CHANGING IMAGE BRIGHTNESS AND COLOUR BALANCE

From version 2.0.1.3 the Tapptoons Animation Studio has a facility to alter the colour balance and brightness of individual images or ranges of images based on Dope Sheet columns. This facility is primarily intended for the adjustment of live action AVI frames imported into the Animation Studio to get a better match to with animation levels added to the scene but it can be used with any bitmaps on any level.

Access to the Image Colour and Brightness Form is through the Dope Sheet Edit Form and then the Draw Frames Form.

 

Select the frame you want to change on the Dope Sheet. This will bring up the Dope Sheet Edit Form as below:

To get to the Draw Frames Form you need to select Modify Current Frame to alter images on the currently selected Dope Sheet column or Modify Merged Levels if you want to alter the Merged Levels that you may have already created. If no Merged Levels have been created this option will be greyed-out as shown above.. This will bring up the Draw Frames Form from which you need to select the menu option Alter Images > Colours....

 

This will take you to the Image Colour and Brightness Form as below....

There are four Scroll Bars on this form. The one below the image is to set an increase in Brightness. The three Scroll Bars at the right of the images adjust the colour balance. The top alters the Red level, the one below alters the Green and the lowest on alters the Blue content of the image. Clicking the arrows at the end of the Scroll Bars alters the value by 2, clicking between the arrows alters the value by 4 points.

When you`ve set the values you want to try click on the Change button. If you don`t like the result go to the Undo menu and click on Revert To Original option.

By default the Change button will alter just the single image you see on the screen. If you want to alter all the images on the currently selected Dope Sheet column then go to the Change menu and select All Selected Column...

Two Spin Edit boxes will appear so you can select a range of frames to be modified.

The Start Frame box will show the number of the frame you selected from the Dope Sheet and the End Frame box will show the last frame of the Dope Sheet column. You can change these to the numbers you want to modify.

If you want alter ALL the images in every column on the Dope Sheet then you need to select the Entire Dope Sheet option. If Merged Levels are available you can change all of those images by using the Merged Levels option.

When you`ve mad your choices click on the Change button.

Should you decide you don`t like the changes you`ve made you can return to the original bitmaps by using the Restore Backups option in the Undo menu. These backup bitmaps are created when you make the changes to the images. They are deleted when the backups are restored.

If you are working with a single image and wish to save it with a new File Name you can use the File > Save As option to do this.

 

 

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