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Which iCorrect® Color Correction Tools Are Best For You? (Updated Selection Help)

iCorrect-10 Years Making the Color Right

PictoColor’s iCorrect®family of color correction software are considered by many photographers to be the Best Shortcuts to Perfect Color. The question most often asked is “Which one should I buy?” We have updated the product summary page on our website to help you decide which of our Photoshop plug-ins and/or stand alone applications are best for you. You will find a summary of each of the iCorrect products and links to more detailed information and tutorials. And, you can download free demo software of each product.

Photoshop Plug-ins
For photographers, from amateurs to professionals, the most difficult, time consuming, and frustrating challenges of digital photography is Making the Color Right. iCorrect OneClick, iCorrect Portrait, and iCorrect EditLab Pro are Plug-ins forPhotoshop and Elements (Win and Mac). Each is designed for a specific purpose and many of our customers use more than one on a regular basis. Each of our products are built from very complex and sophisticated color management profile technology configured in a way that let us humans achieve great color for our digital photos without going through the “chase your tail” color correction tools of Photoshop or any other photo editor. A feature comparison chart listing the features of each of the iCorrect plug-ins is also available. <Comparison Chart>

Stand Alone Applications
iCorrect EditLab ProApp with ProcessQ is a standalone application (Win and Mac) designed for high speed batch color correction and Streamlines Lightroom Color Workflow. CorrectPhoto Editor is a Windows photo editor employing OneClick color technology.

Demo Software and Tutorials
Fully functional demo software is available for all PictoColor Software. Click here to register to download demo software. Step by step by step and video tutorials are available in our Learning Center.

Which iCorrect Software is Best for You? When this question is asked by customers we most often answer, “It depends.” Then we go on to inquire about the kinds of photos they take, what they do with the photos they take, and if the use Photoshop, Elements, Lightroom, or can’t stand to use any of them. Most often, in a couple of minutes we can steer them to the iCorrect software that is best for them. But, not everyone has the time to talk so we have put together some information that, hopefully, will answer the question.

PictoColor Software-Best Shortcuts to Perfect Color

PictoColor’s iCorrect® family of color correction software are the Best Shortcuts to Perfect Color.

For photographers, from amateurs to professionals, the most difficult, time consuming, and frustrating challenges of digital photography is Making the Color Right.

Photoshop Plug-ins
iCorrect OneClick, iCorrect Portrait and iCorrect EditLab Pro are Plug-ins for Photoshop and Elements (Win and Mac). Each is designed for a specific purpose and many of our customers use more than one on a regular basis. Each of our products are built from very complex and sophisticated color management profile technology configured in a way that let us humans achieve great color for our digital photos without going through the “chase your tail” color correction tools of Photoshop or any other photo editor.

Stand Alone Applications
CorrectPhoto Editor is a Windows photo editor employing OneClick color technology. iCorrect EditLab ProApp with ProcessQ is a standalone application (Win and Mac) designed for high speed batch color correction and Streamlines Lightroom Color Workflow.

For detailed information to help you make a decision on which of our iCorrect products will help you the most click on the links below.

Information to help you decide which PictoColor software is best for you can be found at:
Best Shortcuts To Perfect Color

iCorrect-10 Years Making the Color Right

Wayne www.pictocolor.com, www.correctphoto.com

PictoColor was a sponsor to David Ziser’s Seminar series last year and for those that attended they heard David say that PictoColor’s iCorrect software are the Best Shortcuts to Perfect Color. His favorite PictoColor Photoshop plug-in is iCorrect Portrait for its simplicity in achieving great skin color. Attendees to the seminar have received special discounts on our software including a discount of $20 on the purchase of iCorrect Portrait. We decided to offer readers of this blog the same discount on this popular plug-in. For detailed information of iCorrect Portrait and how to get the discount go to http://www.pictocolor.com/email/portrait_offer.htm

The iCorrect Portrait Discount offer is valid through March 31st.  The coupon code is PORT310.

Wayne www.pictocolor.com

Our annual St. Patrick’s Day Sale, Luck of the Irish, starts today. This year we are featuring a 17% percent discount on all iCorrect software.  Enter the Coupon Code PATRICK on the order page, click Apply, and the discount will be applied. The discount will apply to new orders place today through March 20th.

Photoshop Plug-ins-Add a plug-in and Save 17%
The sale includes all iCorrect Photoshop plug-ins; iCorrect OneClick, iCorrect Portrait, and iCorrect EditLab Pro. If you already have iCorrect OneClick and/or Portrait this would be a great time to add PictoColor’s flagship product, iCorrect EditLab Pro 5.5 Plug-in. You will save $17.00 if you order now.

Add iCorrect EditLab ProApp 6.0 to your Lightroom Color Workflow
Now is the perfect time to add iCorrect EditLab ProApp 6.0 with ProcessQ to your Adobe Lightroom color workflow. You will save $25.00 on the purchase of EditLab ProApp and save countless hours color correcting you photos. Just enter Coupon Code PATRICK and the discount will be applied to your order.

Luck of the Irish Sale-Save 17% on iCorrect Software

Tell a Friend
If  you already have our software do your friends a favor and let them know about the sale. You can send them to our website, www.pictocolor.com, or send them a link to this blog, www.icorrectcolor.com.

