The Plugin Site Offers Standalone/Lightroom Versions of its PhotoWiz Photoshop Plugins

16/09/10

The Plugin Site (www.thepluginsite.com) has released Standalone/Lightroom versions of its five PhotoWiz Photoshop plugins for Windows. PhotoWiz is a collection of tools for correcting, enhancing and restoring digital images, which allow even beginners to achieve expert results. It consists of ColorWasher, FocalBlade, LightMachine, B/W Styler and ContrastMaster. The new releases can be used as standalone Windows applications and external editors in Adobe Lightroom for Windows.

Features

The new releases allow Lightroom users as well as people without a compatible host application utilizing the PhotoWiz tools. And even Photoshop users are able to accomplish image processing tasks, which do not require manual retouching, in less time with the help of the standalones.

The PhotoWiz standalones support opening and saving the following image
formats: Camera RAW (350+ camera models including DNG), JPEG, TIFF, PNG, PSD, BMP, TGA, PCX, PCD, WMF and EMF. They let you open and edit multiple images non-destructively and batch save them afterwards. Each standalone can also be used as a RAW converter. RGB images with 8-bit and 16-bit/channel are supported.

It is possible to employ the PhotoWiz tools as external editors directly in Adobe Lightroom. This is done by selecting one or more images in Lightroom and choosing the appropriate PhotoWiz product from the Photo > Edit In menu or the context menu. The opened images can then be edited non-destructively and saved by clicking OK. This allows the PhotoWiz products to be used seamlessly in Adobe Lightroom without interrupting the user's workflow.

The Tools

The PhotoWiz product line consists of five tools. ColorWasher corrects the colors, contrast, exposure and saturation of digital and scanned images.

FocalBlade effectively sharpens images for display and print without unwanted side-effects. LightMachine offers shadow/highlight, virtual lighting and color-based photo enhancement tools. B/W Styler produces B&W conversions, creates traditional B&W effects and styles B&W photos. Finally, ContrastMaster performs dynamic contrast enhancement as well as creates dramatic contrast looks, photorealistic paintings and HDR-like effects.

The PhotoWiz tools offer unique image processing features and accomplish sophisticated image enhancements. They provide simple as well as advanced modes for different types of users. Moreover, they enable satisfying effects quickly as well as bestow the power and control for obtaining extraordinary results.

Availability & System Requirements

The PhotoWiz tools are available as Photoshop plugins, standalone applications and Lightroom external editors under Windows. For MacOS X only Photoshop plugins are currently available.

A regular bundle license of all five PhotoWiz products costs $199.95 (plugins or standalones) or $249.95 (plugins and standalones). The individual products are sold between $49.95 and 69.95. Academic/educational licenses are offered at a 40% discount. The PhotoWiz products can be purchased at http://www.thepluginsite.com/order/. Demo versions that render a watermark are downloadable at http://thepluginsite.com/download/

Company Info

The Plugin Site is located in Nuremberg, Germany, and mainly develops photo enhancement tools. We created the Harrys Filters, PhotoWiz, Plugin Galaxy, Plugin Commander, HyperTyle and HTML Shrinker products. In the past we produced Alpha Magic together with Hollywood FX and Pinnacle and cooperated on the FilterMeister development environment with AFH Systems.

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