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1. DIGITAL COLOR FIDELITY adjustments There are 2 settings that you can adjust Standard and Vivid Standard will re map to the full color spectrum of the colors that the camera failed to capture Vivid will do the same but will accentuate the 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 No corrections Perfectly Clear PC PC Standard DCF PC Vivid DCF Page 37 7 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 7 NOISE REMOVAL algorithm description 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 Moir 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 appl2. Red eye is caused when the camera s flash reflects off the veins in the retina at the back of the eye In other words what we re seeing is the subject s blood vessels Research shows that during the winter months as much as 30 of photos suffer from red eye To solve this problem 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 presence 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 active this algorithm simply turn ON Each photo will be automatically scanned and if red eye is detected it will be removed If no red eye is detected then no red eye will be removed Page 41 Chapter 8 Batch Processing Saving you significant time Page 42 Overview Since Perfectly Clear is designed to be a robust automatic correction solution for large volumes of images you can use the Plug In to accomplish this in Photoshop It is a 2 step process 1 Create an Action for Perfectly Clear 2 Batch process images using this Action Step 1 Creating an Action for Perfectly Clear lt z Par Fete dal e Layer 1 Open Actions eI located under Window Actions 2 Brushes FS o Channe
3. BP FAS PCMIAKRN Figure 2 Launching Perfectly Clear Page 1 4 Running in Trial Mode While in trial mode the first time each day you run Perfectly Clear Photoshop Plug in the following window will appear Perfectly Clear Photoshop Plug in Trial Perfectly Clear Photoshop Plug in Trial Left 29 days WebSite l O Buy Perfectly Clear Photoshop Plug in Email Support Activate Perfectly Clear Photoshop Plug in Trial Perfectly Clear Photoshop Plug in for 29 days About Control Activation a rus e a BA a activation Help Continue Figure 3 Licensing Window Windows Page 12 JE Perfectly Clear By Athentech Imaging Photoshop Plugin Version 1 5 5 INFO This Program is running in Evaluation mode You have 7 evaluation days left Patents UK 2363933 EP 1177678 U S 6677959 6633684 amp 6961066 Singapore 83972 amp 94006 NZ 523251 amp 514714 Australia 771979 China ZL 00808690 7 India Mexico 227042 amp 227042 HK 1048213 CAD 2368544 Korea 572444 other patents pending Red eye correction technology by FotoNation licensed from Tessera Technologies Inc Noise removal technology by STOIK Imaging Full Spectrum RGB color correction technology by Tribeca Labs Copyright 2010 Athentech Imaging All rights reserved Figure 3 Licensing Window Mac This will take you back to our website More details later on in this chapter This option will be us
4. Perfectly Clear PHOTOSHOP PLUG IN USER MANUAL January 2011 Version 1 5 0 Congratulations You will soon be processing yourphetes taceugh the World s fastest and most E automatic image correc TOPR science available on this planet Perfectly Clear is award winning technology with over 10 patented corrections and more than 10 years of scientific research Thebenefitis Real Color Photography accurately beautiful corrections ensuring that your memories are perfectly preserved Our mission is to save you significant time while producing outstanding quality Automatically PMA Pro Photographer PICKS Eight out of ten times in a blind test Professionals using Photoshop selected the Perfectly Clear instant correction over their own work which averaged 10 minutes to enhance Page 2 Why Yous Proven Results Perfectly Clear 2 500 printers countless online sites an printed to Walgreens Black s Tesco ph www athentech com Our Licensees html Clear t automatic corrections of over 85 000 photo kiosks E and you ve likely used Perfectly Clear if you ve ever tobox photoworks or Olympus Ben i a urately beautiful This means that aes ae Ee rour purple bride s maid dress should be purple Real Color Photography Our corrections are acc should be blue green grass should be green and Backed by Science Our scientific approach mimics the physics principals of
5. action could be created for each preset _ in amp amp fk 5 Name your Action Page 44 ry es fin Datla Ackione E D vignette selection tC gt Frame Channa 50 p amp Wood Frame 50 phe Caa Shadow typa amp Water Refection type Custom RGE to Grave Make Chp Path select D Sepia Toning layer P Quadrant Cosson b Save Aa photoshop P Greiari Map 6 Press the Record button Photoshop will remember everything you do from this point on Load the Perfectly Clear Plug in select the preset you want to use Cor fine tune a photo and press the okay button TUTTU 7 Press the Stop button iR You can now press the play button and this Action will be performed on your photo Page 45 Step 2 Batch process images using your new Action Select File gt Scripts gt Image Processor 1 Select your folder of images to correct 2 Select your output folder where the corrected images will go 3 Select your output file types Note Each image can be saved as multiple image formats using the checkboxes and you can also resize the images at this step if you desire 4 Select your action that you made in step 1 above that will be applied to each image Image Processor Select the images to process E Select Folder ErDocuments and aw Action Script Qpen first image to apply settings gt Select location to save processed images O Save
