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Aura 360 Pro User Guide

Aura 360 Pro User Guide

The complete manual for your offline editing workflow.

Quick Navigation 1. Installation & Setup 2. The Top Toolbar 3. Tone & Color 4. Selective HSL 5. Split Toning 6. Effects & Style 7. Smart Mask 8. Presets

1. Installation & Setup

  • Download & Install
    Download the installer from your Premium Dashboard. Run the .exe file.
  • Bypass SmartScreen
    If Windows flags the app as "Unrecognized" (common for new software), click "More Info" -> "Run Anyway".
  • Launch
    Open "Aura 360 Pro" from your Start Menu. No internet required.

2. The Top Toolbar

Located at the top of the screen, these essential buttons control your workspace and history.

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Undo / Do Mistake? Step backward or forward through your recent edits instantly.
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Reset Reverts the image to its original state, clearing all active sliders.
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Grid Toggles a 3x3 alignment grid. Essential for checking if structures, walls, and door frames are straight.
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Compare Click and hold to peek at the original "Before" image. Release to return to your edits.
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Sidebar Hides the editing panel to give you a full-screen, distraction-free view.

3. Tone & Color

Correct lighting and set the mood of your scene.

Light
  • Exposure: Overall brightness.
  • Contrast: Adds punch to the image.
  • Highlights: Recovers blown-out windows/lights.
  • Shadows: Lifts dark areas.
Color Balance
  • Temp: Warms up (orange) or cools down (blue) the image.
  • Tint: Corrects green/magenta shifts.
  • Vibrance: Boosts muted colors without oversaturating skin tones.
  • Saturation: Intense color boost for everything.

4. Selective HSL

Target specific colors without affecting the rest of the image.

How to use: Select a color channel (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Aqua, Blue, Purple, Magenta) and adjust the sliders below.
  • Hue: Changes the color tone (e.g., turn a purple sky into a blue one).
  • Sat (Saturation): Removes or boosts a specific color (e.g., desaturate a distracting red chair).
  • Lum (Luminance): Changes the brightness of a color (e.g., darken the Blue channel to make the sky deeper).

5. Split Toning

Add specific color tints to the brightest and darkest parts of your image to achieve a cinematic color grade.

Color Grading
  • Highlights: Injects your chosen color exclusively into the brightest areas (e.g., adding a warm yellow/orange glow to sunlit windows).
  • Shadows: Injects your chosen color into the darkest areas (e.g., adding cool blues to deep shadows for contrast).

6. Effects & Style

Final polish and artistic filters.

Enhancement
  • Smooth: Reduces digital noise and grain. Essential for night shots.
  • Sharpen: Crisp detail enhancement.
Creative Filters
  • Glow: Adds a dreamy, soft-focus bloom to highlights.
  • Comic: Stylized illustration effect.
  • Outline: Edge-detection filter for a technical drawing look with adjustable thickness and intensity.

7. Smart Mask

Intelligently separate the sky from the ground to apply targeted adjustments without tedious manual masking.

Mask Controls
  • Sky Smoothness: Automatically applies a clean blur to the top half of your sphere to reduce noise or banding in the sky.
  • Ground Detail: Applies targeted sharpening to the bottom half of your sphere to bring out textures like grass, floors, and pavement.
  • Mask Softness: Controls the fade (feathering) at the horizon line where the sky and ground adjustments blend together.

8. Presets

Save time by creating your own signature looks and applying them to other images.

💾 Save Preset

Once you are happy with your current sliders (Tone, HSL, and Effects), click the Save Preset button.

  • What it saves: All current slider positions and color adjustments.
  • Reuse: Your saved preset will appear in the library, allowing you to apply the same grade to the next room in your tour instantly.
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