Auto level entire image based on selection?

I'm scanning some old magazine pages. But because some clippings are irregular shaped, the bright white of the scanner lid is in the image. So this throws off Auto Levels & Auto Contrast. If I take the marquee tool to select a portion of the image, is there a way to auto level the entire document based on the smaller marquee selected area?

Hmmm... I must be missing a step. Help me out here...
I'm making a selection of the area I want to use for auto levels. I click on the Levels adjustment layer, it creates an Adjustment layer with layer mask. I option-click Auto in the Levels palette -- and it brings up a dialog box. Now what?

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CS3 on macbook pro.
I know I should use other methods for levels and contrast but I have come across a strange problem. If I select auto contrast or auto levels the image turns black? Is there something that I have set in preferences incorrectly? How can I resolve this problem.
Many thanks for any help.
Tony

turn off Open GL in prefs and restart Photoshop

Automating the Auto Levels process

As part of my work flow after importing the files into Aperture and applying meta data I then apply Auto levels to each image in turn, this is a very manual process involving the mouse and the right arrow key to move to the next image, wait for it to be read then press the auto levels button and then right arrow to the next image.
Is there a way to get Aperture to go through all the images in an Album applying the Auto levels command to each image individually.
It may even by by a keystroke macro process if there is such a one for OSX.
I do not want to lift the adjustments from one corrected image and apply them to all the images as this does not reflect the auto needs of each image.
After auto levelling each image I select the images for customised work.
Thanks for any suggestions.

Yes it worked - you have to redefine the action for each time you run aperture as the button for the auto levels function moves around the screen according to where you have the Aperture window.
You also have to allow for Aperture slowing down so you have to build in a delay before pressing the Auto button.
While running this process you cannot run another app that will sit over the Aperture window or take focus from Aperture.
What surprises me is that the two Auto buttons do not have keystroke alternatives. (or at least I could not find them in the documentation)

Batch auto exposure or auto levels for a bunch of RAW images?

Hi,
I want to apply the "auto level" to a bunch of RAW images all at the same time. I've tried to use the lift+stamp tools, but they lift the applied level instead of the function "auto level" itself, and thus uses the same levels for all the images. I've also tried to uncheck the "Primary only" function, but it still doesn't work - if I select a bunch of photos and press "Auto level", only one of them will have it applied.
Does anyone have an idea of a way to do this?
Thanks!

There was a post a week or so back that discussed this and one way of achieving it.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2216247
Tony

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Aperture doesn't allow one to perform the "Auto Levels" function on multiple images regardless of the state of the "Toggle Primary Only" control. Has anyone discovered a workaround in 1.1?
(This topic was previously discussed for 1.0 in http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1486906&#1486906)
Thanks.

You can lift and stamp the changes made by using an auto-adjustment, but it will no longer be automatic, just a copy of the changes made to the last image.
Aperture doesn't let you make any image adjustment to multiple images at once, so it's nothing specific to auto-adjust.
Ian

Pen Tool is Selecting Entire Image

Within my image I am using the Pen tool to select an area that I want to copy. When I define the area with anchor points, close it then select Make Selection, New Selection, it puts the marching ants around not only the area I selected but also the entire image (see below).
This suddenly started happening.
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Auto levels on import preset

I tried a search to see how you can get AP3 to do an "auto levels" adjustment during import, but I am not sure how to do it. If I do an "auto" adjust on an image and then create a preset, does AP3 apply the levels based on that particular file used, or will it actually look at each file individually and make the correct adjustment for each file during the import? Or is there a different way to correctly apply auto levels during import?
Thanks in advance.

this is fairly easy. the only thing you have to do is create an adjustment preset to do just that.
steps:
1-click on an image and go to the Adjustments tab
2-apply auto-levels on that image (and nothing else)
3-in the Presets drop box, choose Save as Preset (Aperture is intelligent enough to remember you've applied the Auto-levels)
4-in the preset management box, give it some name
5-on following imports, just apply this preset to your images on import and voilà.
j

How to create a report based on selected item from Select list?

