Fix Any Color Overview
Professional photographers makes photos look "perfect" by making the
key colors in their images look just right. There are two general types of color adjustments
that are done:
- Making Colors More Accurate - Digital cameras are definitely not
perfect. They do not accurately capture all colors, and cannot capture
many shades of real world color (e.g. the deep red of a red rose, or the
brightness of the sun, etc.). Digital cameras also have a hard time dealing
with the various, and often mixed, lighting conditions in real world scenes.
Unfortunately, even slight
innacuracies in skin tones, natural colors (blue sky, green grass) and other
"memory colors" really make pictures look worse. Pro photographers edit
images to get each of these colors exactly right.
- Making Colors "Better than Reality" - Some examples
these adjustments include making a person's imperfect teeth look a little
whiter, or yellow/brown grass look a little greener, etc. Professional
photographers make adjustments like these to help make their photos look
"perfect".
Most changes to photos are a combination of these two types of changes.
Pro photographers use expensive, complicated software to make these adjustments, and they
invest a lot of time and possibly money into learning how to use the software.
Fix Any Color is a simple tool that taks no time to learn, and lets you make
similar selective color adjustments to your images. To change a color with
Fix Any Color, you just do the following:
- Click on the color in the image that you want changed - For example, to
imporve a skin tone, you would click on a person's face.
- See the color range and resulting image area selected - You
immediately see the color range that has been selected in your image. For
example, if you clicked on a person's face, then you should see the face
area
highlighted. If you aren't happy with the area selected, then
you can click again on the image to expand the color range. You can also manually adjust the
color range via the color selection range slider controls. There are
separate slider controls for lightness, saturation and hue. When
changing the color range selection, the selected areas in the photo are update
accordingly.
- Adjust final color - You then simply move the three color adjustment
sliders (lightness, saturation, hue) to adjust the color. For example, to
make a person look less pale, your would increase the saturation. You always
see a live preview of your result, so you can easily adjust the colors until
they
look perfect.
You do this for each color that you want changed. You can also view full
screen previews of the results at any time. These color changes only take a few seconds,
and they help you produce pro quality results.
L*C*h* Color - All color selections and adjustments in Fix Any Color are
performed in the L*C*h* "color space". A color space is a way of defining colors.
Computers define colors by the describing the amound of red, green, and blue in
the color.
People don't think of colors in this way, though. L*C*h* color space
describes colors in a way that is much closer to how people think of color - in terms of a
color's lightness, saturation, and hue. Furthermore, L*C*h* is a
"perceptually linear" color space, and was developed to be in tune with the human
visual system. By using the L*C*h* color space, Fix Any Color is easier to use, and
produces smoother, more natural results.
Take a look at our demos and read the Fix Any Color help file for more
information. You can download Fix Any Color and try it out on your own
photos for free. Try it today!