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A thorough 2008 review at Digital Image Café: "This is a marvelous product" Review here or as pdf
.PSD Magazine: "should be placed on the must buy list of every photographer" Review here
PSnode - Photoshop Resource Magazine: "Really extends the functionality of Photoshop to another level." 2007. Review
Lighting Magic: "the finest plug-ins for Photoshop that I have ever used. ... They are nothing short of fantastic." Review

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Black & White
Studio

Convert color to black and white photography. Use: light sensitivity of professional films (like Tri-X) or set your own sensitivity curves; color-filters (yellow, orange, etc.); multigrade range 00 to 5; exposure equivalent to f-stops; highlight and shadow control; zone adjustments ... and much more.

8 & 16 bit: RGB, grayscale, Duotone, CMYK

Photoshop User 2006
Shutterbug 2006
Photoshop User 2004
Digital Outback Photo

Color fringe remover

Full control over the fringe color and fringe detection
Remove two fringe colors, or use double pass filtering
Full control over color correction, saturation and brightness
Not only removes the fringe color, but reconstructs the underlying color

8 & 16 bit / channel: RGB, CMYK.

Equalizer

Full control over the amount of equalization
Novel equalization methods
Adjust amount of equalization in lights, midtones and darks
Apply graduated equalization
Restrict equalization to a specific color range

8 & 16 bit / channel: All image modes.

Toned Photos

Tone your photo sepia or like any other traditional toned print. Nine preset tones: Sepia, Van Dyck, Kallitype, Silver Gelatin, Palladium, Platinum, Cyanotype, Light Cyanotype and Silver. Adjust the preset tones, or create your own. It has colored lens-filters for the B/W conversion. The plug-in copies the pigmentation distribution of the traditional toned photo printing techniques.
8 & 16 bit: RGB, CMYK.

Dynamic Range Compressor

HDR & Shadow illumination without artifacts such as ghosting (edge halos) or fake illumination. Compress lights as well as darks.

One has full control over all aspects of dynamic range correction - like black point, offset, shadow depth, saturation, etc.

8 & 16 bit: RGB, grayscale, Duotone, CMYK, Multichannel, Lab

Film Grain

Add film grain to your digital photos. This plug-in accurately emulates traditional film grain - both black & white and color.

You get control over intensity, size and contrast as well as the softness/hardness of the grain.

8 & 16 bit: RGB, grayscale, Duotone, CMYK, Multichannel, Lab

Graduated Color

Apply one or two graduated colors when retouching. Either in regular mode or our novel photographic mode for optimum retouching results. Instantly set the oposite sides of the filter to complementary colors. Shift the midpoint and contrast as you please.

8 & 16 bit: RGB, CMYK, Multichannel

Lens Corrector

Fix distorted photos with our lens tool. Correct lens-distortions from zoom, tele, wide-angle, and even panorama lenses. Remove barreling and pincushion distortion. Very intuitive to use and extremely flexible. This is the only software available for panorama photo distortions.

8 & 16 bit: RGB, grayscale, Duotone, CMYK, Multichannel, Lab

Praised by...
Mac Design Magazine

Soft-filter

This plug-in does exactly the same as traditional lens soft-filters.
Control the strength of the softness and the spread of the softness. It does not blur the image.

It can also be used as a noise filter.

8 & 16 bit: RGB, grayscale, Duotone, CMYK, Multichannel, Lab

Sharpness Editor

Sharpen photos with our plug-ins novel unsharp masks. Our Sharpness Editor does not create edgelines or artifacts as regular unsharp mask does. Restrict sharpening to edges only, or blur selected colors, hues or shades in order to manipulate the focus. Optional anti-aliasing can be used to avoid edge roughness. Also has a novel soft threshold as well as classic hard.
8 &16 bit: RGB, grayscale, Duotone, CMYK, Multichannel, Lab

Praised by...
Photoshop User 2006
Digital Camera Magazine

Black definition

Control black in photos as if it were a color channel. Target changes to colors or gray areas. The plastic 3D sense in a photo is greatly enhanced when the black definition is raised. Reducing black definition makes colors more vivid without raising their saturation. Also use this plug-in to brighten sullied photos without actually altering brightness.
8 & 16 bit: RGB, grayscale, Duotone, CMYK, Multichannel, Lab

Golden Section

Instantly draw any divine proportion on your image or a transparent layer as an aid for cropping and composition. This plug-in draws the golden sections, golden spiral, golden triangles, spiral sections, rule of thirds and harmonic triangles. It handles any proportions.

