Make your images look better
Digital photography is unforgiving. The scene seldom looks perfect the way it was captured. Any professional photographer will tell you that taking picture is only the very first step. If you watch the professional editing his images you will see that he mostly apply, what would appear to a normal person, many very subtle adjustments.
The difference between fine and ordinary photography is in the very small details how our brain perceive the light captured on the image.
Orbis Luminum
Most people don't have much time to move dozens of sliders back and forth the whole day in any of the standard editing application. It is not always clear before-hand what will each parameter do to an image. Quickly without any thinking: what will increasing Black Point in Input Levels do? Does it brighten or darken the image?
We tried to make the Orbis Luminum as simple as possible.
- There are no sliders.
- There are no numbers.
- There is only one control, the Orb.
- Works on JPG or RAW images
- Works on single image or batch of images
The Orb controls the mixture between Landscape and Portrait processing and between smooth and texture enhanced output. Underneath is our proprietary algorithm that does the rest.
So what it does?
It affects the light by a special subtle way so the image will appear more clear and pronounced. Sounds pretty vague, right? The best would be to look at some examples:
Example 1:
The image on the left is the original image. Now we move the Orb towards the Landscape and up to increase texture.
The result? The haze is gone. The image appears more uniformly exposed. It appears as if the details are more pronounced (there is no sharpening process in Orbis Luminum)
Example 2:
The image on the left is straight from the camera. Now we move the Orb towards the Portrait side.
The result is as if we suddenly switched on additional fill-light. On the original image the person blended with the surrounding, on the processed image the person pops out. Additionally, which would be visible on the full image, the skin is smoother with reduced blemishes.
As you see the strength of the application is in the way it subtle changes the light on the image.
Why only subtle changes?
We assume that all today's cameras produce relatively good images that needs the final touch to look better. As you can see on our examples above the original images themselves are not entirely bad, they represent the typical images you will receive with modern cameras. They simply lack the "bite" that is associated with professional images. Our application tries to add this "bite" or "Kick" or whatever you want to call it.
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