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Robert Osborne Uses iCorrect EditLab ProApp 6.0 in RAW Workflow and Saves Hours
by Craig Huelskoetter on Oct.19, 2009, under Uncategorized
“I used my new iCorrect EditLab ProApp 6.0.1 for the first time last Sunday……. fantastic.”
The Photoshop Way
I shot a wedding, ran my raw conversions thru in the usual PS way. Having edited down to around 500 images, I must have spent 3-4 hours (conservatively) in my raw program correcting for color, contrast, and saturation. At 3 in the morning after a long shoot it is a tedious process but I got them on my website. “
The iCorrect EditLab ProApp 6.0 Way
“The next day I realized what a marginal result of correction I had. I started to go back thru them but looking thru a pro magazine I saw a review raving about your new program with its “Q” giving me the ability to easily put all my images into it in bulk and figured ” What the heck, Try it”. I put everything in at once and walked away. Inside the church in 200, 400 and 1250 ISO, outdoor, and the reception where we had ambient light color temps everywhere but in a half hour I had fantastically consistent ”proper” images. I can now save fantastic amounts of time in my workflow, hundreds of hours a year, and have better proofs using this program.”
Robert Osborne Photography
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by Craig Huelskoetter on Oct.01, 2009, under Uncategorized
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Championship Results with iCorrect Software
by Craig Huelskoetter on Aug.17, 2009, under Photoshop Color Correction, iCorrect EditLab Pro, iCorrect EditLab ProApp
The PGA Championship came to the Twin Cities last week and we were lucky enough to find a few tickets for Monday’s practice round. Since we were looking for a topic for this month’s PictoScript, we figured we justify an afternoon walking the beautiful Hazeltine National Golf Club. As it turns out, cameras (for non-credentialed observers) are allowed only during the three practice rounds, so off we went hoping to catch a glimpse of and maybe even a few shots of Tiger at work. Mission accomplished.
In order to show a possible RAW workflow, I did all the shooting in RAW. Using Camera RAW 4.6 in Adobe Photoshop CS3, I simply relied on the Auto function with some minor tweaking to the Exposure and Brightness to establish an fairly good baseline image from which to start. I prefer the tool set within iCorrect EditLab Pro Plug-in and iCorrect EditLab ProApp for making further refinements.
Whereas Camera Raw allows you to preserve the maximum amount of data and image detail during the raw conversion and sets a good baseline from which to work as you optimize your photos, it does not offer an entirely intuitive toolset for making additional color corrections. This is especially evident with colors like blue sky and green foliage. Take, for example the following image of the magnificent 9th hole. Although the initial Camera Raw image looks O. K., and it provides a great starting point, the EditLab ProApp image, with just single click on the grass and one on the sky, looks absolutely stunning. The built-in Memory Color definitions take care of everything.
ProcessQ Streamlines Color Workflow
At the heart of iCorrect EditLab ProApp is ProcessQ, the completely redesigned image queue that allows you to easily view, sort and manage your color corrections for efficient, time-saving workflows. After adding images to ProcessQ, they are displayed as thumbnails in the filmstrip at the bottom of the main panel. With ProcessQ, you can correct and save any number of images – either one at a time or as an entire group. You can even Synchronize adjustments across multiple images.
ProcessQ – The heart of iCorrect EditLab ProApp’s workflow
by Craig Huelskoetter on Jul.30, 2009, under Uncategorized, iCorrect EditLab ProApp
Although PictoColor Software is most widely known for our line of iCorrect Photoshop plug-ins, we also offer a unique stand-alone product for batch processing of high volume jobs. iCorrect EditLab ProApp is a professional color correction and color editing software that combines iCorrect EditLab Pro color technology with automated workflow tools and advanced batch processing features to make digital photo correction extremely fast and easy.
iCorrect EditLab ProApp’s workflow is built around the concept of an image queue called the ProcessQ, which is displayed at the bottom of the main EditLab window.
Images are held in the ProcessQ during an editing session, and although any edits that are applied do not become final until the contents of the ProcessQ are saved, the thumbnails in the ProcessQ do reflect the effects of any color corrections that have been applied.
