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Free Digital
Camera Enhancer
"The whole
process is so easy it's almost idiot proof." Jumbo! Program of the
Day
Note: Free DCE is a young (and free) brother of our
commercial automatic enhancer and batch processor DCE
AutoEnhance.
Free DCE
does the hard job of noise reducing and automatic balance control
for you. And it is free!
The program works
best if you have bad light condition (indoor, shadows etc..) and
your image is somehow off. So if some of your images are already
fine, you won't see much difference. DCE makes very delicate
changes...
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One thing makes DCEnhancer different from other tools -
reducing the noise and skin smoothing algorithm. It makes DCE
ideal for making cool portraits and
close-ups! |
First
you have to find out the optimal settings for your camera.
There
are just few sliders you will be changing more often:
Midtones - if your image
is too dark or too bright
De-Noiser - to reduce noise and
skin artifacts from the objects on the image.
Note: This software is intended for advanced users.
Most of the sliders work in the default position. (As on the screen
capture). You should gently change one of the sliders just little
and then see the effects.
Once you find your optimal settings, it
should work on most of your images from the same camera.
And you
will always find images where it doesn't work...
Download:
This tool is free from
mediachance.com
You have two choices:
-a Stand-Alone version or
-Photo-Brush XTR
plug-in version.
Please read what is the
difference
between Stand-Alone and XTR version.
Read what's new
in 1.2 here.
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Photo-Brush XTR plug-in,
version 1.2 ( 100 kB) |
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Read here how to
install
XTR Plug-In files.
New: The dce 1.2 XTR is
already included in the installation of Photo-Brush
so you don't need to download 1.2 again |
| Stand-Alone
(EXE) version 1.3 ( 524 kB) |
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This version
improves sampling quality of saved JPG files - it uses now the
same quality as Photo-Brush.
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giving you this tool free of charge. But you can also do something
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To
see even more cool tools go to our home page.
See our
3D Spherical
images from SIC 2000 |
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The image on the left is an original image with a little dark
midtones, some jpg artifacts with noise and too pronounced skin
details.
The Digital Camera Enhancer corrects the midtones, adds
saturation and soften the skin.
Tips:
- Don't try to make magic with image which is already fine
balanced. No software could add pixels. So if you don't see much
details, it is the time to move to the 2.1 Mega Pixel...
- Don't boost the Color too much. By enhancing the colors you
also enhance the pixel difference.
- Most
of the cameras underexpose a little. That means you have to move
the Midtones slide somewhere to the 3/4 (closer to the right)
However some of your images could be overexposed (already too
bright). Move the slider close to the left, make it darker.
- When
you are using the Noise reducing select the type of image -
Landscape, Mid Details and Close-up. If you for example use
Close-up for image of landscape, it will smooth all the details of
grass and trees and the image wouldn't look too natural.
- Do
not take your shots from inside car. Just stop and get out. It is
worth it.
- Don't replace the original images unless you have seen the
image in your favorite viewer and you are fine with the
result.
If your
images have bad color cast see ColorCastFX
for more info how to fix it.
If you need to batch process
many images at a time with even greater control then our DCE AutoEnhance
is a great investment.
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DCE
Auto
Enhance |
Free DCE |
| Single Image mode |
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Basic Enhancing*
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| Advanced Enhancing** |
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No |
| Batch Processing |
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No |
| Fast, responsive preview |
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Partially |
| EXIF aware |
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No |
| Resize option |
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No |
| Optimize Size/Quality |
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No |
| Can add Text to image |
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No |
| Can add Date to image |
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No |
| Loseless rotation |
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No |
| Portrait De-Focus |
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No |
| HotPixels Removal+ |
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No |
| Blue Cast Removal+ |
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No |
| Keep Exif data in output |
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No |
| Trial Version |
Yes, 30 days |
N/A |
| Price |
$35 |
Free | *Basic
Enhancing include Auto balance, Gamma, Enhancing Colors, sharpness
and basic De-noising
**Advanced Enhancing adjust all the
parameters according to the EXIF metadata and include additional
process to adjust the image
+ Available also as a free separate
tools which you can use with a Free DCE, however unlike the DCE
AutoEnhance each image would need to be recompressed again.
Mediachance web site has around 600 pages so look around, you
may find more tools you like or great
informations. |
