• This is only an installer update. The installer now detects the plugin folders of Photoshop and Photoshop Elements and offers these as installation options.

 

MacOS X Version 2.02 (January 2010)

• A Universal Binary version is now available that works with PowerPC as well as Intel processors in Photoshop CS2, CS3 and CS4. There is also a PowerPC version for Photoshop 7, CS and other old applications.
• The ini files are now stored in a folder (at /Users/<user name>/Library/Preferences/PhotoWiz/). This avoids error messages and lost settings for write-protected plugin folders. Different settings are stored for different versions of Photoshop.
• Some controls on the ColorWasher dialog were changed to bring it in line with the other PhotoWiz plugins
  • The Easy Mode check box was turned into a Mode combo box and placed at the top
  • The Open, Save and Undo buttons were removed and are now items of the new arrow-down button menu at the top
  • The Instant Preview check box was moved to the Prefs tab sheet
  • The Apply B/W combo box on Prefs tab sheet was turned into a B/W Before Correction check box.
  • A new Auto Preview check box was added at the bottom left corner.
  • The red mouseover effect was removed.
• Bug Fix: Opening a preset files does not change the values on the Prefs tab sheet.

 

Windows Version 2.04 (May 2009)

• A 64bit version of ColorWasher is now available. It can be used with the 64bit version of Photoshop CS4 under Windows Vista64. We did not test it under XP 64bit, but it will probably work too.
• XP/Vista visual styles are now supported. To (de)activate it please use the new Dialog Theme checkbox on the Prefs tab sheet.
• Double clicking the label of a slider or combo box resets it to its default value.
• ColorWasher is now created with another development tool. As a result the plugin file size was reduced to less than 2/3 of the previous version. ColorWasher itself is now leaner and consumes less memory, although the memory consumption of the image processing algorithms remains the same.
• Bug Fix: Pressing the Reset button now also activates the balance icon on the Color tab sheet again.
• Bug Fix: In Version 2.03 it was not possible to select "Strong" from the Exposure Fix combo box.
• Bug Fix: Clicking the Balance icon on the Color tab sheet now recalculates the color of the non-selected color box.
• Bug Fix: Dragging the preview while the Info tab sheet is visible does not display an error message anymore.
• Bug Fix: Prefs > On Reset > Own Default works now after restarting ColorWasher.
• Bug Fix: Pressing Yes on the initial message box did not display Easy Mode.
• The Output Drag check box on the Prefs tab sheet has been removed, because it was too slow and not really useful.
• The installation now supports 38 languages.

 

Windows Version 2.03 (October 2008)

• DEP Compatibility: Even if Data Execution Protection (DEP) is activated in the Windows Control Panel, ColorWasher still works.
• ColorWasher now supports the Photoshop memory management.
• Improved compatibility with some applications, e.g. color dialogs now work in GIMP and PhotoBrush and preview scrolling now works in SignLab and Image Analyzer.
• Some controls on the ColorWasher dialog were changed to bring it in line with the other PhotoWiz plugins
  • The Easy Mode check box was turned into a Mode combo box and placed at the top
  • The Open, Save and Undo buttons were removed and are now items of the new arrow-down button menu at the top
  • The Instant Preview check box was moved to the Prefs tab sheet
  • The Apply B/W combo box on Prefs tab sheet was turned into a B/W Before Correction check box.
  • A new Auto Preview check box was added at the bottom left corner.
  • You can now only move the window by dragging the title bar.
  • The red mouseover effect was removed.
• The language files are now stored within the plugin itself. This avoids problems with unacessible language files.
• The the .ini files are now saved in the user's application data folder in case the folder of the ColorWasher plugin is not accessible. This avoids problems with restricted user permissions.
• Bug Fix: Opening a preset file does not change the dialog language anymore.
• Bug Fix: After maximizing the window (by double clicking the ColorWasher logo), exiting and running ColorWasher again, it was not possible to minimize the window (by double clicking the ColorWasher logo). It works now.
• Bug Fix: Exiting the plugin with the ESC key does not cause a messed up dialog anymore when running the plugin again.
• The Manual was updated.
• New multilingual installation
• The Plugin Installer now supports several new compatible applications (e.g. PhotoFiltre Studio, Zoner PhotoStudio, PhotoPerfect, HeliconFilter, Photobie). It is now available in German language and correctly installs plugins into the German version of Photoshop CS2, CS3 and CS4.

