Neat Image user guide / Additional
tools
Variant Selector
The Variant
Selector helps to do side-by-side comparisons of several variants of
filtration applied to a selected image area. When you consecutively adjust the
filter settings you get several variants of filtration. To select the best variant
use the Variant Selector.
- Turn on the Variant Selector by clicking on
(the Variant Selector on/off
button) on the toolbar or by selecting the Tools | Variant
Selector menu item. The window will pop up to enable adding, sorting,
deleting and selecting the variants.
- To add a filtration variant to the Variant Selector,
select an area in the input image in the Filtration Job
Editor window and let Neat Image prepare a preview for this area (this
is usually done by Neat Image automatically). As soon as the preview is ready,
this new variant of filtration is added to the Variant Selector.
This happens automatically if Auto add variants is
checked in the Variant Selector window. To manually
add a new variant, click
(the Add
new variant button). If you change any filter setting then one more
filtration variant is prepared and added to the Variant
Selector by Neat Image.
- When several variants are listed in the Variant Selector,
click any variant to see the filtration result in the image viewer area of
the Variant Selector. Click on the image there to
temporarily switch to the unfiltered image. Move to other variants (using
the mouse wheel or arrow keys) to compare filtration variants.
- Click
and
(the Move variant up /
down buttons) or drag and drop variants in the list to sort them according
to the quality (for example, move the best variants to the top of the list
to group them for easier comparison).
- Click
(the Delete
variant button) or press the Del key to remove the selected variant(s)
from the list.
- Click
(the Select
variant button) or press Enter or double-click a variant to select
it as the best one and send it to the filter (the filter settings will be
automatically adjusted to produce this variant of filtration).