Perfectly Clear LAB v4.0 User Manual
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1. Inside This MANU eee S System ats amp Specs Chapter 2 What s New Chapter 3 Speed Metrics Chapter 4 Installation amp Activation Chapter 5 Let s Start Processing Chapter 6 Fine Tuning Chapter 7 PDF Processing and tronPDF Chapter 8 Channels Triggers Archives Page 3 15 16 25 523 50 Chapter 1 System Requirements amp Specs Minimum System Reguirements e Windows XP Vista Windows 7 or 8 Windows Server 2003 or later e NET framework 4 0 or higher e 4 GB of RAM 8 GB or more is recommended Our recommended hardware is an Intel i7 CPU or equivalent with 8 GB or more of RAM running Windows 7 or 8 Perfectly Clear LAB is multi orocessor enabled and will automatically utilize all the cores on your machine for maximum efficiency Input File Formats Perfectly Clear LAB processes JPG PNG TIF files and over 260 different RAW formats listed on the following page Input images must be in an RGB colorspace no grayscale or CMYK or indexed color Unsupported files that are added to a Perfectly Clear LAB channel are passed through un altered Perfectly Clear LAB PDF adds support for automatically extracting correcting and replacing supported images in PDF documents Output File Formats Perfectly Clear LAB has an option to convert the output file to JPEG format or to determine the file type automatically Automatic output format will match the input file format2. Perfectly Clear LAB USER MANUAL Athentech Imaging Inc World Headquarters Suite 401 2 14 St NW Calgary Alberta Canada T2N 174 Phone 403 263 6022 E mail info athentech com Website www athentech com 2014 Athentech Imaging Inc Athentech Athentech Imaging Perfectly Clear The Real World Perfectly Clear Real Color Photography are all registered trademarks of Athentech Imaging Inc Congratulations You will Soon be processing vour pholas k go tne Wi fastest and most advanced automati image Te ie science avallable on this planet Perfectly Clear Is award winning technology with over 10 patented corrections and more than 10 years of scientific research The benefit is Real Color Photography accurately beautiful corrections ensuring that your memories are oerfectly oreserved Our mission is to save you significant time while oroducing outstanding quality Automatically Why Perfectly Clear Perfectly Clear is Intelligent Image Correction that makes your memories look the best they can be with minimal user interaction We distinguish between Image Correction and Enhancement At Perfectly Clear we only do image correction Unlike enhancements we don t change the context of your photo Instead we correct for camera hardware limitations We re not creative or artistic effects We re necessary core corrections Enhancements won t rescue your photo Perfectly Clear will Page 2
3. A Note on Input Color Spaces Determining the inout color profile for digital images is more complicated than many realize as there are many different ways an image file can indicate what color space the image Is In Some consumer level image editing programs allow or create conflicting metadata regarding color orofiles leaving the image In an unknown state In Perfectly Clear LAB v4 2 we have adopted the following rules to determine the input profile to use 1 Perfectly Clear LAB reads and utilizes embedded color profiles in JPEG TIF and PNG files RAW files are properly color managed from their camera specific Input profile 2 To determine the color profile for image files without an embedded color profile LAB will first look for the EXIF Interoperability Index 0x0001 for images with EXIF Color space tag 0xa001 set to Uncalibrated If the Interoperability Index is ROS then LAB will use Adobe RGB as the input profile 3 For all other images LAB assumes these are sRGB profiled These rules closely match Adobe Photoshop s behavior but no application is capable of determining when a Image editing program alters the color space of a photo without changing or removing the color profile metadata Page 40 5 Trigger Files In some instances workflows are organized as folders O Automatic with each separate order being separated by trigger files sometimes these trigger files contain information about the or
4. Our software can handle entire folder structures meaning that vou can copy folders containing subfolders txt ini doc files le control files and the entire folder structure will be passed through and maintained with only the actual photo files being processed So really that s all there is to better pictures A note about Folders Channels Presets Folders refer to the physical folder or shortcut on your computer that photos are sent to Page 19 The software comes shipped with pre loaded presets Let s look at the attributes of each preset and when we might want to use them Vivid Details We suggest you start with this preset Vivid Details is a robust preset that works excellent on a very wide variety of your photos indoor outdoor flash photography portrait etc The most common algorithms are turned ON exposure contrast depth using our latest high definition contrast curve skin amp depth bias sharpening crispness color vibrancy and auto red eye You can comfortably process a large variety of photos knowing that no damage will be done to them The below example shows a typical example te Traditional This uses the same set of parameters as above expect our original contrast curve High Contrast This will produce photos with a bit more pop higher contrast but with less details in the shadows less highlight recovery and flatter skin tones Beautify Beautify applies the same correc
