What's New in Version 3

Retouching functions
Processes and Filters
Integration with IPM
Color management
Ease of use and performance
File formats
ColorCase
Upgrade to PhotoRetouch Pro version 3

PhotoRetouch Pro version 3 is now available. New features and improvements include: full compatibility with Mac OS X.3 (Panther), integration with IPM, supports two popular colorimeters, rulers, customizable shortcuts, supports PSD and EPS RGB file formats, and a very handy "Apply to all" function for mismatching profiles in a batch of images. Please read below for the full list of new functions since version 2:

Retouching functions

- Copy/paste: possibility to paste with custom opacity and use that to preview where you are pasting.
- Eraser tool now works with Control key to un-erase.
- Clipping paths: possibility to have an open path and to edit it thanks to the ESC key.
- 2 modes for EyeDropper tool: measure values or measure color.
- Foreground and background colors keep their color space (RGB is not forced anymore).

Processes and filters

Several new Processes and Filters have been created to provide even greater control on photo retouching. All the existing processes and filters have been optimized for even greater performance and quality.

- New Processes:
Backlight Enhancer, Gray Neutralizer, Selective Balance.
- New Filter: Watercolor.
Modified Processes:
- Auto Process Reco: signature management ; optimization for 16 bits images ; all input profiles are now supported
- Apply ICC Profile:
. All input profiles are now supported.
. Possibility to modify color by concatening a temperature profile, automatically or through a click with the eyedropping tool.
- Color Modify: true CMYK modification + relative/absolute corrections.

Integration with IPM

- ColorPro acquisition and export (ie. owners of PhotoRetouch Pro + IPM Automate, or PIA for short, can now have their images be processed in batches by IPM).
- IPM Administrator launched from File menu (PIA only)

Color Management

- Supports Gretag-Macbeth Eye One Display and Colorvision Spyder for monitor calibration (Calibration version only)
- True copy/paste working with all modes. Images can also be imported from system clipboard (but not exported yet). Colors are preserved if you copy between different color spaces.
- CMY view for CMYK images (View menu > Trichro).
- A checkbox 'Apply to all' has been added in profile mismatching dialog when opening images. Thus if many images are opened at one time, the profile mismatch settings are applied to all.
- Advanced tab in Profile mismatching dialog with a pop-up menu to select any profile (other than preferences working space) if none is embedded in the image(s).
- Export Profile with modified White Point.
- Spectrophotometer application can now be launched from Color menu.
- List of measured colors next to the foreground/background colors (Calibration version only)
- Paper White option when soft-proofing.
- Average of measurement files (Calibration version only)
- Direct access (from menu) to target files to print (Calibration version only)
- Printer calibration improvement: spectrophotometer application includes a linearization function for CMYK and RGB printers. Automatic density control and possibility to automatically integrate a curve to a profile. (Calibration version only).
- Digital camera calibration completely reworked. Gives outstanding results.
- Black generation improvement.

Ease of use and performance

- Fully compatible with Mac OS X.3 (Panther).
- Rules and columns are now available (Window menu > Show Rulers).
- Shorcuts file (in user's preference folder) now contains all the available commands in PRP. This file can be modified.
- Command-. interrupt current process.
- Editable fields behavior in option window have been ehanced. You can now switch from one field to another with the TAB key. A frame is drawn around the control when the mouse is over it.
- Crop interface has been re-designed.
- History palette is now available.
- EXIF Data can now be displayed (Edit menu > EXIF Information).
- Optimized image opening speed (mainly CMYK).
- Processing and display speed optimized in Mac OS X.
- Mac OS X icons (128x128)

File formats

- PSD: Support for PSD format (when opening images).
- EPS:
. RGB mode is now supported.
. BW preview is now computed so printing a RGB or CMYK image on a BW poscript printer now works.
- TIFF:
. Black and white images with MinIsWhite tag should now be correctly inverted.
. RGB-Alpha support (8 and 16 bits, when opening images).
- JPEG :
. Image resolution is now read even if it's not located in IRB infos
. Exif infos are now correctly extracted

ColorCase

PhotoRetouch Pro 3 is also included in ColorCase, our new calibration solution, with an even more professional approach: it recommends the use of a spectrophotometer to measure color patches in a printed target (supplied by binuscan). The printer calibration tool then creates a profile based on the measurements obtained and the reference file. PhotoRetouch Pro can import text description files saved by any spectrophotometer, however Binuscan markets its own spectrophotometer, built by Gretag-Macbeth, in the ColorCase solution including PhotoRetouch Pro 3, the binuscan spectrophotometer, IPM Workflow Server 1, and JobManager 7 for QuarkXpress 4/5/6 and Adobe InDesign 2.

PhotoRetouch Pro v.1/2 users benefit from special pricing on the ColorCase solution. For more information, please contact us.

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