Reset, Undo & Presets



Reset

When you want to undo the current correction settings, you can click on the Reset button. This is helpful if you want to undo a correction or when you start with a new image. The behavior of the Reset button can be defined by the On Reset combo box on the Prefs tab sheet. For more information, please read the Prefs Tab page.

When you use the manual controls, the sample area marquee disappears, because it doesn't correspond with the selected settings any more. Holding the CTRL key and clicking on Reset activates the sample area marquee again and makes it visible. Any manual adjustments to the Source and Target color boxes will be lost.

Right clicking on the Reset button will display a context menu with various options. The first five options correspond to the options of the On Reset combo box of the Prefs tab: "Default Settings"deactivates a lot of other controls, but activates the default setting for the Auto Contrast and Exposure Fix options."Original Image" deactivates all corrections and displays the uncorrected image. "Preview Settings" loads the settings that were used for correcting the previous image. "Own Defaults" will automatically open the preset file that you have chosen when selecting the "Own Default" in the Prefs tab. "Logged Settings" will open a preset that was automatically saved when you corrected the same image the last time. If ColorWasher can't find such settings nothing will happen.

The four "Reset ... Tab" options will reset only the controls of the appropriate tab sheet. The same effect can be achieved by shift clicking the appropriate tab button. "Restore Sample Area(s)" will recreate the sample area(s) that were removed when clicking the Reset button or doing adjustments on the Cast tab sheet. "Remove 2. Sample Area" will delete the second sample area while keeping the first one.

 

Undo

Clicking the Undo button will simply restore the control settings that were used before the preview was updated again, because you changed a slider value or pressed a button.

 

Opening Presets

Several presets for removing different casts or producing artistic effects are already delivered with ColorWasher. They only deliver rough values, but they may be useful as a starting point for a manual color correction or artistic effect.

When opening a preset from Version 1.0 of ColorWasher, only the two color boxes and the Adjust Cast slider will be changed. Version 2.0 presets change all settings that are related to the image effect. Exception are the Easy Mode, Instant Preview, Zoom, Neutral, On Start Up, On Reset, Drag Output, Show Highlights, Histo, Histo Type, SplitView and Multiple controls.

If you click on the Open button, a file dialog displaying the files of the Presets sub folder will appear and let you select a preset file. If you right click on the Open button, a menu with the presets from the Presets sub folder will appear instead. If there are too many presets to fit on the menu, you can use the arrow signs at the top and bottom to scroll the menu.

 

Saving Presets

You can save a color preset by clicking on the Save Preset button. Please save presets into the Presets sub folder within the ColorWasher folder as that is the location where ColorWasher looks for them.

 

Preset Naming Conventions

If you use an appropriate name when saving a preset, please us the following naming conventions to make it easier to identify the effect again:


The rest of the name should consist of the color name(s) and/or otherwise descriptive word. Here are some examples of suitable preset names:

Remove - Yellow
Remove - Slight Blue
Remove - Heavy Pink
Remove - Church Cast
Artistic - Midnight Blue
Artistic - Brighter Sky
Artistic - Turquoise
Artistic - Peach Color
Crossover - Blue to Red
Crossover - Intensify Pink
Crossover - Oversaturated
Crossover - Hue Shift