5. Please note that noise removal is the most time consuming of all of the algorithms As such you may notice a speed hit when using this algorithm 8 SKIN TONE CORRECTION algorithm description People emit Infrared Red IR Digital Camera sensors capture IR The human eye doesn t see IR As a result captured and correct photos often appear redder than they appear in the real world This is especially true for indoor photos when taken with a flash The Perfectly Clear Skin Tone Correction will automatically detect and remove the spurious IR from flesh tones while maintaining the proper reds in the other portion of the photo SKIN TONE CORRECTION adjustments To enable simply select and move to the right to increase the strength 9 SKIN amp DEPTH BIAS algorithm description Further to the above skin tone correction people in different regions of the world have different oreferences for skin tones We provide the ability to tweak the skin tone look for your particular market Our bias corrections also overcome the difficulties of printing on hp Indigos and Xerox iGen s Many of our licensees have complained how these machines print photos too hot or red particularly in skin tones In addition our bias corrections will cover up many of the flaws created by digital cameras and allow you to further tweak how much depth you would like in your photos SKIN amp DEPTH BIAS adjustments There are 2 options to choose from sim
6. and them places them back in the odf file For this extraction to function the odf file cannot be flattened There are 4 options that you can fine tune for your odf processing 1 Process any RGB image There is no differentiation between images photos and background Everything is corrected 2 Utilize Metadata This is the most robust approach but must be supported by the company software that you use to compile odfs For example when you are creating your PDF in your layout software you can choose which images to apply image correction to and Perfectly Clear LAB will only be applied to these selected Images This is useful because many photobooks use faded photo for the background Of course this photo is lacking in color vibrancy so Perfectly Clear will naturally try to correct it but in this unique circumstance no correction is required When Utilize metadata option is selected Perfectly Clear LAB skips all untagged pictures and pictures with this tag set to T To flag your images to be processed in Perfectly Clear LAB set the EXIF tag ID hex A401 CustomRendered to U 3 Use artificial intelligence aggressive processing If the odf file contains no flags then we apply our own intelligence to try and determine what is a real image and requires processing and what is a background With this option we apply our logic rather aggressively the next option is more conservative 4 Use artificial inte
7. frena 3 a Sue A il E e R v cia ie ce 5 DIGITAL COLOR FIDELITY algorithm description Digital capture devices are currently incapable of reproducing the full visual spectrum of colors the eye sees Point any digital camera at a purple object CLaker s jersey FedEx box blue morning glory flower for example and compare the image on screen with the original purple object in front of you What do you see The purple object will appear blue on the screen For example see the two photos below the photo on the left Is an uncorrected photo directly from the digital camera The jerseys are actually purple but have been captured as blue by the camera The photo on the right has been corrected with Digital Color Fidelity and correctly restores the proper purple exactly as seen by the human eyes In the real world Since True Color is fundamental to preserving precious Memories perfectly Athentech has partnered with Tribeca Labs to provide you with Digital Color Fidelity DCF DCF is a patent pending process which maps untrue colors created in the camera s imaging pipe back into the true colors seen with the human eye at the time the photograph was taken Page 28 DIGITAL COLOR FIDELITY adjustments There are 2 settings that you can adjust Standard and Vivid Standard will re map to the full color soectrum of the colors that the camera failed to capture Vivid will do the same but will accentuate the
8. incandescent fluorescent or tungsten lighting M Page 21 Landscape This preset is designed for outdoor shooting with no flash photography no red eyes and natural sunlight Exposure color vibrancy sharoening and depth will all be corrected It will create a natural looking outdoor look with slightly less depth then the default setting The example below show a typical shot to use with this Shadow amp Highlight Details Use this preset on high quality photos to bring out the vivid details depth and proper exposure This preset uses the same algorithms as the Vivid Details but has skin amp depth bias turned off which will mask many artifacts introduced by digital cameras and nosie removal turned on Newborn Use this preset for photos containing newborn babies They generally have red skin surrounded by a lot of white and this preset has been fine tuned for this scenario Sd Ten 9 ZE 5 e A Ape gt _ Tip Using Perfectly Clear Workbench amp LAB in harmony We suggest that you start by using our Workbench software Cincluded for free with a LAB license so you can preview the changes in real time Any new presets that you create tweak or delete in the Workbench will automatically be synced with LAB and vice versa Just note that you need to close both LAB and Workbench in order for the syncing to save and occur Page 22 Chapter 6 Fine Tuning Page 253 What If Want to fin
