You can easily and quickly bring back the details in those shadows or change the color balance of an image. Images you once thought were destined for the trash bin are given another chance to shine. With Perfectly Clear 2.0 you can take advantage of 20 automatic corrections that will help to bring out the best in every image. Images will show up flat or dark, the color is off, the tint isn’t quite right and there is no overall “wow” factor they don’t “pop” as the tired saying goes. What tends to happen is you get home and upload your images only to see a huge disconnect between what you saw in your head to what you see on your monitor. This conversion leads to distortions in the final image that you see on you computer screen. Now each model of camera out there varies in how the light is captured and transferred into a digital format, with some being better than others. Think of shooting on a bright sunny day depending on where you focus, you might either get a nice blue sky with your subject completely in the shadow with little to no detail or big white mess in the background, but your subject perfectly exposed. While a camera might only have several stops of dynamic range, only has one shutter, which doesn’t constantly adjust and a light metering system that is generally based on metering the average light coming through the lens, thus leaving certain parts of your image either under exposed or over exposed. The human eye has a massive dynamic range and constantly adjusts depending on the amount of light coming through, allowing you to “see” an evenly exposed image in your head. The bottom line is this is a good choice and an effective product that can save you time while producing good results.While cameras these days are incredibly powerful and advanced, they still aren’t as advanced as the human eye.
Perfectly Clear is not only an effective color-correction tool, but a well-rounded one in that Athentech Software also offers iOS versions for iPhones and iPads that also do a fine job of correcting images if you’re on the go.
Once the desired correction is achieved, it’s applied to your original image. Like many correction tools, it’s easy to overuse the correction capabilities, so it’s important to have a properly calibrated display for best results.
Preview modes are simple with 50/50 horizontal or vertical modes, and full view.
The controls are divided into tone and tint removal exposure and white balance color vibrancy and fidelity sharpening controls with noise reduction and portrait enhancement that includes red-eye reduction, skin tone, and light diffusion. Where Perfectly Clear really shines is with outdoor images, such as automotive, landscapes, or portraits that either have caused the camera’s sensor to over- or undercompensate for lighting, or where a polarizing filter may have helped. Enter Athentech Imaging that, to some degree, splits the difference between total correction and an easy-to-use interface for a quick fix to photos. The area where more and more developers are focusing their attention seems to be performance to make the dream of one-click corrections more of a reality, eliminating the need for more tweaking after the fact.
Add to that the plethora of products available to produce pleasing pictures and it can become a bit dizzying. Getting images to look their best and brightest, appropriately, can be challenging.