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PowerRetouche is a professional pack of Photoshop plugins (for Mac and Windows), that will help you solve even the most thorny problems of digital photography. They will also make your life with Photoshop much easier and more enjoyable. In all there are 20 plugins designed each to solve a specific problem or manage a specific task with ease. Some are very extensive, others simple, but all very intuitive to use.
PowerRetouche was founded in 2001 with the invention of a unique unsharp mask that does not create negative edgelines like regular unsharp mask does. PowerRetouche was the first and only company to do that. Since then some other companies have tried to copy the edgeline free sharpening, but with less success.
Today the flagship of PowerRetouche is the Black & White Studio which offers incredible control over how you convert color images to greyscale. The BW Studio is divided into three sections, that emulate traditional photography: First set of controls relate to the film and covers colored lens filters, like yellow, orange, etc., spectral sensitivity of the film with presets for all the major films from Kodak, Ilford, etc. Second set of controls relate to traditional darkroom print development with controls for multigrade, exposure, etc. The third set of controls offers possibility to edit three greylevel zones with respect to brightness, contrast and gamma.
PowerRetouche has developed its filters in tight dialogue with professional photographers around the world and you can feel that when working with the filters: They are intuitive to use and have exactly the controls you need to master any given task like contrast, black definition, softness, etc.
What's unique about the filters is they support all appropriate image modes, like all work with16 bit images, CMYK, Lab, duotone, etc. This means you can sharpen in Lab-mode, convert mages to greyscale in CMYK-mode for printing, and so forth.
Most of the jobs Powerretouche does for you, are simply not possible to do in Photoshop. Others would require considerable tweaking with curves, levels and correction layers.
Awards
Photoshop User, Jan. 2004: "Filters, that solve some of the digital photographers most thorny problems. The hottest digital power plugins developed specifically for digital photographers."
Digital Camera Magazine, May 2004: "A comprehensive, pro-level set of filters for the photographic professional. Highly recommended".
Cybia 2004, Cybia 2003: Best of the best, Quality Software.
Check Discussion Forum and download trial version for Windows and Mac. More information on product and price at: http://powerretouche.com
Anti-aliasing
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B & W Studio
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Black Definition
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Brightness
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Color Correction
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Contrast
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Dynamic Range
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Exposure
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Golden Section
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Lens Corrector
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Noise Filter
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Posterizer
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Radial Density
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Saturation
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Sharpness
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Soft Filter
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Toned Photos
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Transparency
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White Balance
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Anti-aliasing - Filter edge roughness and jagged edges in graphics and images. Also for anti-aliasing photos at large. Web graphics improve with anti-alias filtering, because web images are often down-scaled a lot and need much sharpening. All the images on this webpage have been much scaled down, then sharpened with our plugin and finally anti-alias filtered. (Example 300%). 8 & 16 bit: RGB, grayscale, Duotone, CMYK, Multichannel, Lab.
Black & White Studio - Convert digital color to black and white photography. Use... light sensitivity of professional films (like Tri-X) - or set your own sensitivity curves; color-filters (yellow, orange, etc.); multigrade range 00 to 5; exposure equivalent to f-stops; highlight and shadow control; zone adjustments ... and much more. 8 & 16 bit: RGB, grayscale, Duotone, CMYK.
Black Definition - Control black in photos and graphics as if it were a colorchannel. Target changes to colors or grays (saturated or unsaturated) areas. The plastic 3D sense in a photo is greatly enhanced when the black definition is raised. Reducing black definition makes colors more vivid without raising their saturation. Also use to brighten sullied photos without actually altering brightness. 8 & 16 bit: RGB, grayscale, Duotone, CMYK, Multichannel, Lab.
Brightness Editor - The Brightness Editor plugin lets you edit brightness with full color-preservation. You can preserve or reduce color freely. It is well suited to be used in conjunction with the Exposure Editor and when working with selections, also for fading background images in graphic design and web design. 8 & 16 bit: RGB, grayscale, Duotone, CMYK, Multichannel, Lab.
Color Corrector - For color correction and removing colorcast. Select a color, hue and/or brightness-range and change it any way you like. Shift the color spectrum of the entire image or a selected hue or brightness-range by rotating the color wheel. In the example we targeted the reflected lights in the girls face and made them brighter, warmer and more vivid by rotating the colorcircle a bit. Good for colorcast. 8 & 16 bit: RGB, grayscale, Duotone, CMYK, Multichannel, Lab.
Contrast Editor - Control black-white contrast independent of color-contrast and without changing color, hue or saturation. Control the midtones by setting how much they should be preserved or lost. Our general contrast slider quickly improves black-white contrast, color-contrast and saturation in one go. Improve the light in the photo by shifting the mean towards light or dark. 8 & 16 bit: RGB, grayscale, Duotone, CMYK, Multichannel, Lab.
