FoksMarx recolorST and recolorLE Photoshop plug ins

Press Release:
Andreas Sumerauer today announced the availability of his recolorST and recolorLE Photoshop compatible plugins.

recolorST:
FoksMarx recolorST provides a novel approach to editing object colours and colour contrast in digital images. It is equally well suitable for image correction as for creative image manipulation. The plugin can be used for so different tasks as colour equalisation, colour enhancement or the removal of colour stains and bleaches.

Despite its versatility recolorST is still a very accessible tool. Only a few sliders that deliver predictable results are required to do the work.

recolorST uses statistical methods to rescale the fader sensitivity whenever a new palette is created or loaded. This ensures that the fader scale always reflects the editable colour range for any given source material.

Key features of recolorST:
recolorST blends or replaces the colours of the edited region with those of a chosen colour scale palette. The same or a different palette can be used to determine which parts of the image are being processed.

Palettes can be extracted from a sample region or from the entire image. Additionally a choice of predefined colour scales is provided with the plugin.

"Our sophisticated colour matching algorithm allows to seamlessly dissolve darker or brighter colour spots into the surrounding image." said Andreas Sumerauer. "This makes it possible for example to apply a face retouch without any of the commonly used ‘surgical’ methods where undesired parts of the skin need to be painstakingly replaced one by one with bits of the appropriate colour. recolorST on the other hand allows for a much less intrusive and therefore less time consuming workflow. Regions that need editing are selected automatically through evaluation of the colour contrast. The result of the process can be made to look very much like a light makeup: The identified decolouration is smoothed out with just a few fader movements. At the same time the original texture of the object is preserved completely."

Sample applications:

• Enhancing an objects colour contrast with the background can be used to emphasize the main subject of an image.
• recolorST can give your portrait model a perfect face makeup: skin imperfections and colour spots are easily removed using the plugin.
• recolorST is used in archives to recreate the original look of historic prints and documents that have suffered from moisture or fungal decay.

recolorLE:
FoksMarx recolorLE is a feature reduced free version of the commercial recolorST plugin filter. recolorLE uses the same colour matching technology as the fully featured recolorST plugin. While it lacks some of the advanced features like dual palette processing it still is a fully functional plugin filter that can be used freely for both private and professional purposes.

Pricing and availablility:
recolorST is affordably priced at €24 while recolorLE is distributed as unrestricted freeware. Both plugins are exclusively available by electronic download from the manufacturers website.