Hi,
I have created a tables_LOV based on:
select table_name d, table_name r from user_tab_cols
where column_name like '%_type%'
Then I created a page item ListOfTables, Display as select list and pointing to tables_LOV.
I run the page, and i can select the table i want from the drop down list.
How to create a report based on the selected item? (ex: select * from selected_table)
many thanks in advance
Salah

Hi Salah,
Allright, have a look at this page: http://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=vincentdeelen:collection_report
I think that simulates what you're trying to accomplish. I've set up the simplest method I could think of.
The report is based on an apex collection. If you are not familiar with that, you should study the documentation: APEX_COLLECTION
To recreate my example you should:
1) create an (interactive) report on your collection
SELECT *
   FROM APEX_collections
WHERE collection_name = 'MY_COLLECTION'
2) create a page_item select list for the tables you want to display (in my case this is called "P38_TABLES" )
3) create a dynamic action that triggers on change of your select list page_item. The dynamic action must be a PL/SQL procedure perfoming the following code:
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l_query varchar2(4000);
begin
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if apex_collection.collection_exists
        ( p_collection_name => 'MY_COLLECTION' )
then
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      ( p_collection_name => 'MY_COLLECTION' );
end if;
apex_collection.create_collection_from_query
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    , p_query           => l_query
end;
Make sure you add your page_item to the "Page Items to Submit" section.
4) Add an extra true action that does a refresh of the report region.
Here are two pictures describing the da:
http://www.vincentdeelen.com/images/otn/OTN_COLLECTION_REPORT_DA1.png
http://www.vincentdeelen.com/images/otn/OTN_COLLECTION_REPORT_DA2.png
Good luck and regards,
Vincent
http://vincentdeelen.blogspot.com

Why is elements better at photomerge than CC- CC does not appear to automatically fill image based on content but elements does when merging a panorama. Also the stitching is visable in CC but almost perfect in elements- why?

I took 6 panorama shots of a scene and used CC to Photomerge them as one. Couldn't see where to automatic blend the edges and there was 'stitch' lines when the images were merged. So i did the same in Elements 11 and it was perfect. Am i doing something wrong in CC or perhaps not doing something at all?
Any help, please?
Dave

Hi - Thanks for taking the time to reply and i appreciate the remarks- if a little harsh- we all have to start somewhere and i am fully aware of the limitations of Elements which is why i decided to add CC to my software. I can only say that if an inferior quality software from Adobe does the job well then CC must also be suited to doing the same which is why i can only think, from your comments, that i have not done something simple- however- following tutorials to get to the end result should have sufficed- it didn't so perhaps i will consider posting the difference between the two applications- and, perhaps suffer a few more 'harsh' comments. The learning curve is quite steep and i am a visual learner, but i'm also not totally incompetent:)
Kind Regards
Dave Munn
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Subject : why is elements better at photomerge than CC- CC does not appear to automatically fill image based on content but elements does when merging a panorama. Also the stitching is visable in CC but almost perfect in elements- why?
why is elements better at photomerge than CC- CC does not appear to automatically fill image based on content but elements does when merging a panorama. Also the stitching is visable in CC but almost perfect in elements- why?
created by station_two in Photoshop General Discussion - View the full discussion
First a clarification: you are not addressing Adobe here in these user forums. You are requesting help from volunteers users just like you who give their time free of charge. No one has any obligation to answer your questions.
I'll give it my best shot anyway.
Few folks in this forum are really familiar with Elements, for which there's a dedicated, totally separate forum.
Different engineering teams, also.
From this perspective, it will be difficult to give you a direct answer to your "why?" question.
Personally, I blend very large panorama shots in Photoshop proper since I can't even remember when without any issues whatsoever, up to and including in Photoshop CS6 13.0.6.
Without being at your computer and without looking at your images, I couldn't even begin to speculate what you are doing wrong in Photoshop, which I suspect you are. The least you could show is post examples from your panoramas that have gone wrong.
I can tell you that panorama stitching requires significant overlap between the individual shots, besides common-sdense techniques like a very solid tripod and precision heads.
The only version of Elements I have ever used for any significant time was Elements 6 for Windows, which I bought in 2008 to use on a PC (I've been an avid Mac user for 30 years). I found Elements so limited and so bad that I successfully demanded a refund from Adobe. IU mention this only to emphasize that I can truly only address your question from a Photoshop (proper) and Mac user point of view. I couldn't care less about Elements, but if you have comparison examples of panoramas processed in both applications, by all means post those two.
Generally speaking Photoshop is a professional level application that makes no apologies for its very long and steep learning curve, while Photoshop has many hand-holding features for amateurs and beginners.
Perhaps the bottom line is that you should stick with Elements if you personally manage to get better results there.
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Hi All,
Working with Designer ES ver. 8.2, and I am looking to see if it is possible to auto fill another field based on an end users input.
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I am trying to move away from my current auto fill drop-down option, so end-user is less likely to select incorrect departmentCode from drop-down
Best Regards
Jeff