6. 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 Dlaase 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 Page 39 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 LIGHT DIFFUSION algorithm description The Light Diffusion setting has been developed for portrait photos 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 Page 40 10 AUTOMATIC RED EYE REMOVAL algorithm description
7. 5 Workflow Chapter 6 The Power of Presets Chapter 7 Fine Tuning Chapter 8 Batch Processing Page 4 22 25 2 52 42 Chapter 1 What s new in version 1 5 0 1 Now available for Mac Please note that both the Windows and Mac have the identical features 2 64 bit compatible You can now run in CS4 64 bit version Windows only since Adobe doesn t have CS4 in 64 bit for Mac and also CS5 windows and Mac 64 bit When you do this all of our corrections will be operating with 64 bit depth 3 Compatible with Photoshop CS5 4 Supports layers Now you can apply Perfectly Clear to any layer 5 You can now apply Perfectly Clear to a select part of your photo Now you can choose a selection of your photo let s say your eye for example and only Perfectly Clear the selected area Please note that the entire image will appear in the plug in window and appear corrected but only your selected area will be Perfectly Clear when you oress the Okay button 6 Smarter Sharpening e Ensures the proper amount of sharpening is applied regardless of your image size You now have double the strength to adjust New range O 200 instead of 0 100 7 Color Space fix Your photos will now be displayed with the proper and identical colors in both Photoshop and our Plug in window 8 Now installs correctly on Elements 8 Will now install in proper folder location for Elements 8 the prior build on some Windows 7 machines in
8. contains all of our algorithms Simply toggle ON or OFF by checking the box or adjust a slider bar to see the effect of each algorithm More information on each algorithm is available at www athentech com So really that s all there is to better pictures effortlessly Useful tlos 1 Perfectly Clear Window re sizeable To adjust the viewing size of the Plug in window click the bottom right corner and drag to re size This size will be remembered for the next time you launch 2 Applying Perfectly Clear to a selection You can choose a selection portion of your photo in Photoshop and Perfectly Clear will only be applied to the selected area 3 Short cut keys i Slider bars can be adjusted using your mouse scroll wheel Cif your mouse has this ii ctrl Windows command Mac shortcut keys for zooming Page 24 Chapter 5 Workflow Where and when to use Perfectly Clear with your images Page 25 Perfectly Clear is designed to save you significant time in your editing process It should be used as a first step in your image correction workflow to remove the 13 problems created by digital cameras specifically under exposure lack of depth lack of sharpness lack of color vibrancy lack of color fidelity abnormal tint noise red eye and incorrect skin tones After you have used Perfectly Clear you can then apply your creative talent to give your photos an artistic look whether that is HDR Blac
9. image which meet these criteria have no data in these areas and where this occurs Athentech doesn t hallucinate what might have been there i Hiii i i i PERFECT EXPOSURE adjustments By default when Perfect Exposure is ON so is Automatic Strength Selection This means that Perfectly Clear will independently look at each photo and suggest a specific amount of exposure correction unique to that photo You can adjust how aggressive the Automatic Strength Selection is Low Medium High In general a higher setting means a greater exposure correction per photo You can also manually grab the slider bar and adjust This allows you to override the auto correction Page 34 5 CONTRAST DEPTH algorithm description 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 However the human eye can only detect 50 100 shades 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 th
10. light the same way the human eye captures light We correct each pixel independently it is as if your 21 megapixel photo was taken with 21 million separate apertures www athentech com Science html Saving you time We gave Photoshop experts 10 different images and asked them to manually correct them On average this took 5 7 minutes per photo The original photos were then processed through Perfectly Clear average time 2 seconds per photo We then asked which photo was preferred 8 out of ten times the Perfectly Clear photo was preferred Recognized Perfectly Clear has been granted several awards and accolades for the value it adds to photographers by saving them time and making their editing effortless and much less time consuming Perfectly Clear Patents United Kingdom Patent No 2363933 European Patent No 1177678 U S Patent Nos 6677959 amp 6633684 Singapore Patent No 83972 amp 94006 HK 1048213 New Zealand 523251 amp 514714 Australia 771979 Mexico 233930 amp 227042 Canada 2368544 China ZL 00808690 7 India 217854 Japan 4175461 Korea 572444 FotoNation Red Eye Patents US 6 407 777 and US 6 042 505 and US 7 042 505 Other patents pending for Perfectly Clear FotoNation Tribeca Imaging and Stoik Imaging Page 3 Inside This Manual Chapter 1 What s new in version 1 5 0 Chapter 2 Minimum System Requirements Chapter 3 How do install the software Chapter 4 Let s start correcting Chapter
