user manual - PROJECTS SOFTWARE
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1. B RW e B rer PHOTO projects3 wv ge B j fig Exposure Bracketing To the left of the HDR weight default settings exposure bracket Equal ing you can see the whole expo sure bracketing We with each image aft y Synthetic m and a weighting Weak Global weight 50 mask created by the HDR algorithm ipa evalue EV 100 wre being displayed Here you can exclude images from the ere calculation change 1 eee the global weight or the lighting and 7 7 re sort the image dark osure value EV O Yo bright sequence 7 MA ak G b 3 Weld ht 50 You can add syn thetic images to y j the A cel at A Synthetic bracketing that are Global weight 50 weak always created Exposure value EV 50 fo bright from the master image Add synthetic image HDR Algorithms HDR projects 3 offers 9 different HDR calculation methods algo rithms which you can find in the upper right of the screen The algorithm Average creates the simple aver age of your image se quence and lets you compare image sharp ness without determin ing the luminance per pixel Don t get hung up on the technical terminology Just go ahead and try the different algorithms by clicking on them and decide which one best Suits your image Below the algorithms you have the parameter area for every selected algo rithm There are also tooltips here next to the controls which will2. to push the HDR weighting in a certain direction Low halo adjust ment gives more weight to bright areas of the image and high halo adjustment gives more weight to darker parts of the image 10 HDR Painter Activate the button Edit weightings brush icon in the upper toolbar to open the HDR painter for area retouching File Edit View Extras Add ons Information a TH RAW TA oe ae A O PHOTO projects 3 Y o gt FS Oh E Raa If you have activated area retouching a colour display of your expo sure bracketing will be shown In our example the exposure bracketing consists of three images that were assigned to the colours red green and blue These col ours indicate which image area has been created from which image In order to manually change the weighting for a certain area for example from the blue background image which means that only the background image will be used during the calculation of the HDR fusion select the blue colour from the retouching toolbar the Increase weighting tool and the stance in order to decrease the weighting of all the other images With this technique you can change and edit your HDR image as you wish delete moving objects ghosting or assign certain areas to your desired exposure 11 RAW Module The RAW module is a RAW processor integrated into the program Simply click on the RAW symbol in the tool list to access this func tion There are 9 different a
3. need them anymore Note Undo points save the whole project with all weightings and source images Therefore they take up a lot of space on your hard disk drive Use them with care The same is true for saving projects as the timeline will be saved with every save file that you create You can switch this function off in the options Batch Processing Batch processing is accessible through Menu gt Extras gt Batch processing Once the batch processing has been activated a window with vari ous setting options as well as a preview of the images located in the source folder will appear At the top of the screen you can choose the source folder for the batch processing and enter the name of the destination folder where the results should be saved You can also set what file type the images should be saved as For example when you only want to select RAW files from the cur rent folder select Camera RAW 19 In the Processing settings you can choose HDR default settings and post processing filters for your images After you have arranged all the settings accordingly click on the Start button at the bottom right and the batch processing will convert the selected images Saving Final Images You can save your final images either with the corresponding button in the toolbar on the upper left by selecting Save final image in the File menu or by using the respective hot key Ctrl S 20 H
4. other If you have found your desired setting this way simply press Esc on your keyboard to apply this value to your image 17 External Programs There are two steps to transfer an image to an external program The projects Interface All programs in the projects product family are automatically regis tered Images can be directly transferred to the desired program using the dropdown list re BLACK WHITE projects 3 v PROJECTS A transfer BLACK amp WHITE projects 3 is selected here as an exam ple The Main Interface The main interface for external programs can be configured solely through settings Menu gt Extras gt Settings The path for external editors General Photoshop CC Lightroom Photoshop Elements can be configured here You can transfer a photo to one of the four external editors with the tool list t Bm External image processing Simply click on the arrow be side the transfer button and Photoshop CS6 CC then on one of the four pro A 4 5 grams to transfer the image Photoshop Elements 11 12 The Timeline The timeline displays all of your currently available undo steps Every time you create an undo step an entry will be added to the timeline You can jump to this undo step anytime you like by clicking on Revert to restore point underneath every image in the timeline In addition you can delete restore points from the timeline if you don t
5. projects From left to right Image data browser This tool allows you to search through folders for images A preview of the images found will be displayed and you can import them directly by right clicking on them and using the context menu that pops up Load single images and exposure series Use this buttons to load images or exposure series directly All common image formats camera RAW formats and HDR image formats are supported Open project You can load existing projects by clicking on this button Batch processing Click on this button to go to batch processing Here you can process several images automatically Load example projects 1 3 With one of these three buttons you can open and work on a photo series in order to familiarize yourself with the pro gram without having to load your own photo series Drag amp Drop Functions The software has a powerful drag and drop function that can de cide depending on the file that you drop into the program window what to do with the file Single images will be loaded directly Folders will open the image browser Project files will be opened directly Addons praddon will be detected and imported automat ically HDR Creation Editing the exposure bracketing is the first step towards an impres sive HDR final image In order to go to this area select Edit expo sure bracketing in the upper toolbar File Edit view Extras Add ons Information
6. HDR projects 3 USER MANUAL HDR projects 3 FRANZIS System Requirements Windows 8 1 8 7 Vista 32 64 bit Dual Core Processor 2 GB RAM 2 GB HDD Screen Resolution 1280 x 1024 Pixels Graphic Card Di rectX 8 compatible 128 MB 32 bit colour depth Mac OS X 10 7 and higher 64 bit Intel Processor G5 2 GB RAM 2 GB HDD Screen Resolution 1280 x 1024 Pixels Internet connection required for software activation Installation on Windows The start screen for the installation will normally be automatically displayed If the auto start function of your CD DVD drive is deac tivated open the start screen manually by going to My Computer double clicking on the CD DVD drive symbol and then the exe file to start Setup Sprache ausw hlen yg x W hlen Sie die Sprache aus die w hrend der Installation benutzt werden soll Abbrechen Choose German English or French as setup language and follow the installation assistant s instructions During the installation you will be asked if you would like to install the Adobe Photoshop plug in If you agree to this you can use HDR projects 3 as a plug in for Adobe Photoshop Alternatively the plug ins can also be manually copied into the Adobe Pho toshop plug in folder Select the plug in entry folder in the CD start menu to open it Installation on Mac Load your CD into your CD DVD drive and open the installation menu through the desktop D
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8. ates the intel ligent colour space in all calculations of the software and creates higher detail structures in the colours while increasing calculation times Intelligent colour space SCA method Colour median balanced Sok ha Be j F alt a i i Ta To oe jm i i i ea es i ce U PRAS UOU YS j PTE TET ETO Ce ci Te PT Tree rorr er To TTET 14 Light effect of the tone mapping Determine if the tonal value compression is based on daylight dawn or an image taken by night Note If you do not select tone mapping as an effect you won t see any changes Optimisation Assistant The optimisation assistant is a tool that remembers your prefer ences Values for optimised denoising tonal values clarity dynamic and image sharpness will be automatically determined for the current focus stack These values can also be changed later on If you save an image with a different setting these values will be calculated into an individual trend that will be made available to you for the next stack This trend will be indicated on the sliders by a bright area setting it apart from the calculated optimum In this way the optimisation assistant evolves over time to your preferred image style Scratch amp Sensor Spot Correction Scratch and sensor spot correction can be found on the right hand side in the Finalise window down at the bottom with good rea son A scratch and sensor spot correction shoul
