Automatic Digital Camera Enhancer and batch processor
Yes, we could use some really bad images and then show you how the Image After looks so much better. However, to be fair we choose rather a normal images - images that you would get every day from today digital cameras, images that many people will call OK.
This is just to show you that even "OK" images can be really improved.
Automatic Balance
If you don't see the images side by side, you may not even know that your image has a wrong balance.
But just a simple look at the two images above will probably give you an idea about the balance. On the original image the white wasn't really white and the whole image looks rather flat. Auto Balance will fix what your camera missed. Also the contrast will be improved. (Sony F505v)
Color Cast
Sometimes the day is just amazing. Lots of sun, all around is green. You take the picture, and it is quite good. But just good. It doesn't capture the crispness of the day.
Many of you wouldn't call the Image Before bad. The only problem is that the camera (Canon S10) add a blue cast on the image. You may not see it without the fix, but when you look at the result you should notice the greens are much improved. And if you study the Image Before you will notice that it is indeed bluish and that the colors are somehow washed up. Removing the cast will return the crispness of that day back to the image.
Denoiser - Soft Focus for Portraits
Recent 3 and more MegaPixel cameras deliver a lot of details. This is great of course, but there are situations where you would like to actually lose some details but yet retain the overall sharpness of the image.
A portrait photography is one of the best example. We included a specially developed Portrait Soft De-focus filter with enhancing flesh tones. Suddenly the skin of your portrait model will be smooth - catalog like, yet the other details will remain. The skin will even get better tone. The image above is a great example, the skin become smooth yet the details such as the glasses and eye are still sharp.
Enhance Colors
Sometimes you would like to put back the colors you remember but the camera didn't capture that on your image. It is easy. The Enhance color option will allow you to boost saturation without over-doing it.
Hot Pixels Removal
The CCD of digital cameras naturally suffer from "Hot Pixels". These are white dots which appear everywhere on image after you use a long exposure (> 2 sec.). Some cameras offer internal Noise reduction, but many don't.
The Hot Pixel Removal is attached to a Shutter Speed recorded in the image metadata. That means it will be automatically used only where needed. If your camera has internal NR, then you can easily use an exclusion function. (Image: 8 sec. Sony F505v)
Add Text anywhere on the image
Do you have an online photo album or do you share your images? So why not to "stamp" your photos with a copyright info or maybe automatically add a date when the shot was taken?
You can add a text or even an Exif data such as Date, Time, Model, F-number, Shutter speed or ISO. It makes your images looks professional but also gives you instant overview of the parameters or the date when the shot was taken.
You have full control over the size, font, color, background color and transparency and position.
Simulate glass or gelatine filters
Taken from our Photo-Brush FilterSIM idea, this educational applet can help you to tone your image much like the real-life glass filters would do. You simply choose the filter by its refference number (Wratten/Tiffen) and watch the image change its feel.
Above are just few examples. The DCE is an automatic batch processor. That means you set the parameters and let it to process your images. DCE will extract the metadata from the image and adjust the various steps according to these data.
