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The Digital Photographer's Software Guide
Turbo Photo Editor’s “Digital Beauty” feature makes it easy to erase spots and blemishes
from portraits while tuning the skin tone and level. A professional version of this
feature is available separately and provides tighter control over all the parameters.
Especially strong on batch processing, Turbo Photo Editor lets you batch resize, convert
format, rename, rotate or flip, defog, reduce noise, sharpen, add dates, and make basic
adjustments to color and exposure. One other feature of the software that is particularly
notable is the “what’s wrong?” wizard. It can detect common faults and suggest remedies.
For example, if you have taken a series of handheld photographs of the same subject, it
can analyze for camera shake and correct it.
Comments
At the time of writing, Turbo Photo Editor is being upgraded every two months. At this
rate it could become a powerful challenger to other, established editors in the United
States and Europe. Among its many features is an excellent removal tool for taking out
unwanted objects and then repairing the gap neatly and automatically. If you are
unhappy with the result then a second or third iteration will always improve it. If you
can overcome the stilted English of Stepok’s explanations you will find many other well
implemented and useful features in the software. Incidentally, according to the
vendor “StepOK” means “the final step to achieve destination.”
Version: Turbo Photo Editor 6.0 (2008)
OS: Windows 2000, XP, and Vista
RAM: 128MB
Supported file formats: RAW Canon RAW CR2, CRW; Kodak RAW DCR; Adobe DNG;
Konica Minolta MRW; Nikon NEF; Olympus ORF; Fujifilm RAF; Leica RAW, Contax RAW,
Casio RAW; Sony SRF, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, and BMP
Price level: Approx. $60 (with unlimited free upgrades)
Address: No.89 ShuTongJie, JiNiu Qu, Chengdu, Sichuan, People’s Republic of China, 610036
www.stepok.net
Two Pilots Software
Vendor: Two Pilots
Purpose: Around two dozen separate image-editing programs, including Color Pilot color
correction software
Description
Two Pilots software comes as multiple stand-alone programs for specific editing tasks,
rather than as one big package. The first was Color Pilot, also available as a plug-in,
which lets you make color changes to images. Others are as follows: