Once upon a time, many moons ago a group or “really smart people” created a way to process film with Pixeldust. Really!  A dry process that at the end gave back digital files on a cd and a strip of blank film base. You don’t believe me do you. It’s True!

Then they set out to make some very good plug-ins for Photoshop to restore old faded color, remove noise and generally make life easier for many of us digital darkroom people.

Time passed and some of these same wizards of 1’s and 0’s started Image Trends with a calling to make even cooler plug-ins. Not the usual whiz bang wild stuff, just tools to do needed tasks with the least amount of user input. The results. . . . . . .

            PearlyWhites – Cleans up the subject teeth with a click.

            ShineOff – Removes shine (glare) from the subjects skin.

            Fisheye Hemi – Perfectly corrects for fisheye distortion.

            and ... a series of stand alone aps to get rid of dust with

            a click that sadly are not for the mac Yet!

The first three are Mac and PC so being a Mac geek I have been playing with those listed first.

The great part is that they work without input from the user. Just run the filter and your done. I like simple when it works this well. See the samples I grabbed from their site. If you are a pro these can be just the thing to make your work better than the other guy’s and it is so easy to make an action to batch process. They even walk you thru how to do it.

Check of the latest Sci-Fi tools from Image Trends.