i2e image enhancement options

ABE (automatic brightness and contrast enhancement)

The i2e ABE correction will correct the contrast of the image by stretching the white point and the black point. In addition to this contrast enhancement also a gamma correction of the density is done. Default value is for ABE is 100.

ACE (adaptive color enhancement)

This is the i2e color enhancement  (ACE) auto correction. Default value recommended for unattended processing is 100. Maximum is 200. Until a value of 100 there is a limiter active which prevents to strong corrections. Values of more than 100 will work without this limiter and are mainly intended for images with very strong color casts. If color casts remain then the fastest way to remove them is the gray tool.

MCE (automatic memory color enhancement)

Memory color enhancement  (MCE) will selectively correct important colors. These colors are skin-, sky- and vegetation color. These colors are selectively fine tuned to more pleasant colors. A slightly magenta sky will so be hue rotated to a more pleasant blue sky. Default value is for MCE is 100.

SHE Shadows (Automatic Shadow and Highlight Enhancement)

Shadow enhancement will locally increase the brightness and the saturation of details in dark shadows. The default value is 100. Maximum is 200. Shadow enhancement will only act on the dark parts of the image. This is why it is much more effective in high contrast scenes. If you try to brighten the shadows using the normal brightness correction you would bring the highlights of the image in saturation.

SHE Highlights (Automatic Shadow and Highlight Enhancement)

Highlight Enhancement will darken locally the highlights without reducing the overall brightness of the image. A good example are portrait images where a lot of times the face becomes to bright. You can reduce these “flash heads” using the locally acting highlight enhancement.

RER (Automatic Red Eye Removal)

The image editor is providing a fully automatic red eye removal. If the check box is checked then every image will be red eye corrected upon loading. Red eye correction will need about 3 supplementary seconds every time you load an image. Therefore sometimes if you mainly work on outdoor images it can be better to switch it off and if you see an image with red eye to manually click the red eye button.

The automatic red eye detection will find about 70% of the red eyes. Therefore in the next version also an additional manual mode will be implemented. With this mode you can then remove red eyes manually by clicking on it.