 

MacOS X Version 2.01b (May 29, 2008)

• The CS3 Intel Version (for Photoshop CS3 and Elements 6) was updated to fix a crash problem under MacOS X 10.5. The problem is not present in the PowerPC versions, so they were not updated.

 

MacOS X Version 2.01 (May 25, 2007)

• A Mac-Intel version for Photoshop CS3 is now available.
• The ColorWasher window is resizable now.
• Right clicking on the Open button will display all presets from the Preset sub folder in a context menu and lets you choose one.
• Histogram field is now centered on the Histo tab sheet.
• The "Red/Orange Cast" Cast Type now renders more than twice as fast.
• Bug Fix: The effect seen in the preview was sometimes different from the final effect in Fireworks.
• Bug Fix: The color sliders on the Color tab sheet were not updated after opening a presets file.
• Bug Fix: Sample area marquee was displayed transparent when working with 16bit layers.
• Bug Fix: Irregular exposure changes when using the Exposure slider in combination with the Exposure Fix feature.
• Bug Fix: Shift clicking the two Exposure stripes on the left side produced an incorrect result.
• Bug Fix: Multiple SplitView did not display correctly for images with a selection.

 

Windows Version 2.02c (File Date: March 19, 2007)

• Bug Fix: Previous versions of ColorWasher crashed under Windows Vista on some computers if there was more than 2 GB of RAM available.

• The HTML and PDF manual were slightly updated

• The Plugin Installer was slightly updated

 

MacOS X Version 2.0c (October 22, 2005)

• Bug Fix: The "Standard" and "Standard Light" Cast Type previously options didn't color correct the shadow areas of 16bit images.
• Bug Fix: The transparency grid is now correctly displayed for 16bit images.
• Bug Fix: If the Transparency Grid option in Photoshop's Preferences didn't have the default value, ColorWasher refused to work on 16bit images.
• Bug Fix: The color picker from the Color tab sheet works correctly for 16bit images.

MacOS X Version 2.0b (September 9, 2005)

• ColorWasher now works in Canvas and GraphicConverter. Previously a bug prevented access to the language files.
  • There is still a problem with GraphicConverter: After pressing Cancel you need to choose Undo to remove a thumbnail that is placed on the image.
• Bug Fix: FireWorks previously crashed after pressing OK button when the histogram tab sheet was visible
• Bug Fix: The Info tab now shows correct pixel values for 16bit images.
• Bug Fix: The Beta screen isn't accidentally displayed anymore if the ColorWasher window is inactive.

MacOS X Version 2.0 - Release 2 (August 31, 2005)

• ColorWasher now works in Fireworks, Painter, and Photoline
• Bug Fix: Some sliders previously behaved strangly under OS X 10.4 in Photoshop CS2.
• Bug Fix: The View menu in Photoshop CS2 previously vanished under OS X 10.3 and 10.4 after using ColorWasher.

MacOS X Version 2.0 (August 25, 2005)

• First MacOS X release of ColorWasher
  • It is based on the Windows Version 2.01. However, the localizations from Windows Version 2.02b are already available. The other features of the Windows Versions 2.02 and 2.02b will be included in the next free update.
  • The dialog isn't resizable like that of the Windows version. That will also be added with the 2.01 update, which will be free.

 

Windows Version 2.02b (File Date: April 30, 2005)

• Localization: New Romanian localization, Dutch and German localizations were updated.
• Plugin Installer: Support for PhotoImpact XL and Microsoft DIP.
• Manual: New paragraphs about orange color casts and image with large bright areas on the Tips for Tough Cases page (Tip 3 and 8).
• Bug Fix: Running ColorWasher with CTRL + F or from the top of the Filter menu in Photoshop didn't work anymore.
• Bug Fix: Running ColorWasher in Cloak Mode didn't work anymore in Version 2.02.
• Bug Fix: Multiple SplitView did not display correctly for images with a selection.
• Bug Fix: Streaks were displayed in Multiple mode with images that were much larger than the preview.
• Bug Fix: A 1-pixel line artifact appeared on the right side of the preview at certain zoom settings when running ColorWasher on a 16bit image with a selection.
  

 

Windows Version 2.02 (File Date: March 31, 2005)

• New Features:
  • The ColorWasher dialog was localized to the following languages: German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese. The setup and manual are still only available in English. If you run ColorWasher for the first time, the language will be set automatically according to your system language. You can change the language from the Prefs tab sheet.
  • Selections from your graphics application can now be seen in the ColorWasher preview. The color correction is only applied to the selection area in ColorWasher. This feature currently only works in Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Paint Shop Pro 4 - 7, Photo-Paint, Canvas, FotoCanvas and Ultimate Paint.
  • Right clicking on the Open button will display all presets from the Preset sub folder in a context menu and lets you choose one.
  • You can now use the mouse wheel to change slider values. You need to click the slider at first though.
  • A tool called Plugin Installer is installed with ColorWasher and also executed during setup. It lets you copy the ColorWasher plugin to the plugin folder of various applications and also uninstall it later again. It can detect the plugin folder of 25 graphics applications.
    
    
• Improvements:
  • The "Red/Orange Cast" Cast Type now renders more than twice as fast.
  • If necessary ColorWasher will now look for the html manual, presets, logfiles and languages files in the original installation folder. That means, if you only copy the ColorWasher .8bf file into a plugin folder, the mentioned features will work nevertheless.
  • Bug Fix: ColorWasher previously crashed when right clicking somewhere on the dialog right after changing the preview zoom
  • Bug Fix: Irregular exposure changes when using the Exposure slider in combination with the Exposure Fix feature.
  • Bug Fix: Shift clicking the two Exposure stripes on the left side produced an incorrect result.
  • Bug Fix: Transparent areas are now correctly displayed with a chessboard pattern when applying ColorWasher to a 16bit layer in Photoshop.
  • Bug Fix: Applying ColorWasher a second time in Serif PhotoPlus caused problems. This was fixed.
  • Bug Fix: Activating Log Settings on the Prefs tab previously caused an error message in Serif PhotoPlus.
  • Bug Fix: Applying ColorWasher a second time in ACDSystems Canvas previously caused problems.
  • Bug Fix: Color Temperature slider value was cut off.
  • Bug Fix: Using the mouse wheel to scroll through the combo boxes works now.
  • Bug Fix: Zoom combo box was deselected on 6%
  • Bug Fix: The color box on the Info tab sheet sometimes displayed the wrong colors for 16bit images.
  • Bug Fix: Sample area marquee was displayed transparent when working with 16bit images.
  • Bug Fix: Beta screen problems
  • The Demo version now applies a slightly less visible watermark.

 

Windows Version 2.01 (File Date: June 30, 2004)

• New Features:
  • A second sample area can now be drawn on the preview when holding down the Shift key. The second sample area is a help for difficult photos.
  • New Highlights and Shadows sliders on the Cast tab for adjusting the color correction in the highlight and shadow areas.
  • The range of the Highlights and Shadows from the Extra tab sliders was extended to allow more extreme adjustments.
  • New "Apply B/W" option on the Prefs tab. If you set it to "Before Correction" and activate the B/W button, the B/W conversion will be done before the correction is applied. That way you can create colored B/W effects with the help of the Color tab features.
  • The Contrast, Exposure and Saturation sliders work non-linear. That means that the lower values respectively middle values are given much more space on the slider bar to make them easier to adjust.
  • Right clicking the Reset button displays a context menu with the option from Prefs > On Reset plus several other options.
  • Shift clicking one of the tab button of the Cast, Color, Brightness or Extras tab sheet will reset the controls on the appropriate tab sheet.
  • Double clicking the ColorWasher letters at the left side of the title bar will maximize the window, double clicking them again will restore the old window size.
  • New Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black and White histograms.
  • New Prefs Tab Features:
    • New Log Settings check box in the Prefs tab that automatically saves preset files in the logfiles sub folder when pressing OK. In Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro and Photo-Paint the presets are named with the image file name, but in other application a random number is used. This allows you to find the settings that you applied to certain images later again.
    • New Logged Settings option in the On Start Up combo box of the Prefs tab. If activated, it will automatically open the settings that were applied the last time to the current image. It only works if you previously had the Log Settings check box activated and if you are using Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro.
    • New Auto1, Auto2, Auto3 and Auto4 settings in the On Start Up combo box of the Prefs tab.
    • New Logged Settings option in the On Reset combo box of the Prefs tab.
    • New Histo Zoom check box in the Prefs tab that cuts off peaks to avoid a flat histogram display. That's also how Photoshop displays histograms.
  
  
• Improvements:
  • The Auto Contrast feature works more reliable on 16bit images.
  • The Highlights and Shadows sliders from the Extras tab don't change the saturation anymore. In previous versions the Highlights/Shadows sliders always used the Sat Fix effect, even if the Sat Fix check box wasn't activated.
  • The Autodetect option of Exposure Fix works more reliable on photos with both strong shadows and highlights.
  • The slider edit boxes were made smaller and the sliders were made a bit longer.
  • Bug Fix: Cloak Mode didn't work correctly in some applications.
  • Bug Fix: Exposure Fix didn't work correctly when Auto Contrast was set to Off.
  • Bug Fix: Unexpected brightness increase at slider certain settings was fixed.
  • Bug Fix: For 16bit images the Exposure Fix previously didn't work with Standard Light and Special Case cast types.
  • Bug Fix: The descriptions of Auto1 and Auto2 were swapped in the manual.
  • Demo Version: A white watermark is now applied instead of a red one.

 

Windows Version 2.0 (File Date: May 31, 2004)

• New Features:
  • More effective color correction with the new Standard cast type and improved Autodetect option
  • Greatly improved exposure correction with four new Exposure Fix options and a new Sensitivity slider
  • Support for 16bit RGB images
  • ColorWasher now processes huge images while using little RAM by processing them tile after tile.
  • Resizable window and preview
  • Saturation feature for adjusting the saturation according to 10 different methods
  • Histogram Display of ten different image parameters in four different styles
  • New Boost checkbox for improving the contrast correction of certain images was added.
  • New H-Contrast and S-Contrast sliders for adjusting the contrast of the Highlights and Shadows corrections. The old Midtones slider was removed, because setting the two new sliders to their highest value produces a similar effect.
  • Multiple checkbox for comparing original and corrected image side by side
  • Color Cast Statistics: The color cast intensity, the remaining color cast and the effectivity of the cast removal are displayed in percent values.
  • New Info tab sheet that displays the preview rendering time as well as color Information and coordinates while moving the mouse over the preview. There is also a Show Blown Highlights check box and a Drag Output check box for applying the effect while the image is moved in the preview.
  • New Prefs tab sheet for selecting start up, Reset button and preview behaviour.
    
    
• Improvements:
  • Color:
    • Red and orange casts are removed much better with the help of the Autodetect option.
    • The Standard Light cast type (previously know as Hybrid) was improved to avoid hard edges in some cases.
    • The Auto4 button was renamed to Auto5. There is a new Auto4 button for special cases.
    • The CastTypes combo box now contains an "Off" option for deactivating the color correction. The order of the options has been changed according to their usefulness.
    • The cast types were renamed to more understandable terms.
  • Contrast & Brightness:
    • The Contrast slider uses percent values and works more logically.
    • The Exposure slider was changed to EV units. It ranges from -3.00 EV to +3.00 EV, which lets you do stronger corrections than before.
    • The Histo Fix now also supports the Exposure feature
    • The Highlights and Shadows sliders work more effectively as their effect isn't compensated by the Exposure Fix feature anymore.
  • Dialog:
    • New dialog layout with three tab controls
    • The XP-Style is suppressed under Windows XP and the Skin features from Version 1.0 were removed.
    • All controls are now complient to the Windows color sheme. But if you change the Windows color sheme while ColorWasher is running, you need to restart ColorWasher to make it adapt to the new color sheme.
    • "Quick & Easy Mode" was renamed to" Easy Mode" and "Chroma" was renamed to "Sat Fix".
    • A MouseOver effect was added
  • Other Improvements:
    • ColorWasher updates the preview much faster at higher zoom rates, because it now only evaluates the image area that is visible in the preview.
    • ColorWasher always display the whole image in the preview when running it. This is the recommended way to work with it.
    • New preset file format that contains all plugin settings. The old preset files are still supported, but they only affect the color settings.
    • Some split view options now even work if the color, contrast and exposure correction is deactivated.
    • Cloak Mode works more reliable. It now does some precalculations, which take longer if the ColorWasher window is larger.
    • Shift clicking the Reset button now resets all controls, so that no correction is applied to the image. Clicking on the Reset button doesn't erase the color from the color boxes anymore.
    • The help texts for the controls are longer and more detailed.
    • If Split View is deactivated, you can hold down the Alt key to drag the preview image with the left instead of the right mouse button.
    • When the B/W button is activated, it is now rendered to the image when pressing OK. Previously you had to hold down the CTRL key when pressing OK.
    • Undo now restores the Source and Taget colors, which was prevented by a bug before.
    • The manual was extended and improved
    • Many smaller bugs were fixed