Define any size within the image's limits as an aid for cropping.

Illumination Editor

Change or edit the illumination and shade in a photo
Set the direction of the light to any angle of 360 degrees
Raise or lower exposure and/or brightness independently
Create graduated transparency for correction layers.


8 & 16 bit: RGB, CMYK, Lab, Duotone, Grayscale, Multichannel.

Radial density Corrector


Vignetting

Correct radial exposure and radial brightness independently.
Control the radius and the fade-out of the exposure correction. The plug-in has built-in smart error diffusion algorithms to avoid "ringing" - circle-formations as a side-effect of a gradated strictly circular exposure or brightness correction.

8 & 16 bit: RGB, grayscale, Duotone, CMYK, Multichannel, Lab

Radial density is commonly known as vignetting

Contrast Editor

Control black-white contrast independent of color-contrast and without changing the color or saturation. Control the midtones by setting how much they should be preserved or lost. Our general contrast slider quickly improves the black-white contrast, color-contrast and saturation in one go. Improve the light in the photo by shifting the mean towards light or dark.
8 & 16 bit: RGB, grayscale, Duotone, CMYK, Multichannel, Lab

Exposure Corrector

Correct under- or overexposure. One can do this either in the entire photo or in selected or restricted areas such as the shadows. Target-mode lets you correct exposure in any range of darks, midtones or lights - typically you'll want to re-expose shadows or lower highlights. This is an ideal pair with our Dynamic Range Compressor
8 & 16 bit: RGB, grayscale, Duotone, CMYK, Multichannel, Lab

Color Corrector

For color correction and removing colorcast. Select a color, hue and/or brightness-range and change it any way you like. Shift the color spectrum of the entire image or a selected hue or brightness-range by rotating the color wheel. In the example, we targeted the reflected lights in the girls face and made them brighter, warmer and more vivid by rotating the color circle a bit. This is good for colorcast.
8 & 16 bit: RGB, grayscale, Duotone, CMYK, Multichannel, Lab

White-balance Corrector

Auto-mode calibrates the correct color-filter for any light source. Even mixed neon + halon, the worst challenge to photographers, is easily color corrected by the plug-in. Manual mode has a slider for daylight-film and incandescent-film color-correction filters equal to Kodak Wratten 80A to 85B (in Europe B&W KB15 to KR15 - the plug-in control uses these steps).
8 & 16 bit: RGB, CMYK

Saturation Editor

Now you can edit saturation without splitting the image up into primary colors - red, green, blue. The plug-in operates with a full 360° color wheel. All colors, hues, tonal variations and shades are preserved. Also the plug-in does not alter brightness. Four modes of saturating.

8 & 16 bit: RGB, CMYK

Noise Corrector

The plug-in has five different methods to filter noise in digital photographs and images. Soft Focus retains sharpness while removing noise. Also: Film-grain leveling ... Median ... Hue preserving Despeckle. The plug-in even has an intelligent mask for preserving details and drawing.
MAC: 8 & 16 bit: RGB, CMYK.
WIN : 8 & 16 bit: RGB. 8 bit: CMYK.

Anti-aliasing

Filter edge roughness and jagged edges in graphics and images. Also for anti-aliasing photos at large. Web graphics improve with anti-alias filtering, because they are often down-scaled significantly and need much sharpening. All the images on this web page have been greatly scaled down, then sharpened with our plugin and finally anti-alias filtered. (Example 300%).
8 & 16 bit: RGB, grayscale, Duotone, CMYK, Multichannel, Lab

Histogram Repair

Histogram Repair interpolates the missing values in a posterized histogram.

