PhotoTune 3 is a Photoshop plug-in that uses a six step process to correct the color in your digital photos. PhotoTune presents you with two images, side by side as shown below, and all you have to do is to choose which one looks the best. You then move on to the next step and select that one that looks best and move on again. You do this until you complete all six steps.
By using this six step process, it makes it very easy for anyone to use PhotoTune and the results are that you come out with better looking images without having to know a whole lot about Camera Raw and curves manipulation. In some ways it works kind of like an eye exam in where you are look through some lenses and make adjustments until one of them looks good to you. You work through tone, brightness, and color temperature until it looks right to you.
With PhotoTune you really get two products. First is ColorTune which fixes images in the six steps. The second product is SkinTune which focuses on skin tones. SkinTune works in a similar way except that when you open your image, you are asked to select a skin tone and a racial type, Caucasian, Asian, African, etc. Then you are presented with a screen that you can fine tune your color.
What is needed to run PhotoTune?
• Windows (XP or greater), or Mac (OS X 10.5, 10.6)
• Pentium 4 or equivalent (Windows), PowerPC G5 or Intel processor (Mac)
• 2 GB RAM
• OpenGL 2.0 capable video card with 128MB VRAM running at 1024x768 or higher. (1280x1024 or higher recommended).
• Required host of Adobe Photoshop CS2, CS3, or CS4; Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 or 8
• Optional host application of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 or Apple Aperture 2.1
• 100 MB free hard-disk space.
So what is new with PhotoTune 3.0?
• Automatic Correction has now added a new state-of-the-art correction algorithm called eye-fidelity. This was originally developed by imsense and now, with a single click, it will correct the brightness, contrast, color, and dynamic range of any photo. This feature actually remaps tones to increase the dynamic range and will give it a much more true to life look.
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