Photo Editing Improvements

• Shadow & Highlight controls • Selective Enhance-by-color • Auto-rotation of digital camera images • Panorama stitching improvements • PhotoTools 2 plug-in

New Shadow & Highlight controls

There are two new Photo Enhance controls that appear on the Photo Tool  InfoBar. The new Enhance Shadows control will lighten darker areas of photos without affecting the mid-tone or lighter areas. This is more sophisticated than a simple brightness or levels adjustment in that it’s selective about what dark areas it enhances.  It typically avoids adjusting very small areas, e.g. single dark pixels, and only adjusts larger areas of darker colors. Below are some examples: Click to enlarge The original image is on the left. The center one has the had shadows enhanced with the new tool. The