Enhancer Plugin: Workspace
To call AKVIS Enhancer plugin you should select it from the list of effects. For this purpose use the command Filter - AKVIS - Enhancer in Adobe Photoshop; the menu item Effects - Plugins - AKVIS - Enhancer if you work with Corel (Jasc) Paint Shop Pro; or Effects - AKVIS - Enhancer if you use Corel PHOTO-PAINT.
Under Windows the AKVIS Enhancer program window looks like that:
Under Mac OS X the plugin window looks like that:
Most part of the AKVIS Enhancer plug-in's window is taken by the Image window with two tabs Before and After. The original image is shown in the Before tab, the After tab shows the processed photo. You can toggle between the tabs using the Tab key. To compare the original and the resulting images, you can just left-click on the image in the After tab.
In the right part of the window you can see the Toolbar with buttons and options.
In the upper part of the Toolbar you can see the following buttons:
Navigate and scale the image using the Navigator window. The red frame shows the part of the image that is now visible in the Image Window.
Drag the red frame to view the required part of the image in the Image Window. To move the red frame, put the cursor inside the frame, press the left mouse button, and keeping it pressed, drag the frame.
Besides, you can scroll the image in the Image Window by pressing the space bar on the keyboard and by dragging the image with the left mouse button.
Use the buttons  and
 , as well as the slider to scale the image in the Image Window. By clicking on or by moving the slider to the right, you scale up the image; by clicking on or by moving the slider to the left, you scale down the image in the Image Window
It is also possible to enter a new scale coefficient into the appropriate field and press the button Enter (Return
on Macintosh).
Besides, to scale the image you can use hot-keys: + and CTRL++ (Command++
on Macintosh) to scale up the image, - and CTRL+- (Command+-
on Macintosh) to scale down the image.
Under the Navigation window there is a Preview Size field where the image size in the plugin's window is set, Parameters and Presets fields.
The Parameters field shows four sliders that influence the outcome: Shadows, Highlights, Level of Detail and Lightness.
In the Presets field you can save favourite settings as a preset to use them in the future. When you launch the plugin, it uses the settings of the last used preset.
In the Hint group you can see the description of AKVIS Enhancer or the description of the parameter that has been last changed.
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(only in the Focus mode) turns on/off the drawn strokes.
(only in the Focus mode) cancels the last operation. It is possible to cancel several operations in a row. 
(only in the Focus mode) returns the last cancelled operation. It is possible to return several operations in a row. 
(only in the Focus mode) starts image processing based on the strokes you have drawn over the image.
allows applying the result to the image and closing the AKVIS Enhancer window.
calls information about the program.
calls the help files of the program.
allows selecting the language of the program's interface. To switch to another language, you should left-click the button 
closes the program window without applying the result of image editing.
— Workspace