 

Windows Version 1.02 (File Date: June 27, 2003)

• New Chroma check box for keeping the chromacity constant when adjusting contrast, exposure, highlights, midtones and shadows. Activating this feature can help producing better results in a few cases.
• Bug Fix: Small memory leak fixed
• The version number is now displayed directly on the filter menu.
• Several typos were corrected in the manual

• The OK button of the demo version works now, but applies a grid to the image

 

Windows Version 1.01b (File Date: March 7, 2003) (only relevant for the full version and not the demo version)

• Bug Fix: Auto Contrast works again after pressing OK

• Bug Fix: Zoom controls don't lock anymore when the zoom rate was set to 100% zoom during the previous session

 

Windows Version 1.01 (File Date: March 4, 2003):

Enhancements:

• ColorWasher needs 33% less memory during the final rendering. That means that you can process larger images with the same amount of RAM and avoid using virtual memory which can slow down the rendering.
• The automatic color, contrast and exposure values aren't recalculated during the final rendering. This has the following advantages:
  
  • The final result will look exactly like the preview
  • You are now able to correct images that are larger than 50 MB (5000 x 3750 pixel) without problems
  • The final rendering will be approx. 10% faster
• New Skin which looks much better under Windows XP. ColorWasher's default skin was optimized for the XP theme as well as the Classic theme.
• Split View isn't automatically switched off when exiting ColorWasher. The Split View option will be restored when running ColorWasher again.


New Features:

• New Zoom Combo Box for selecting a specific zoom ratio as well as fitted and optimal zoom.
• Several new ALT-Key Shortcuts indicated by an underlined letter. For example: Press ALT and + to increase the preview zoom, ALT and U to trigger Undo, ALT and 1 to perform the Auto1 feature.
• Image selections can now be seen in the preview. The color correction is only applied to the area of the image selection in ColorWasher.
• 25 new color presets

Bug Fixes:

• The Autodetect setting of the Cast Types feature doesn't fail anymore for green color casts when adjusting the color boxes
• When using ColorWasher for the first time, it won't fit the image fully into the preview (= optimal zoom) and instead show the full image in the preview to avoid problems with some less compatible image applications.
• The zoom controls are now deactivated in Picture Publisher to avoid problems
• No error message when using ColorWasher on certain kind of selections in Paint Shop Pro
• Black-checkbox-problem that occurred in Paint Shop Pro 8 and PhotoPaint 11 under Windows XP was fixed.
• The ColorWasher dialog doesn't pop up unexpectedly anymore when browsing or previewing in Plugin Commander Pro.
• The progress bar is now moving evenly during final rendering
• Undo didn't work anymore in some cases after exiting ColorWasher and executing it again.

 

Windows Version 1.0c (File Date: February 7, 2003):

• Renders a bit faster, but hardly noticeable

• At 100% zoom ColorWasher sometimes rendered the final effect differently than the preview. This was fixed.
• Potential memory problems with some image applications have been fixed
• The HTML Manual has been extended and a PDF Version was made available
• Some typos fixed

 

Windows Version 1.0b (File Date: February 1, 2003):

• Zoom now restores correctly at startup
• Some typos fixed

Windows Version 1.0a (File Date: January 31, 2003):

• This version number was only used for the demo version

 

Windows Version 1.0 (File Date: January 31, 2003):

• Initial Release