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Still Image Manipulation
When you place a still image on the Timeline or Storyboard, four editing buttons appear next to the Magic Tools buttons. These buttons, PhotoNow, Color, Duration, and Delete enable you to do the following: PhotoNow is a new tool in PowerDirector. It is an image editor that enables you to make adjustments to your still images. Three AutoFix tools are available that enable you to auto adjust brightness, contrast, and color balance. You can view the changes versus the original image, view just the new image or just the original.
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| PhotoNow is built into PowerDirector 4 so you don't have to launch a dedicated image editor to adjust an image. |
In addition, across the top of the PhotoNow window resides more tool icons, which include the just mentioned autofix tools, manual fix, which enables you to manually adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, and sharpness; a rotate tool for rotating images; a crop tool for cropping out unneeded aspects of an image; redeye removal tool; a special effects tool that offers filters for creating images with mosaics, pencil sketch, spotlight, mosaic, monochrome tint, and blur.
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| Monochrome tint adds a classic look. |
All these filters can also be adjusted for intensity via a slider; a resize tool that enables you to resize an image by percentage or pixel by pixel; and a Zoom tool for zooming in and out of an image. After you are finished editing your image in PhotoNow, when you close the application, the PowerDirector window reappears.
Color enables you to adjust your video's brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, and sharpness. These are adjusted via sliders, and as you move the sliders, a preview of the adjustment is shown in real time on the image in the preview window, so you could tweak your video or image on the Timeline and see what the changes will do to the video/image before you commit to the change. When a video is highlighted on the Timeline, other buttons appear next to the Magic Tools. These include a trim tool, multi trim tool, and speed, which stretches or mutes the audio and changes the video length.
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