If used after converting an 8 bit image to 16 bit, it will convert the 16 bit image into a true 16 bit image with a full value range.

8 & 16 bit: All image modes.

Edgeline drawing

Convert photos and images to line-drawings. Set the color of both line and background. Optional transparent background. The plug-in can emulate toneline lithfilm to create line drawings that differ from regular edge-detection such as Photoshop's "Find edges". The example was made with toneline set to an exposure direction of 45°. The plug-in offers you four exposure directions.
8 and 16 bit RGB, grayscale

Posterizer

With this plug-in you can posterize color hues and values independently and freely select any number of levels for either. The filter lets you apply blending modes, known from Photoshop's layers, to mix the posterized image with the original photo for more aesthetically pleasing posterizations.

8 & 16 bit: RGB, grayscale, Duotone, CMYK, Multichannel, Lab

Transparency Editor

Transparent backgrounds and masks can easily be made for graphic design. Here we cut out letters from a sunset and also used the transparency plug-in to transpose the bevel from the original letters to the graphic. Use the progressive transparency to improve scans by combining two scans of an image - one for correct midtones and lights, one for correct midtones and darks.
8 & 16 bit: RGB, grayscale, Duotone, CMYK, Multichannel, Lab

Brightness Editor

The Brightness Editor plug-in lets you edit brightness with full color-preservation. You can preserve or reduce color freely. It is well suited to be used in conjunction with the Exposure Editor and when working with selections, also for fading background images in graphic design and web design.
8 & 16 bit: RGB, grayscale, Duotone, CMYK, Multichannel, Lab

Photoshop Gurus: ... an excellent 4.5 out of 5 stars. See review here.

Photoshop Online Reviews, Jan. 2006
B&W Studio: Photoshop User Rating 5 out of 5 stars. "I was impressed." - Dave Huss. See the full review here

Shutterbug Magazine, Jan. 2006
B&W Studio, Black Definition and Toned Photos: "Black And White Magic. Black & White Studio may be the best ever monochrome conversion Photoshop compatible plugin." - Joe Farace. See the full review here

Photoshop Online Reviews, Jan. 2006
Sharpness Editor: Photoshop User Rating 4 out of 5 stars. "An outstanding collection of filters. Unique photo-sharpening plugin" - Dave Huss. See the full review here (The last star missing was because of a poor tutorial. This has been remedied).

Mac Design Magazine, July 2004.
Lens Corrector Pro: "Easier to use and more responsive to tiny adjustments than the controls of LensDoc... The Lens Corrector plug-in provided much greater control." - Jim Patterson. See the full review here

Used by the best:
"One of my images that was manipulated with PowerRetouche plug-ins, "B&W studio" and "Black Definition" Made the Kodak Picture of the Day and will be displayed on November 5 at www.kodak.com. Thanks for your commitment to designing the best plug-ins, Respectfully, Leroy Allen Skalstad" See the photo here.

Frynge.com Photo retouching and web design (owner Kelly Sigethy:)
"I have been designing web pages and enhancing photos since 1998. Power-retouche has been with me all the way. I have tried over 10 different mainline photoshop plugins and photo tools, but by far this software is the top the heap. Its easy to install, easy to use, and very powerful. I recommend it to everyone!" http://www.frynge.com

"Just wanted to thank you for your great product Power Retouche Pro which the company I work for (Nygård International Ltd) purchased several months ago. Power Retouche Pro is an power comprehensive professional set of filters we use on a daily basis. These filters are flexible, easy to use, invaluable - having wide range of control features.
In my rating system Power Retouche Pro gets a 10 out of 10!
- Don Ledarney - Computer Graphic Artist

Shutterbug
Jan. 2006

Black And White Magic. Black & White Studio may be the best ever monochrome conversion Photoshop compatible plugin.

