Topaz Enhance and I2e Image Enhancement Plug-in Software for Windows

Topaz Moment, Production Edition
$199 - Topaz Labs LLC

This software is for video production houses and webmasters to turn video/DVD into a database of quality images. It is the only software that uses advanced technology to produce clear and sharp still capture with up to 4X resolution increase.

Topaz Moment, Production Edtion, allows you to setup batch capture jobs with hundreds of videos. It automatically captures thousands of still images at the interval you set. You can capture video frames from files in most of the common formats, such as AVI, MPG, QuickTime, RealMedia. It can also capture frames directly from DVD, VCD, and SVCD.

Here is what a customer say about it: "My companie's project required 1000+ dvd's to be screenshoted, we luckily found Topaz Moment and used it to batch over 250,000 screenshots in just a couple of months. We are very impressed with the software and especially the image enhancement algorithm which is second to none, most of the dvd screenshots turned out more like photo's than dvd video captures. The batching process was easy, stable and has every feature you could want. This software saved us months of work and gave us better quality images than our competition" - Matthew Clapham, CEO, Internet Media Production, Australia.

The seemingly simple frame capture software employs three advanced technologies: (1) super-resolution that creates higher resolution images from multiple video frames; (2) advanced noise reduction that suppresses video noise without loss of details; (3) edge enhancement that sharpens the picture without increase noise or overshooting. Using these unique techniques, Topaz Moment is perfect for transforming those messy frame captures into beautifully sharp still pictures.

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AKVIS Enhancer
$69 - AKVIS LLC

AKVIS Enhancer is image enhancement software that detects detail in underexposed, overexposed and mid tone areas of a photo. You can improve detail on a single shot or use the HDRI mode to create an HDR image out of a series of shots.

The tool is extremely useful when a photo lacks detail. For example, when a picture has been taken with the background overexposed, the foreground is hardly discernible (especially annoying when it's a picture of a person.) Or, the background of a picture might be so washed out that you wonder what the scenery was like. If you try to reveal details in highlighted or overshadowed areas using exposure correction (e.g. levels) you run the risk of spoiling the parts of the image that you want unchanged.

The idea of Enhancer is entirely different. AKVIS Enhancer brings out details by intensifying color transition. It means that Enhancer strengthens the difference between adjacent pixels that have different color gradations and therefore reveals not only the details in the shadow but even the details in the overexposed areas and mid-tones.

AKVIS Enhancer is useful not only for correction of family and art photos, but can be effective as well in technical use. Publishers of technical literature can apply Enhancer to show equipment illustrations in detail; doctors can use Enhancer to increase the level of detail on roentgenograms, etc.

The stand-alone version of Enhancer supports HDRI. HDRI (High Dynamic Range Imaging) is a technology that expands the dynamic range of an image and shows details in both shadows and highlights.

The plug-in version of Enhancer supports Photoshop batch processing that allows applying the same settings to a series of images. The plug-in version is compatible with Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Corel (Jasc) Paint Shop Pro, Corel Photo-Paint, Corel Painter, Ulead Photo-Impact, etc.

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Magic Enhancer Lite
$0 - ImageSkill

Magic Enhancer Lite is a free Photoshop-compatible plug-in for Windows. Using Magic Enhancer you can essentially improve your photos: adjust lightness, contrast and color balance. Magic Enhancer is perfect for enhancement image and photo with lack of lightness or uneven illumination, silhouetted images on dark background. You can adjust local contrast of your photos, emphasize fine details and make your photos more expressive. Convenient color temperature control allows fixing color balance defects easily. Plug-in has attractive and user-friendly interface, when in use you can keep an eye result histogram. Magic Enhancer has simple installation procedure; installer detects more popular graphic hosts automatically.
The shareware version Magic Enhancer Pro has addition features like camera noise suppression, script (action) feature, presets feature and 16-bit RGB and Grayscale image mode support.

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i2e image enhancement plug-in
$35 - Colour-Science AG

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 by using all the manual Photoshop operations need 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)
- advanced unsharp masking preventing halo effects (USM)

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EnhanceMovie
$39.95 - MOVAVI

EnhanceMovie is a handy, inexpensive, poweful and simple software that automatically cures any digital video from common problems - colors off balance, blurred picture, interlacing video or the "too dark" syndrome, among other things.

The program has two major advantages. The first one comes in the form of multiple auto-filters that automatically "polish" video with one button click. What is important is that program users don't need to know anything about video editing or remastering in order to dramatically improve quality of their digital videos. EnhanceMovie does it all seamlessly, without user intervention.

The second advantage is an option to select a part of the video (interval) that needs to be edited, and apply necessary filters only to that section. In addition to autofilters, the program offers multiple professional filters, such as DeNoise, Auto White Balance, Deblocking (for working with analog videos) and many others.

Plus, EnhanceMovie has several artistic filters that will make home videos look very unusual. These are Mosaic, Posteraise, Grayscale, Invert, and they can be used to make home videos look like an old 30s movie or very futuristic.


Key features:
- Auto Filters: Magic Enhance, Auto Contrast, Auto Saturation, Auto White Balance.
- Effective video filters: Denoise, Deiinterlace, Deblocking, Brightness/Contrast, Sharpen, Blur, Color Temperature, Hue/Saturation, Gamma, Color Balance, Chroma Balance.
- Artistic video effeccts: Mosaic, Add Noise, Posterize, Diffuse, Grayscale, Invert
- AVI, MPEG, VOB, MP4, MOV, WMV formats supported
- Filters and effects can be applied to specified fragments of video
- Play video in the Original, Filtered and Split Modes.
- Drag-and-Drop interface, very easy to learn and use.

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ACDSee Plugin - RoboEnhancer
$69.95 - ACD Systems

RoboEnhancer is ACD's script software for batch processing of digital photos that saves you time and money. The ability to perform multiple image adjustments together makes it much more than just watermark software, a batch converter, or a basic image processing tool. With RoboEnhancer, you can crop images to the same size, correct color, adjust exposure, create a watermark for insertion and add text all at once.

RoboEnhancer enables you to correct and adjust hundreds of images quickly using your own customized scripts. Create, save and edit scripts for specific purposes, such as slide shows, print and the Internet. Reorder commands in your script with drag and drop. Then preview the results of each scripted adjustment with the step-by-step preview.

With RoboEnhancer you get the tools you need to reduce production time and costs with this powerful and easy-to-use digital image processing software. Get pictures ready for print with a script that includes graphics conversion tools, sharpen and auto levels. Or prepare images for the Web a script including image batch conversion to GIF or JPEG and a company watermark.

RoboEnhancer - the script software for digital image batch processing.

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