9. d always be the last task to be performed 15 As soon as the correction has been activated a new window will open The work area is in the middle and the settings can be adjust ed on the right side Choosing the expert tab you can edit effects in different areas of the interface At the top of the expert mode panel you can see a list of all the available post processing filters Double clicking on one of them will add it to the end of the list of effects you have selected If you want to change the values of a single effect within the list select the effect by left clicking on it You can now see an area with all the parameters for the effect you have chosen below the list of selected effects Here you can choose the settings for the processing method with the corresponding opacity effect intensity colours positions and many more Please also note that you have a context menu available within the list of selected effects In order to get the hang of these values you can either take a look at the tooltips or just click on some default settings and see how the effects and their respective parameters change 16 Another effective Balance local contrast option for setting up parameters is the real time preview To the left of every Slider in the parameter area you Mask 9 protect extremes a Z can find a play button Clicking on it will make the respective slider go in one direction and then in the
10. djustment options in this module White balance Denoising amp Sharpness Colour Balance Exposure Detail Colour Palette Distortion General Note Editing is equally as possible with JPEG and TIF files 12 Post Processing As soon as you have loaded an image or a project into the software the image editing area will be displayed Here you can configure all the settings for individual image processing Selecting Default Settings On the left of the main screen you can find the settings and control functions The import export area underneath lets you import or export de fault settings You can trade as many default settings as you like with your friends and colleagues By left clicking on the preview of a default setting you can open the image in the middle of the screen for the main processing 13 Expert Mode On the right of the main screen you can find the Expert mode window The tab finalise includes the following functions Magnifying Glass The magnifying glass shows you a 1 1 comparison between the orig inal and edited images Hold your cursor over any desired point on the image You can fix the magnification with the L key Lock to monitor a specific area while editing it When the area is fixed a white dotted line will appear around the edge of the magnifying glass Intelligent Colour Space SCA method The SCA method Smart Colour Space Adaption activ
11. give you more useful infor mation HDR algorithms Average Entropy Luminance distance Colourmix Luminance entropy Luminance RGB Linear luminance Luminance sharpness Colour sharpness Entropy HDR smoothing soft Entropy sharp Denoising 0 hard Smoothing 50 Ni q h t N ig ht D ay tinme miN D ay Subject brilliance FA j k automatic optimisation Denoising Denoising directly affects the HDR image and indicates its strength in a percentage A value of 0 leads to no pixels with noise being deleted while a high value will denoise the HDR image strongly The latter automatically leads to an image with less sharpness Smoothing Smoothing influences the weighting matrixes that emerge from the HDR algorithms It indicates the smoothing of images depending on image resolution in a percentage A value of 50 means that the weight matrixes will be smoothed over with an expansion of 50 of the resolution using a Gaussian blur Night Daytime With this option you can adjust the HDR algorithm to an image tak en at night or during the day Move the control panel to the left night if your exposure bracketing is closer to an image taken at night move it to the right day if it is more like an image taken dur ing the day Halo adjustment This option deals with a typical problem of HDR creation the crea tion of halo effects HDR shadows Halo adjustment is a special mathematical method which allows you
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13. rag the HDR projects 3 file into the program link To use the Ado be Photoshop plug ins open the Adobe Photoshop plug ins fold er and copy the appropriate plug ins into your Photoshop plug ins folder You can now use HDR projects 3 to edit your photos Registration Upon opening HDR projects 3 for the first time you will be request ed to register the program Proceed according to the following 1 Install HDR projects 3 as described 2 Input the serial number For the box version this can be found in the accompanying booklet If you have the downloadable version the serial number will have been sent to you by email directly after the purchase HDR projects 3 a Ea 30 days remaining TTT Serial Number Please enter your serial number and click Activate Activate now Later 3 Finally click on the Activate now button The software has now been successfully activated Note Using the same serial number HDR projects 3 can be in stalled on up to two computers A second serial number is not necessary For an additional installa tion on a different computer enter the serial number and then click on Activate now The information on the following pages should enable you to start working with the software immediately You will learn how to edit an image step by step The Start Screen On the start screen you can find the tools for searching and loading images and loading existing
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