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Adjusting Color

Color EQ lets you make color adjustments for saturation, brightness, and hue. You can make adjustments to the entire image in Standard mode, or adjust on a color by color basis in Standard or High Quality mode.

You can save your settings as a preset for future use.

To Adjust Color:

In Develop mode, select the Tune tab.
In the Color EQ group, select the Saturation, Brightness or Hue tab, and adjust them according to the options described in the table below.

Color EQ Options

Select High Quality mode or Standard mode from the top of the Color EQ group. To adjust colors individually, right-click a color in the image and drag up or down to alter. Your changes are reflected in the color sliders. This works in the Saturation, Brightness, and Hue tabs.
Color Model		Color EQ has the following tabs: Saturation tab: Adjusts from full color saturation to grayscale. Brightness tab: Adjusts the light or dark tones in the image. Hue tab:Changes to a different color.
	High Quality	Adjust image colors individually. High Quality uses newer, more modern color models, allowing for a visually perceptive and higher quality adjustment. Adjust each color individually by dragging sliders right for more intensity, or left for less. You can also enter a number into the fields for precise adjustments. Or, select a precise color to adjust by placing your cursor on the image. A box will appear next to your cursor displaying the color you are hovering over. Click on the photo and drag up or down to adjust. The affected color sliders automatically adjust as you move your cursor.
	Standard	Supports previously developed images. Adjust colors individually or make global adjustments with the Master slider.
Black & White		Black & White mode is defined in the General group of the Tune tab. In this mode, the Color EQ group becomes the Advanced Black & White group. Advanced Black & White has the following sliders: Brightness: ACDSee Photo Studio reads the colors in the original and adjusts their brightness in Black & White mode. Adjust the brightness of each color individually by dragging sliders right for more intensity, or left for less. You can also enter numbers into the fields for precise adjustments. Or, select a precise color to adjust by placing your cursor on the image. A box will appear next to your cursor displaying the color you are hovering over. Click on the image and drag up or down to adjust. The affected color sliders automatically adjust as you move your cursor. Colorization: Adds color back into the image based upon the color you select with the Hue slider. The saturation of the color added back to any given pixel is scaled based both on the amount of color/saturation that existed in the original image and the Amount slider.