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The User Interface Preferences are viewed by clicking the User Interface Preferences… button in the main Preferences window:
These preference controls are grouped into three main catagories:
The Show These checkboxes control whether certain optional features in EditLab are made available or not, giving you some control over the complexity of the user interface. If you prefer a simpler interface, you can selectively disable features that you don't find useful.
The Start Up Guide checkbox controls whether or not the Start Up Guide window is displayed when EditLab is launched.
The Start Up Guide is designed to give the first-time user a little extra help getting started. Once you are familiar with EditLab, you will probably want to disable this feature.
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:
This is discussed in more detail in the section describing the Neutral Color Balance tool. 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.
When the Show Neutrals/Sliders Pop-up Menu checkbox is checked, EditLab will place a pop-up menu in the Neutral Balance tool panel that allows color balance to be achieved using sliders, in addition to clicking on neutral colors in the image, as described here.
When the Show Pixel Values checkbox is checked, EditLab will enable the display of numeric pixel values in its main window, as was described here.
When the Show Brightness/Contrast Curve Control checkbox is checked, EditLab will display a control in the Brightness / Contrast / Saturation tool panel that allows the tone curve to be graphically displayed, as described here.
The three Preview These checkboxes influence the responsiveness of the controls throughout EditLab. If you find that the controls are too sluggish, you may want to experiment with these settings that trade off feedback for speed. The responsiveness will depend on many factors, such as the speed of your computer, the amount of memory available to EditLab and the size of the EditLab window.
When the Live Sliders checkbox is checked, the preview image is updated with every movement of the mouse as you adjust a slider.
If you have a fast enough computer, this makes it easy to find the optimal slider setting, but on a slower computer, you may find it confusing and frustrating if the updating of the display doesn't keep up with your mouse movements. Updating the preview involves a lot of calculations, especially if the master SmartColor checkbox is checked, since new automatic settings are also recalculated for each change in the slider value. When the Preview Sliders checkbox is unchecked, you can freely move a slider, but the image is not updated until you release the mouse button.
When the Sharpening checkbox is checked, if sharpening is being applied to the image, it is previewed whenever you are zoomed in. When the Noise Removal checkbox is checked, if noise is being removed from the image, it is previewed whenever you are zoomed in. This is described further in the Preview Image section.
The Always start at menu determines which edit tool is active when you open a new image from the ProcessQ for editing in the main window:
In most cases, you will want to start with Tool Tab 1, but there may be times you prefer something else. For example, if the only correction that a set of images requires is a brightness adjustment, it will save you time to always start with Tool Tab 3.
The Restore Defaults button will set all preferences in the window to the factory default values, that is, the values that were present when EditLab was first installed.
The OK button must be clicked in order for the settings in the window to take effect.
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