Kodak has announced a new range ('professional' and 'standard') of Image Enhancement Plug-ins for Photoshop (and compatible applications). They include one that automatically reduces noise/grain, an airbrush effect, one that corrects, balances and restores color and one that optimizes contrast and exposure. A free trial of the plug-ins is available to download.
Restores, Corrects, and Balances Colour
The DIGITAL ROC Plug-In restores, balances and corrects the colour of almost any digital image by removing colour casts that have been caused by coloured lighting or fading. The software works by analysing the colour gradients of a digital image and then finding the optimum tone curve for each colour. The plug-in can be used to correct the effects of tungsten and fluorescent lighting and also to restore pleasing density and contrast to black and white digital images. The professional version includes additional features and functionality to give the user greater power including advanced controls for precise adjustment of both image brightness and image contrast.
KODAK IMAGE ENHANCEMENT PLUG-INS work with 8 bit digital photographs from any source, including film scanners, flatbed scanners, digital cameras, CDs and the internet. The professional plug-ins work with 8 or 16 bit digital photographs. The plug-ins are compatible with ADOBE Photoshop and other programmes that support Photoshop plug-ins and are available on both Windows and Macintosh platforms.
DIGITAL GEM Airbrush Professional Plug-In is a nice tool that enable users to achieve meticulous airbrush effects, automatically, without tedious, time-consuming masking and manual softening. The DIGITAL GEM Airbrush Professional Plug-In smoothes surfaces in digital images by reducing harsh shadows and highlights, minimizing the imperfections of skin and other surfaces, while fully preserving details like hair, eyelashes, eyebrows, and the true character of a subject's face.
jQuery(document).on('hometech.adsDefined', function() googletag.cmd.push(function() headertag.display("div-gpt-ad-1020-200-1"); );); --> News Kodak DIGITAL GEM Airbrush Professional Plug-In Shutterbug Staff Jun 4, 2004 Eastman Kodak Company has introduced the new DIGITAL GEM Airbrush Professional Plug-In, which gives users a quick and powerful way of smoothing skin and other surfaces without blurring or affecting the detail of important facial features. This new plug-in enables users to automatically achieve airbrush and retouching effects without tedious, time-consuming masking and manual softening.
The DIGITAL GEM Airbrush Professional Plug-In joins the suite of image correction and enhancement plug-ins that provide easy and effective methods for automatically improving digital images in ADOBE PHOTOSHOP Software and compatible image editing applications. Other plug-ins include the DIGITAL SHO Plug-In for revealing hidden details in shadows or dark image areas, and the DIGITAL SHO Professional Plug-In, which adds more control, functionality, and the ability to reveal hidden detail from highlight areas. The DIGITAL ROC Plug-In restores, corrects, and balances image color, while the DIGITAL ROC Professional Plug-In adds advanced features for brightness and contrast control, as well as 16 bit support. Finally, the original DIGITAL GEM Plug-In reduces distracting noise and grain in digital images.
Kodak's (www.asf.com) Digital GEM Airbrush Professional is part of the company's suite of correction and enhancement Photoshop-compatible plug-ins which provide easy and effective tools to improve your digital images. Other members of their Professional suite include the Digital SHO Professional Plug-In for revealing detail hidden in shadows or highlight areas. The Digital ROC Professional Plug-In restores, corrects, and balances image color, letting you tweak brightness and contrast control.
Apply complex airbrush tools to change and improve the quality and visuals of digital photos. Automate the processing of a selected file by setting the specifications and viewing the results after the fact. Save or manually adjust the changes, export data, etc.
Eastman Kodak Co. releasedDigital Gem Airbrush Professional, a new Adobe Photoshop plug-in, on Wednesday. It accepts digital images drawn from a variety of sources, including digital cameras, picture CDs, the Internet and scanners, smoothing imperfections in the skin without affecting facial details. The plug-in offers three levels of detail as well as the ability to correct only the darker areas of an image, the lighter areas, or both, with support for 16-bit and 8-bit images.
Images scanned from film can be further enhanced using the plug-in's "Optimize for Film" checkbox which, when selected, analyzes and detects film grain patterns in the digital image color channels and corrects cross-channel color problems, resulting in a more effective color correction.
DIGITAL GEM Airbrush Professional Plug-In gives users a quick and powerful way of smoothing skin surfaces without blurring or affecting the detail of important facial features.
DIGITAL GEM Airbrush Professional Plug-In is a nice tool that enable usersto achieve meticulous airbrush effects, automatically, without tedious, time-consuming masking and manual softening.
The DIGITAL GEM Airbrush Professional Plug-In smoothes surfaces in digital images by reducing harsh shadows and highlights, minimizing the imperfections of skin and other surfaces, while fully preserving details like hair, eyelashes, eyebrows, and the true character of a subject's face.
Several advanced control sliders allow users to customize the smoothing effects and intensity amounts at three levels of detail: fine, medium, and coarse. Users can preview a high contrast mask which depicts the image detail that is affected or unaffected.
The plug-in provides three standard setting buttons: Normal; Lighten; and Darken, which allow the correction to be applied to only darker areas, only lighter areas, or both. The DIGITAL GEM Airbrush Professional Plug-In also supports the use of 16 bit color images, as well as the standard 8 bit color images.
Perform Digital Makeovers Automatically
The DIGITAL GEM Airbrush Professional Plug-In provides an effective and affordable solution for the amateur snap-shooter or the professional portrait photographer to bring out the real beauty in their subjects by reducing the distracting imperfections and smoothing unflattering highlights/shadows.
Whether the subjects are older with wrinkles, teens with blemishes, or toddlers with already perfect skin, this plug-in will make them look their best.
I've been making photo-compositions since I had to cut rubylith and make physical masks. Most people don't even know that Photoshop replaced entire darkrooms, airbrush, and transparency retouching studios. Nobody ever cared about retouching back then because nobody knew it was even happening. Look at any old fashion ad or Playboy magazine from any decade before digital and study closely. Look familiar?
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