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LightMachine
Chapter 8 ■ Image Processors 91
Vendor: PhotoWiz
Purpose: Specialist software for correcting brightness, contrast, color, and saturation in specific
image areas independently from each other
Description
If you are looking for a specialist light correction tool, this could be the answer. It has
some clever masking options that allow you to separate parts of the image for independent
processing. A brightness/contrast mode operates globally, but there is also a
shadows/highlights mode that gives you complete control over dark and bright areas
anywhere in the image. Virtual Studio modes then allow you to arrange shadow and
light spots very much as though you are placing studio lights, with control over the
intensity, size, “ovality” (spot shape), angle, hardness, and reflection properties of each
spotlight.
Figure 8.2
LightMachine has complex tools, but also provides many presets for correcting color, lighting,
shadows, and highlights.