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Wow! This is an extremely powerful plugin that can correct for most exposure and color changes in your scanned prints, negatives or slides. With completely adjustable or automatic settings, you can make your photos look better than you thought they ever would.
Digital ROC and Digital SHO are available as Photoshop-compatible plugins. Applied Science Fiction also makes a similar technology, but more sophisticated, called Digital ICE and GEM for flatbed and film scanners, which is shipped as part of the hardware itself. I personally use the Digital ICE and GEM technology in the Nikon CoolScan film scanner I use, and the Digital ICE and GEM technology can work wonders!
Digital SHO reveals the detail in the shadows. "Common photography exposure problems include backlit subjects, important details hidden in shadows, and dark areas caused by uneven flash illumination. Details in portions of an image are sacrificed to provide adequate exposure in other areas. Digital SHO automatically corrects these issues. At the touch of a button, Digital SHO produces the best possible image for screen viewing, printing and archiving. Digital SHO's proprietary algorithms analyze and adjust the gradations of darker areas to optimally reveal details and output an overall pleasing image. Providing the right light balance to capture a clear image is often difficult. Flashes must be used, thought must be given to the position of the main light source relative to the main subject, and even with these considerations the picture taken is often not the picture viewed through the camera. ASF's Digital SHO plug-in provides you an effective, fast, and automatic tool to turn such "light-imbalanced" images into pictures that you will want to keep. Whether you are an amateur or professional photographer, Digital SHO plug-in will significantly improve your images in need of light-balancing."
Digital ROC restores the color of faded images. "Negatives and prints tend to color-fade with time producing reddish or bluish tint. Photos taken in certain light, such as tungsten or fluorescent, cast a yellowish or whitish color over the image. ASF’s Digital ROC plug-in will automatically restore the color of images that suffer from color-fading or light casting. Whether you are an amateur or professional photographer, Digital ROC plug-in will significantly improve your images in need of color-restoration, over/under exposure correction, or light cast removal. In automatic mode Digital ROC automatically restores color quality to digital images regardless of the condition of the original. Digital ROC's proprietary algorithms analyze the color gradients and determine the optimum tonal curve for each color channel to remove the color cast from faded images and effects of tungsten and fluorescent lighting. Digital ROC will also restore pleasing density and contrast to black and white pictures, (Black and white originals must be scanned in RGB color mode).
For the images below, I used the plugin versions of Digital ROC and Digital SHO to make adjustments of the images. Even though Photoshop 7.0 has its own automatic adjustments, the results are different (I chose not to show the results) but not 'better or worse'. However, using ROC and SHO shown themselves to give more realistic results in their automatic mode than Photoshop.
There are download demos available for trying out, and I highly recommend seeing for yourself what they can do for your images.
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