9. or will be JPG in the case of RAW files Output images will be 8 bit per channel in color depth regardless of input color depth Page 5 RAW File Support Perfectly Clear LAB supports RAW files from the leading makers and models of Digital SLR mirrorless and point 6 shoot cameras RAW support Is provided on a model by model bases not my camera maker or file extension The table below lists the RAW camera models that are Supported in this version EOS 10D 20D 50D 40D 50D 60D 1D ID Mark II 1D Mark lIin 1D Mark III ID Mark IV 1Ds 1Ds Mark II IDs Mark III 1D X 5D 5D Mark II 5D Mark II 6D 7D 100D 300D 350D 400D 450D 500D 550D GOOD 650D 700D 1000D 1100D D SO DEO EOS M Powershot GI X G10 Gil 512 G2 G5 65 66 69 SILU S40 5453 550 S60 3 0 590 595 Prol SAI Nikon D4 D40 D40x D50 D60 D70 D7Os D80 D90 DI00 D200 D300 DS00s DELO D700 D800 D800e D3s D3x D3 D2x D2h D2xs D2hs DI DIN Dix D35000 D5000 D 3100 D5100 D5200 D7000 D7100 Tdh TVL 42 1 JS 1 Sl 1 V2 6100 P7000 Sony ASS ASS AST Ao A55V A 5 ASS A65 A77 599 AlOG A200 A230 A290 AS00 ASSO A 380 A390 A350 A450 A500 A550 A560 A580 A700 A850 A900 DSC RI NEX 3 NEX 3N NEX 5 NEX 5N NEX 5R NEX 6 NEX 7 NEX F 3 NEX C 3 RX100 Olympus E 1 E 3 E 5 E 10 E 20 E 350 E 300 E 400 E 410 E 420 E 450 E 500 E 510 E 520 E 600 E 620 E PII E P2 E P3 E PL1 E PL Is E PL2 E PL 3 E P
10. Once you ve created your custom preset in Perfectly Clear Workbench it will automatically appear in LAB Make an edit in LAB and it will be reflected in Workbench These Presets are also linked with our Plug ins Your custom presets will now be preserved every time you update LAB in the future This greatly simplifies the process of tuning your Perfectly Clear settings be visualizing the results in Workbench before building a Channel and processing images in LAB 6 New look and feel The sleek new interface puts all the tools you need to run your Lab at your fingertips while keeping the familiar channel table and layout intact 7 Powerful workflow improvements a Drag and drop images onto channels b Option to have channels start automatically when LAB starts Page 8 Updates to Version 4 4 2 Major improvement to Perfectly Clear LAB s color management facilities Better detection of input color profiles for non RAW files and added the option to leave Images in the input profile instead of converting to sRGB for all images Added the option to use sRGB for all image files that do not include an embedded color profile See page 40 for details Many minor stability improvements when using red eve and minor workflow and usability Improvements 4 1 Added support for tronPDF enabled PDF files for reliable detection of the type of Images embedded in PDF files Fixed to rare image corruption issues and improved stability 4 0 X
11. between photo noise reduction and preservation of image details Unlike other noise removal algorithms that blur photos after removing noise the Stoik algorithm is unigue in preserving the crisp details The noise in digital photos is reduced by 2 8 stops so that the noise level of the photo shot at ISO 1600 is effectively reduced to ISO 200 400 levels NOISE REMOVAL adjustments When noise removal is turned ON there are 4 presets to choose A Default a robust powerful setting for all camera corrections B Camera Phone a special engine has been added in to correct the grainy quality of most camera phone pictures C Night Scene The night setting is optimized for shots where dark areas of the image are mixed with illuminated and potentially detail intensive areas We find that the lower frequency noise is the biggest and solvable concern for these types of shots with potential noise blotches and color banding D Portrait The emphasis is to retain the structural and natural color composition but remove larger noise artifacts and blemishes while avoiding the over processed plastic look rt ta s Gy lt 2 bs DI a 4 Py r A teo n Air Page 30 In addition you can adjust the overall strength of the noise removal process by sliding the single slider bar greater processing strength occurs the more the slider bar is to the right Details slider bar can also adjust the amount of detail preservation
