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product. Nonetheless, it serves a useful purpose for those who want to fine-tune their
images quickly and efficiently.
Version: PhotoCleaner 3.4 (2008)
OS: Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP, 2003, and Vista
RAM: 32MB
Supported file formats: JPEG
Price level: Approx. $13, Pro edition $25
Address: Digital Dozen, LLC
www.photocleaner.com
Photo-D
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Vendor: KlearVision
Purpose: Automatic photo correction product family for high-volume workflows
Description
Photo-D is a family of one-click photo correction products, available in many editions.
The Starter edition has most of the features, including automatic exposure, brightness,
contrast, gamma, sharpening, colorcast removal and white balance controls. The Pro
editions are intended for professional photo labs and bring ICC workflow support and
smart-scaling to predefined sizes.
The pro-level products in the line-up are as follows:
■ Photo-D Pro IES (Intelligent Expert System)—A customizable IES with automatic
digital image correction. Cropping and RAW handling are offered as optional add-ons.
■ Photo-D RAW—A RAW conversion utility that uses the same expert system parameters,
with the option to customize them.
■ Photo-D Pro Hotfolders—For graphic arts automatic workflows, including large,
mini, and micro photo labs. The lab owner defines both input and destination hotfolders
to hold images before and after their automatic processing. The IES detects
the command string that accompanies each set of images and acts upon it.
■ Photo-D Pro Hotfolders PDF—Also for graphic arts automatic workflows. It
extracts images from PDF files, corrects them, and then inserts them back into PDF.
Comments
Founded by Israeli color expert Moshe Keydar, KlearVision has a management team spread
between Europe, the United States, and Israel. It has chosen to target the “one-click market”
and has put a high price on its Starter Edition, whereas the Pro Editions are “priced
on request.” Photo-D won an “Innovative Digital Product” award from DIMA in 2005.