SmartColor™ - perfect colors, automatically
Save time and increase your production efficiency
with the new automatic repro module for Color Factory.
SmartColor™ offers the following important enhancements:
- Contrast enhancement
- Colour enhancement
- Shadow and highlights enhancement
- Natural colour enhancement
SmartColor™ will analyse an image and automatically improve the quality of
the picture in less than a second.
This site allows you to test this technology completely FREE OF CHARGE and without
any software installation on your local computer. You can upload pictures directly
to this site, or if you are using
FotoStation - the worlds best image workstation, you can upload many files
in one batch.
Background information about SmartColor
Contrast enhancement
The contrast enhancement feature determines the optimum settings for white- and
black-point level and for the gamma correction. The advantage of this technology
is that difficult scenes like snow, night, portrait, flash, and other images are
detected, enabling optimal corrections.
Colour enhancement
Colour enhancement differentiates a normal colour cast situation from special cast
situations like artificial light, portrait with skin tone, white point or coloured
black point, for example in the green trees.
Shadows and highlights enhancement
This is one of the most important image enhancement steps. The enhancement results
are obvious, especially in the shadow areas where much more detail will be visible.
Shadows and highlights enhancement also acts on the highlights which are near saturation.
A good example is flash portrait images shot at night. Here shadows and highlights
enhancement can bring back some skin details in an overexposed face.
Natural colour enhancement
This is a colour enhancement of key natural colours which have to be pleasant for
the human eye. These are colours of skin, sky, vegetation and others. For these
colours we define colour points which pull non pleasant colours closer to more pleasant
colours.
Pricing and availability
SmartColor™ is available as an optional module in Color Factory Professional and
Color Factory Enterprise.
Recommended end user price ex. local handling and VAT: € 6,000. Shipping will start
on November 26, 2007.