12. has 3 benefits 1 more details will be brought out in the shadow dark areas 2 better highlight preservation maintaining details in the highlight areas 3 More accurate and beautiful skin tones 4 COLOR VIBRANCY algorithm description Perfectly Clear automatically checks and determines whether or not the capture device has captured the full vibrancy of the colors in the picture If it hasn t then the algorithm will automatically restore the washed out faded colors in the photograph while always maintaining the true colors represented in the original photo If the camera has properly captured true color then this function will have no effect on the image COLOR VIBRANCY adjustments To enrich color vibrancy simply slide the slider bar to the right Increasing Color Vibrancy may cause some clipping at the low end of the RGB spectrum but it will never cause clipping at the bright end of the spectrum Moving the slider to zero will increase the color density less and result in zero chance of clioping You will note that on many images there Is no increase in color vibrancy This is because the camera sensors have already captured true color There is a difference between a setting of O and turning the algorithm OFF Page 27 ARIETE a ATE KE ee TEN ee a Fr Rage AS VASU s x E a A SORES b Sth Noes a 1 gt SOG ts I det E a tnd BRR KILI x wi dr lt S b ARESE v az i 1
13. A 32 bit version of Perfectly Clear LAB was added Performance of Noise removal was improved and an issue with full oage images in PDF files was resolved Stability issues with Beautify and Red eye reduction were implemented Page 9 Chapter 3 Speed Metrics Page 10 1 v4 0 is almost 4 times faster than our older versions e 5 8 times faster to be precise Hourly processing volumes 3 000 6 000 photos Depending on the i size of the photo IN megapixels li your computer specifications RAM CPU cores ili preset used The number is with the Vivid Details Preset e Specifically o Using a laptop with 16 GB RAM 1 2 6 GHz Quad core 8 threads flash drive Windows8 64 bit 6 031 images per hour o Using a computer with 8 GB RAM 17 2 7 GHZ dual core 4 threads Windows8 64 bit 3 120 Images per hour Processing Times e 0 06 and 0 12 seconds megapixel respectively using the above 2 machines Speed Comparison Total time vs Image Size Megapixels gt 3 GB RAM i7 2 cores 4 threads c 16 GB RAM i7 4 cores 8 TL Le threads flash drive Page 1 3 Speed impact of varving presets The below chart shows how the different presets compare in time using Vivid Details as a benchmark ie FixDark Is 31 slower Traditional is 16 faster Speed difference compared to Vivid Details Preset Fix Dark Fix Noise Using the less powerful computer above this eguates to the following hourly volu
14. L 5 E PM1 E PM2 C5050z C5060wz C7070wz C8080wz OM D E M5 SP 310 SP 320 SP 350 SP 500uz SP 510uz SP 55 gt 0uz XZ 1 Panasonic FZI00 FZISO FZ200 FZS P228 rZ50 FZS5 PL 8 FZ40 F245 FZ50 FZO 51l GZ GS 06 66 GIO Girl Grz Gabo Gore Cm GAZ GHS Sxl LIO LAI CAZ LAS CEAS EA Leica DIGILUA 5 VEIA VALUA 2 VELA S D LUX Z D LUX Sy D LUX 4 D LUX 5 Me Moy A AZ Digital MODUL R8 Digital MODUL R9 Pentax KTOOD KIOOD Super KTOD KTOD K20D KSO K200D K2000 ist D ist DL IST DL2 ist DS Ist D52 KOL KA ISS SU Kals K A Km Ker hex DIMAGE 7 7i ZHI Al A2 A200 MAXXUM 5D 7D DYNAX 5D 7D ALPHA 5 DIGITAL AL PHA SWEET DIGITAL Alpha Digital GX 10 GX 20 GX IL GX 1S NX10 NXTI NX100 NX200 NX5 DCS Pro 14n Pro 14nx Pro SLR c Pro SLR n Page 6 Chapter 2 Wha s New Page 7 Wha s New and Exciting in v4 a lot of new features 1 Waaaay faster Did we Say significantly faster You bet Version 4 is up to four times faster than before See the next page for performance metrics 2 64 bit support 3 Works on RAW files 4 Beautify Beautify is revolutionary new technology designed to work automatically to provide your portrait shots with flawless skin tones lively eyes and sparking teeth There are 4 specific algorithms at work a Perfectly Smooth b Eye Enhance c Eye Enlarge d Teeth Whitening 5 Linked presets with Perfectly Clear Workbench
15. Select a preset to use with this Channel so Move original to following folder 2 Resize Output You can choose to set a Maximum Image size for output images in total pixels height width Input images that are larger than this will be reduced proportionally to fit the size you specify 3 Channel Color Adjustment Its possible to adjust the overall level of red green or blue for entire photos simply by adjusting any or all of the 3 settings One reason why you might want to do this would be to compensate for the color gamut in your printer Page 39 4 Output Format This option controls the file type of the image files created by LAB There are two options Automatic This option will use the same file format as the input file when possible RAW files are always converted to TIF s Always as JPEG This option will convert any input file to a JPEG 5 Output Color Space This option controls the color soace of the image files created by LAB Original This option will use the same color profile as the input file when possible RAW files are always converted to SRGB sRGB This version converts and tags the corrected images with the sRGB color profile 6 Ignore non embedded color profiles This option instructs LAB to treat all images that do not have embedded color profiles as SRGB Use this if you see problematic color correction on some images This option causes LAB to skip the second rule shown below
