Digital Photographer's Software Guide - Bertemes - Net

RAM: 1024MB
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Price level: Approx. $200
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Kodak DIGITAL ROC
Chapter 20 ■ Photo Restoration 229
Vendor: Eastman Kodak Company
Purpose: Software designed to restore the color of faded photographic images
Description
Kodak DIGITAL ROC (ROC stands for “Restoration Of Colors”) addresses the problem
of color fading in photographs. Over time, both negatives and prints begin to
acquire a distinct reddish or bluish tint, completely spoiling their aesthetic effect. After
you have scanned the images into a computer, DIGITAL ROC can correct even extreme
color fading, making them viewable again.
Another application of DIGITAL ROC is to correct colorcasts on images taken more
recently under tungsten or fluorescent lights with daylight film. These have a yellow or
whitish color that may need to be removed. Again, the software performs this specialist
task very efficiently. It works with images from any digital source, but black and white
images should be scanned in RGB mode. DIGITAL ROC can restore density and contrast
to black and white pictures.
Comments
There are countless millions of faded color prints languishing in albums and picture
frames all over the world. People should scan them and correct their color before it is
too late. Kodak DIGITAL ROC is an excellent product for this purpose. It has a long
and distinguished history, based on technology developed by Dr. Albert Edgar and his
team at Applied Science Fiction before passing to Kodak.
Version: Kodak DIGITAL ROC 2.0 (2008)
Plugs into: Photoshop 5.0 and up; Photoshop Elements 1.0 and up; Windows only—Paint Shop
Pro 7 and up
OS: Windows 98 and up; Macintosh OS 8.6 and up
RAM: 256MB
Supported file formats: As host
Price level: Approx. $50, (Pro edition $100)
Address: Kodak’s Austin Development Center (KADC), Austin, Texas, United States
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