15% OFF! PhotoCleaner Professional

Description:

Do you use digital camera? Do you scan your photos? Then you know the problem - images are often dull, flat, unnecessary soft, and sometimes have strange color shift. Also they are usually bigger than you need to place them on a web page or to send it by e-mail.

PhotoCleaner fixes most common problems with digital camera or scanned images with one click! Just drag and drop your image file into PhotoCleaner and click Result button. Or select the directory that contains images to process multiple images at once. Powerful algorithms of the PhotoCleaner will do the rest!

PhotoCleaner performs the sequence of operations that are usually done manually using some general-purpose image-editing program like Adobe Photoshop. The main difference is that it does it automatically without having you to learn a sophisticated user interface and spend a lot of time crawling step-by-step. If you wish you can turn any of these processing steps on and off.

The following steps are performed when the image (or multiple images, when the batch mode has been selected) is processed, assuming that all checkboxes on Settings page are checked:

• Levels adjustment with optional color correction
• Resize
• Vignette
• Color boost
• Sharpen
• Add frame

Levels adjustment with optional color correction
This is a procedure that should be done with every picture that is downloaded from a digital camera or scanner. Basically, it means making blacks black and making whites white. This step fixes such problem as too light or too dark images. It could be done with or without color correction. If the color correction is on, then the level adjustment is done with each of three basic color channels (red, green, and blue) separately. It usually helps when the image for some reason has an unnatural hue that was introduced by the camera, post-processing, or the scanner. If the color correction is off then the level adjustment is done only with the "darkness" component of the image - this way the colors are preserved.

Resizing
Actually, it is not just "resizing", but "resampling", which means that the image is "re-created" with the new resolution (or dimensions). Obviously, if you want to enlarge an image the results will be not very good - no program can absolutely correctly deduce the data that was not present on the original image, but downsizing the images produces much better results (in most cases even better than original image). However, it depends on the resampling algorithm. Photo Cleaner implements four advanced algorithms: Bi-linear, Bi-cubic, Mitchell, and Lanczos. To avoid color noise that often appears during sharpening, PhotoCleaner sharpens only "black-and-white" component of the picture that produces better results.

Vignetting
It is a trick known for ages - in many cases a photo becomes better when a photographer makes it slightly darker around the edges - it makes the center of the photo to jump out. However, this effect should be barely noticeable to work.

Color boost
One could argue on this, but many digital cameras produce pictures that are not bright and colorful enough. The color boost will not work well with every picture, but most of the shots will benefit from this effect. And remember - you can always turn it off!

Sharpening
Sharpening is the most important step that should be done almost with every picture as a final touch. Photo Cleaner implements the smartest algorithm - un-sharp masking and applies it only to the "lightness" component of the image without distorting the color information. Use the amount of sharpening that looks nice to you, and remember to sharp more when preparing images for printing.

Adding a frame
Add framing is a bonus feature that could dramatically change how your pictures look. Try adding frames to some of your pictures - you will be amazed!