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

Adjustment filters

Auto Color

Automatically color balances an image.

If "Adjust Neutral Color" is checked the mean value is shifted to neutral grey. If "Adjust Channel Contrast" will stretch the histogram per channel.

Auto Levels

Automatically stretches the dynamic range to full black and white.

Brightness and Contrast

Changes the brightness and the contrast curve of the image.

Color Balance

Balances red, green and blue channels.

Color Boost

Enhances colors of an image.

Color Temperature

Adjusts the color temperature from warm to cold.

Curves

Allows you to change the curve of a color channel. Select the color space you want to edit by clicking one of the available tabs (RGB, HSV, YCbCr, Lab, CMYK), then select a channel from the drop-down list.

You can change the shape of a spline by dragging its nodes. Nodes can be inserted (Right-click on the curve), moved (Left-click and drag) and removed (Right-click on a node) from a curve.

You can only edit one channel at a time.

Equalize

Adjusts contrast using the image's histogram.

Low: Lowest color value used in the histogram equalization.

Amount: Highest color value used in the histogram equalization.

Exposure

Corrects the exposure (gain), offset (brightness) and gamma of the image.

Hue, Saturation, Lightness

Changes the amount of hue, saturation and lightness of the image.

Tint

Colorizes the image with a selected color.

Color: Tint color.

Amount: Amount of tint.

Blending

Channel: Vary tint with lightness or chromiance (colorize highlights).

Contrast: Tint contrast.

Invert: Invert tint variance (colorize shadows)

Vibrance

Adjusts the color saturation non-linearly.

White Balance

Corrects the white color of the image.