Wayne www.pictocolor.com

Every so often, we receive an inquiry wondering which of our products would be best suited for their application.   As a response, we have put together a synopsis of our iCorrect color correction software to briefly describe how each one works.  Hopefully this will help you decide which will work the best for you.

Which iCorrect is best for me?

iCorrect OneClick	iCorrect Portrait	iCorrect EditLab Pro

iCorrect OneClick, our newest and simplest color correction plug-in, reduces the  color correction task to a single click for most digital photos. Click on a neutral (black, white, or grey) area of the image iCorrect’s SmartColor technology will automaticallyHere is what a customer has to say about iCorrect OneClick. Rick Straub – www.yearsofwonder.com

• Remove any color cast by correcting the white balance.

• Correct the tonal range by making the darkest colors black and the lightest colors white.

• Correct the exposure by adjusting the overall brightness

• Adjust the saturation

If required, tools are provided to fine-tune the exposure and recover extra detail by independently adjusting:

• Overall Brightness

• Shadows

• Highlights

• Contrast

• Saturation

• Auto Black & White Conversion

• Auto Sepia Conversion

If you want the easy way to make your photos “pop”, you need to get iCorrect OneClick. I typically use Pictocolor’s iCorrect EditLab and iCorrect Portrait plug-ins for all my digital photo editing in Photoshop. What I realized is that 99% of the time, I was using the Smart Color button in each of the first 3 tabs. With OneClick, now all I have to do is “one click” and it turns out exactly the way I would have tweaked the colors with a lot less effort and time. Even if there aren’t any neutrals, you can check a box and OneClick still manages to make the color right. Pictocolor has done it again by reducing my post processing time and really making my client’s say “WOW!”
 

iCorrect Portrait is a quick and easy color correction plug-in with outstanding skin tone technology designed primarily for color correcting pictures of people. A few more clicks are required to color correction a picture. First click on the Auto White/Auto Black buttons to automatically set the the white and black points. Next adjust brightness and contrast,. And finally, click on the skin to fix the skin tones.

Point-and-Click Color Correction

• Automatically set black point and white point

• Easily adjust brightness and contrast

• Automatically correct color balance, skin tones, and other colors with just a click!

• Time saving workflow options and custom settings

Time-Saving Features

• User-definable custom settings

• Save corrections as Custom Settings and apply the same correction to multiple images.

• Launch iCorrect Portrait to start with Custom Settings or Previous Settings as a starting point for large jobs.

• Add your own custom Memory Colors to suit you preferences or add backgrounds, team colors, and other items.

• Record iCorrect Portrait into an Action for automated workflows.
   

iCorrect Portrait Plug-in–Fast and accurate color correction plug-in for Photoshop  by Jay Nelson, Macworld Magazine Click Here to read review         “For me, the perfect photo correction tool would take just a few seconds to use, require minimal tinkering, and vastly improve my photos. PictoColor’s iCorrect Portrait 1.0.1, a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop (versions 4.0 through CS2) and Photoshop Elements (versions 1.0 through 3.0) reaches for this ideal and succeeds. As its name implies, iCorrect Portrait was designed for portraits, and is targeted to commercial photographers and advanced hobbyists. (PictoColor offers another product, iCorrect EditLab Pro, for advanced color correction.) Read Macworld Review

iCorrect EditLab Pro is a color correction AND color editing program and is available as both a Photoshop plug-in or stand alone application. iCorrect EditLab Pro has a more extensive tool set than OneClick and Portrait and is ideal for pictures requiring more correction. For example, iCorrect EditLab Pro SmartColor technology makes it easy to remove color cast, individually adjust white/black points, correct mid-tones, boost saturation, adjust highlight and shadows, boost saturation, and selectively edit hues. Color correction and editing with iCorrect EditLab is much faster and easier than the complex tools in Photoshop. EditLab Pro also offers noise removal and sharpening and Auto Black and White and Sepia Tone Conversion.

Many of our customers, particularly wedding, portrait, and school photographers, have both iCorrect Portrait and EditLab and we offer a bundle discount when purchasing both at the same time. Below you will find links to a couple of reviews in MacWorld and tutorials on our website that will help you decide which iCorrect product or combination is best for you.

Our line of iCorrect color correction and color editing plug-ins take the guesswork out of making the color right and simplify the process from start to finish.  Our engineers have created several software programs that utilize fairly complex digital color technology yet offer a simple, straight-forward and intuitive approach to the otherwise often difficult task of getting the color right.  Even though there are countless other color correction and color editing programs available for all levels of users. However, few offer the combination of speed, simplicity, and accuracy of iCorrect.

With iCorrect Color Blog we will try to show that color correction and color editing doesn’t have to be the most difficult, challenging or time-consuming aspect of your digital workflow.  Whether you prefer the automated approach of iCorrect OneClick, the point and click approach of iCorrect Portrait with its unique skin tone technology, or the more comprehensive tool set in iCorrect EditLab Pro for fine tuning and tweaking your images, iCorrect should minimize the frustration of your color correction workflow and improve the quality of your finished product.