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Happy First Day of Spring 2008,
Welcome to
the March 2008 Issue 2 of PictoScript. This issue
features another blog by a well known photographer,
Joe Farace Blogs, along with more information on this
month's feature product, iCorrect EditLab Pro
Plug-in.
If you don't have EditLab Pro
you can
get it at the
discounted price or if
you have another iCorrect plug-in you qualify for
Upgrade pricing.
Do you have a photo
you are particularly proud of? If so, you might
want to enter it in the
National Photo Awards
Contest. PictoColor is a sponsor of NPA and
information on NPA is included in this newsletter.
We hope you
are finding the new PictoScript format interesting and
helpful. The next issue of PictoScript will be published
in early April. Hopefully, the snow in Minnesota
will be gone, the grass will be turning green and the
golf courses will open.
As always, we
welcome your comments and suggestions.
Contact
Us
About
Joe Farace
Joe's interest in
photography and digital imaging combines and engineering
education from
Johns Hopkins University with fine are photography
training at the Maryland Institute of Art. He is the
author of thirty books and more than 1600 magazine
stories and was the original editor of eDigitalPhoto
magazine. Since 1994, he's been a regular
contributor to Shutterbug Magazine. Joe is a fan of
PictoColor's iCorrect software and has
recommended iCorrect EditLab Pro and
Portrait in a number of articles. The
following is from Joe's Blog introduction. We enjoy
reading Joe's blog and hope you will also.
www.joefaraceblogs.com
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"This
is an old photograph (the beard is long gone)
that my wife, Mary, made of me and “Mona Snoopy”
when we were attending MacWorld Expo in San
Francisco a few years ago. It remains a favorite
of mine because it contains lots of hints about
who I am and how I work. For example, when
people ask what my influences are, I usually
point at this photograph and say “The Great
Masters.”
Welcome to my latest attempt at blogging. This is my third
attempt at the process and unlike the others
I’ve promised myself to make a serious attempt
to post something here at least once a week."
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EditLab Pro 5.5 Review-
Joe Farace, Photographer, Author, &
Lecturer
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Before EditLab |
After EditLab's Magic |
Color correcting
photographs made under difficult lighting
conditions can be a challenge. My favorite
tool for getting an image’s color to look as
natural as possible is PictoColor’s (www.pictocolor.com)
iCorrect EditLab Pro 5.5
that’s available as a Photoshop-compatible
plug-in or
standalone application.
The plug-in’s interface employs a SmartColor
Wizard that has four toolsets. As you
progress through the tabs from left to
right, the tools will
not and cannot affect any tools
previously applied on the left. This
step-by-step process alleviates the
frustration of correcting part of the image
while throwing off another. After one pass
through the tools, you’re finished. You can
save custom settings to apply to other,
similar images individually or as a batch.
The latest version of iCorrect EditLab Pro
also offers black and white conversion,
sepia toning, and sharpening functions to an
updated toolbox.
The above “before and
after” examples are an old photograph of
me—I still had a beard—made during the PMA
show in Orlando. These are the examples I
show during my presentation on
Photoshop-compatible plug-ins. A single
click on Raggedy Ann’s dress produces the
result shown to the right of the
original image. When I show this in my
workshops, it always produces a audible gasp
from the audience. Let me say this again: It
only takes a single
mouse-click to get from the before to the
after photograph.
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iCorrect EditLab Pro Plug-in was first introduced in
2002 at version 2.0 by our parent company,
Pictographics
International. It was based on Pictographics
proprietary ICC Color Management technology
that employs complex 3 dimensional non-linear algorithms
to Make the Color Right. That's probably more that you
wanted to know, but it is what makes PictoColor's color
correction technology unique in the industry. When you
correct color using an iCorrect product you are, in
essence, "fixing the profile" of the picture to make it
right. Even though the technology "under the hood" is
complex using it is not. "Great Color Made
Simple" was the title of one of the first EditLab
reviews by
Chris Daniels in the November 2002 issue of Shutterbug
Magazine.
Version 2.0 was followed by 3.0, 4.0, 4.5, 5.0 and
5.5, the current version. With each new version we added
new and enhanced technology and workflow tools, but our
primary objective remained the same: Make
Professional Color Correction Easy and Fast.
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iCorrect EditLab Pro consists of four
separate tool panels identified by four distinctly
numbered tabs. The four panels are logically
arranged from left to right and offer a wizard-like
approach to accurate color.
The tools are
designed in such a way that as you progress from left to
right, the tools will not, and in fact cannot
affect any of the tools to its left. This
alleviates the common frustration of correcting for one
thing while throwing off another. With iCorrect EditLab
Pro, one pass through the tools and you are
finished. Plus, each tool has an optional
SmartColor button which analyzes the image and sets
the correction parameters to initial recommended
settings.
More
Articles
and Tutorials on iCorrect EditLab Pro
Revisiting Black-and White: Simple yet dramatic
black-and-white conversions with iCorrect EditLab Pro
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Although known for its superb color correction capabilities,
iCorrect EditLab Pro is also a very powerful tool for converting
RGB color images to black-and-white.
Whether you just want to
do simple one-click black and white conversions
and sepia tones, or would like to experiment
with advanced techniques iCorrect EditLab offers
a simple, intuitive way to achieve outstanding
effects. For more information on EditLab Pro's
Black & White and Sepia conversion features
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Recommended Digital Photo
Site-National
Photo Awards Photo Contests
PictoColor is a sponsor of National Photo
Awards Contest. The
National Photo Awards is one of the leaders in online
and mail-in photo contests, offering a friendly place
for photographers to compete with their photography. It
is for photographers who want to improve their skills as
well as display and share their photos with a worldwide
audience. It is a place to learn more about the art of
photography.
The National Photo Awards began in 2003, with the
purpose of providing judging services, prizes,
education, competition and fun for photographers. Check
NPA out and enter one of your outstanding photos and,
who knows, you may be a winner.
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