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Picktorial 3 vs bridge5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() This is extremely helpful when you want to use sliders like Highlights and Shadow without affecting the hue and saturation. The new blend modes open up new creative opportunities and enable you get more precise results with local adjustment tools.įor example, the “Luminosity” blend mode takes only the brightness values from the selected local adjustment, while taking color values from the layer underneath. This layer is composed together with the results of previous local adjustments before applying further adjustments. For every local adjustment you make, Picktorial creates a layer behind the scene. Blend modes for local adjustments.īlend modes enables you to change the way local adjustments are composed on top of each other. In a sense, it is similar to the familiar HSL 8-channel control, but it provides a greater amount of control over the affected colors while working in conjunction with other tools that define the effect itself. This comes handy when you want to quickly select a region with a discriminative color, like skin, sky, eyes and more, or to gradually emphasize or manipular specific colors of your photo. It offers a beautiful control that lets you narrow an existing mask by defining a slice in hue-saturation space. Color masksĬolor masks are similar to luminosity masks, but operates in the the hue-saturation space. Picktorial 3 provides the best of both worlds: it offers luminosity masks that are easy to use as dragging knobs to define a range, and it lets you display the mask with real-time preview as you create it. The blend-if function of Photoshop provides similar functionality but does not let you display and mask. However, the process of preparing and using luminosity masks in Photoshop is a daunting task, or requires external plugins. They are especially effective in emphasizing natural light when editing landscape and portrait photographs. Luminosity masks have been popularized in recent years among Photoshop users. ![]() Luminosity masks lets you narrow local adjustments to a specific range of brightness and darkness values on which the effect is being applied. ![]() You can add them ad-hoc or save them as a default palette for new local adjustments you make in the future. You can add tools like Curves, HSL, Split-Toning or any other global tool in Picktorial. The new palette of tools that appears in the Retouch > Tone tool is fully customizable. The new version of Picktorial features a vast array of carefully crafted tools and makes them available for you exactly when you need them. But in some cases you may need more precise control and sophisticated tools to give your photos a top-notch look. Often times, the basic Tone sliders would be enough for these tasks. It may be the subject that needs to pop out, or it may be the sky that needs some brightness attenuation after raising overall image exposure and so on. Local adjustments lets you adjust specific parts of your image in different ways. New tabbed panels in the image inspector.Ī.Customizable local adjustments with advanced tools that may apply any global feature on a local section, and additional luminosity masks and color masks.Here are the major new features available in Picktorial 3, divided into three sections: Picktorial 3 opens up a whole new level of creativity options and brings pro-level tools while preserving the fully non-destructive workflow, fast performance, and clean user interface of Picktorial. Now is the time to thank you, our users, who have provided tremendously helpful feedback and comments, and helped make Picktorial the best non-destructive photo editor in the market. We are excited to release Picktorial 3 - a major milestone for Picktorial and a free update for all who purchased the first and second versions. ![]()
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