A new Digital SHO plug-in that supports 16-bit color is also available for download.Eastman Kodak Co. on Wednesday introduced new Actions for its professional suite of image correction and enhancement plug-ins that work in Adobe Systems Inc.'s Photoshop CS.
Kodak also announced it has upgraded its Digital SHO Professional Plug-In to support 16-bit color images.
The Actions, which require Photoshop CS and the professional versions of the plug-ins, expand automatic image correction capabilities.
Once the Actions are loaded into the Actions Palette and played, they perform in a fully automatic mode but can be modified by advanced users for custom results.
The Digital SHO plug-in enables users to automatically optimize the contrast and exposure of an image to reveal details hidden in shadow or dark areas, as well as details hidden in highlights or bright areas.
Users can make further adjustments to highlight and shadow detail levels independently and can also control the threshold that defines how much of the overall image is shadow information and how much is highlight.
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With the new support for 16-bit, digital camera and film scanner users can take advantage of the extra color information from their original high-bit-depth captures while using the professional plug-in.
Digital SHO Professional Plug-In automatically increases the color saturation of the image data that is lightened or darkened and provides a slider control to manually adjust the saturation level.
Users can also select the source of their images, film or digital, for enhanced results.
"These new Actions will empower our customers to create new and beautiful effects with our professional plug-ins," said Wayne Galella, director of Kodak's Austin Development Center.
With this introduction, there is a unique Action available for each of the four professional plug-ins: Digital ROC Professional Plug-In for color restoration; Digital SHO Professional Plug-In for revealing details hidden in shadows and highlights; Digital GEM Professional Plug-In for reduction of noise and grain; and Digital GEM Airbrush Professional Plug-In for smoothing skin surfaces.
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The fully functional trial versions of the plug-ins apply digital watermarks to the resulting images.
To disable the watermark, users may purchase a software key via a secure, e-commerce site.
The free Actions, the new Digital SHO upgrade and trial versions of all the plug-ins are available for download at www.asf.com.
The Digital SHO update is free to all existing owners of the plug-in.
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