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1.1.6

Optimize color adjustment for animation

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Fixed the issue of gray stripes appearing under extreme values mentioned on Github

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Update Notes Translation

Overview of This Update

This update includes multiple major improvements, focusing on the following aspects:

1. Performance Enhancements: Significantly optimized plugin efficiency.
2. Complete Overhaul of the Color Grading Module: The color grading module has been entirely rebuilt, offering finer control and improved effects.
3. Simplified Parameter Naming: Parameter names are now more concise and user-friendly, eliminating unnecessary complexity.
4. No More Modifying User Color Space Settings: The plugin will no longer alter user color space settings.
5. New Hover Explanations: Users can now hover over parameters to view detailed explanations and suggestions.

Color Grading Module Update Notes

1. Correction Series

• Optimize Image: This update introduces the new "Optimize Image" parameter, designed to comprehensively enhance image quality. It automatically adjusts saturation, brightness, sharpening, contrast, and more. For best results, we recommend setting it to the maximum value.

  Note that "Optimize Image" produces varying effects depending on the image. In animation, it may cause unpredictable results due to differing effects across frames. To ensure consistency between frames, you can set the parameter to -1, though this will slightly reduce the overall effect. Recommendations:

  • Single Images: Use positive values for the best effects.
  • Animation Grading: Use negative values for stable and consistent results.

2. Light and Shadow Adjustment Series

• This update improves the accuracy of "Dark Areas" and "Bright Areas," with particularly outstanding results in "Highlights." Highly recommended for precise highlight adjustments.

3. Contrast Series

• We have now distinguished between "Contrast Focus" and "Depth." Adjusting "Contrast Focus" enhances the clarity of the image, while "Depth" focuses more on improving dimensionality. Choose the appropriate parameter based on your needs.

4. Visual Clarity Series

• This update further differentiates four parameters and resolves common issues, such as highlights turning black or losing color in the previous version.
• Natural Sharpening: This feature has been refined. Recommended to set to the maximum value for clear and delicate images.
• Clarity: Provides stronger contrast enhancement, making the image sharper and more three-dimensional.
• Noise Sharpening: Now does not automatically suppress noise. You can manually enable "Reduce Noise" to better handle image edges.
• Texture: Improved edge handling and detail enhancement.

5. Saturation Series

• Within this series, we highly recommend increasing "Multi-Level Saturation" and combining it with a reduction in "Global Saturation." This approach enhances saturation layering while avoiding overly intense saturation.
• These four saturation adjustment options are distinct from other common software tools, offering more delicate color adjustments and resolving traditional synthesizer issues with hue shifts.

6. Desaturation Series

• Added the "Human Eye Desaturation" feature, making adjustments more consistent with real-world visual perception.

7. Glow Effects

• Glow effects have been revolutionized, offering significantly improved results. Strongly recommended to explore this parameter for stunning visual enhancements.

8. Special Effects Series

• Film Grain: Optimized grain effects with subtler edge dispersion and finer, more polished grains. No longer shows the coarse grain blocks from the previous version.
• Black-and-White Comic: Enhanced overall effect and resolved previous version's noise issues. Added the ability to adjust line thickness.
• Mosaic: Provides better control over mosaic size for more precise adjustments.
• Lens Distortion: A completely new and different effect from the previous version, delivering unique, fascinating lens flares.

9. Vignette Series

• Based on user feedback, added a parameter for adjusting dark corners. Now you can precisely control vignette effects, adding a more layered atmosphere to your images.

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Optimize color adjustment core

·Add several color adjustment settings

·Remove outdated adjustment settings

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Resolve the crash issue with Blender 4.3 feedback · Switch threading to timer · Prioritize GPU

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Major updates

Function

Optimize interface layout: The main switch, switching accuracy, GPU/CPU mode switching, color management synchronization, history, and help documents are placed at the top of the plugin. The synthesizer provides real-time preview and is placed in the left Gizemo area New file management: You can add your own synthesizer presets

New synchronized color management: When loading preset files, the color management settings of the preset files will also be updated. Default closed.

New History: When a file or preset is loaded, the history will be saved. You can restore it at any time.

Composer Colorista VI

Correction Series

Automatic White Balance : Automatically adjusts color balance based on lighting conditions, making the whites in the image appear natural.

Automatic Black and White Field : This feature automatically adjusts the pure white and pure black areas in the image. It is recommended to set the parameters to maximum; the effect is best in Agx mode, while the standard mode may result in overexposure.

Automatic Gray Field : Automatically adjusts the gray areas, achieving excellent results in standard color space.

Gamma Correction : Applied for gamma correction.

Brightness Adjustment Series

Natural Exposure : Natural exposure adjustment is also used to regulate the overall exposure level, but it has a softer effect and is less intense, making it suitable for more delicate exposure adjustments.

Exposure Adjustment : Used to process areas that are overexposed or approaching overexposure. By employing highlight compression, it can recover slightly overexposed highlight areas and restore details in the bright regions.

Brightness Control : Controls the overall brightness of the highlight areas in the image. This parameter has a wide range but offers a gentle effect, making it suitable for adjusting the highlights as a whole.

