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The Digital Photographer's Software Guide
PhotoTune
Vendor: onOne Software
Purpose: Quick-fix package for professionals, with skin color correction and other sophisticated
tools
Figure 9.1
onOne’s ColorTune technology in PhotoTune gives quick results.
Description
PhotoTune is a professional-level product, aimed at simplifying color correction. An
Adobe Photoshop plug-in, it incorporates two products developed by PhotoTune
Software, namely the 20/20 Color MD color correction tool and the highly regarded
SkinTune technology based on in-depth research into skin color. Both tools are easy to
use and have dramatic time-saving features.
The color correction technology, now renamed ColorTune, has been designed as a sixstep
process taking around 15 seconds per image. The vendor says it “works like an eye
exam” to figure out what is wrong with an image and then fix it. Its whole purpose is
speed and ease of use. Its Color Wizard cuts down the bewildering number of options
that are normally presented to users, narrowing down the choices until you reach the
right one. Step one sets dynamic range; step two is brightness; steps three to six deal