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Edit Imagery

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Plex-Earth offers editing tools for satellite and aerial imagery within AutoCAD, Civil 3D, and BricsCAD, allowing users to adjust brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, and transparency, as well as create clippings and cutouts for project-specific needs.

This feature is included in the following plans: Pro, Premium

Learn how to edit Plex-Earth imagery mosaics to enhance the images for suitable use in your projects.

After you import the imagery of your area of interest, you can proceed with utilizing our available editing tools. 

Select Image to Edit

Before applying any modifications, you must identify the imagery or mosaic you wish to adjust.

  1. Open the Collection Manager. Or use the command PXV_COLLECTION_MANAGER.

    Choose Imagery Mosaic.png

  2. Navigate to the Imagery tab.

  3. Locate the specific mosaic or image from your list and click the Edit (pencil) icon. This opens the Imagery Editor.

    Edit Imagery Mosaic.png

Tools for Editing the Imagery

Click on the Tools button, and the following options should appear:

Tools Menu.png

Adjust Image (Brightness, Contrast, Hue, Saturation, Transparency)

In the following section, we are given the option to edit the way the image is presented by changing the brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, and transparency, and also to view the selected changes before saving them, on the right side of the preview. After making the desired adjustments, we click OK.

Adjust Image.png

Brightness

Specify levels from -100 to 100 to brighten or darken theimagery

Brightness.png

Contrast

Adjust between -100 to 100 to enhance detail.

Contrast.png
📢 Tip: If the image is dark, you can increase the Brightness (for example, 20) and reduce the Contrast (for example, -10). On the other hand, if it is bright, you can reduce the Brightness (for example, 20) and increase the Contrast (for example, 10).

Hue

Define color shifts (from -180 to 180)

Hue.png
📢 Tip: With Hue, you can define a specific color on your imagery, such as blue, green, yellow, red, and all colors between them.

Hue_blue.pngHue_green.png

Hue_yellow.pngHue_red.png

Saturation 

Adjust color intensity (from -100 to 100) for more vivid or desaturated basemaps.

Saturation.png

With Saturation, you can define the intensity of a hue. Vivid primary colors are highly saturated, while pastel colors are unsaturated.

Saturation -100.pngSaturation +100.png

  -100 Saturation                                  +100 Saturation

Τransparency

Set opacity levels (0-250) to allow objects to show through

Transparency.png
📢 Note: The applied transparency is not retained if the mosaic is converted to raster. Use the FADE tool of CAD for similar effects on raster images.

Revert To Original

Selecting the Revert to Original option clears all adjustments and reverts to the original image.

Revert to Original.png

Clippings

Clipping.png

Define a specific boundary to limit the imagery display to your exact project area. This helps focus the drawing and removes unnecessary data from the view.

Clipping_image.png

To remove applied clippings, click on Clippings → go to the command line → Clear.

Cutouts

Cutouts.png

Define internal areas within the imagery to be hidden. This is useful for revealing specific CAD entities or other topography layers located underneath the main mosaic.

Cutouts_image.png

To remove applied cutouts, click on Cutouts → go to the command line → Clear.

📢 Tip: You can insert a raster image for your mosaic like in this tutorial and use local CAD commands to edit your raster imagery.

Editing Single Images and Raster Images

Single Images are inserted as raster images in CAD. The Plex-Earth mosaic created can also be inserted as a raster image depending on the Terms of Use of the provider selected. You can use local CAD commands to edit raster images, like in this AutoCAD tutorial.

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