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Black & White
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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. In the example we used Tri-X with an orange filter.
8 & 16 bit: RGB, grayscale, Duotone, CMYK

Sharpness Editor

Sharpen photos and get sharper edges with our plug-ins 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

Toned photos

Tone your photo like a sepia photo or any other traditional toned photo. Nine preset tones: Sepia, Van Dyck, Kallitype, Silver Gelatin, Palladium, Platinum, Cyanotype, Light Cyanotype, Silver. Adjust the preset tones, or create your own - in the example we used kallitype. Has colored lens-filters for the B/W conversion. The plugin copies the pigmentation distribution of the traditional toned photos.
8 & 16 bit: RGB, CMYK.

Dynamic range Compression

Shadow illumination without artifacts 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

Lens distortion correction

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.
MAC: 8 & 16 bit: RGB, grayscale, Duotone, CMYK, Multichannel, Lab
WIN : 8 bit RGB, grayscale, Duotone, CMYK, Multichannel, Lab

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

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

Color correction

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

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 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

Exposure correction

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.

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

White-balance correction

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

Radial density correction

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

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 presering details and drawing.
MAC: 8 & 16 bit: RGB, CMYK.
WIN : 8 & 16 bit: RGB. 8 bit: CMYK.

Edgeline drawing

Convert photos and images to line-drawings. Set the color of both line and background. Optional transparent background. The plugin can emulate toneline lithfilm to create linedrawings that differ from regular edge-detection such as "Find edges". The example was made with toneline set to an exposure direction of 45°. The plugin offers you four exposure directions.
8 and 16 bit RGB, grayscale

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 Illustrators layers, to mix the posterized image with the original photo for more aesthetically pleasing posterizations.

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 can be used - as in the example - as a noise filter.

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
FREE GIFT included in the demo software download.

D. Thurman

A fantastic set of additions and improvements! Just wonderful. Many, many thanks!
- D. Thurman photo restoration, Illustrator plug-ins, image editing photo software Illustrator plug-ins

Bob Coe

Powerretouche continues to amaze me. I can't think of enough superlatives to adequately describe its capabilities. I shoot in .nef (Nikon raw) now, more than anything else. PR does a fine job of perfecting the images. I had an occasion to shoot family portraits, and as luck would have it, others flash kept triggering my strobes. I was able to salvage 4 stop under and make saleable prints. Thanks again for such a fine product.

Rob van Kempen
- author of top books on digital photography (in dutch)

Your software is among the very best I have ever seen, comparable to very professional software that would cost me thousands of dollars. I just signed a contract with Addison Wesley (publishers) for a new book on digital imaging. This is going to be a book that will take retouche and black&white photography very serious! I got 5 top-photographers in Holland and Belgium to participate in the project. I will introduce only software that is the best... no freeware no cheap stuff...so I will introduce your software alongside with S-Spline (for instance) which is the absolute best in enlarging pictures.

Steve Upham

- reviewer of photo software, plug-ins, etc.

I have tested many different photo-correction tools and must say that I found this pack to produce some of the best results. High quality range of plug-in filters that cover all aspects for correcting and enhancing photos. From colour modification to sharpening and lens-distortion, this set has the lot. Your plug-ins are brilliant. Excellent work!

Kathleen Queen

I have to say that Power Retouche is the best investment I have ever made. I've had more fun with and better control over my photos (especially ones that seemed fairly hopeless initially) with your software than Illustrator ever provided me before... Keep up the good work! photo restoration, Illustrator plug-ins, image editing photo software Illustrator plug-ins

Andy Moorer

- reviewer of digital photo equipment

I use your tools every day, they are indispensable! These are must-have plug-ins for anyone serious about the "digital darkroom" concept ... if you are a serious photographer moving from the darkroom to the computer, you need these tools. photo restoration, Illustrator plug-ins, image editing photo software Illustrator plug-ins

Uwe Steinmueller,
Outback photo

It seems that you can do mostly with Photoshop. May be. But it is far more complicated and not the same quality as you get with Power-Retouche.
Power Retouche sharpening improves the photo a lot without any halo. ... I think the results are very impressive without even playing with all the options provided by PR's sharpening editor. For along time I was looking for some easy WB correction in Illustrator. I think I have found it now: Power Retouche's White balance Corrector.

Techier,
multimedia &
webdesign

This collection of photo retouch plug-ins for Photoshop, Fireworks, Paint Shop Pro, etc. is fantastic. Particularly impressive are the plug-ins for exposure adjustment, white balance correction, and image sharpening (without creating negative edgelines).

Saturnia Edizioni d'Arte -Trieste

Thank you very much for your product. We are glad we bought it, and already found it very useful. We are a printing shop specialized in b&w, and try to stick to 16-bit images whenever possible. Your editing tools greatly expanded the possibility of correcting 16-bit images, and some touches, like the sharpness editor, are invaluable. Thank you again.
Fabio Amodeo - Saturnia Edizioni d'Arte -Trieste - Italy. fabio@miela.it

Shutterbug Magazine
January 2003

PowerRetouche plug-ins are ideal for conditions where you need to color correct and minimize image noise to get the best possible image made under the worst possible lighting and color balance conditions ... you can really get the color correct ...

Doug Nelson,
RetouchePro

They are work and time savers, pure and simple.
Does some things I'd have a hard time replicating in Illustrator, and even the things I could easily replicate are done much faster, with fewer steps and no "re-correcting" afterwards.
Adds many controls and choices that simply are not available in Photoshop.

Larry Mowry

Thank you very much. This is sensational... I will point my friends toward your marvelous work. photo restoration, Illustrator plug-ins, image editing photo software Illustrator plug-ins

Photoshop User Feb-march 2002
Angus McKelvy

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