16. ay be some loss of details Use this correction to enlarge one s eyes in a realistic manner This unique technique is great at automatically finding and adjusting eyes without distorting any other aspects of the photo Eye Enhancement will brighten and sharpen eyes in your photographs without distorting any other aspects of the photo Teeth Whitening will whiten teeth naturally without the painful need to see the dentist It automatically finds teeth in the photograph and applies just the right amount of whitening to make teeth brighter without looking artificial Page 33 Miscellaneous RED GREEN BLUE fine tuning Red 0 Green 0 Blue 0 It s possible to adjust the overall level of red green or blue for entire photos simply by adjusting any or all of the settings One reason why vou might want to do this would be to compensate for the color gamut in your printer This Is set in the channel settings not in the Preset See Chapter 8 for details Tip Backing up your presets and channels Page 34 Chapter PDF Processing Page 55 PDF Processing Perfectly Clear LAB is offered in two versions our standard LAB software and LAB with PDF Support IF you purchased Perfectly Clear LAB PDF simply send your paf file into Perfectly Clear LAB PDF like you would a joeg and Perfectly Clear will go to work processing it immediately LAB PDF extracts the photos from the pdf file corrects them
17. colors The result is a photo with more contrast more vivid colors and more punch to it The photos below show an example between the two settings MR No corrections Perfectly Clear PC PC Standard DCF PC Vivid DCF 6 SHARPENING algorithm description Perfectly Clear s proprietary sharpening is a series of very powerful and unique algorithms developed to deliver a crisp looking photo that is artifact free SHARPENING adjustments Simply select the check box next to the sharpen dialog to activate and move the slider bar to the right for increased crispness and to the left for less sharpening Athentech has partnered with Stoik Imaging in providing you with their patent pending noise removal technology The Stoik engine is the fastest and most effective on the market for removing high and low ISO noise in photographs grains in scanned images JPEG compression artifacts Moire pattern effects and much more Stoik Noise Autofix is the first photo noise reduction algorithm that allows for fully automatic operation The algorithm will first analyze the photo to determine if noise exists and only then apply the proper amount of noise removal Specific algorithms and settings are applied depending on whether the photo was taken with a digital camera camera phone or scanner The algorithm includes modules of noise detection noise analysis and noise filtration which are statistically trained to provide optimal balance
18. der When these folders are automatically File Name being streamed into our In folders it is often necessary igger Delay 1 second n to walt until the entire order has been sent before we bg begin processing In this case select the Use trigger file O located under the Channels option under System You Seep ere TE can also specify the name of the trigger file and the relative Relative path to images path and choose a time delay The following examples illustrate the use of Relative path to images when Images are not in the same folder as trigger file Example 1 Images and trigger file are all in the same input folder Traditional input Traditional original Traditional output Trigger File Example input Q images and trigger txt Trigger File Example output Vivid Details input 1 Vivid Details original Vivid Details output Relative Path to Images or leave blank for default to same folder Example 2 Images are transferred to sub folder images and at the end file trigger txt is transferred to the input folder Traditional input Traditional original 1 Traditional output 4 Trigger File Example input trigger txt images 6 images Trigger File Example output Vivid Details input 1 Vivid Details original 1 Vivid Details output Relative Path to images images Page 41 Example 3 Images are transferred to anot
19. ders channels In the example shown above once the size of the Perfectly Clear Lite Original folder reaches 500 MB then photos will begin to be deleted based upon which ones arrived first If you automatically keep a back up of your customers photos before sending to our software then you would probably want to disable this feature since it isn t relevant 1 Archive size management V Enable archive folder size control When this feature is tumed on your onginal photos that have been moved to the archive folder mil begin to be deleted automatically based upon first in once the indicated sze kmit has been reached C Apply limit to all channels fe Apply channel specific limit Channel name Perfectly Clear Lite 7 Size limit 500 Megabytes ee Ba Page 43 www atnentechn com Please Note Your use of this software or these materials is subject to Athentech s license terms Please visit www athentech com for more information Athentech Imaging Inc
20. e Buy Now feature within the LAB application IF you have not purchased yet vou can click Buy Now to go directly to the Athentech webstore Once you purchase your license will automatically be stored in the application and it will be activated and ready to use If the server you intend to run Perfectly Clear LAB on is not connected to the internet then click the Activate Offline to enter an unlock code provided by Athentech support Page 15 Chapter 5 Le s Start Processing Double click the Icon on your desktop Perfectly Clear LAB This will load the software as shown below kd Perfectly Clear LAB 4 0 Perfectly Clear LAB System 4 Start Stop By Athentech Imaging Channel Pending Processed Vivid Details 0 0 Traditional 0 0 Beautify 0 0 Fix Dark Fix Noise Fix Tint Newborn Folders This software operates using hot folders To begin press the Start Stop button You I notice the Status of each channel has now changed to Running If you desire you can also start stop only one channel by highlighting clicking the channel and pressing the start stop button as shown below ONI kd Perfectly Clear LAB 4 0 Perfectly Clear LAB Start Stop Bino Select a single channel and press Start Stop Channel Vivid Details 0 2 1 Le sel o s 1 4 Beautify 0 0 0 Fix Dark Fu Nos ro Tint Newborn Folders Page 1 7 TI D you can have LAB automatica