11. of Perfectly Clear Photoshop Plug In and key features 1 Select your View 3 There are 3 different views as indicated by the toggle buttons in the upper right A Full Preview Window to toggle between the original and corrected photo simply mouse click and hold anywhere on the photo Underneath the photo on the bottom right you will see an indicator showing you which photo you are viewing B Side by side press the 2nd button to show the original on the left and the correction on the right C Top bottom press the 3rd button to show the original on the top and the corrected photo on the bottom Page 23 2 Choose your preset Perfectly Clear comes with 6 pre defined presets When you launch the plug in your photo will be corrected with the last preset used To change simply choose another preset from the drop down menu You can also create as many custom presets as you desire More information on each preset is outlined in Chapter 4 5 Zoom to see the details and quickly navigate To see the details of your image simple slide the zoom slider to the right for more details The area that you re viewing is displayed in the red box in the Navigator window in the bottom right You can move the image around by A Mouse click and hold then drag the large preview photo around B Moving the red box in the Navigator window around C Clicking anywhere in the Navigator window 4 Fine tune your correction The right panel
12. versions of Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Photoshop Elements and then display the location where the files will be installed If the installer was unable to locate a version of Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Photoshop Elements or if you are using a different image editing application you will need to manually locate the appropriate plug in installation location For Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Photoshop Elements the install location is as follows For Windows this is Cone or both depending if you are running 64 bit C Program Files Adobe Adobe Photoshop Plug Ins C Program Files x86 Adobe Adobe Photoshop Plug Ins For Mac this ts Macintosh HD Applications Adobe Photoshop Plug Ins Filter Page 10 2 Launching Perfectly Clear Photoshop Plug in Once you have Photoshop loaded select Athentech Imaging Perfectly Clear from the Filters menu See Figure 2 AL Thea E ee i 33 3 Yay binssinssinne aaa es Me al aa F lage Layer select Fj z OANE ivs 5 3L 4 fie OWI dow el ap i hi 7 n fac i mi Je ae Qq Mey my last Filte 6 F b L al f Style Normal Convert for Smart Filters l Anti alias Filter Gallery Liquify DEX Vanishing Point C V Artistic Blur Brush Strokes Distort Noise Pixelate Render Sharpen Sketch Stylize Texture Video Other xa Aoa rrrrrTrrrryrrvyrrTrT iY Digimare Browse Filters Online
13. Now that Perfectly Clear Photoshop Plug in is active on your computer you have the option of registering your newly purchased software This registration process is optional but there are some powerful management benefits to registering The registration box Figure 8 pops up after you accept the registration key asking for your name address email and a few other details most boxes are optional Once you ve registered you create a login name and password and with that you are able to login on the website There you can manage License Keys you ve purchased see how many actions de activations have been done If you decide to not use this registration feature please go to the next step woe Perfectly Clear Photoshop Plug in eax Registration Already Registered Please enter your Username and Password below and click Register Username Password mics Not Registered Please enter your registration details by clicking About Control Register Now Activation j trusted m activation Figure 8 Registering Page 19 7 Deactivating Transferring your License Key After you have activated and registered your License Key registration optional you can deactivate if you so choose The main purpose of deactivating would be to transfer your license to another computer In order to do this start up Perfectly Clear Photoshop Plug in and click the about button then the License button simply press the D
14. allows you to return your license to the server for storage and re use This allows you to quickly and easily move the license to an alternate machine If you plan to keep using this machine but wish to re format the drive there is no need to move the license Once de activated your program will no longer run on this machine until you re activate or install the software on a new machine and activate it there This product will attempt to use the Internet during de activation If you have a firewall or proxy server they may block this process If prompted to unblock License Manager please do so Please note that the 18 digit license code provided will be saved on this machine and should you wish to activate again simply choose the Internet Activate option on the toolbar and click activate The system will use your locally stored code Figure 9 De Activating Mac Page 21 Chapter 4 Lets Start Correcting How to use the software Page 22 To launch the Perfectly Clear Plug in open a photo in Photoshop or Elements and then select Athentech Imaging Perfectly Clear from the Filters menu Once Perfectly Clear Photoshop Plug in is launched it will automatically process your photo using your last preset selected Cif this is the first time you ve used Perfectly Clear then it will use the default preset Perfectly Clear By Athentech Imaging m p Figure 10 Snapshot
