STILL - Reference Manual

Contents

• About the manual
• What is STILL?

User interface

• Menu and toolbar
• Thumbnails browser
• Viewer panel
• Toolbox panel
• Parameters panel
• Keys and mouse

Effects

• Adjust
• Enhance
• Blurs
• Photo effects
• Artistic effects
• Edge effects
• Distortion effects
• Light and shadows
• Masks
• Borders

Area effects

• Area object
• Light object
• Warp object

Graphic objects

• Image file object
• Image directory object
• Vector file object
• Text object
• Shape objects

Editing images

• Cropping images
• Rotating images
• Straightening images
• Flipping images

Applying effects

• Adding an effect
• Adding an effect to an object
• Batch effects

Making collages

• Creating new images
• Adding graphic objects
• Collages in batch

Presets

• Creating presets
• Using presets
• Sharing presets

Importing

• Importing images
• Importing directories

Exporting

• Exporting image files
• Exporting to PDF
• Printing images

Installation

• Installing STILL
• Activating STILL

More help

What is STILL?

STILL is a non-destructive image editor, batch processing and photo book design software. It allows you to:

• Edit photos without altering the original image.
• Enhance or transform photos with over 70 effects and adjustment tools.
• Create collages from photos, vector files, directories, shapes and text.
• Design photo albums and print or export them to PDF.
• Work with multiple images and directories in one project.
• Transform or apply effects to multiple images at once.
• Save and re-use effect chains and collages presets.
• Create borders and masks from vector shapes.
• Fill backgrounds with color gradients, textures, patterns or particles.
• Smooth, soften and add dimension to skin tones.
• Apply effects to a portion of the image or through a mask.
• Remove green or blue background from a photo and replace it with an image.

Features

EDIT PHOTOS

• Crop, pan, scale, flip and rotate image in a nondestructively.
• Automatically resize/crop images using a selection of methods (Scale, Fit, Stretch or Fill).
• Change image opacity and blending mode.
• Edit an entire directory of images as if they were one image.

ADJUST PHOTOS

Enhance your photos using light, color and distortion correction tools.

• Color Curves: RGBA, HSV, Lab, YCbCr, CMYK.
• Color Correction: Brightness and Contrast, Exposure, Color Balance, Hue-Saturation-Lightness, Auto Color, Auto Levels, Color Boost, Equalize, White Balance, Color Temperature.
• Enhance: Sharpen, Unsharp Mask, Red Eye, Smoothing, Denoise, Lens Distorsion.

APPLY EFFECTS

Stylize your images with our effects.

• Blurs: Blur, Linear Blur, Radial, Angular and Zoom Blur, Median and Bilateral Blur, Pixel Spread, Pixelize.
• Color: Tint, Invert, Vignette, Vibrance, Linear Gradient, Radial Gradient.
• Light: Glow, Dark Glow, Soft Glow, Edge Glow, SoftLight, Drop Shadow.
• Edges: Edges, Difference of Gaussians,Erode, Dilate
• Stylize: Threshold, Grain, Solarize, Cartoon, Sketch, Half Tone, Particles.
• Deformations: Lens, Water, Twirl, Deform, Wave, Ripple.

MAKE COLLAGES

Compose new images from other graphic media.

• Combine image objects, image directories, vector files (SVG), shapes and text.
• Select from a range of blending modes: Normal, Add, Difference, Multiply, Screen, Overlay, Lighten, Darken, Soft Light, Hard Light.
• Most common image formats and camera RAW files are supported.

AREA EFFECTS

Apply any effect or filter to a portion of the image or through a mask over that area.

• Apply a colored light effect to an area of the image.
• Use the warp effect object to deform parts of the image.

ADD BORDERS

Easily create borders of different shapes.

• Basic Shapes: rectangular, circular, star, polygon
• Vector File Shapes: choose from over 200 available shapes or use your own SVG files.
• Fill the border with solid color, color gradient, vector patterns or textures.
• Create complex borders by combining multiple shapes and fills.

CREATE MASKS

Create masks from a selected color or from an available vector shape.

• Basic Shapes: rectangular, circular, star, polygon
• Vector File Shapes: choose from over 200 available shapes or use your own SVG files.
• Masks can be applied to individual objects or to the entire image.

BATCH PROCESS

Work with multiple images and directories in one project.

• Create, import, preview, process and export multiple images at once.
• Apply effects and media objects to a sequence of images.
• Automatically resize images using a selection of methods (Scale, Fit, Stretch or Fill).

CREATE BOOKLETS

Create printable documents and photo books.

• Choose from standard photo and document paper sizes to design your pages.
• Insert image, vector, shape, border and text objects and apply effects.
• Print directly from STILL or export to Pdf file.

SAVE PRESETS

Create your own presets and templates.

• Save effect chains and image compositions.
• Import and export presets from your project.
• Apply a preset to an image or a sequence of images.

DODGE AND BURN

Instantly add a soft "Dodge and Burn" look to your images with the MIRAFX SoftLight effect.

• Specifically designed for portrait enhancement, SoftLight smoothes, softens and adds dimension to skin tones.

CHROMA KEY

Remove green or blue background from an image and replace it with another background image, color, pattern or texture.

• MIRAFX chroma keyer features: Background color selection; Color matching tolerance adjustment; Control of edge transition linearity and smoothness; Color spill suppression and replacement.