FocalBlade lets you sharpen your photos for screen display and print as
well as produce great looking blur, soft focus and glow effects. It is a
Photoshop-compatible plugin which can be used in dozens of graphics
applications including Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, PhotoImpact, Photo-Paint,
Fireworks and Photoshop Elements. It works with 8bit and 16bit RGB
images.
FocalBlade features a range of automatic, semiautomatic and manual tools
for sharpening photos. It is very easy to use as it offers interactive
explanations for each feature, incorporates modes for various tasks
(including a Novice Mode) and detailed step-by-step instructions in the
manual. FocalBlade lets you sharpen photos quickly and also batch process
images in Cloak mode. Moreover, FocalBlade offers numerous options for
creating blur, soft focus and glow effects and for deblurring photos that
are highly blurred.
FocalBlade's sophisticated algorithms let you sharpen images without ugly
side-effects and give you a lot of control of the sharpening process.
FocalBlade sharpens edges and surfaces in an image independently thereby
allowing you to keep objects (e.g. sky, walls, skin and other even
surfaces) soft while the overall photo is still sharpened. Unlike other
tools FocalBlade doesn't produce halos at high radius settings and even
provides sliders for suppressing the white and black part of halos
independently. Additionally with FocalBlade you can set the pixel size of
details that are sharpened. FocalBlade also lets you keep noise constant or
even reduce it when sharpening a photo.
FocalBlade provides three automatic sharpening options for achieving
perfect sharpening results with different classes of photos. With Screen
and Print buttons you can make FocalBlade automatically sharpen for screen
display or for printing. There is also a semiautomatic sample area feature,
which lets the user focus on an important image area and thereby apply the
optimal sharpness to this area. Additionally there are several Split View
modes that let you compare the original and sharpened version as well as
visually perform sharpening with the help of preview stripes that present
you with variations of the current settings. The manual controls include
independent Sharpen and Radius sliders, a Soften slider, Halo Fix sliders,
several masking options and a glow feature. FocalBlade also offers five
different sharpening methods. Opening and saving presets for reusing
certain effects is also possible.
FocalBlade combines many methods for sharpening photos without ugly
side-effects and offers a tremendous amount of control of the sharpening
process. Many other tools don't offer an automatic sharpening mode, add
clearly visible halos, increase noise, remove the photographic quality of
photos, damage edges or need a lot of experimenting to achieve a good
result. FocalBlade lets you sharpen photos without the risk of damaging
them. It is flexible as well as very easy to use. Best of all, FocalBlade
saves you precious time when sharpening photos and is available at an
affordable price.
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