15. at is very eye pleasing with lots of ounch amp depth CONTRAST DEPTH adjustments 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 for the presets Please note that a contrast of O does not yield the same result as turning contrast off Also note that when you choose to increase the Contrast your photos will usually benefit by increasing the defaults of Perfect Exposure since increasing contrast creates a photo that is overall slightly darker For extremely dark photos it is beneficial to turn depth off in order to bring out extreme details Page 535 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 Mov
16. e Activate Perfectly Clear option and follow the on screen instructions Figure 9 Make sure you read the conditions of de activating your license and choose ves before clicking continue License information including your license key is available at any time simply by clicking the About button once you ve launched Perfectly Clear Photoshop Plug in De Activate Perfectly Clear Photoshop This application has already been activated do you want to de activate License Number 256700 000035 239628 Import Activation Certificate De Activation allows you to return your license to the server for storage and re use This allows you to quickly and easily move the license to an E alternate machine If you plan to keep using this machine but wish to re format using Windows there is no need to move the license Once de activated Perfectly Clear Plug in will no longer run on this machine _ About Control until you re activate or install the software on a new machine and run the Activation activation process on the new computer This product will attempt to use the Internet during de activation if you howe a Firouwrsll ae memes comror thie maw mereeront thie meme TE meemrmonmtod NO a trusted j we activation Figure 9 De Activating Windows Page 20 License Manager Internet Import Internet Export Activate Certificate De activate Certificate g Internet De Activation De Activation
17. ed once the software has been purchased and you have an activation key Choose this to trial our software The trial is fully functional with no restrictions or watermarks Page 13 4 Buying Perfectly Clear Photoshop Plug in To purchase a license key simply choose the Buy Perfectly Clear button This will redirect you to our website where you can purchase Perfectly Clear Photoshop Plug in You have the convenient options of using any major credit card or PayPal You MUST use a valid email to purchase Perfectly Clear as your activation key will be emailed to you 5 Activating Perfectly Clear Photoshop Plug in Once you have your license number activation key you will receive an email if you purchased online or it may be attached to you CD or box if you made a physical purchase simply choose Activate Perfectly Clear Figure 3 enter your license number into the open box and press the Activate button Figure 4 The software will connect to the internet to activate 2 Perfectly Clear Photoshop Plug in Activate Perfectly Clear Photoshop Please enter your license code below and click activate Activate a WebSite Email Support Import Activation Certificate Please take a few moments to activate Perfecty Clear Plug in now No r About Control personal data is sent during Activation Activation helps prevent illegal F Activation copying of this software and helps ensure you hawe a genuine cop
18. in Same Location uer O Select Folder C Documents and Script Corrected File Type Save as JPEG Resize to Fit Quality 11 Convert Profile to sRGB Save as PSD Save as TIFF Preferences e Run Action Perfectly Clear Test Y My Default no save i Copyright Info Marc Shandro e Include ICE Profile This process will open any image file in the folder that Photoshop understands Raw files will be processed with the Adobe Camera Raw default settings before the Perfectly Clear corrections are applied Any jogs or tifs etc in the folder being processed will also be corrected by Perfectly Clear Page 46 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 2011
19. ing the slider to zero will increase the color density less and result in zero chance of clipping 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 56 5 DIGITAL COLOR FIDELITY algorithm description Digital capture devices are currently incapable of reproducing the full visual soectrum 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 ourple 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
