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As for claims 5, 16, Photoshop teaches a further step: (e) treating the preferred image from step (d) as a new original, repeating steps (b) through (d) to produce a new preferred image (Photoshop, Variations, user selects the brighter or darker version, replaces "current image" with the new selection).
As for claims 6, 17, Photoshop teaches all of the pixels of the original image are mapped (Photoshop, Variations, converts the entire initial image).
As for claims 7, 18, Photoshop teaches steps (b) through (e) are repeated (see claim 5)
As for claims 8, 19, Photoshop teaches in step (b) after step (e) a second image attribute is selected by the software, and all altered images are altered in the second image attribute (Photoshop, Variations, displays color variations of the image on the scale Cyan-Red; as brightness is altered, the image in the color variations display are correspondingly altered, i.e. "images are altered in the second image attribute").
As for claims 9, 20, Photoshop teaches in step (b) after step (e) a third image attribute is selected by the software, and all altered images are altered in the third image attribute (Photoshop, Variations, analogously alters images on the Magenta-Green scale, i.e. "third attribute")
Claim Rejections - 35 USC ยง 103 The following is a quotation of35 U.S.C. 1 03(a) which forms the basis for all obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action: