B/W Styler
B/W Styler lets you recreate the look of films, lens filters, lab effects and photo papers popular in traditional B/W photography. Even if your original color image is dull, it can turn it into a vibrant B&W conversion, with facilities for adding color tones, simulating film grain, and adding special effects. The enhancement tools include brightness and contrast, soft focus and glow -- and it even lets you put in some vignette blur and mist effects if you are so inclined.
Comment
From German developer Harald Heim at PhotoWiz, this is an impressive B&W solution. It has three user levels for inexperienced, intermediate and advanced users. Whereas the basic Photographer's Mode gives you a choice of presets within a single dialog, the top Expert Mode has more than 100 controls and nearly 200 local presets.
Like all the software from this vendor B/W Styler is well conceived and delivers what it promises.Tech info
- Plugs into: Photoshop, Elements, Paint Shop Pro, PhotoImpact, Photo-Paint, Fireworks, etc.
- OS: Windows 95 onwards and Mac OS X
- Price level: Approx. $50
PhotoWiz
Harald Heim's The Plugin Site is a favorite destination for thousands of digital photographers. It is staffed by a small team of prgrammers and designers, based in Nuremberg, Germany.
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