PaintGrade plugin launched

Pomfort has released PaintGrade Plugin for Aperture, offering a painting approach to color correction within Aperture. The software allows common adjustments like brightness, saturation and contrast to be painted into the picture, making adjustments to only the areas affected by the brush strokes. The plugin uses dynamic color keying, allowing interactive modifications of the keyed area and uses algorithms that smooth and soften all the manipulations within a painted area, avoiding hard edges and color clipping and engineering smooth tonal changes between original and adjusted areas within the image.

PaintGrade offers stored "looks," saving a set of adjustments to reuse on other images, and supports naming and rating each look. It can lock colors within a photo to avoid color shifts from adjustments and the software has adjustment sliders for increasing or decreasing the intensity or range of effects.

The new plugin is now available for a single-seat license of $240 with volume and educational licensing available. It requires both aperture and Mac OS X 10.5 or higher.

by MacNN Staff