Image enhancement

We offer image enhancement for all images; you can decide for yourself whether you want to enable or disable the image enhancement.

Our AI‑powered image enhancement analyses each image and automatically optimizes it to ensure your pictures look their best.
The most important image enhancement steps are exposure correction and color cast correction, which change the brightness and color of the entire image. For example, exposure correction is used to brighten underexposed images to reveal more detail. Color cast correction is used when, for example, an image was taken in artificial light and has a strong yellow cast. Well-exposed images with good white balance will require less correction.

These global corrections are followed by local image adjustments. For example, dark areas and shadows in the image are brightened to make underexposed faces more visible against backlighting. Similarly, very bright areas of the image, such as white clouds, are slightly darkened to improve detail. Local adjustments are also made on a smaller scale to different areas of color, for example to make the skin tones of different faces appear more pleasing. Finally, the sharpness of an image can also be adjusted slightly depending on the area of the image.

Depending on the image class, other image enhancements can be applied, such as automatic red-eye reduction or noise reduction for high-sensitivity images.

Although many corrections are a matter of personal taste, correcting exposure, color casts and shadows, for example, will in most cases significantly improve many images that would be unsatisfactory in their original state. We apply image enhancement exclusively to images for which it makes sense; it is not applied automatically to every image if it is not necessary.

Note that in the desktop software, the image enhancement feature is only reflected in the final product and not in the software display.

Enable or disable image enhancement?

  • AI image enhancement can be activated or deactivated for each photo individually by clicking the magic wand icon that appears when the image is selected.
  • If you have edited the images yourself in a photo editing application, we recommend that you disable image enhancement.
  • If you have not done any image enhancement and the images are straight from your mobile phone or camera, we always recommend that you enable image enhancement.
  • With the Saal Digital desktop software, you can deactivate the Image Enhancement by default in the Settings menu. Image Enhancement will not be automatically applied to images. However, you can still manually activate it for each image later.

Self-created PNGs and transparent PNGs

If you are using PNGs that you have created yourself and inserted into the software and that have transparency, we recommend that you always deactivate image enhancement, otherwise you may end up with unwanted changes to your PNG file.

Are images used to train AI models?

We do not use any customer images for AI model training.