Image Doctor 2 Image Re-touching Software from Alien Skin

Press Release: 

Alien Skin Software, the award-winning developer of photographic and graphic design plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop and other compatible host programs, today announced the release of Image Doctor 2, the new version of its powerful yet easy-to-use software for photo restoration, retouching, and repair.

Image Doctor 2’s five plug-in filters offer users a complete toolset for photo restoration, compressed JPEG image repair, smart object removal, blemish concealment, and skin softening in one very affordable package that is also a great gift idea.

The five filters in Image Doctor 2 — Dust and Scratch Remover, JPEG Repair, Blemish Concealer, Skin Softener, and Smart Fill — together provide one of the most comprehensive sets of photo enhancement tools available to consumers and professionals for under $200 (around £100). Image Doctor 2’s plug-in filters can restore rips, scratches, and dust in scans of old photos; repair overly compressed and blocky JPEG images, such as cell phone photos; remove unwanted objects from pictures with a seamless recreation of the nearby background; and retouch and soften skin areas by removing moles, birthmarks, scars, wrinkles, tattoos, pimples, and oily or splotchy skin patches.

Service bureau, printing, advertising and interactive agency, photographic, graphic design, and other professionals are among the targeted users for Image Doctor 2, which saves time and effort in retouching and repairing photos compared to the same tasks done in Photoshop or similar photo editing tools on their own. Novices, hobbyists, and consumers can find the same benefit using Image Doctor 2, and will find it particularly useful as a tool for photo restoration of old photos and repair of images from low-resolution photographic hardware, such as cell phone camera photos.

Image Doctor 2 offers a number of improvements to the original release. Chief among these improvements is Image Doctor 2’s rendering speed and quality. Image Doctor 2’s range of skin retouching capabilities has also been expanded. The software’s Skin Softener and Blemish Concealer filters together offer a wider array of skin beautifying capabilities than available in Image Doctor 1.

The performance upgrades in Image Doctor 2 result from changes to the original rendering algorithms and to the program’s multi-threading capacity. Other new improvements in Image Doctor 2 include 16-bit support, native support for Macintosh Intel computers, multiprocessor support for all filters, and a variety of user interface changes.