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 This
little plug-in automatically (that is the key word here) restores, balances and
corrects the color quality of any digital image file. It doesn’t really do
anything more than the adjustments already included in Photoshop that you can do
for yourself, but it does the correction in one step making life simpler. The
corrected image of the white polar bear was actually quit nice without any
further adjustment after ROC did it’s thing. However, there are some slide bars
that will allow you to further tweek if you’re the tweeky kind.
The program
analyzes color gradients to remove color cast, including tungsten and
fluorescent light effects. It says that it determines the optimum tonal curve
for each color channel, but for you curve freaks, you’ll probably want to do
more fine-tuning. Still, with all the color distortion that flatbed scanners
and digital cameras can do to an image, this might be a handy filter to have
around to make quick corrections for that humongous website that bogs you down
with a gazillion images to correct.
The one problem
this plug-in has is that it requires the image to be at least 480 x 480 pixels.
I thought that was a bit weird. Still, I just resized as the program suggested,
and then downsized after making my adjustments.
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Brought
to you by the same folks that did the Digital ROC plug-in, this
one automatically adjusts the shadows and dark areas in digital
image files so that more detail if visible. Again, it would be
easy to get the same effect by opening the adjustment menu in
Photoshop, but with probably three steps. SHO does it all in one
step.