RealWorld Photos Help Index
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RealWorld Photos is an application designed for:
- Batch image processing - focused on simplicity and flexibility.
- Photo retouching - using advanced cloning, healing or red eyes removal tools.
- Computer graphic designing - flexible tools and filters and layers with effects.
The application supports lossless and partially lossless .jpg manipulations and it can be also used as a general purpose raster image editor.
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[edit] Getting more help
The crucial pieces of information are available directly in RealWorld Photos user interface:
- Read the tooltips and/or descriptions in application status bar (the line at the bottom of each window) to learn about individual menu commands or dialog controls.
- Click the lightbulb toolbar button or the "What now?" menu command to display list of frequently used actions for your current document.
- Search this web.
- Ask a question on a public discussion board.
[edit] Retouching photographs
Supported retouching tasks:
- Adjusting brightness and contrast or if more control is needed, setting black point and white point in a photo and gamma curve.
- Removing the red eye effect.
- Removing objects from photos using the clone tool.
- Smoothing skin using the ALPHA_BRUSH tool.
RealWorld Photos currently does not offer a direct way to significantly alter shapes in a photo.
[edit] Batch image processing
There are many useful operations that can be run without user interaction in batch mode, for example: watermarking, creating thumbnails, rotation by EXIF tag, resizing, optimizing for web, etc.
- Running batch operations from the application.
- Creating and using droplets - a very simple and efficient method of batch image filtering.
- Manage and configure batch operations.
- Video tutorial on batch image watermarking.
RealWorld Photos comes with the most basic batch operations. More specific operations are available for download from the batch operation archive.
[edit] Painting new images
The application can be used to draw raster graphics from scratch.
- Making a button for a web site
- Introduction to selections and image masks
- Apply styles to layers for non-destructive editing
[edit] Extending the application
- Learn how to make scripted noise generator.