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This article is from May 30, 2008, and is no longer current.

Andreas Sumerauer Releases recolorST and recolorLE

Andreas Sumerauer announced the availability of his recolorST and recolorLE Photoshop compatible plug-ins.
recolorST
FoksMarx recolorST provides a novel approach to editing object colors and color contrast in digital images. It is equally well suitable for image correction as for creative image manipulation. The plug-in can be used for so different tasks as color equalization, color enhancement or the removal of color stains and bleaches.
Despite its versatility recolorST is still a very accessible tool. Only a few sliders that deliver predictable results are required to do the work.
recolorST uses statistical methods to rescale the fader sensitivity whenever a new palette is created or loaded. This ensures that the fader scale always reflects the editable color range for any given source material.
Key Features
recolorST blends or replaces the colors of the edited region with those of a chosen color scale palette. The same or a different palette can be used to determine which parts of the image are being processed.
Palettes can be extracted from a sample region or from the entire image. Additionally a choice of predefined color scales is provided with the plug-in.
“Our sophisticated color matching algorithm allows to seamlessly dissolve darker or brighter color spots into the surrounding image.” said Andreas Sumerauer. “This makes it possible for example to apply a face retouch without any of the commonly used ‘surgical’ methods where undesired parts of the skin need to be painstakingly replaced one by one with bits of the appropriate color.
recolorST on the other hand allows for a much less intrusive and therefore less time consuming workflow. Regions that need editing are selected automatically through evaluation of the color contrast. The result of the process can be made to look very much like a light makeup: The identified decoloration is smoothed out with just a few fader movements. At the same time the original texture of the object is preserved completely.”
Sample Applications
* Enhancing an objects color contrast with the background can be used to emphasize the main subject of an image.
* Distracting details are embedded within the image background through color equalization.
* recolorST can give your portrait model a perfect face makeup: skin imperfections and color spots are easily removed using the plug-in.
* recolorST is used in archives to recreate the original look of historic prints and documents that have suffered from moisture or fungal decay.
recolorLE
FoksMarx recolorLE is a feature-reduced free version of the commercial recolorST plug-in filter. recolorLE uses the same color matching technology as the fully featured recolorST plug-in. While it lacks some of the advanced features like dual palette processing it still is a fully functional plug-in filter that can be used freely for both private and professional purposes.
Pricing and Availablility
recolorST is affordably priced at EUR 24 while recolorLE is distributed as unrestricted freeware. Both plug-ins are exclusively available by electronic download from the manufacturers website https://www.foksmarx.com/.
System Requirements
recolorST and recolorLE can be seamlessly integrated within a great number of compatible host applications including Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Paint Shop Pro, PhotoPaint, PhotoPlus, and PhotoImpact.
Both plug-ins are currently only available for the windows platform.

  • RichLacey says:

    The correct link for the manufacturer is http://www.foksmarx.com

    You have to send money via PayPal but then nothing happens. No download link, no password. I assume that I’ll get an e-mail following my successful payment, but nothing yet, including no response from the manufacturer.

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