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Pictocolor/icorrect Plug-in
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Was with another photographer last week and he recommended this plug-in to me. From the way he talked I though this sounds like a “must have”. Having downlaoded the demo version I’m not so sure its something I really need at all………in other words I cant see how it would speed up my processing say an entire wedding folder of pics.
Would appreciate your thoughts on it. It may be the way I’m using it but dont see the advantage of having it within Photoshop. The site link is;
http://www.pictocolor.com/icorrect/default.htm
I think if you have photoshop even version 7 would do all this natively without this plugin.
I cant see anything in the plugin that isn’t offered natively within Photoshop CS/2. Ok, it may not be all packaged under one dialog box, but functionally I can’t see anything new, unique or novel about this plugin.
Might I respectfully suggest that the replies so far are missing an important point! You can do pretty much anything you want to when you want to inPhotoshop without ever going near a plugin. Ultimately a plugin is little more than an action on steroids! The engine behind the plugin is still PS – if it can’t be done in PS it can’t be done by a plugin. Granted, that may be an oversimplification of what plugins do, but I think it’s an accurate enough description. I haven’t used the particular plugin that is the topic of this thread, but I can see how it would speed up the process of having to adjust a large number of images.
I occassionally use the Colour Science i2e plugin and have been quite impressed with the results it produces. Apparently it works on the basis of sensing pixels that contain memory colors: skin, sky, or grass/green leaves ? the areas we use to judge whether the colors in an image are believable.
I agree completely Thorsten. But some plugins provide enough functionality that they make it worth while buying the plugin, where as these ones seem to provide little more than combining one or two basic menu options into one dialog box. If a plugin can automate a number of apparently complex steps, to make a work flow quicker and simpler, I think they can perhaps be worth the money. However, if they offer pretty much repackaged native functionality (i.e. setting the grey point!) then I think they’re pushing it a little to ask for $100 to buy them.
At that price I would have to wonder about their value too – I suppose if it makes it easier for someone who’s repeating the same steps over and over again (such as a wedding photographer) it might just be a worthwhile investment.
However, the i2e plugin I mentioned above only cost me ?27.00 and I think it was worth the money. I know that in the past I would have certainly spent more than that for less return (such as all those overexposed frames of film, or the cost of travelling to a location only to find conditions were less than ideal).
Well, thank God there are people that agree with me. I just could not fine anything in it that I could not do in PS as it stood.
One of my favourites is “Power retouche pro” it’s by Fred Miranda I think…a must have for photography.
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