Edited thumbnails also have “sticky notes” attached to them, making it easy to see which images have been corrected. A C indicates that a color correction has been applied, an S indicates that sharpening has been applied, and an N indicates that noise removal has been applied. The image that is open for editing in the main window is outlined in black. You can drag the bar above the thumbnails up and down to change the size of the thumbnails that are displayed. Note that the size of the main window will limit how large they can be.
Adding Images to the ProcessQ
You will be prompted to add images to the ProcessQ whenever it is empty, and you can place additional images into the ProcessQ at any time by clicking the Add… button, or by using the Add Images to the ProcessQ… command in the File menu. Multiple images may be selected at a time, and you can add as many batches of images as you want. When selecting multiple images from the Open File dialog (using the Shift and Control keys), EditLab appends that particular batch of images to the end of the ProcessQ. You cannot reorder the images in the ProcessQ. However, you may remove any number of images from the ProcessQ at any time.
Selecting Images in the ProcessQ
To select an image for editing, saving or removal from the ProcessQ, simply click on the corresponding thumbnail.
Whenever the mouse is not over the preview image in the main window, you can also use the arrow keys to advance from one thumbnail to the next. It is important to note that when you open a thumbnail, any edits that have been made in the currently open image are automatically applied to that image before the new image is opened, as described below. That is, opening a thumbnail is the same as clicking the Apply button and then selecting a new thumbnail.
You can select multiple thumbnails by using the Shift and Control keys, and you can select all of the thumbnails with the Control-A keys. Selected thumbnails will be outlined in black, and the image that is open in the main window will also be outlined in yellow. The titles of the Remove, Save and Sync buttons will be updated to indicate the number of images you have selected.
Removing Images from the ProcessQ
Clicking the Remove button, or selecting Remove from the File menu, will remove any selected thumbnails from the ProcessQ. The title of the Remove button and the corresponding File menu item will reflect the number of images you have selected for removal. Note that removing an image from the ProcessQ does not delete the corresponding image file from your hard disk. It simply removes the image from the set of images that is available for editing in EditLab.
Editing Images in the ProcessQ
To open an image for editing, simply click on the corresponding thumbnail. If any edits are already applied to that image (you can use the Add Image Preferences to specify an edit to be automatically applied to images as they are added to the ProcessQ), the controls in the main window will reflect those settings. Proceed to edit your image using the four edit tool tabs as described in Chapters 6-10 of this User Guide. When you are happy with the result, Apply and/or Save the edit.
It is important to understand the difference between Applying and Saving an edit. When you apply an edit, the edit parameters become associated with the image in the ProcessQ, the thumbnail in the ProcessQ is updated to reflect those edits, but the corresponding image file is not updated. This allows you to quickly edit many images, deferring the processing time associated with updating image files until you all done editing. This also allows you to re-open an edited image if you decide to make further modifications. Of course, you are also free to save an image at any time, at which point any applied edits are saved in the corresponding image file.
The most obvious way to apply an edit is by clicking the Apply button, which applies the edit, closes the image, and opens the next image from the ProcessQ. You can also simply select another image from the ProcessQ for editing. Any edits that have been made to the image that is currently open are automatically applied before a new image is opened. If you want to close the current image without applying any new edits, you must click the Cancel button. Finally, if multiple images have been selected from the ProcessQ, the Sync button can be used to apply the current edit to all selected thumbnails. The title of the Sync button will reflect the number of images that have been selected for synchronization, and if the Sync button title ends with ‘…’, the Sync Preferences will be displayed before any settings are applied.
Saving Images from the ProcessQ
When you are ready to finalize your edits by updating the corresponding image files, select the corresponding thumbnails and either click the Save button or select Save from the File menu. The title of the Save button will reflect the number of images that have been selected. To save all of the images in the ProcessQ, use the Control-A keys to select all of the thumbnails, and then click the Save all button. If the title of the Save button ends with ‘…’, the Save Image Preferences will be displayed before any images are saved.
Each selected image will be corrected according to any applied edits and then saved according to the current Save Image Preferences.
If you need to stop the Save operation, you can press the Esc key at any time.
Saving the ProcessQ as a Job File
If you need to interrupt an editing session before you are ready to save the edits, select Save Job… from the File menu to save the state of the ProcessQ in a job file. You can save a job, quit the application, and then resume that job later by selecting Resume Job… from the File menu. This is a convenient way to temporarily pause an editing session for a short period of time, but if any image files associated with the job are deleted, moved, or modified, the job file will be obsolete and you will not be able to resume the job. Therefore, after you have resumed a job, you will probably want to delete the corresponding job file.