radzmar,
Thank you for your response, I assumed there was a simple script to accomplish my task. I had assumed that the .rawValue property would have come into play and was unaware of the xfa.event.fullText property.
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Auto populate Infopath 2013 fields after selecting a specific dropdown option.

Auto populate Infopath 2013 fields after selecting a specific dropdown option.
Hi.
I have a Sharepoint 2013 list with three fields. Code, Section and Sub Section.
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How would I go about this please?
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Hi JonMorgan,
Based on your description, my understanding is that you want to achieve that the second dropdown gets populated depending on what the first dropdown is set to.
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View image based on the query

view image based on the query
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Error
The file was not downloaded or was not downloaded correctly.
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return false;
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l_success boolean;
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          and dref.dlin_id = dlin.id
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                       'DOCUMENT_IMAGE',
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end if;
end download;
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oh ho.
Dear user,
this is not code factory/design factory/bla bla bla.
this area for guide peoples where you are? what is way right to reach your target/goal. whatever in you words...
from your post and also procedures, you are from forms background. am also came from ORacle froms 10g background try to understand. and implement it adf.
back to topic:
Target Unreachable, identifier 'viewImage' resolved to null Error .i just am giving the steps to igonre your error
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Clone Stamp tool displays a copy of the entire image.

Hi I have just purchased photoshop elements 11. It has been ok for past 10 days or so but now I have a problem when tring to clone.
I select the area by alt+click but then what happens is that the whole picture moves and in fact duplicates itself
Any ideas
Message title was edited by: Brett N

Barbara's settings will reset the tool to its default behavior.
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Can anyone recommend a Mac application that can aid in identifying "similar" images (from a specified group of many images) based on visual appearance??
In the past, I've used Microsoft's Expression Media Pro (formerly iView Media Pro) to assist me in gathering 'like' images which are similar in visual appearance to one another. This proved to be a tremendous aid over the years in situations where I found myself trying to collect images that were 'virtual' duplicates of one another, but could not be collected by so-called 'duplicate finder' apps because they didn't share the same metadata, resource fork, date created/modified, size, name, etc...
_An example of how this might happen:_
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Here is a screenshot of Expression Media Pro's "Show Similar" dialog box:
Without going off on too much of a tangent, I've lost complete faith in iView Media Pro (which used to be my Digital Asset Management app of choice) ever since Microsoft bought it and turned it into Expression Media Pro...it's been way too buggy and has become all but unusable for me and my day-to-day needs...
It would be a tremendous help if someone could help me out here by recommending a Mac app to find and gather images based on their appearance...
Thanks!

I assume that these images are not inside an iPhoto library? Because all those ‘Save As...’ commands would confuse things a lot in iPhoto.
I’ve not tried this myself but it might help:
http://www.ironicsoftware.com/deep/
Regards
TD

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