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The Showfoto Handbook

Gilles Caulier

Gerhard Kulzer

Revision 0.9.2 (2007-05-04)
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Showfoto is a KDE stand alone Photo Editor based on Showfoto Image Editor. Showfoto is a part of Showfoto project.


Table of Contents

1. Introduction
Background
About Showfoto
Reporting Bugs
Support
Getting Involved
Supported File Formats
Still Photograph Formats
Moving Image Formats (Videos)
2. The Showfoto sidebar
Showfoto sidebar
Introduction to the right sidebar
Properties
The Metadata Tabs
Colors
3. Using Showfoto
Photographic Editing - Workflow
Image Editing/Workflow Tools
Processing RAW image files, RAW work-flow
Color editing tools
Image enhancement
Image transformation tools
Adding decorative elements
Special Effects (Filters)
ICC color profile management
Soft Proofing
Rendering intention
Links
Showfoto Configuration
The Configuration Dialog
4. Menu Descriptions
The Image Editor
The File Menu
The Edit Menu
The Color Menu
The Enhance Menu
The Transform Menu
The Decoration Menu
The View Menu
The Filter Menu
The Settings Menu
The Help Menu
5. Credits and License
A. Installation
How to Obtain Showfoto
Requirements
Compilation and Installation

List of Examples

2.1. Sidebar File Properties
2.2. sidebar Metadata GPS info
2.3. The Histogram Viewer in Action
2.4. An Image Histogram in All Colors Mode
2.5. An Over Exposed Photograph
2.6. A Correctly Exposed Photograph
2.7. An Under Exposed Photograph
3.1. The Apply Texture Tool in Action
3.2. Normalize Colors Correction Preview
3.3. Equalize Colors Correction Preview
3.4. Auto Levels Correction Preview
3.5. Stretch Contrast Correction
3.6. The Brightness Contrast Gamma Tool in Action
3.7. Original versus Vivid filter
3.8. The neon filter
3.9. The Color Balance Tool in Action
3.10. The Hue Saturation Lightness Tool in Action
3.11. The Black & White Filter tool in Action
3.12. The Sharpen Tool in Action
3.13. The Red Eyes Correction Tool in Action
3.14. The Blur Tool in Action
3.15. The Resize Tool Dialog
3.16. The Current Image Selection in Image Editor
3.17. The Aspect Ratio Crop Tool Dialog
3.18. Image Composition Example Using Rules of Third
3.19. Photograph Composition Example Using Harmonious Triangles
3.20. Image Composition example using Golden Spiral
3.21. Image Composition example using Golden Spiral Sections
3.22. Photograph Composition Example Using Golden Triangle
3.23. Image Composition example using Golden Sections
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