Traditional photographers have long learned that making great photographs is a matter of luck when you have no time, are pressed to capture a flimsical moment and have an automatic camera that doesn't allow you any control on how the image that needs to be captured.
It may happen that some image details will be lost due to unevenness of exposure, excessive shadows may compromise a face legibility, or that a full scenery is wiped out by unneeded overexposure.
Merely manipulating the brightness and contrast of the whole frame with photo editing software can sometimes improve the problem in some portions of a photo, but might then spoil other areas of it that need different treatment. In Photoshop, if you try to reveal details in highlighted or overshadowed areas using exposure correction (for example, Levels) you run the risk of spoiling the parts of the image that you want to leave unchanged.
So, without needing to become a Photoshop geek, how can you improve and optimize digital images when only portions of an image need a certain improvement while others require different types of adjustments?
The AKVIS Enhancer plugin, an image enhancement software for revealing details on a picture, can be an answer.
AKVIS Enhancer strengthens the difference between adjacent pixels having different color gradations and reveals details within shadowed, overexposed or mid-tone areas.
Enhancer also allows detecting details from underexposed, overexposed and mid tone areas of a photo. AVKIS Enhancer is therefore very useful in many cases where a digital photo is lacking detail. For example, overexposed backgrounds wiping out foreground subjects, or lack of contrast due to bad exposure can all be easily corrected with this easy-to-use Photoshop plug-in.
AKVIS Enhancer brings out details by intensifying color transition. This means that Enhancer strengthens the difference between adjacent pixels having different color gradations and therefore allows revealing not only details in the shadow but even details in the overexposed and mid tone areas.
AKVIS Enhancer is useful not only for correction of family and art photos, but can be effective as well in technical imaging applications. Publishers of technical literature can apply Enhancer to show greater detail in technical illustrations as much as doctors can use Enhancer to increase the level of detail on x-rays.
Where other similar programs may achieve acceptable results by manipulating two to four shots of the same scene, AKVIS Enhancer applies advanced algorithms to a single shot for spectacular outcome.
Also notable, the fact that with this tool most images can be improved at default settings. For further adjustment you have four parameters at your disposal: Details in Shadows, Details in Highlights, Level of Detail and Lightness.
The algorithm used prevents noise that may appear on a photo after a dramatic increase in detail. The resulting image is sharper and more natural. Keep in mind that the new version of AKVIS Enhancer supports 16 bits per channel.
Demonstrations of AKVIS Enhancer's features are available at http://akvis.com/en/enhancer-tutorial/index.php .
Avkis Enhancer plugin is also available in multiple languages including English, German, French, Spanish, Russian.
System requirements:
Operating system:
Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP, NT; Mac OS X.
For Windows:
Pentium III (and more), RAM at least 256 MB, 15 MB of free space on the hard disk.
An installed photo editor supporting plugins.
For Macintosh:
Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), PowerPC G3 and above.
An installed photo editor supporting plugins.
The AKVIS Enhancer plugin integrates into your preferred image processing programs such as Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements, Corel Painter, Corel Paint Shop Pro, Jasc Paint Shop Pro, ACD FotoCanvas, and Ulead PhotoImpact.
AKVIS Enhancer sells for $69.00 US, and it is freely downloadable from http://akvis.com .
As a free trial, AKVIS offers 10 days of fully functional use and for those purchasing it, one license key allows activating the software on two computers.
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