Photoshop User

Jan/Feb. 2004

Filters, that solve some of the digital photographers most thorny problems. The Black and White Studio is one of the most versatile filters I've encountered.
Digital Power plug-ins developed specifically for digital photographers

Photoshop User
Feb. 2002

Plug-ins that combine digital photo editing with optical science.

D. Thurman

A fantastic set of additions and improvements! Just wonderful. Many, many thanks!
- D. Thurman

Bob Coe

Powerretouche continues to amaze me. I can't think of enough superlatives to adequately describe its capabilities. I shoot in .nef (Nikon raw) now, more than anything else. PR does a fine job of perfecting the images. I had an occasion to shoot family portraits, and as luck would have it, others flash kept triggering my strobes. I was able to salvage 4 stop under and make saleable prints. Thanks again for such a fine product.

Rob van Kempen
- author of top books on digital photography (in dutch)

Your software is among the very best I have ever seen, comparable to very professional software that would cost me thousands of dollars. I just signed a contract with Addison Wesley (publishers) for a new book on digital imaging. This is going to be a book that will take retouche and black&white photography very seriously! I got 5 top-photographers in Holland and Belgium to participate in the project. I will introduce only software that is the best... no freeware no cheap stuff...so I will introduce your software alongside with S-Spline (for instance) which is the absolute best in enlarging pictures.

Steve Upham

- reviewer of photo software, plug-ins, etc.

I have tested many different photo-correction tools and must say that I found this pack to produce some of the best results. High quality range of plug-in filters that cover all aspects for correcting and enhancing photos. From colour modification to sharpening and lens-distortion, this set has the lot. Your plug-ins are brilliant. Excellent work!

Kathleen Queen

I have to say that Power Retouche is the best investment I have ever made. I've had more fun with and better control over my photos (especially ones that seemed fairly hopeless initially) with your software than Photoshop ever provided me before. I HAVE to have your tools, which I use probably everyday of my life. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Andy Moorer

- reviewer of digital photo equipment

I use your tools every day, they are indispensable! These are must-have plug-ins for anyone serious about the "digital darkroom" concept ... if you are a serious photographer moving from the darkroom to the computer, you need these tools.

Uwe Steinmueller,
Outback photo

It seems that you can do mostly with Photoshop. Maybe. But it is far more complicated and not the same quality as you get with Power-Retouche.
Power Retouche sharpening improves the photo a lot without any halo. ... I think the results are very impressive without even playing with all the options provided by PR's sharpening editor. For a long time I was looking for some easy WB correction in Photoshop. I think I have found it now: Power Retouche's White balance Corrector.

Techier,
multimedia &
webdesign

This collection of photo retouch plug-ins for Photoshop, Fireworks, Paint Shop Pro, etc. is fantastic. Particularly impressive are the plug-ins for exposure adjustment, white balance correction, and image sharpening (without creating negative edgelines).

Saturnia Edizioni d'Arte -Trieste

Thank you very much for your product. We are glad we bought it, and already found it very useful. We are a printing shop specialized in b&w, and try to stick to 16-bit images whenever possible. Your editing tools greatly expanded the possibility of correcting 16-bit images, and some touches, like the sharpness editor, are invaluable. Thank you again.
Fabio Amodeo - Saturnia Edizioni d'Arte -Trieste - Italy. fabio@miela.it

Shutterbug Magazine
January 2003

PowerRetouche plug-ins are ideal for conditions where you need to color correct and minimize image noise to get the best possible image made under the worst possible lighting and color balance conditions ... you can really get the color correct ...

Doug Nelson,
RetouchePro

They are work and time savers, pure and simple.
Does some things I'd have a hard time replicating in Photoshop, and even the things I could easily replicate are done much faster, with fewer steps and no "re-correcting" afterwards.
Adds many controls and choices that simply are not available in Photoshop

Larry Mowry

Thank you very much. This is sensational... I will point my friends toward your marvelous work.