Dynamic Range Compression - Shadow illumination without artefacts like edge halos or fake illumination. Contrast reduction by dynamic range reduction. Full control over all aspects of dynamic range correction - like black point, offset, shadow depth with adjustable threshold, saturation, etc. 8 & 16 bit: RGB, grayscale, Duotone, CMYK, Multichannel, Lab.
Exposure Corrector - Correct under- or overexposure. Either in the entire photo or in selected or restricted areas. Target-mode lets you correct exposure in any range of darks, midtones or lights - typically you'll want to re-expose shadows or lower highlights. This is an ideal pair with our Dynamic Range Compressor. 8 & 16 bit: RGB, grayscale, Duotone, CMYK, Multichannel, Lab.
Golden Section - Instantly draw any divine proportion on your image or a transparent layer as an aid for cropping and composition. Draws the golden sections, goldens spiral, golden triangles, spiral sections, rule of thirds and harmonic triangles. Handles any proportions. Define any size within the images limits as an aid for cropping..
Lens Distortion Corrector - Fix distorted photos with our lens tool. Correct lens-distortions from zoom, tele, wide-angle, and even panorama lenses. Remove barreling and pincushion distortion. Very intuitive to use and extremely flexible. This is the only software for panorama photo distortions.
Noise Filter - Five different methods to filter noise in digital photographs and images. Soft Focus retains sharpness while removing noise. Also: Film-grain leveling ... Median ... Hue preserving Despeckle. The plugin even has an intelligent mask for preserving details and drawing. MAC: 8 & 16 bit: RGB, CMYK. WIN : 8 & 16 bit: RGB. 8 bit: CMYK..
Posterizer - With this plugin you can posterize color hues and values independently and freely select any number of levels for either. The filter lets you apply blending modes, known from Photoshops layers, to mix the posterized image with the original photo for more aesthetically pleasing posterizations. 8 & 16 bit: RGB, grayscale, Duotone, CMYK, Multichannel, Lab.
Radial Density Corrector - Correct radial exposure and radial brightness independently. Control the radius and the fade-out of the exposure correction. The plugin has built-in smart error diffusion algorithms to avoid "ringing" - circle-formations as a side-effect of a gradated strictly circular exposure- or brightness correction. 8 & 16 bit: RGB, grayscale, Duotone, CMYK, Multichannel, Lab.
Saturation Editor - Now you can edit saturation without splitting the image up into primary colors - red, green, blue. The plugin operates with a full 360° colorwheel. All colors, hues, tonal variations and shades are preserved. Also the plugin does not alter brightness. Two modes of operation: Photo mode for photographs and regular mode (uniform) for graphic design and web graphics. 8 & 16 bit: RGB, CMYK.
Sharpness Editor -Sharpen photos and get sharper edges with our plugins novel unsharp masks. Our Sharpness Editor does not create edgelines or artifacts like unsharp mask does. Restrict sharpening to edges only, or blur selected colors, hues or shades in order to manipulate focus and make areas unfocussed. Optional anti-aliasing to avoid edge roughness. Novel soft threshold as well as classic hard. 8 & 16 bit: RGB, grayscale, Duotone, CMYK, Multichannel, Lab.
Soft Filter - This plug in does exactly the same as traditional lens soft-filters. Control the strength of the softness and the spread of the softness. It does not blur the image. It can be used as a noise filter. 8 & 16 bit: RGB, grayscale, Duotone, CMYK, Multichannel, Lab.
Toned Photos - Tone your colorphoto or B/W photo sepia or like any other toned print. Nine preset tones: Sepia, Van Dyck, Kallitype, Silver Gelatin, Palladium, Platinum, Cyanotype, Light Cyanotype, Silver. Adjust the preset tones, or create your own. Has colored lens-filters for the B/W conversion. The plugin copies the pigmentation distribution of the traditional toned photo printing techniques. 8 & 16 bit: RGB, CMYK..
Transparency Editor - Transparent backgrounds and masks can easily be made for graphic design. Here we cut out letters from a sunset and also used the transparency plugin to transpose the bevel from the original letters to the graphic. Use the progressive transparency to improve scans by combining two scans of an image - one for correct midtones and lights, one for correct midtones and darks. 8 & 16 bit: RGB, grayscale, Duotone, CMYK, Multichannel, Lab.
White Balance Corrector - Auto-mode calibrates the correct color-filter for any lightsource. Even mixed neon + halon, the worst challenge to photographers, is easily color corrected by the plugin. Manual mode has a slider for daylight-film and incandescent-film color-correction filters equal to Kodak Wratten 80A to 85B (in Europe B&W KB15 to KR15 - the plugin control uses these steps). 8 & 16 bit: RGB, CMYK.
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