Snapshots to Great Shots-A new CorrectPhoto Video.
by Wayne R on Jul.28, 2009, under CorrectPhoto Editor, iCorrect OneClick
Greetings,
We just created a new video for CorrectPhoto entitled :Snapshots to Great Shots. CorrectPhoto is PictoColor’s photo editor for Windows with OneClick Color. While this blog is dedicated to our iCorrect products I thought you might be interested in seeing the video.
CorrectPhoto is for those digital photographers (mostly amateurs like me) who really don’t have the patience or interest in learning and using Photoshop or Elements. It includes the OneClick color correction technology that is in iCorrect OneClick plug-in and has all the basic editing functions most people need: rotation, cropping, resizing, red eye removal and sharpening. While CorrectPhoto may be too basic for most of our professional customers my guess is that you know many people that could benefit from CorrectPhoto. So, do them a favor and let them know about CorrectPhoto by sending them a link to the CorrectPhoto Video (http://blip.tv/file/2411376).
Wayne R
iCorrect EditLab ProApp 6.0-Time-Saving Workflows with ProcessQ™
by Craig Huelskoetter on Jul.15, 2009, under iCorrect EditLab ProApp
At the heart of iCorrect EditLab ProApp is ProcessQ, the completely redesigned image queue that allows you to easily view, sort and manage your color corrections for efficient, time-saving workflows. Here is how to make ProcessQ work for you. We color corrected 15, 3MB+ images with similar color issues in 2 minutes and 4 seconds. Try that in Photoshop!
Step 1-Setting iCorrect EditLab ProApp Workflow Preferences
The first step is to customize EditLab ProApp’s preference settings for the specific job or your desired workflow. You can access the Preferences selection window by clicking on File Menu/Preferences or the Preferences button located under the color tool panel. Detailed instructions for each preference category can be found in the User Guide. Click Here Each preference has a “recommended” default setting, however, each preference can be optimized to maximize your efficiency and workflow.
In our example job we used the default settings in each category except for the Save Image File Folder
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Step 2-Add Images to ProcessQ Next we select and add images to the ProcessQ by clicking on the File Menu/Add Images to ProcessQ and selecting the pictures to be corrected from a folder
and clicking on Open and the pictures are added to ProcessQ. In this example we selected images that were taken under the same conditions.
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Step 3-Color Correct Test Image
Next we select an image from the set that represents the average color of the batch and color correct it using the EditLab ProApp tool set.
| Tool Tab 1: Color Balance
With the first tool tab, you begin by correcting the color balance by simply clicking on any neutral (black, white, or gray) colors within the image. In this case the display shows that the original image had a predominantly yellow color cast.
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| Tool Tab 2: Tonal Range
The next tool tab establishes the tonal range by automatically setting a new black point and new white point. You can also adjust the mid tones in the center of histogram display.
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| Tool Tab 3: Brightness/Contrast/Saturation
The third tool tab addresses brightness, contrast, and saturation. You can even adjust the highlights and shadows independently. We simply increased the saturation slightly.
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| Tool Tab 4: Hue-Selective Editing
The final tool tab allows you to finely tune specific colors on a hue-selective basis. Simply activate a color on the hue-wheel by clicking on a color in your image. You can then adjust its hue along the color wheel as well as independently adjust its brightness and saturation. We used the skin tone memory color to improve the skin tones. Click Apply to finish. |
Step 4-Apply Color Correction to Selected Images-Sync
Next we select the images to apply the color correction parameters and click on the Sync button and the color correction settings are applied to all of the selected images. At this point the color correction is only applied to the proxy (thumbnail) image and can be still be changed.
Step 5-Check Corrected Images and Save
Next we check a few of the images to make sure the color correction settings are okay. If not, further adjustments can be made to specific images. After checking a few images to be sure the color correction is okay, select the thumbnails you wand to Save. The Save button title will reflect the number of selected images and, when clicked, will apply the changes to the images and put them in the destination folder selected in the Preferences (Step 1)
How Long Did it Take to Color Correct 15, 3MB+ images with similar color problems?
Total Time: 2minutes, 4 Seconds!!
