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Dick_Hazeleger
Hi to all,
Recently I was looking for graphics software, and I found
www.mediachance.com. Now; there is a free tools section (Oscar's
Programs), but there are a few more tools out there:
Free DCE:
Note: Free DCE is a young (and free) brother of our commercial automatic
enhancer and batch processor DCE AutoEnhance.
Free DCE does the hard job of noise reducing and automatic balance
control for you. And it is free!
The program works best if you have bad light condition (indoor, shadows
etc..) and your image is somehow off. So if some of your images are
already fine, you won't see much difference. DCE makes very delicate
changes...
http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/enhancer.htm
CleanSkinFX
Make professional portrait retouch in 2 minutes!
CleanSkinFX is the most powerful automatic retouch for portraits. It
smooths the skin of the object while preserving all the details and
crispness of hair, eyes or background. This procedure was exclusively
developed by mediachance.com
CS works best on large images from digital camera or film scanners with
lots of skin details. The image must be well balanced
[Note DH: Have tried this, and the result was really amazing!]
http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/cleanskin.htm
ColorCastFX
Using Canon PowerShot (and also other) digital cameras many people found
that the landscape images were simply bad. The grass was dark, almost
black, The shadows were too heavy, however at that day the light
condition was great.... Does this sound familiar to you ?
ColorCastFX can help you to fix that. And not only landscapes.
http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/castfx.htm
HotPixels Eliminator
Some of the more expensive cameras lets you to extend your exposure time
even for few seconds (Sony 505V up to 8 sec).
That's cool, but when you actually try it, your image will be .... full
of stars! Tiny little white dots, all over.
But these are not stars, of course...
These are Hot Pixels.
Hot pixels are part of the CCD reality.
Each CCD has millions of pixels sensitive to brightness (Well you know
how many, you can't miss that: 3.3 MegaPixel etc..). These pixels are on
a very small space. In consumer cameras this would be from 8 mm to half
an inch. (Nice mixture of measures
http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/hotpixels.htm
BlackFrame NR
This is another ultimate Hot Pixels removal. For information about
HotPixels please read the HotPixels pages first.
So what is the difference between the HotPixels applet and BlackFrame?
BlackFrame use surprisingly a "Black Frame" method. You take your long
exposition night picture and then put a lens cap on the lens a take
another picture with the same exposure time.
http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/blackframe.htm
FilterSIM
Now lets get back to not that long time ago when a normal roll of the
film was a king....
Each type of a film is in factory optimized for a special "color
temperature" of the light measured in Kelvin.
If the color temperature of the light conditions match the color
temperature of the film then we will get picture with just the right
colors. However if we use this film in different light conditions (pretty
often) - then the colors will be - well, different than in real life.
For example use a daylight film (most films you buy) in tungsten light
(which is ~ 3200 Kelvin) without a flash and your pictures came out
reddish...
Even during the day the color temperature changes rapidly, dusk can is at
2000 K, overcast 4000 K, bright noon 7000 K ...
I know you don't care much, especially if the friendly photolab always
somehow average your pictures
http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/filtersim.htm
(Note DH: This filter simulation only uses Kodak Wratten filters to
select from)
B/Works
back in time
Go back in time! Create Black and White images with a magical twist.
Don't throw your images you don't like - experiment...
Yes B/Works is for creating old fashioned B/W images, Sepia or Duotone
colored images.
Sometimes you have a picture which doesn't look very exciting in color,
try to experiment with B/Works and maybe you create some art! Who knows?
As a special bonus there is also included a procedure to enhance sky - to
create the powerful dark dramatic sky.
http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/bworks.htm
RGB Lights for close-up photography
Professional photographers knows that using an interesting light is the
80% of success. (Well even photography gets the name from light.) Now you
can produce amazing close-up photography without using the expensive
light equipment.
http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/rgblights.htm
NOTE: Some programs show something that looks like a button, displaying
the program's name, it is not a button; neither is the "Digital Camera
Tools" button a button; the link however is a link which points to
their/his home page. Since none of these are ads in the meaning of
advertizing something, I don't consider this to be adware!
The programs can be downloaded directly, without registration, from the
bottom of the pages I listed in the above.
I hope you like them!