20. isier 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 5 Fix Dark Use this preset for those really dark photos caused by 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 Page 30 6 Tint Removal Use this profile to remove abnormal tints Cyellow blue etc from your photos that are caused by infrared ultra violet incandescent fluorescent or tungsten lighting Managing your presets You can easily create an unlimited amount of your own special sauce for correcting photos Simply adjust the various corrections to your desired preference and select the new button located under the preset drop down menu Choose the name that you want to call it and optionally enter a description that will appear in a pop up above the preset when you move the mouse above the name To remove simply select and press remove Once you ve created a preset you will be able to edit it by pressing the update button Page 31 Chapter Fine Tuning What if want to fine tune the corrections Page 32 No problem There are a total of 10 differen
21. k amp White soft focus etc Thus you should apply the Perfectly Clear Photoshop Plug in as a first step to your photos in Photoshop before using other filters plug ins or correction tools If you are using raw files please perform minimal adjustments in Adobe Camera Raw We want to bring the photo into Photoshop with as much of the original information as possible for Perfectly Clear to work with Step 1 Automatically Correct with Perfectly Clear Our automatic correction should get you 80 100 of the correction that you require This is where the time saving occurs step 2 Fine Tune with Perfectly Clear If Perfectly Clear didn t get you your desired result automatically then simply choose another preset and or adjust any of the slider bars for each correction re Step 5 Apply Your Artistic Talent Last you can use other plug ins or filters or tools to apply your unique creative talent A I f B Page 26 Chapter 6 The Power of Presets How to use each of the Presets and create your own Perfectly Clear Photoshop Plug in comes equipped with 6 pre loaded presets called system presets 1 Default 2 Landscape 3 Portrait 4 Noise Removal 5 Fix Dark 6 Tint Removal Let s look at the attributes of each profile and when we might want to use them 1 Default A robust preset that works excellent on a very wide variety of your photos indoor outdoor flash ohotography portrai
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23. ou to activate your license using our self 3230 1204 4623 6446 d Exit Export Certificate Figure 5 Importing Activation ID Mac Page 16 it Click on Use the browser to get an Activation Certificate or Activate on Website Mac This will bring you to Nalperion Trusted Activation website Figure 6 wan trusted activation ven voue acvtins de activate license Welcome to the software activation center Please enter the Installation ID and the License Number the customer received with the product INSTALLATION ID LICENSE NUMBER E I have read and agreed to the terms and conditions Figure 6 Trusted Activation Website lll Copy the Installation ID and License Number these may be populated on screen if not then please see your original email as you see in Figure 5 iv Paste those numbers into the website Figure 6 review and agree to the terms and conditions v Click on Generate Unlock Code Certificate Page 1 7 vi Copy and paste the Unlock Code Figure 7 into the box provided in Figure 5 vil Click Import er ed Px trusted activation s View iwation learn more about activation process successful customer s unlocking code certificate is 613922892964911691605 021277792583244146414 471700955950832122906 876084160029656369277 5 g it Figure 7 Unlocking Code Page 18 Registration
24. stallation would occur in incorrect folder and Perfectly Clear will appear under filters Cwith prior builds it sometimes wouldn t appear under Filters until PCPlugin 8bf was double clicked 9 More efficient use of memory Will no longer crash Photoshop when running low on RAM for large Cover 30 megapixels images 10 Plug in window now re sizable Simply click and drag on any corner of the window to re size 11 When in trial mode the trial reminder window will only pop up once per day instead of once per use This makes batch processing easier 12 Entire Plug in window now visible on wide angle monitors 1280 X 800 13 Efficient shortcuts saving you even more time D Slider bars can now be adjusted by using your mouse scroll wheel Cif your mouse has this ii the size of your plug in window will be remembered at next use so you don t have to re size every time iii ctrl Win command Mac shortcut keys for zooming 14 An enhanced interface This new look is beautiful and intuititive Note all of your custom presets will be automatically migrated over when you install the latest version Page 6 Chapter 2 Minimum System Requirements e Windows O S Windows XP Vista Windows 7 e Mac OSX Leopard Snow Leopard e Photoshop CS3 CS4 CS5 e Elements 8 9 e 2 GB of RAM 4 GB recommended ear rfectly Cle 3 E C hentech Imaging i Perfectly Clear works with both 8 bi
25. t etc The most common algorithms are turned ON exposure contrast depth 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 Page 28 2 Landscape This preset is designed for outdoor shooting with no flash photography no red eyes and natural sunlight Exposure color vibrancy sharpening 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 f 7 4 S a oe a a 5 Portrait The Portrait setting has been developed for portrait photos weddings and close facial shots It will slightly smooth skin and the blemishes in the face and create a more diffused softer picture with less contrast It is great for accurately capturing purples such as bride s maid dresses and similar scenes since cameras will capture this as blue but we ll correct back to the proper purple Let s look at the below example Ss Ei gt mal a me Ra ar r Ee a h f i a fa bela fe oh ye Page 29 4 Noise Removal 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 ohotos will tend to be no