21. e tune the corrections There are a total of 15 different algorithms that you can fine tune the rest happen automatically behind the scenes to enable you to create unique presets for your market You do this by choosing Preset from the System drop down menu You I see the following screen Preset Preset Vivid Details New Clarity Vivid Details Sharpening 50 _ Noise Currently used by 1 channels Tone Exposure Portrait Auto Strength of I Low Med High Skin Tone Correction s Light Diffusion t Depth 30 W Auto Red Eye High definition ni Skin and Depth Biss S Face Beautification Normal ty m h Color Tint Correction C Eye Enlargement Enhancement t Vibrance 5 LI Eve L Fetty _ Teeth Whitening Le s look at what each algorithm does and how to fine tune it 1 TINT CORRECTION algorithm description Abnormal tint occurs in situations where the sensors of the camera have inappropriately picked up and reflected in the image excess green from fluorescent lights or excess red from the infrared heat of a person in the image or excess blue from ultraviolet or excess yellow from tungsten lights Perfectly Clear s patent pending process will automatically remove these unwanted tints TINT CORRECTION adjustments The default is OFF This algorithm will look at each image and if there is an abnormal tint remove it If there is no tint no correction will be performed We have four diffe
22. exposed photos We distinguish between overexposed which will benefit from the Perfectly Clear process and clipped images The clipped portions of an image are considered to be those portions that exceed 255 on the RGB spectrum Portions of the image which meet these criteria have no data in these areas and where this occurs Athentech doesn t create what might have been there Page 25 PERFECT EXPOSURE adjustments You can use Perfect Exposure in either fully automatic mode where Perfectly Clear will determine the optimum exposure to apply for every photo or you can apply the same amount of exposure to all of VOUF NOTOS I Automatic Strength Selection recommended Automatic Strength Selection has 3 modes Low Med or High In general a higher setting means a greater exposure correction per photo li Manual Exposure To apply the same amount of exposure to all of your photos simply turn Auto Strength to Off The interface will change allowing vou to select vour desired exposure Note the range of Perfect Exposure is from O to 150 In general the human eye will only notice increments of approximately 10 ie photo A processed at 8 and photo B processed at 11 will look the same This algorithm comes from the signal processing world medical X rays for example In X rays the challenge is that there are over 4 000 shades of grey in a radiograph ge However the human eye can only detect 50 100 shade
23. her sub folder ORDERO12345 and at the end file trigger txt is transferred to the input folder Traditional input Traditional original Traditional output 4 Trigger File Example input trigger txt 4 images ORDERO12345 6 images 1 Trigger File Example output Vivid Details input J Vivid Details original 1 Vivid Details output Relative Path to images images ORDERO12345 Example 4 Images and trigger file are located in two separate sub folders as follows Traditional input Traditional original Traditional output 4 Trigger File Example input 4 images ORDERO12345 images J trigger trigger txt Trigger File Example output Vivid Details input Vivid Details original Vivid Details output Relative Path to Images images ORDER012345 Notice the use of double dot to move up one level of folder Page 42 6 Archive Size Management You can manage the number of files le size being stored in the Original Folders the folders that the original photos are moved to after processing and delete pictures based upon first in once the archive size limit has been reached To activate this feature simply click the Enable archive folder size control radio button This screen is loaded by selecting Archive from the System menu You can apply the size limit to all folders channels or have different limits for different fol
