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Description
ColorStyler provides
impressive photo effects, recreates traditional film effects
and gives your photos a special style. It features more than
20 effect types, 600 presets and plenty of masking options for
applying the effect only to selected areas of a photo.
ColorStyler
is available as a Photoshop-compatible plugin for Windows
and MacOS X as well as a standalone application
and Lightroom external editor for Windows. The plugin works
in dozens of graphics applications, including Photoshop, Photoshop
Elements, Paint Shop Pro, GIMP, Photo Filtre and IrfanView.
All versions support batch processing and process RGB images
with 8-bit and 16-bit/channel. The standalone application supports
JPEG, TIFF, PNG, PSD, Camera Raw and DNG image formats among
others.
Overview
ColorStyler
reproduces the whole workflow of color film photography from
shooting a photo to processing it in the lab and framing the
end result. It recreates the look of color films, lens filters,
lab effects and photo papers that are popular in traditional
color photography, but it even goes beyond that. With the help
of more than 600 built-in presets you can transform dull photos
into interesting color pictures. ColorStyler lets you enrich
images by colorizing them, manipulating brightness, contrast,
color and saturation, masking certain image areas, adding soft
focus and glow effects, simulating film grain, adding special
effects, framing the image and more.
For Beginners as well as Experts
ColorStyler
contains modes for inexperienced, intermediate and advanced
users that let you gradually add and tweak effects and improve
your image one by one. Easy Mode displays thumbnails of all
600 presets and offers the most important controls for further
adjusting a selected presets. Photography Mode lets you quickly
combine up to 12 different groups of presets, e.g. color film
types, film grain simulations, lens filters, lab development
strategies, paper types, special lab effects, vignettes, frames
and many more. These effects can be further adjusted in Advanced
Mode. Quick Edit Mode offers the most useful controls for quickly
enhancing images whereas Advanced Mode provides full control
over all effects with dozens of features and controls.
Sophisticated Functionality
ColorStyler
also offers various features already known from our PhotoWiz
plugins. There are three preview
tab sheets for quickly comparing and adjusting three versions
of the image at the same time. A
Navigator tab sheet lets you quickly scroll the preview image
and the preview zoom can be set between 6% and 3200%. Fifteen
types of histogram help you tweak your images without damaging
them. ColorStyler
also supports multi-core CPUs for faster rendering and can be
used as a smart filter in Photoshop.
On the other hand ColorStyler
contains several innovative features. Preset thumbnails help
you to choose appropriate effects by letting you see the effect
without applying it. The new curve tools allows you to visually
and precisely adjust brightness, contrast, color and saturation
in the shadows, midtones and highlights. A masking brush tool
gives you absolute control over which image areas ColorStyler
changes and which it keeps untouched. New UI features let you
reposition or expand main UI elements to better match your workflow.
Why ColorStyler Is Different
ColorStyler combines
a whole range of photographic effects and tool in a single plugin,
which saves you time and allows you to creatively enhance your
photos according to your imagination. Unlike many other tools,
ColorStyler also supplies many efficient masking features, including
a masking brush tool. Best of all, ColorStyler is available
at an affordable price and offers more features and possibilities
than other tools in the same price range.