value, varied from 0 to 255, refers from non-selected to whole-selected. A feather function can be used to define the half-selected area, which controlling the gradients of the effects.

The selected area makes it possible to adjust a photo locally. But that’s not enough. Considering this case: multiple selected areas are needed for different processing parameters, what will happen in traditional software and the Light Developer?

For traditional software, the workflow may looks like this:

• Select areas and store it to list
• Restore first area
• Call a function to adjust this area, click OK
• Restore another area
• Call a function to adjust this area, click OK
• Repeat above steps…

While in the Light Developer, the workflow can be optimized to this:

• Select areas and store it to list.
• Call a function, adjust current area, click Apply
• Change to another area, different parameters, click Apply
• You may change functions, but in each function, you can adjust each area without quitting.

The ‘Filter Dialog’ can switch areas by clicking on the mask button.