24. lligence moderate processing If you tried the option above and background images were processed by Perfectly Clear LAB then try choosing this option This option is less agressive in choosing which images are background Page 46 tronPDF Support Perfectly Clear LAB with PDF can optionally be upgraded to offer tronPDF support The addition of tronPDF enables more robust image correction of PDF files by accurately identifying and separating out real photographs that need image correction and backgrounds text and other image files that should not be corrected with Perfectly Clear By reducing false positives labs save both time and money This feature requires the use of an ena client application that creates tronPDF format files provided with technology by ECCE TERRAM ECCE TERRAM s Order Client V2013 12 allows customers to use PDF for print products like Photobooks or an alternative special format called tronPDF TronPDF enables intelligent optimization of complex PDF files combining the advantages of client side PDF rendering with the power of the Perfectly Clear Lab Solution Enabling tronPDF support When this feature is enabled determined by the license you purchase tronPDF files sent to Perfectly Clear LAB channel will be intelligently processed utilizing the order and image data provided in the TOX file included with your PDF files The result will be a tronPDF file where only the user added photographic images have been op
25. lly start note the channels wont start just the software when Windows is finished loading this is useful if your server restarts for example 1 Go to LAB s installation folder C Program Files Athentech Perfectly Clear LAB 4 2 Right click on Athena2 exe and scroll down to Create shortcut 4 Open the startup folder Start menu gt All programs gt Startup 4 Right click and select explore and the startup folder will now be opened in explorer 5 Cut and paste the shortcut created in step 2 into the startup folder TI D You can have LAB automatically start all channels upon launch Go to System gt Configuration and select Start all channels when LAB starts as shown below Configuration Start all channels when LAB starts Page 18 The folders are now live meaning that as soon as photos or folders are copied or sent to any of the In folders the photos will be detected processed and the corrected photos will be saved in the corresponding Out folder The original picture will either be deleted or moved to an Original folder depending on the settings that you ve chosen This is summarized in the below diagram Original Corrected Image Image Die E Original Original Folder Image To view the folders press the folder button on the bottom right of LAB software Your Input output and original folder will be shown for each channel
26. me Hourly volume 3 120 Fix Noise 2 105 Traditional 3 724 Speed RAW V4 0 supports RAW processing The time to process a RAW photo will be approximately 2 times slower compared to the equivalent jpeg Page 12 Chapter 4 Installation amp Activation Page 13 Simply double click on the Perfectly Clear LAB Setup exe file and follow the on screen instructions A short cut will be installed on your desktop and the actual files and folders will be installed on your computer at the following location C Program Files Athentech Perfectly Clear LAB 4 When you first run Perfectly Clear LAB it will be running in Trial Mode To activate click the System button in the top right and select License The following screen will appear license Information Perfectly Clear P By Athentech Imaging Tnal version There are 14 days left PDF processing enabled Buy Now IF you have already purchased and have a license key press Activate to reveal this window License Activation Enter Activation Code Subscription Reference Number Optional nn Extend Trial Acti Page 14 Enter your Activation Key in the too box If you purchased a subscription from our web store then enter the Subscription Refernence Number into the lower box This will allow your subscription to auto update at the end of each subscription period CEntering the reference number is not required if you use th
27. ply slide the slider bar to the right to increase the strength and to the left to decrease 1 Normal preference this is our default setting removing red from skin tones and adding depth to the background areas Page 31 2 Brighter preference the same impact as Normal preference but with overall a brighter image with more details revealed in the shadows The Light Diffusion setting has been developed for portrait ohotos weddings and close facial shots It will smooth the blemishes in the face and create a more diffused softer picture with less contrast Skin tones will often be slightly warmer redder when this algorithm is enabled LIGHT DIFFUSION adjustments To enable simply turn ON Athentech has teamed up with FotoNation Tessera Technologies to include their patented technology as part of the Perfectly Clear image correction suite Using advanced recognition techniques the oresence of red eye is automatically detected and removed The technology is so sophisticated that it carefully retains those important glints and sparkles in the subjects eyes AUTOMATIC RED EYE REMOVAL adjustments To enable simply turn ON Page 32 Perfectly Smooth was invented to smooth and diminish wrinkles automatically while making sure the details in the hair eyes etc are preserved The Smooth option accomplishes this in a very realistic manner If you select Super Smooth then the skin will be even smoother but there m
