Photo-Enhancement Tools

[joroho]

I've been trying a program by MediaChance, the maker of RealDraw Pro, called DCE AutoEnhance. It's for taking photos from digital cameras and enhancing them by applying various adjustments to brightness, contrast, sharpness, noise removal, etc. It seems to work well, but I have nothing to compare it to. Anybody know of a comparable program I can try?

.joroho.

[joroho]

I've been trying a program by MediaChance, the maker of RealDraw Pro, called DCE AutoEnhance. It's for taking photos from digital cameras and enhancing them by applying various adjustments to brightness, contrast, sharpness, noise removal, etc. It seems to work well, but I have nothing to compare it to. Anybody know of a comparable program I can try?

.joroho.

[shaker]

Picture Window Pro might be of interest

http://www.dl-c.com/

shaker

[houseofman]

I've used ThumbsPlus for quite a while and have come to like it.
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Phillip

[Bob C.]

Hi joroho:

I purchased a remarkable and inexpensive digital camera (<$50 us) that came with all kinds of incredible software, makes avi's & edits etc. called Arcsoft see the URL below:

http://www.arcsoft.com/software/index.html

But after loading the driver I usually use "aquire" in Corel's PhotoPaint which allows use of all of the tools there. You can do this with Irfanview as well.

Bob C.
PS the camera URL is here: http://www.sipixdigital.com/

[alexbozhenov]

... but I think PhotoShop have all you need.
Some manipulations with Levels and maybe a couple plug-ins... thats all.

alexander
albodesign@narod.ru
ALBO Design

[Gaussian]

Seems that Phosothop can do everything what you ask for AND better

[gidgit]

Yes, PS is a durn good app indeed, but... for photo tweaking I would be more inclined to go with PhotoImpact...

The latest version 8 of PI has a few new tools designed specifically with the photographer in mind...

Her's a shot showing the new Lens Distortion tool at work in PhotoImpact... also gives you a look at the PI user interface... anyways, there is no easier method that I know of to fix thos edge distorted photo's...

If you have any questions regarding PhotoImpact and how to get up and running with it please post your questions in the PhotoImpact forum her at TG and someone will come along and try to accomodate your requests...



[This message was edited by gidgit on February 01, 2003 at 16:18.]

[joroho]

I was all set to just stick with DCE, and I already have Corel PhotoPaint 9, but I think I'll take a look at PhotoImpact.

Thanks for your feedback.

.joroho.

[Gaussian]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by gidgit:
Yes, PS is a durn good app indeed, but... for photo tweaking I would be more inclined to go with http://www.ulead.com/pi/runme.htm...
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

A perspective tool is added and suddenly Photoimpact is more suited for photo tweaking
Thanks for the laugh bud!
Photoshop has some weak points, but photo editing is definitely its strongest point

Don't get me wrong, Photoimpact is a truly marvelous product, but it's important that we provide the members on the board with the correct information

Even lens corrections can be done in Photoshop,
that is, in the hands of a user who knows how to use the program

This example took me 10 sec.