Regards
Dick hazeleger
Recently I was looking for graphics software, and I found
www.mediachance.com. Now; there is a free tools section (Oscar's
Programs), but there are a few more tools out there:
Free DCE:
Note: Free DCE is a young (and free) brother of our commercial automatic
enhancer and batch processor DCE AutoEnhance.
Free DCE does the hard job of noise reducing and automatic balance
control for you. And it is free!
The program works best if you have bad light condition (indoor, shadows
etc..) and your image is somehow off. So if some of your images are
already fine, you won't see much difference. DCE makes very delicate
changes...
http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/enhancer.htm
CleanSkinFX
Make professional portrait retouch in 2 minutes!
CleanSkinFX is the most powerful automatic retouch for portraits. It
smooths the skin of the object while preserving all the details and
crispness of hair, eyes or background. This procedure was exclusively
developed by mediachance.com
CS works best on large images from digital camera or film scanners with
lots of skin details. The image must be well balanced
[Note DH: Have tried this, and the result was really amazing!]
http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/cleanskin.htm
ColorCastFX
Using Canon PowerShot (and also other) digital cameras many people found
that the landscape images were simply bad. The grass was dark, almost
black, The shadows were too heavy, however at that day the light
condition was great.... Does this sound familiar to you ?
ColorCastFX can help you to fix that. And not only landscapes.
http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/castfx.htm
HotPixels Eliminator
Some of the more expensive cameras lets you to extend your exposure time
even for few seconds (Sony 505V up to 8 sec).
That's cool, but when you actually try it, your image will be .... full
of stars! Tiny little white dots, all over.
But these are not stars, of course...
These are Hot Pixels.
Hot pixels are part of the CCD reality.
Each CCD has millions of pixels sensitive to brightness (Well you know
how many, you can't miss that: 3.3 MegaPixel etc..). These pixels are on
a very small space. In consumer cameras this would be from 8 mm to half
an inch. (Nice mixture of measures
http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/hotpixels.htm
BlackFrame NR
This is another ultimate Hot Pixels removal. For information about
HotPixels please read the HotPixels pages first.
So what is the difference between the HotPixels applet and BlackFrame?
BlackFrame use surprisingly a "Black Frame" method. You take your long
exposition night picture and then put a lens cap on the lens a take
another picture with the same exposure time.
http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/blackframe.htm
FilterSIM
Now lets get back to not that long time ago when a normal roll of the
film was a king....
Each type of a film is in factory optimized for a special "color
temperature" of the light measured in Kelvin.
If the color temperature of the light conditions match the color
temperature of the film then we will get picture with just the right
colors. However if we use this film in different light conditions (pretty
often) - then the colors will be - well, different than in real life.
For example use a daylight film (most films you buy) in tungsten light
(which is ~ 3200 Kelvin) without a flash and your pictures came out
reddish...
Even during the day the color temperature changes rapidly, dusk can is at
2000 K, overcast 4000 K, bright noon 7000 K ...
I know you don't care much, especially if the friendly photolab always
somehow average your pictures
http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/filtersim.htm
(Note DH: This filter simulation only uses Kodak Wratten filters to
select from)
B/Works
back in time
Go back in time! Create Black and White images with a magical twist.
Don't throw your images you don't like - experiment...
Yes B/Works is for creating old fashioned B/W images, Sepia or Duotone
colored images.
Sometimes you have a picture which doesn't look very exciting in color,
try to experiment with B/Works and maybe you create some art! Who knows?
As a special bonus there is also included a procedure to enhance sky - to
create the powerful dark dramatic sky.
http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/bworks.htm
RGB Lights for close-up photography
Professional photographers knows that using an interesting light is the
80% of success. (Well even photography gets the name from light.) Now you
can produce amazing close-up photography without using the expensive
light equipment.
http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/rgblights.htm
NOTE: Some programs show something that looks like a button, displaying
the program's name, it is not a button; neither is the "Digital Camera
Tools" button a button; the link however is a link which points to
their/his home page. Since none of these are ads in the meaning of
advertizing something, I don't consider this to be adware!
The programs can be downloaded directly, without registration, from the
bottom of the pages I listed in the above.
I hope you like them!
Regards
Dick hazeleger