The Colour-Science i²e image enhancement plug-in for Photoshop is now allowing Photoshop users to use the Colour-Science i²e image enhancement technology within Photoshop or other compatible software. i²e is used today in many professional photo labs to enhance the quality of digital images before printing.

With i²e the enhancement of digital camera images in Photoshop is done much faster then using all the manual Photoshop operations needed to obtain the same result.

 

The automatic i²e image enhancement includes:

·         automatic color enhancement (ACE)

·         automatic contrast enhancement (ABE1)

·         automatic density (gamma) correction (ABE2)

·         local brightness enhancement in the shadows and highlights (SHE)

·         memory color enhancement of skin-, sky- and vegetation colors (MCE)

 

The i2e plug-in works only with the Windows operating system. Photoshop will recognize new plug-in's automatically if you install it in the Photoshop plug-in folder (example: C:\programs\Adobe\Photoshop\Plug-Ins\i2eplugin).

You can also install the plug-in in a different folder, but in this case you have to tell Photoshop where to search for this plug-in. In Photoshop you will find this setting in the "Edit - Preferences - Plug-Ins & Scratch disks" menu.

 

Attention Microsoft Vista user: you may need to install the plugin by right clicking on the setup file and then "run with administrator rights". Sometimes you even have to start Photoshop with administrator rights to enable the plug-in.

 

If you have technical problems with the installation please report it to support@colour-science.com

 

Shadow Desaturation
The shadow desaturation can be increased when the saturation is too high. The stronger the shadow correction, the higher should be the shadow desaturation.

 

Contrast Correction (Light/Shadows)
With this general contrast correction you can increase the contrast of the image in the lights and shadows.

 

Sharpness
Sharpness is an advanced unsharp masking which prevents edge halos. Default value is about 0.50.

 

Color Correction
The normal value for automatic color correction is 1.00. The maximum is 2.00. Up to the value 1.00 the limiters are active, which prevent a too strong correction in the wrong direction. Values above 1.00 works without these limiters. The work with color correction values over 1.00 is just suggested for strong color casts.

 

Highlight Correction
The highlight correction darkens the lights locally without changing the general brightness of the image. The light correction is for example good for darkening "flash heads" and to enhance the skin tones of portrait photos.

 

Shadow Correction
The shadow correction increases brightness, color saturation and detail in the shadows locally. Details becoming more visible. The default value for the shadow correction is 1.00. The maximum is 2.00. The shadow correction only effects the dark image parts and is especially effective at images with a high contrast range. If you try to lighten images using the gamma correction, the details would be lost in the lights.

 

Memory color enhancement
The memory color enhancement corrects important colors selectively. Memory colors are the skin color, blue sky and the green of vegetation. These colors will be corrected selectively to more pleasant colors. A sky with a magenta color cast will be corrected in such a color angle, that it comes much closer to the ideal sky color. The default value of the color enhancement is 1.00.

 

 

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