RealWorld Photos help index

RealWorld Photos is an application designed for:

• Batch image processing - focused on simplicity and flexibility.
• Photo retouching - using advanced cloning, healing or red eyes removal tools.
• Computer graphic designing - flexible tools and filters and layers with effects.

The application supports lossless and partially lossless .jpg manipulations and it can be also used as a general purpose raster image editor.

Getting more help

The crucial pieces of information are available directly in RealWorld Photos user interface:

• Read the tooltips and/or descriptions in application status bar (the line at the bottom of each window) to learn about individual menu commands or dialog controls.
• Click the light-bulb toolbar button or the "What now?" menu command to display list of frequently used actions for your current document.
• Search this web via the search box in the upper right corner.
• Ask a question on a public discussion board.

Retouching photographs

Supported retouching tasks:

• Adjusting brightness and contrast or if more control is needed, setting black point and white point in a photo and gamma curve.
• Removing the red eye effect.
• Removing objects from photos using the clone tool.
• Smoothing skin using the ALPHA_BRUSH tool.

RealWorld Photos currently does not offer a direct way to significantly alter shapes in a photo.

Batch image processing

There are many useful operations that can be run without user interaction in batch mode, for example: watermarking, creating thumbnails, rotation by EXIF tag, resizing, optimizing for web, etc.

• Running batch operations from the application.
• Creating and using droplets - a very simple and efficient method of batch image filtering.
• Manage and configure batch operations.
• Video tutorial on batch image watermarking.

RealWorld Photos comes with the most basic batch operations. More specific operations are available for download from the batch operation archive.

Painting new images

The application can be used to draw raster graphics from scratch.

• Making a button for a web site
• Introduction to selections and image masks
• Apply styles to layers for non-destructive editing

Extending the application

• Learn how to make scripted noise generator.