Digital Photographer's Software Guide - Bertemes - Net

Photo restoration software predates the digital camera revolution, having been developed
for scanner input long before CCD and CMOS sensors in cameras created a
demand for similar retouching. It has the capability of making old photographs look as
good as new.
Photoshop has comprehensive tools for retouching photographs, so why bother with
other packages? As you will see, some of those listed in this chapter have facilities not
found in any general-purpose image editor. The best known, Kodak DIGITAL ROC,
is based on research into the problems surrounding the fading of color images.
BlackMagic from NeuralTek uses neural net algorithms for automating the task of
colorizing black and white images. PhotoFlair from TruView is based on Dr. Edwin Lang’s
Retinex theory and comes to the professional or amateur restorer courtesy of NASA.
Photo restoration has become a cottage industry with individuals offering to digitize,
restore, enlarge, and print old or damaged pictures. It is a worthwhile task. If you, too,
feel like rescuing the past, check out some of this software.
AKVIS Alchemy
Vendor: AKVIS LLC
Purpose: A software bundle of photo correction and restoration tools
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Photo Restoration
Description
AKVIS Alchemy is a software bundle that consists of several individual plug-ins priced
separately in the $50–$120 range. Purchased together, they are half-price.