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A good thing about EditLab is that it has many controls, allowing you to make very sophisticated color edits. The down side of this is that all of these controls must be set to proper values in order to make the correction, and that takes time. In order to give you the benefit of the editing power without the tedium of setting all the controls, we have implemented a "SmartColor" mode which does much of the work for you. It is enabled with the SmartColor checkbox:
When SmartColor mode is enabled, the image is analyzed and most of the controls for all tools are intelligently set to values that will be good for that particular image. This leaves you with the much smaller job of making minor adjustments to any of the controls as you see fit (or even if you see fit). You will find this feature to be very helpful in getting the best color correction in the shortest time. Although you are allowed turn SmartColor mode off, you will probably want to always leave it on. Its initial state may be controlled using the Start With preference.
Since SmartColor mode analyzes each image individually, the settings it finds will be customized to the image itself. This is especially helpful when dealing with many images having different types of color problems.
Also note that SmartColor mode works in real-time with your manual adjustments. For example, when you manually adjust the Black Point, you affect not just the black point, but also the brightness and saturation of the image. So while you are making the Black Point adjustment, SmartColor mode is constantly recalculating the proper Brightness and Saturation settings to track right along with you. When operating in this manner, the SmartColor mode is making adjustments to all editing tools to the right of the tool you are adjusting. It does not change the settings of the current tool or any to its left.
You will also see a SmartColor button located inside each tool panel:
Clicking this button will cause the settings of the currently selected tool to be recalculated for the image. This is useful for cases where you decided to make a manual adjustment, but then changed your mind.
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