Fix Any Color let you edit and improve colors in your digital photos

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Fix Any Color is a powerful, yet easy-to-use software application for selectively adjusting the colors in your digital images.  Fix Any Color is written for all versions of Windows. There is no Mac specific version.

Trial / Registration

• Download and Try out the Software - You are free to download Fix Any Color, install it, and try it out.  It is fully functional, except it doesn't allow you to save your final images until you register/purchase the product.  All other functionality works, though, so you can see exactly how Fix Any Color can make all the colors in your photos look perfect.
• No Separate Downloads for Trial / Registerd Versions - There are no separate downloads for the "Trial" and "Registerd" versions of Fix Any Color.  When you purchase Fix Any Color, you will be given a registration code.  You enter that in the "Registration" dialog in the software.  After that, your software will be registered and you will be able to save your images.
• Free Upgrades - Minor upgrades of Fix Any Color are always free (e.g. from version 1.30 to 1.40).

Frequently Asked Questions

(1) What is Fix Any Color's "selective color adjustment"?
(2) What is L*C*h* color space and why does Fix Any Color use it?
(3) What types of digital images does Fix Any Color work with?
(4) What do the "edge" values in the color ranges do? How should I set them?
(5) What if I want to adjust a color in one part of my image but ignore similar colors elsewhere?
(6) How can I make grass look greener?
(7) How can I make flowers look better?
(8) How can I make skin tones from my digital images look better?

(1) What is Fix Any Color's "selective color adjustment"?

Most image editing programs adjust colors by making global adjustments to images. For example, if you are making an image lighter, then the entire image will become lighter. Fix Any Color takes a different approach. Fix Any Color only adjusts the colors that need to be adjusted, and it adjusts them in precisely the way that you want. For example, consider the example of trying to adjust a picture of a flower. Imagine that you are trying to make the flower's color look deeper and more saturated. If you make all the colors in the image more saturated (i.e. make a global adjustment), then the increased color saturation of the flower color won't be noticed much. If you just make the flower more saturated while keeping the rest of the image the same then viewers will really notice the color of the flower more. Professionals routinely use this technique to emphasize the parts of images that they want you to focus on.

(2) What is L*C*h* color space and why does Fix Any Color use it?

A "color space" is a system for describing color, just as meters and the metric system is a system for measuring distances. Most digital images are displayed on monitors using the "RGB" color space. In RGB color space, colors are defined by the amount of red, green and blue in the color. Most image editing software adjust images using this 'RGB' color system because it is the default color space that computers use. There are some real disadvantages with the RGB color system, though: (1) Not Tuned to the Human Visual System - The RGB color space matches the way that computers see, not necessarily the way that humans see (2) Not Intuitive to Use - It isn't easy to adjust images using RGB. When the average person sees a color that is not quite right, they think in terms such as 'lighter/darker', 'bolder/weaker color', etc. not red/green/blue components. L*C*h* is a newer color space that was developed to specifically be tuned to the way that humans see and perceive color. It also was made to be intuitive to use. CIEL*C*h* color space is a more accurate way to adjust color. "Lighter" in CIEL*C*h* really means "make the color look lighter to the human eye", and not "adjust some of the numbers and hope it looks lighter". CIEL*C*h* produces better results. The only possible disadvantage of L*C*h* is that it takes some more calculations in the software, but Fix Any Color uses innovative methods minimize any increases in image processing times.

(3) What types of digital images does Fix Any Color work with?

Fix Any color works with any 24 bit/pixel color digital images (e.g. JPEG, Bitmap, Tiff, 24-bit PNG, etc). This includes images from any brand digital camera, scanner or any other source. Proprietary "Raw" format images need to be converted to a regular 24-bit format before they can be adjusted with Fix Any Color.

(4) What do the "edge" values in the color ranges do? How should I set them?

In Fix Any Color, you specify the color range that you want to adjust, and then only those colors are adjusted. The rest of your image is untouched. For this to look natural, there needs to be a gradual transition from the adjusted colors in the image to the non-adjusted colors in the image. The "edge" is this transition area. A larger "edge" size will produce smoother results, and a smaller "edge" size will produce more precise, localized color adjustments. As a start, it is probably best to leave the "edge" values at their default values. If you are making a very large color shift, or if you see an obvious transition between the selected and non-selected parts of images, then the size of the "edge" area should be increased. The size of the "edge" areas can really be any size depending on your image and the adjustments that you are making.

(5) What if I want to adjust a color in one part of my image but ignore similar colors elsewhere?

In some cases you might want Fix Any Color to only work on certain areas of your image. For example, if you had a picture of several people, you might want to change the skin tone of one of the people but leave the others untouched. You can achieve this by setting up a mask. To start, click the "Mask" button on the Fix Any Color main window. In the Mask Window that opens, drag the mouse over the portions of your image that you want Fix Any Color to ignore. Click OK to accept your selection. If you know that there is only one portion of your image that you want Fix Any Color to operate on, then you can drag the mouse over that region (covering the area with a mask) then click the "Invert Mask" button. That will set the mask over the entire image, except for the area that you previously selected.

(6) How can I make grass look greener?

Typically grass can look a little bit brownish and faded in pictures. To improve it with Fix Any Color, you first need to first select the grass color in your image (e.g. click on the grass in the image). This should be a yellowish green hue. If any area of the grass is still unselected then you can click on it and select the "+ Expand color range" option in the dialog that pops up. Continue until all the grass is selected. Now that you've specified the color range that you want to fix, the next step is to specify how you want those (yellow-green) colors changed: Hue (h*) shift --> adjust the hue from yellow/green to pure green. Yellow/green is about a hue value of 100 degrees, and a more solid green is a hue of about 130. Therefore, a shift of about +30 hue degrees is probably what you want. Saturation (C*) shift --> Increasing the saturation will make snappier greens as well. Possibly +10 C* should help, but you can try different amounts of increase and see what looks best.

(7) How can I make flowers look better?

Digital cameras are notorious for not being able to capture the full range of colors when photographing flowers and other highly colorful things. To fix photos of flowers with Fix Any Color, click on the flowers in your image, then increase the color saturation by moving the color saturation slider to the right. Try increasing the saturation by different amounts to see what looks best for your image. You can also try changing the hue of the flowers (e.g. to turn a yellow rose into a red rose) by moving the hue color adjustment slider.

(8) How can I make skin tones from my digital images look better?

Being able to improve skin tones is a critical important for several reasons: (1) People really notice when skin tones are not right (2) Digital cameras can do a bad job at capturing skin tones (3) Faces (skin tones) are central subject of many images Luckily, Fix Any Color does an excellent job at adjusting skin tones. Some possible skin tone fixes that you can do with Fix Any Color include: BLUE SKIN CAUSED BY CAMERA FLASH: To fix this, adjust the hue toward red/yellow and maybe increase saturation a little. PALE LOOKING SKIN: To fix this, increase color saturation. A slight decrease in lightness (L*) can also help. CREATE A TAN: Simply make a small adjustment of hue toward yellow, slight decrease in lightness and a larger increase in color saturation. In under a minute you can get any tan that you want.