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  33.             <h4 class="title"><a id="gimp-tool-levels"></a>3.5.6.┬áLevels tool</h4>
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  41.       <p>
  42.     The Level tool provides features similar to the Histogram tool but can 
  43.     also change the intensity range of the active layer or selection. From the
  44.     Image window it is located in Tools > Color Tools...
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  55.         <p>
  56.       The Level Tool can be called in the following
  57.       order, from the image-menu:
  58.       <span class="guimenuitem"><span class="accel">T</span>ools</span>/
  59.       <span class="guimenuitem"><span class="accel">C</span>olor
  60.         Tools</span>/<span class="guimenuitem"><span class="accel">L</span>evels
  61.       </span>.
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  70.           <p class="title">
  71.             <b>Options</b>
  72.           </p>
  73.           <dl>
  74.             <dt>
  75.               <span class="term">Modify Levels for Channel</span>
  76.             </dt>
  77.             <dd>
  78.               <p>
  79.           You can select the specific channel which will be modified by the
  80.           tool: Value makes changes to the luminosity of all pixels in the
  81.           image. Color channels allow to change saturation. Alpha channel
  82.           works on transparency.  <span class="guilabel">Initialize channel</span>
  83.           cancels changes to the selected channel.
  84.         </p>
  85.             </dd>
  86.             <dt>
  87.               <span class="term">Input Levels</span>
  88.             </dt>
  89.             <dd>
  90.               <p>
  91.           The main area is a graphic representation of image dark, mid and
  92.           light tones content. They are on abscissa from level 0 (black) to
  93.           level 255 (white). Pixel number for a level is on ordinate axis.
  94.           The curve surface represents all the pixels of the image for the
  95.           selected channel. A well balanced image is an image with levels
  96.           (tones) distributed all over the whole range. An image with a
  97.           blue predominant color, for example, will produce a histogram
  98.           shifted to the left in Green and Red channels, signified by green
  99.           and red lacking on highlights.
  100.         </p>
  101.               <p>
  102.           Level ranges can be modified in three ways:
  103.         </p>
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  105.                 <ul type="opencircle">
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  107.                     <p>
  108.                Three triangles as sliders: one black for dark tones, one grey 
  109.                for midtones (often called Gamma value), one white for light
  110.                tones.
  111.              </p>
  112.                   </li>
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  114.                     <p>
  115.                Three eyedroppers: use the left one to pick the darkest
  116.                color, the mid one to pick the mid tone color, the right one
  117.                to pick the lightest color on the image.
  118.              </p>
  119.                   </li>
  120.                   <li style="list-style-type: circle">
  121.                     <p>
  122.                Three input boxes to enter values directly.
  123.              </p>
  124.                   </li>
  125.                 </ul>
  126.               </div>
  127.             </dd>
  128.             <dt>
  129.               <span class="term">Output Levels</span>
  130.             </dt>
  131.             <dd>
  132.               <p>
  133.           Output Levels allows manual selection of a constrained output level 
  134.           range. There are also arrow-heads located here that can be used to
  135.           interactively change the Output Levels.
  136.         </p>
  137.             </dd>
  138.             <dt>
  139.               <span class="term">All Channels</span>
  140.             </dt>
  141.             <dd>
  142.               <p>
  143.             <span class="guilabel">Load</span>: This button allows you to select a file 
  144.             holding level settings.
  145.           </p>
  146.               <p>
  147.             <span class="guilabel">Save</span>: Allows you to save any levels you have set 
  148.             to a file that can be loaded later.
  149.           </p>
  150.               <p>
  151.             <span class="guilabel">Auto</span>: Performs an automatic setting of the 
  152.             levels.
  153.           </p>
  154.               <p>
  155.             <span class="guilabel">Three eyedroppers</span>: These three
  156.             controls determine three points on the grayscale.  Any
  157.             level below the "Black Point" is black; any point above
  158.             the "White Point" is white.  The "Gray Point", which must
  159.             be between the other two, determines the middle level of
  160.             Gray.  All shades of gray are calculated from these three
  161.             levels.
  162.           </p>
  163.             </dd>
  164.             <dt>
  165.               <span class="term">Preview</span>
  166.             </dt>
  167.             <dd>
  168.               <p>
  169.            The Preview button makes all changes to the levels dynamically so 
  170.            that the new level settings can be viewed straight away.
  171.          </p>
  172.             </dd>
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