![]() ![]() Beneath these adjustments is a drop-down menu to select various presets, from groups including Basic, Architecture, Portrait, Dramatic, Outdoor, Street, Vintage, Film Emulation, Toning, HDR, a Favorites group, and a group for user defined presets.īefore (right) and after (left) Macphun Focus CK. There are a lot of variables to adjust to get exactly the look you want. ![]() The palette on the right hand side features all of the settings, including layers, a histogram preview, adjustment sliders for color temperature, tone, clarity and structure, color filter, tone curve, split toning, glow, lens blur, texture overlay, vignette, grain, photo frames, and layer properties. Macphun bills Tonality CK as, “The world’s most advanced black & white photo editor.” With hundreds of presets available to you, as well as the ability to work in layers and adjust virtually everything about the image, there’s a lot of truth in that statement.Īs you open Tonality CK, you will be presented with your image in the main window, a menu bar across the top, tool palette on the right hand side, and preset preview bar across the bottom. The Macphun Tonality CK application window. Each one behaves a bit differently and will produce a different result. After the process has finished, if the result is not to your tastes, try changing the erasing mode to one of the other modes. It does take a few minutes to do its thing, even on my 2015 Macbook Pro with 16GB of RAM. While you wait, the status bar displays a variety of interesting facts to keep you entertained. Once you’ve made your selection, you simply press the Erase button and Snapheal CK goes to work. Beneath the options, is a very large button clearly marked as Erase! Under the erase button are three erasing modes: Global, Local, and Dynamic, as well as three Precision options: Norm, High, Highest. Underneath the selection tools, you’ll find the options for each tool, such as brush size, polygonal or free marquee, and for the clone stamp, diameter, softness, and opacity. The signs in the scene were not allowed to be moved, so I was resigned to having to clone them out. If you paint in an area you don’t want removed, simply select the eraser tool and erase the painted area.Īn image before using Macphun Snapheal CK. The size of the paintbrush can be adjusted using the slider, or the bracket keys on the keyboard. A red mask will appear over the object you’ve selected. Once you have your image in Snapheal CK, if you select Erase mode, you can either use the paint brush or the marquee tool to select the object you want removed from the scene. The selection tools at the top are a paintbrush, an eraser, and a marquee selection. You’ll see zoom and move tools, an eyeball icon, which shows the object you’ve removed, a comparison button, arrows to step forward or backward, and finally – Erase, Retouch, or Adjust, which are the different modes you can work in. When you open Snapheal CK, You’ll notice a tool panel on the right, and a menu bar across the top. Snapheal CK is an amazingly simple way to remove unwanted objects from a scene. Think of the healing brush or clone stamp on steroids, and that’s what Snapheal CK is like. Snapheal CK may very well be the crown jewel of this collection. Macphun Creative Kit, as the name implies, is only for Mac users, and is currently on sale at Macphun for $129 (USD) Intensify CK I’ll explain each one individually to give you an idea of the capabilities of each. The six modules are Intensify, Tonality, Snapheal, FX Photo Studio, Focus, and Noiseless. This is a comprehensive collection that can handle all aspects of image editing, from color and contrast adjustments, to black and white conversion, to removing unwanted elements, sharpening, and noise reduction. Macphun’s Creative Kit 2016 includes six plugins for Photoshop or Lightroom. Note: all Macphun products are made for Mac only. I’m a big fan of plugin suites that offer a soup to nuts solution for editing images, so when Macphun released its Creative Kit 2016, I was excited to give it a try. Always one for working smarter, not harder, I have often employed plugins with Photoshop to make the work of editing my images a bit easier. With the advent of the digital age, those processes moved to the digital darkroom. Back when film was king, I spend a lot of time in the darkroom, learning and mastering darkroom techniques, and printing my work. My philosophy on photography has always been that photography starts with the push of the shutter button, but it does not end there. Edited in Macphun Intensify Creative Kit. Boneyard Beach, Botany Bay Plantation, South Carolina. ![]()
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