Preferences

To open the Preference window use the menu command Settings\Preferences.

General tab:

• Accelerator for dragging the image - makes navigation in the main window more efficient by moving the image faster than by a mouse.
• Brightness management - choose between "curve" and "equalizer" mode of the brightness equalizer.
• Ignoring the EXIF information option can be useful if you do not want to include EXIF in the output image.
• Help Hints appearance select lets you define behavior of the tooltips. When you place a mouse cursor over a slider or a button, additional information about it will be displayed as a tooltip or in the status bar, in both places or nowhere at all.
• Enable noise reduction by default option defines if the noise reduction tab is enabled or disabled when user resets all options.
• Reset settings for new image option defines if the settings stay intact or are reset to default when the user loads the next image.

• Restore the last file settings option defines if the settings that were used for previous editing should be loaded.
• Check for updates checkbox defines if the program should check availability of newer versions. This may cause problems under some network configurations.
• Automatically rotate image when opening checkbox tells the program to use EXIF information about the image's orientation.
• Open last edited image on program start checkbox controls if a recently edited image should be automatically opened.
• Allow to use external plugins checkbox defines if the program should search for compatible Photoshop-compatible plugins and show them in the menu.
• Use the following color profile when saving images checkbox tells the program which color space to use. Please note, that many programs do not correctly display images in color spaces other than sRGB. So it may be a good idea to convert to sRGB before sending image to other people. But converting from Adobe RGB to sRGB may result in some color clipping.

Cache tab:

• Enable cache for thumbnails option defines if the program saves the thumbnails onto a disk for future use. Each thumbnail takes only some 10-15 Kb (less then 1% of the image size) but the cache significantly increases the speed of the navigation panel.
• Enable cache for settings of processed images option defines if the program should restore the settings that were used earlier to process this image. This can be very useful if you are not satisfied with the result and want to change only some parameters leaving the others as they were set during the first processing.