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The Digital Photographer's Software Guide
in three groups: Blotch Fixer, Skin Selection, and Skin Adjustment. As with the developer’s
other products, you start at the top and work your way down the controls in a
logical progression.
Skin tones occupy a narrow band of the color gamut, yet even the smallest changes can
be apparent. GinaPRO gives you a high degree of control over colorcasts from reflections
and lets you make very minor adjustments to the specific hues and tones of human skin.
Comments
GinaPRO has one significant drawback—being a plug-in to BibblePRO, it has no way
of directly accessing mouse positions, hence you cannot simply point to an area of skin
and make corrections. Any parts of the image that have similar coloration to that of
skin can therefore be affected inadvertently. However, if you recognize this limitation,
the plug-in works well on many images. It is not as effective as SkinTune, but is only a
quarter of the price.
Version: GinaPRO 1.1 (2008)
Plugs into: Bibble Pro (upgrade when Bibble upgrades)
OS: As host (Windows, Linux, and Mac versions are in the same download)
RAM: 256MB
Supported file formats: As host
Price level: $20
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Kodak DIGITAL GEM Airbrush
Vendor: Eastman Kodak Company
Purpose: Software for correcting skin blemishes in portrait and wedding photography
Description
Kodak DIGITAL GEM Airbrush provides a quick way of smoothing skin without having
to use complicated masking. It lets you control image detail at three levels: fine, medium,
and coarse. It effectively preserves fine detail in the subject’s face, such as eyelashes and
eyebrows, although there is inevitably (and deliberately) some loss of other detail such
as wrinkles and blemishes.
Designated as a “professional” plug-in, DIGITAL GEM Airbrush naturally works on both
8-bit and 16-bit images, like the professional editions of DIGITAL ROC, GEM, and
SHO. You can record a procedure as a Photoshop action and use it for batch processing
many subsequent images. Also available are pre-written action scripts designed to supplement
the product. The Air Dimensional script helps to bring back the dimensionality of
the image by adding shadows without affecting the plug-in’s smoothing effects.