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

Masks

Chroma Key

Removes green or blue background from a photo and replaces it with another background image, color or texture.

Color: Selects the color to make transparent.

Tolerance: Controls the width of the range of hues to be considered as key color.

Softness: Adds a gradual transition from opaque to transparent. Larger values yield softer edges and lower values yield harder edges and a more restrictive key.

Sharpness: Use this parameter to adjust the linearity of the edge transition slope. Lower values make the transition more linear, while larger values make the transition steeper increasing the sharpness of the edges.

Feather: Blurs the edges of the matte.

Spill Suppression: Enables or disables spill suppression.

Spill Replacement: Recolorize the spill area with the selected color.

Color Mask

Makes the selected color of the image transparent.

Channel: Channel to use for color selection (RGB, Hue, Chromiance).

Color: Color to mask.

Tolerance: Color tolerance.

Smoothness: Edge opacity smoothness.

Opacity: Opacity of the mask.

Invert: Invert masked area.

Rectangle Mask

Creates a rectangular mask.

Roundness: Corner roundness of the rectangle.

Scale: Mask scale.

Smoothness: Borders smoothness.

Circular Mask

Creates a circular shape mask.

Scale: Mask scale.

Smoothness: Borders smoothness.

Star Mask

Create a star shape mask.

Points: Number of vertices of the star.

Radius: Inner radius of the star shape.

Scale: Mask scale.

Smoothness: Borders smoothness.

Polygon Mask

Creates a polygon shape mask.

Points: Number of vertices of the polygon.

Scale: Mask scale.

Smoothness: Borders smoothness.

Shape Mask

Creates a mask from a shape loaded from file.

Shape File: An SVG file contaning a single closed path.

Scale: Mask scale.

Smoothness: Borders smoothness.