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Image Filter
This icon on the Image bar opens the Image Filter bar, where you can use various filters on the selected picture.
Icon FilterFilter
Invert
Inverts the color values of a color image, or the brightness values of a grayscale image. Apply the filter again to revert the effect.
Icon InvertInvert
Smooth
Softens or blurs the image by applying a low pass filter.low pass filter with a kernel of: 1-2-1, 2-5-2, 1-2-1
Icon SmoothSmooth
Sharpen
Sharpens the image by applying a high pass filter.high pass filter with a kernel of: -1/-1/-1, -1/16/-1, -1/-1/-1
Icon SharpenSharpen
Remove Noise
Removes noise by applying a median filter.See i70055
Icon Remove NoiseRemove Noise
Solarization
Opens a dialog for defining solarization. Solarization refers to an effect that looks like what can happen when there is too much light during photo development. The colors become partly inverted.
Icon SolarizationSolarization
Parameters
Specifies the degree and type of solarization.
Threshold Value
Specifies the degree of brightness, in percent, above which the pixels are to be solarized.
Invert
Specifies to also invert all pixels.
Aging
All pixels are set to their gray values, and then the green and blue color channels are reduced by the amount you specify. The red color channel is not changed.
Icon AgingAging
Aging Degree
Defines the intensity of aging, in percent. At 0% you see the gray values of all pixels. At 100% only the red color channel remains.ufi: cannot see any difference between 0% and 100% aging here...
Posterize
Opens a dialog to determine the number of poster colors. This effect is based on the reduction of the number of colors. It makes photos look like paintings.
Icon PosterizePosterize
Poster Colors
Specifies the number of colors to which the image is to be reduced.
Pop Art
Converts an image to a pop-art format.
Icon Pop ArtPop Art
Charcoal Sketch
Displays the image as a charcoal sketch. The contours of the image are drawn in black, and the original colors are suppressed.
Icon Charcoal SketchCharcoal Sketch
Relief
Displays a dialog for creating reliefs. You can choose the position of the imaginary light source that determines the type of shadow created, and how the graphic image looks in relief.
Icon ReliefRelief
Light Source
Specifies the light source position. A dot represents the light source.
Mosaic
Joins small groups of pixels into rectangular areas of the same color. The larger the individual rectangles are, the fewer details the graphic image has.
Icon MosaicMosaic
Element resolution
Determines the number of pixels to be joined into rectangles.