Loupedeck Aurora HDR User manual

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Table of Contents
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General 3
Basic HDR adjustments 3
Color 4
Crop, Brush, and Masking Tools 5
Crop Mode 5
Brush mode 6
Radial Mode 6
Gradient Mode 7
HSL — Color channel adjustment 8
Presets 9
Other controls and functions 10
Have any questions? 11
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General
This guide describes the console controls responsible for Aurora HDR functions.
Basic HDR adjustments
CONTROL
FUNCTION
Temperature
Makes the image warmer or cooler, essentially
adding cyan or yellow to change the color
temperature.
Tint
Adjusts the amount of green and magenta in
the image, which is useful for removing color
casts.
Exposure
Adjusts the global luminance of the image.
Contrast
Adjusts the overall contrast.
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Color
Highlights
Adjusts the brightness of the brightest areas in
the image.
Blacks
Sets the black point in the histogram and
adjusts black tones in the image.
Whites
Sets the white point in the histogram and
adjusts white tones in the image.
Clarity
Adjusts the amount of HDR enhancement.
Shadows
Adjusts the brightness level of the darkest areas
in the image.
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CONTROL
FUNCTION
Vibrance
A Smart Saturation control that increases the
saturation of less-vibrant colors more than the
saturation of more-vibrant colors.
Saturation
Adjusts the color saturation of the image.
FN + Contrast
Controls color contrast.!

Crop, Brush, and Masking Tools
Crop Mode
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CONTROL
FUNCTION
Control Dial (CD)
Activates the Crop/Rotation tool; a second
press applies changes.
Control Dial (CD) + Fn
Resets the crop angle (only the angle).
D1
Adjusts crop size (if pressed, D1 resets only the
crop size, not the aspect ratio).
Arrows
Moves the crop area over the image.

Brush mode
Radial Mode
CONTROL
FUNCTION
Rotating CD
Increases/decreases the tool tip size.
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CONTROL
FUNCTION
Rotating CD
Increases/decreases the tool tip size.
Rotating CD + Fn
Increases/decreases the opacity of the Fill tool.
L1
Activates the Brush tool/ switches the Brush
tool to Paint mode.
FN + L1
Switches from Brush to Erase mode.
Pressing CD
Applies changes.
D1
Adjusts tool tip softness.

Gradient Mode
Pressing CD
Applies changes.
Rotating CD + Fn
Mask feather.
L2
Activates the Radial mask.
D1
Rotates the mask.
D2
Adjusts the mask height.
FN + D2
Adjusts the mask width.
Arrows
Moves the mask.
CONTROL
FUNCTION
Rotating CD
Rotates the gradient.
L3
Activates the gradient mask.
D1
Changes the gradient size.
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HSL — Color channel adjustment
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CONTROL
FUNCTION
Hue
Sets HSL scrolls to adjust the hue of the
selected color.
Sat
Sets HSL scrolls to adjust the saturation of the
selected color.
Lum
Sets HSL scrolls to adjust the luminance of the
selected color.
HSL scrolls
Adjust colors.

Presets
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CONTROL
FUNCTION
P1–P8
Selects from the first eight available presets.
FN + P1–P8
Selects from the first six preset categories plus
Favorites and User Presets.
Rotating CD
Sets the strength of the selected preset.

Other controls and functions
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CONTROL
FUNCTION
Undo
Jumps to the previous state in the workflow,
which can be either a state in the image editing
history or a user movement within the app.
Redo
Jumps to the next state in the workflow, which
can be either a state in the image editing
history or a user movement within the app.
FN
Toggles between opened editing programs (i.e.
will jump to an editing program from anywhere
in the operating system).
ScreenMode
User-definable, but by default makes the image
full-screen with no tools visible.
Before/After
Reverts the whole image to the version before
editing. A second press reverts back to the edited
image.
Before/After + Fn
Places before and after images side by side.
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Have any questions?
You can find FAQs and support at the links below.
Loupedeck
https://loupedeck.com/support/
Aurora HDR
https://aurorahdr.com/faq
Export!
User-definable, but by default opens the export
dialog.
Arrows
Navigates between presets.
D1
Sets the intensity of the polarizing filter.
D2
Sets the intensity of HDR Denoise.
All dials and scrolls
(except for CD and
function buttons)
Reset parameters of controls to default values.
When a control is pressed, it returns the control
parameter to the default value.!
For example, if you adjust the saturation to 31
and then press the dial, the saturation will be
reset to 0.
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