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Magic Wand Sensitivity

Specifies the color range, when selecting areas using the magic wand tool. A higher value will result in a larger area of the image selected.

Feather radius

Specifies the area in pixel around the selection where to apply the algorithms with reduced amout.
This gives a smoother appearance.

Preserve original filedates when saving image changes

This option preserves the file modification date (filedate) after changes in the image editor, and when EXIF/IPTC information is written into the file after editing the image annotations. Preserving the filedate is not a standard expected behavior, because it should display the time of the last change. However, some users want to view images in a software other than CodedColor, and this application might only allow a sorting of images by the modifcation date. Editing the images would thus change the original sequence of the images.

In CodedColor, you can sort the images by the original file creation date, which never changes. You should therefore leave this option off, in order to reflect image modifications correctly in the filedate.

Hint: the image rotation dialog always preserves the file modification date, since 90° rotions in CodedColor are lossless and there is really no need to reflect this type of change in the file system.

Remember options when saving image changes

Turn this option on, if you want to remember all Advanced settings in the Save or Save As dialogs.

Careful: if you need to decrease the JPEG Quality for a single image only, then all subsequent save operations would also decrease the quality of your images. If this setting is forgotten, you could thus accidentally destroy your images.

Backup into subfolder, Save EXIF annotation changes

When you save annotations to the image in the Title and Annotations dialog, you may loose EXIF data from fields, that don't belong to the EXIF standard. If you have such fields in your images, you should deactivate the option Save EXIF annotation changes, or use the Backup into subfolder option above it. This option also backups your images, before storing changes from the Image Editor.

SmartFix sensitivity

These sliders change the intensity of the 3 main SmartFix operations. Decrease the values, if you frequently produce noise, artefacts or high contrast in the resulting images. Remember however, that every image reacts differently to the SmartFix algorithm, and that only series of similar images (under same lighting situations) lead to good results with the same settings. The batch processing dialog, for instance, allows SmartFix corrections to multiple images at once, and this is where the sensitivity values should be carefully adapted.

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