28. rent Tint Corrections the soeed is the same for all 4 Please note that the actual tint removal engine is identical for all corrections the only difference is the Automatic process in detecting whether a photo has a tint problem Page 24 a Conservative this is the most robust for batch processing However since the emphasize is on conservativeness there will be some photos that have a tint problem that will not be corrected Suitable for batch processing over a wide variety of photos b Moderate More aggressive in detecting and correcting for tint Also suitable for batch processing large volumes of photos but there may be the odd photo that does not have a tint problem that our detection process detects to have and tries to remove c Aggressive and d Strongest these 2 settings are designed for automatic batch processing of photos that have already been determined have abnormal tinting If photos that do not have abnormal tint are sent through then there is a good change that they will be damaged as the detection process is assuming that the photos have a tint problem 2 PERFECT EXPOSURE algorithm description Perfect Exposure is the most Important algorithm and forms the core for all other corrections Perfect Exposure optimizes the light exposure in every pixel This patented approach corrects the image to emulate what the photographer and subjects saw at the time of taking the photo A quick note on over
29. s The result is a radiographic image that appears blurry Perfectly Clear for Radiography optimizes the contrast in each and every pixel so that the radiographer doctor or surgeon can easily discern the details throughout the entire image As Image quality in radiography means the difference between life and death it s essential that no artifacts are created and no information is deleted We ve taken this technology and retrofitted it to photography so that we can provide you with an image that is very eye pleasing with lots of punch amp depth Page 26 CONTRAST DEPTH adjustments Simply select the check box next to the Contrast dialog to enable The contrast ranges from slider all the way to the left to 100 slider all the way to the right Since the eye perceives reality in 3 D photographers also like lots of contrast depth with their photos and as such you ll notice that it is usually set as quite high on the right side of the slider Please note that a contrast of 0 does not yield the same result as turning contrast off For extremely dark photos it is beneficial to turn depth off in order to bring out extreme details as shown in the photo to the left There are 2 different contrast algorithms 1 High Contrast original algorithm this is our original contrast curve It provides images with lots of depth i1 High Definition latest technology recommended to use this new algorithm
30. timized by Perfectly Clear while all other image files like backgrounds and line art have been left alone Using tronPDF To use tronPDF support in LAB with this feature enabled all you need to do is to copy or move all the files in a tronPDF order bundle PDF XML TOX TLX to a hot folder that Perfectly Clear LAB is monitoring You can keep the tronPDF files in folders these input folder will be re created in the output folder that Perfectly Clear LAB creates Perfectly Clear LAB uses filename matching to associate TOX data files with PDF content files These files need to be kept together and must both be added to the LAB channel If the TOX file is not available then Perfectly Clear LAB will process the PDF file as if it were a standard PDF file using image selection and processing mentioned on the previous page Page 537 7 Chapter 8 Channels Triggers Archives Additional Adjustments 1 Adding a new channel and preset Why would want to do this Well let s say you wanted to tweak our presets for one of your customers that has his or own preferences You would then create a custom preset and then associate it to anew channel To create a new channel go to System gt Channel and then type in a new channel name associate it with a preset and press Automatic setup as shown below to automatically choose the name and location for your channels Press the Add button to complete the process
31. tions as Vivid Details except auto exposure is a bit less aggressive plus applies sophisticated technology to automatically render flawless skin tones with sparkling teeth and eyes There are 4 specific corrections at work that you can fine tune 1 Perfectly Smooth 2 Eye Enlargement 3 Eye Enhancement 4 Teeth Whitening Page 20 Fix Dark Use this preset for those really dark photos for example a subject back lit by a bright background This preset will turbo charge the exposure to bring out significant details Note this will work magic on really dark photos in revealing the details but these photos usually also contain lots of noise which may also be made more obvious as the darkness is removed As a result we ve turned on noise removal to fix for this Note that this preset is too aggressive for normal average photos The below examples illustrate the Fix Dark preset at work Fix Noise Camera phone images tend to be noisier Also if you shoot using high ISO settings or at night then your photos will be grainier Furthermore as digital cameras continue to add more pixels then the photos will tend to be noisier Use this preset for your noisy images to apply the very powerful Stoik noise removal algorithm to remove the nasty grain and noise from your photos as shown below Fix Tint Use this profile to remove abnormal tints yellow blue etc from your photos that are caused by infrared ultra violet
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