Shadow Adjustment : Adjusts the brightness of the shadow areas in the image. This parameter has a wide range but offers a gentle effect, making it suitable for controlling the overall brightness of the shadows in the image.

Midtone Adjustment : By adjusting the brightness of the midtones in the image, you can further optimize the overall balance. This adjustment helps maintain the image’s sense of depth and layering.

Highlight Adjustment : Specifically adjusts the brightness of the brightest areas in the image. Compared to the “Whites” adjustment, it has a narrower range but a stronger effect, making it suitable for fine-tuning the highlight regions.

Shadow Adjustment : Adjusts the brightness of the darkest areas in the image. This adjustment has a narrower range but a more pronounced effect compared to the “Blacks” adjustment, making it suitable for fine-tuning the brightness of the shadow regions.

Contrast Series

Intelligent Contrast : Intelligent contrast offers a more nuanced adjustment approach, selectively affecting the contrast of different areas in the image. It is recommended to set this parameter to the maximum value initially and then make adjustments based on the actual effect to achieve the best results.

Contrast : Contrast is a key parameter that affects the brightness differences in an image, reflecting the degree of difference between the brightest and darkest parts. By appropriately adjusting the contrast, you can enhance the visual depth and sense of layering in the image.

Visual Clarity Series

Clarity : This parameter is specifically designed to enhance the local contrast of an image, often used to boost mid-frequency details. By doing so, it makes the image appear more three-dimensional and sharper.

Texture : This parameter is primarily used to adjust mid-level details. It does not affect the overall contrast or edge details but focuses on enhancing or softening subtle details in the image, such as skin texture or the surface texture of objects.

Natural Sharpening : Natural sharpening is a technique that enhances the sharpness of an image without introducing noise and with minimal halo effects. Compared to clarity adjustments, natural sharpening allows for more precise control over the image’s sharpness without significantly affecting the contrast of larger areas. This method ensures that fine details are enhanced while maintaining a natural appearance, making it particularly useful for preserving the integrity of textures and details without compromising overall image quality.

Sharpening : Similar to traditional sharpening tools, excessively high sharpening values can introduce image noise and may cause the overall image to darken. It is advisable to use this adjustment in conjunction with a noise reduction parameter. A common recommendation is to set the noise reduction value to about half of the sharpening value to effectively mitigate the noise introduced by sharpening while preserving detail. This balanced approach helps maintain image quality and ensures that enhancements do not compromise the overall appearance.

Noise Reduction : Noise reduction is used to minimize the noise in an image caused by contrast between light and dark areas. However, it is important to note that this adjustment cannot eliminate noise resulting from under-sampling. If the noise reduction value is set too high, it may lead to a loss of fine details in the image. Therefore, it is recommended to use it in conjunction with sharpening tools, where the noise reduction value is ideally set to about half of the sharpening value. This balanced approach helps maintain detail while effectively reducing noise, resulting in a cleaner and more visually appealing image.

Color Tone Adjustment

Scene Hue Shift (RGB) : Regular Adjustment of Scene Hue.

Scene Hue Shift (Lab) : Adjusting Scene Hue in LAB Mode.

Color Temperature (Cool/Warm) : Adjusting the color temperature can shift the image towards cooler or warmer tones. Lowering the color temperature value will make the image cooler (with a blue tint), while increasing the color temperature will make the image warmer (with a yellow or orange tint).

Dyeing Target Color : Users can choose the target color they want the image to lean towards. Once the color is selected, the overall color tendency of the image can be adjusted by modifying the dyeing intensity.

Target Color Dyeing Intensity : Control the dyeing intensity of the currently selected target color. The higher the dyeing intensity value, the stronger the image’s color tendency towards the target color; conversely, a lower value will result in a weaker tendency.

Saturation Series

Intelligent Saturation : Intelligent saturation is a more refined tool that selectively adjusts the saturation of certain areas based on the image’s contrast and existing saturation distribution, making the adjustment effect more precise. It is recommended to initially set it to the highest value and then gradually it while observing the image to achieve the best results.

Natural Saturation : This parameter primarily focuses on areas of low saturation in the image, aiming to maintain a natural look and avoid making colors appear overly exaggerated or distorted.

Contrast Saturation : Focuses on areas of high saturation in the image; excessively high values may lead to color distortion or make the image appear unnatural. Moderate adjustments can enhance or reduce the contrast effect in these areas.

Saturation : Saturation directly affects the intensity or vividness of colors in an image. Increasing saturation makes colors more vibrant, while decreasing saturation results in softer colors.

Desaturation

Desaturation (Saturation/Contrast) : Observe the saturation distribution on the left and the brightness distribution on the right.

Suosuo Effects Series

Glow Intensity : Control the glow effect of the scene.

Starburst Intensity : Create a star-like glow effect in the scene.

** Lens Distortion** : Distort the lens; sliding to the right shows color, while sliding to the left shows no color.

Blend Colors/Film Grain : The film grain is very subtle.

Mosaic Effect/Black and White Striped Pattern : It will transition to the feel of early black and white comics as you move to the right.

RGB Curves

Color Balance

Hue Correct

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Release extended version