Quick Image Fixes in Studio

Image editors like PhotoImpact and Photoshop Elements provide the perfect environment for perfecting your images, but sometimes it's faster to perform quick fixes in Studio. Here are the two corrections you can make quickly and easily within Studio.

To rotate your image

1.	Start with the Movie window in Timeline view and the Album window open to the Still Images tab.
2.	Drag the image into the Timeline (Figure 5.21). Figure 5.21. To get an image into the Timeline, just click and drag.
3.	Double-click the image. Studio opens the Clip Properties tool (Figure 5.22). Here's Whatley looking natural for the camera. Figure 5.22. This image needs to be rotated to the left.
4.	Click the Rotate icons as required to rotate the photo into the desired position (Figure 5.23). Figure 5.23. Rotate the image by clicking these controls. Studio rotates the image to the desired position (Figure 5.24). Figure 5.24. The corrected image.

Tips

• To understand why there are black bars around the image in Figure 5.24, see "How Studio works with images," earlier in this chapter.

• To remove the black bars, zoom into the image until they disappear, as described in "To insert a pan and zoom effect," later in this chapter.

To remove red eye in an image

1.	Start with the Movie window in Timeline view and the Album window open to the Still Images tab.
2.	Drag the image into the Timeline.
3.	Double-click the image. Studio opens the Clip Properties tool (Figure 5.22).
4.	Do one or both of the following to zoom into the region of the image containing the red eye: Use the zoom slider to zoom into the image (Figure 5.25). Figure 5.25. Use the Zoom slider to zoom into the image and grab the image directly to move it around the frame. Click and drag the image to the desired position.
5.	Click the Red Eye icon (Figure 5.26). Figure 5.26. Click here to remove red eye.
6.	Click and drag a rectangle around the eye or eyes containing the red eye (Figure 5.27). Figure 5.27. Then drag the rectangle around both eyes. Studio removes the red eye (Figure 5.28). Figure 5.28. Works like Visine (though it's not apparent here in the grayscale image).

Tips

• Studio worked best for me when I eliminated the red eye from both eyes at once.

• If two or more subjects in the picture have red eye, fix them sequentially, using the pan cursor to move around the image as necessary.