Automatic saturation enhancement on PSP X2

[skippy68]

I've used Paintshop Pro 7 for 8 years and I love it, yesterday I bought - Paintshop Pro x2 Ultimate.

On Paintshop Pro 7 there is menu option called
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Automatic saturation enhancement

You get to it in the following way
:-
Effects - Enhance photo - Automatic saturation enhancement

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Is there an equivalent on Paintshop Pro x2 Ultimate and how do I get to it ?

[LeviFiction]

I would imagine using the Suggest Settings button in the smart Photo Fix dialog might be close but I have absolutely no idea what might be available in version X2. In version X3 we have Vibrancy which might be similar. But I really don't know.

Well I don't know about an equivalent but I do happen to know that the Auto-matic Saturation Enhancement still exists in Paint Shop Pro.

Fun fact about Paint Shop Pro is that it doesn't really tend to get rid of functions, they tend to just turn them off when they get another tool that's supposed to do the exact same thing or more.

If you go to the View menu at the bottom you'll see an option called Customize.

Commands no longer in use fall under a list called "Unused Commands" They are still available for you to use, you can add them to menus and toolbars and even give them keyboard shortcuts should you choose to do so.

Under the first tab "Commands" select "Unused Commands" from the list. You should find Automatic Saturation Enhancement in that list. Go ahead and drag that command into any of the menus and you'll be able to access it from the menu. You can also drag it onto toolbars. While in this mode you can change menu text, shortcut keys, and lots of other useful things inside of Paint Shop Pro.

Under the Keyboard Command you can find this command again and assign it a default short-cut key combo for quick access from the keyboard.

Usually when a command is hidden it's because it's no longer of use, or something better has come along so I do believe that an equivalent or better option should exist. Sadly, I don't know what that option is so I can only tell you how to get the old one back should you wish to use something you're more familiar with. Maybe one of the users who've been using Paint Shop Pro longer than I will be able to tell you the proper equivalent.

[skippy68]

Thats perfect under View menu - Customize I found - automatic saturation enhancement - and - automatic contrast enhancement - both of which I use a huge lot in PSP 7.

I also found ways of getting rid of things I don't need or use from the menus.

Thanks for your help

Before getting PSP X2, I used a trial version of PSP X3. My PC isn't fast enough to run PSP X3 smoothly, but PSP X2 is perfect.

[Ron P.]

Before getting PSP X2, I used a trial version of PSP X3. My PC isn't fast enough to run PSP X3 smoothly, but PSP X2 is perfect.

Sure it is, I run PSPP X3 on an older HP PC, that has an AMD Athlon 64, 3200+ processor, which is much slower than yours. I just don't load up a bunch of photos at one time.

Levi,
Thanks for that info. I'm a little embarrassed, I had forgot about the unused commands, and dug out my copy of Jasc PSP 9, installed it, just to recall what the Auto Sat Enhancement was..

From Jasc PSP 9 Help File:

Improving Saturation
After you have adjusted the tones of your image (by using the Automatic Contrast Enhancement command), adjust the saturation. Saturation is an indicator of the relative amount of color vividness. Imagine a highly saturated color like bright orange. As the saturation is reduced (keeping the hue and lightness unchanged), the orange color becomes brownish, then taupe and finally a middle neutral grey (after the saturation has been set all the way down to zero). Reducing the saturation "drains" the color away, leaving just the greyscale component. Taupe and mauve are familiar, fairly low saturation colors because they are quite neutral, with just a touch of color. Apple red and banana yellow are high saturation colors. Generally speaking, saturation is a measure of how different a color is from a neutral grey of the same brightness.

For digital images, increasing the saturation can give the image brilliant color and "punch." But too much saturation will distort colors such as skin tones.

Paint Shop Pro has several commands that are useful for adjusting the saturation of an image. Go to the Adjust > Hue and Saturation submenu for a list of available commands.

Using the Automatically Saturation Enhancement Filter
The Automatic Saturation Enhancement command is useful for improving the saturation of your image. It automatically adapts its behavior to the color content of each image. Therefore, it will be most effective when used without any selections, because then the entire range of colors will be available for analysis.

Important: This command works on 16 million color and greyscale images only. To increase the color depth of an image, see Increasing the Color Depth of an Image.

Still don't know which current command really replaced it.

[LeviFiction]

Awww, I remember the old manual. I miss the old manual, it was always so detailed and helpful. You know, like they wrote it for people to understand and use their product more effectively.

I lost mine so I can't go back to it.

Kind of funny, the tech support guy, when I asked them what the match modes actually did, (I mean come on Corel describes it as matching "percieved" color which means nothing to me or most people I know) went back to the old version 9 manual and got a description that, while not really detailed, was a lot more useful.

[Tim Morrison]

Awww, I remember the old manual. I miss the old manual, it was always so detailed and helpful. You know, like they wrote it for people to understand and use their product more effectively.

I lost mine so I can't go back to it.

You can download the full 512 page PDF version of the PSP 9 manual from http://ftp.jasc.com/pub/en/psp900enug.pdf. The last of the real manuals and still very useful with newer versions.

[LeviFiction]

Sweet, thank you very much for that.