<chapter id="colorimages">
<chapterinfo>

<title
>Colorir Imagens</title>

<authorgroup>
<author
><firstname
>Gilles</firstname
> <surname
>Caulier</surname
> <affiliation
> <address
><email
>caulier dot gilles at free.fr</email
></address>
</affiliation>
</author>
</authorgroup
> <date
>2004-06-20</date
> <releaseinfo
>1.00.00</releaseinfo
> <abstract
> <para
>The Kipi color images plugin is a tool for to change/improve the color rendering in images. </para>
</abstract>

<keywordset>
<keyword
>KDE</keyword>
<keyword
>Kipi</keyword>
</keywordset>
</chapterinfo>

<title
>Introdução</title>

<para
>This plugin can be used for batch colors enhancement images in an Album. It use "convert" program from "ImageMagick" package. An image effect preview (partial or full) is available. 10 colors filters types have been implemented: <itemizedlist
> <listitem
><para
><emphasis
>Decrease contrast</emphasis
> : reduce the image contrast.</para
></listitem
> <listitem
><para
><emphasis
>Depth</emphasis
> : change the color depth of the image.</para
></listitem
> <listitem
><para
><emphasis
>Equalize</emphasis
> : perform histogram equalization to the image.</para
></listitem
> <listitem
><para
><emphasis
>Fuzz</emphasis
> : merging colors within a distance are considered equal.</para
></listitem
> <listitem
><para
><emphasis
>Gray scales</emphasis
> : convert colors image to gray scales image.</para
></listitem
> <listitem
><para
><emphasis
>Increase contrast</emphasis
> : enhance the image contrast.</para
></listitem
> <listitem
><para
><emphasis
>Monochrome</emphasis
> : transform the image to black and white.</para
></listitem
> <listitem
><para
><emphasis
>Negate</emphasis
> : replace every pixel with its complementary color.</para
></listitem
> <listitem
><para
><emphasis
>Normalize</emphasis
> : transform image to span the full range of color values.</para
></listitem
> <listitem
><para
><emphasis
>Segment</emphasis
> : segment an image by analyzing the histograms of the color components.</para
></listitem
> <listitem
><para
><emphasis
>Trim</emphasis
> : trim an image (fuzz reverse technic).</para
></listitem
> </itemizedlist
> You can see some samples building with this plugin at this <ulink url="http://digikamplugins.free.fr/ImagesGallerySamples/MultipleAlbums/ColorImages/index.html"
> <citetitle
>url.</citetitle
> </ulink
></para>

</chapter>
