3e. Getting Started: Preferences


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Clicking the Preferences… button

will display the Preferences dialog box:


The Start With menu establishes how iCorrect Portrait will determine its starting color correction settings:

If you start with Previous Settings, then the settings for the color correction tools are recalled from the previous image that was corrected. If you start with Custom Settings, then the custom settings that have been loaded with Load Custom Settings are used. If you start with Reset, all color correction controls will be set to values that do not change the image (i.e. "null" values).


The Load Custom Settings... button is used to load the settings that will be applied when the Start with Custom Settings preference has been selected, and when the Custom button in the main iCorrect Portrait window is clicked.

You will be asked to locate the file that contains the Custom Settings that you want to load.

Custom Settings files are saved using the Save Custom Settings... button in the main iCorrect Portrait window. Any number of custom settings files can be saved.

Shortcut Tip: In iCorrect Portrait's main window, you can load custom settings and immediately apply them by holding down the key while clicking the Custom button. This is equivalent to opening the Preferences window, clicking the Load Custom Settings button, selecting a custom settings file, clicking OK to return to the main window, and then clicking the Custom button.


When the Show Sampled Region checkbox is checked, a brief visual feedback is given of the actual pixels sampled when you click on the image:


Neutral Mask

This is discussed in more detail in the section describing the Memory Colors. This "flashing" gives you some feedback about what is happening during color correction. If you find this distracting, simply turn the option off by unchecking the checkbox.


The Use Largest Possible Window checkbox indicates how the iCorrect Portrait window will be sized the next time the plug-in is run.

A bit of explanation is needed here. Unlike a normal stand-alone application, it is not possible for a plug-in to have a window that may be resized while the plug-in is actually running. So in order to provide a different window size, you must indicate how this should be done next time.

Moreover, note that the larger you make the window, the more memory the plug-in needs. So the name of the game is trading window size against available memory. Let's see how this is done.

If the Use Largest Possible Window checkbox is unchecked, the iCorrect Portrait window will be a fixed size that will fit on a display that meets iCorrect Portrait's minimum system display requirements (800 × 600 pixels).

If the Use Largest Possible Window checkbox is checked, the iCorrect Portrait window will be the largest size that will fit on your display. If under this setup, there is not enough memory for the plug-in to run, the window size will be made just enough smaller so that it will run.


Finally, the Restore Defaults button will set all preferences in the window to the factory default values, that is, the values that were present when iCorrect Portrait was first installed.

The OK button in the Preferences window must be clicked in order for the new settings to take effect.

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