Power Retouche Photoshop Plugins - an Introduction
by Sarah Hansson
Power Retouche is a suite of 27 Photoshop plugins for photo retouching. The flagships are the sharpener and the Black & White Studio. The sharpener is the first and only sharpening tool on the market that does not create the negative fringes regular unsharp mask creates. It lets you sharpen surfaces and edges separately. The BW Studio converts color to black and white with a full set of professional films to select from, as well as traditional multigrade. It also includes exposure correction and contrast editing. The BW conversion can be controlled with seven sliders representing how the colors of the spectrum are converted to grayscale.
The Golden Section plugins is another popular plugin. It draws the golden sections, the golden spiral and other harmonic divisions on an empty Photoshop layer as an aid in composing and cropping. Another plugin is the White Balance Corrector. The plugin automatically scans the image for the color of the light and then corrects the color of the light to white. The White Balance plugin lets you use common gray-cards for correction, such as WhiBal, Gretag, etc. There is also a new plugin: The Ansel Adams Zone System for Digital. It divides the photo into ten zones, that can be edited individually for exposure, contrast and color.
The plugin Toned Photos is for toning your photo like a traditional toned photo. There are presets for Sepia, Van Dyck, Kalitype, Silver Gelatin, Palladium, Platinum, Cyanotype and Silver. The plugin emulates the was the pigment is distributed in light and shade in the traditional prints. The preset tones can be changed or one can create one's own. The conversions from color to BW can be altered with the likes of traditional lens color filters (yellow, range, etc.). Two other plugins are directed at solving a special kind of problem: Chromatic Aberration and Color Fringes. The Chromatic Aberration plugin solves longitudinal as well as transverse chromatic aberration. The Color Fringe plugin solves all other kinds of color fringes, in particular the dreaded purple fringe, but also other kinds of fringes can be removed. The purple fringe is a special wide purple area that appears at high contrast edges where the light area invades the dark.
The Lens Corrector plugin corrects barreling, pincushion and panorama photos. The plugin can correct both symmetric as well as asymmetric distortions. Asymmetric distortion come if you crop a distorted image. Symmetric distortion can be corrected in the later versions of Photoshop, but not asymmetric or panorama. The plugin differs from other similar distortion correction tools in that it does not explode the corners. Another plugin worth mentioning is the Soft Filter. It is a digital equivalent of a traditional lens soft filter. You can adjust the strength and the spread of the softening effect.
There is a Photoshop plugin for creating realistic film grain. It uses fractal technology to create film grain. Other film grain emulators either generate noise or overlay an image of film grain onto the image. Neither is realistic nor fit all images. Power Retouche lets you edit the size and hardness of the grain. Both black white grain and color grain are available.
There is a plugin to remove vignetting in photos. Vignetting is caused by camera lenses, or the sensor, and can easily be corrected. The plugin not only fixes the dark corners, but also lets you adjust radial exposure and brightness. In addition you can control the hot spot and its contrast. Finally the Black Definition plugin should be mentioned. It lets you control and edit black content of colors as if it were a color channel (like R, G and B). The suite contains more plugins than can be mentioned here.
Find out more about this suite of plugins here: <a href="http://powerretouche.com">Photoshop plugins</a>
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Title: Power Retouche Photoshop Plugins - an Introduction
Author: Sarah Hansson
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Keywords: Photoshop plugins, Photoshop,Digital photography,Photography, hobbies, arts and entertainment
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