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Adjust Colour and Brightness(red,green,blue)

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Macro Command

Adjust Colour & Brightness

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Adjust Colour & Brightness(r,g,b)

File Name Abbreviation

RGB(r,g,b)

Input(s)

Active Frame

Output goes to

Out

Quick Undo information saved

 

Default Values

r=g=b=1000

Value Range

0+

Display Mode

 

This is a Macro only function, it is replaced by individual Red, Green, Blue and Brightness Menu functions.

Here is a Macro Set that will Fade In and Out ready to make a movie

Fade In and Out
    Clean Start
    Align All Frames Automatically (Single Pass)
    Balance Colour and Brightness (Global)
    Goto Frame(0)
    _Alter Brightness(0,100,900)
    Reverse Order of Frames
    Goto Frame(0)
    _Alter Brightness(0,100,900)
    Finish

_Alter Brightness
    Adjust Colour and Brightness(1000,1000,1000) SSS
    Insert Below Active

Download Macros/Fade In and Out.czm and save it along with CombineZM.exe if you want to use it.

This is a typical Through Focus Movie of a piece of dry onion skin photographed down a microscope with transmitted light.

The first three lines of the Fade In and Out Macro are optional.   Goto Frame(0) makes the bottom Frame of the Stack active.   The next line calls the second Macro 10 times, passing the values 0 to 900 in steps of 100.   Now the stack is turned on it's head so the fade is at the top of the Stack.   Then the same Goto Frame and _Alter Brightness functions can be used again.   Finally Finish prevents the user from being able to adjust the brightness when macro processing finishes.

The second Macro Adjusts the brightness of the Active Frame and stores the result in Out.   Insert Below Active creates a new frame below the Active Frame and copies Out to it.   The letters 'SSS' mean Substitute the value passed to this macro for the three numbers in brackets.

A CombineZ Movie is normally made from the Bottom Frame, Frame(0), upwards, but Reverse Order forses the movie to start with the original Top Frame, so you may wish to add an additional Reverse Ordere of Frames line to the first Macro.

When using before using Make Movie remember to crop the edges by pressing 'A' twice or drawing a box around the required area, the sample above was compressed 70% and the frame rate was 80 ms.

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