26. t algorithms for you to adjust Let 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 When turned ON this algorithm will look at each image and if there is an abnormal tint remove it You can adjust how much tint is removed simply move the slider bar further to the right for more tint removal If there is no tint no correction will be performed and it will say no tint detected Page 55 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 overexposed 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
27. t and 16 bit images 32 and 64 bit processors For raw images Perfectly Clear uses the 16 bit image passed to it and processed with Adobe Camera Raw Page 8 Chapter 3 How do I install the software Free trial and buying the software Page 9 1 Installation Prior to installation please ensure the image editing application that will serve as the host of Perfectly Clear is closed Please alSo close any other open applications for the duration of the installation process To begin the installation process double click on the installer provided either on your Perfectly Clear CD or from the download process from the Athentech www athentech com web page The installer will walk you through the various steps necessary in order to install Perfectly Clear into your image editing application of choice On Windows you may get a message similar to the one below just press Run or Yes Open File Security Warning Do you want to run this file a oe 1 1 0 19 PerfecthClearPluginsetup1 1 0 19 exe Publisher Athentech Imaging Type Application From S athentech Perfectly Clear Software Product R While files trom the Intemet can be useful this file type can potentially harm your computer Onby run software from publishers you trust What s the risk Figure 1 Run Application Windows After accepting the End User License Agreement the installer will automatically attempt to locate all installed
28. tton ona Mac this will bring up another dialog box Figure 5 Page 15 3h Perfectly Clear Photoshop Plug in Import Activation Certificate and click Import Import Please enter your activation certificate below WebSite Email Support Installation ID 6141 1308 0311 8448 6040 6520 2315 4255 About Control License Number Use the browser to get an Activation Certificate Activation service web site wegen NALPEIRON LICENSING SERVICE usted Help Back Please enter your license number together with the above Installation ID onto the self service web site and click the Generate Unlock Code Certificate button to receive a Activation Certificate Figure 5 Importing Activation ID Windows License Manager Internet Internet Import De activate Activate Certificate a Import Certificate Status Activation certificates allow you to activate using Unlimited License our self service web site accessible via the button below Installation ID Enter you license number and installation ID displayed to the right at the web site and click 9700 6672 5179 7624 the Generate button to receive an actiavation certificate ay Soe Activation Certificate Paste the activation certificate into the box at right and click the Import Certificate button to activate your product Activation WebSite Import Certificate Activation Certificates allow y
29. y of the _ Software This product will attempt to use the Internet during activation If you have a firewall or proxy server this may prevent this process If E prompted to unblock ControlActivation exe please do so Please enter or paste the numeric license code provided to you in the box above and click Li a i is Al i w fe be LT il Pi 7 1 A i mE oe T Ea k 28 a Figure 4 Activating Windows Page 14 License Manager Internet Import Internet Export Activate Certificate De activate Certificate Product Activation Please take a few moments to Activate your product now No personal data is sent during this process Activation helps to prevent illegal copying of this software and ensures that you have a genuine copy This product will attempt to use the Internet during activation If you have a firewall or proxy server they may block this process If prompted to unblock License Manager please do so or you will need to unlock this product manually using Import Certificate button above Please enter or paste the numeric license code provided in the box below and click activate license number JA Activate Figure 4 Activating Mac From time to time firewalls will block the activation process If this happens to you please follow these steps to bypass this problem I Click on Import Activation Certificate Figure 4 or the Import Certificate bu
30. y the proper amount of noise removal Specific algorithms and settings are applied depending on whether the ohoto 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 between photo noise reduction and preservation of image details Unlike other noise removal algorithms that blur photos after removing noise the Stoik algorithm is unique in preserving the crisp details The noise in digital photos is reduced by 2 3 stops so that the noise level of the photo shot at ISO 1600 is effectively reduced to ISO 200 400 levels Page 38 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 In addition
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