Intensify: make your photo "succulent!"

About programs Snapheal and ColorStrokes from the company MacPhun readers' MakRadara "is well known. These are the tools with narrow specialization, which allows in its own process image in virtually one mouse click. The same advantages are also characteristic of the new product MacPhun - Intensify application. But, unlike the first two, this product is aimed primarily at professionals.

Intensify the main purpose, which is clearly enough to hint name of the application - strengthening parts photos, allowing you to take pictures more "juicy". To do this, provided the tools are located, so to speak, on several different levels.

Manual tuning pictures

Basic level instruments Intensify - image adjustment tools, assembled on the panel Adjust. In the basic set of configurable parameters include photographs temperature, tone, exposure, contrast, light and shade, saturation and vibration. Next on the Setup panel contains more advanced settings.

Group Pro Contrast is responsible for a more flexible adjustment contrast image by adjusting the luminance levels common frame: separately for the dark, middle and light areas, as well as an additional variation of the offset of each band illumination. A similar adjustment layers are produced and at a deeper level in the group

Structure - allow the sliders to show certain pictures texture surfaces smoothed, for example, too little contrast.

Significantly sharpen photos can be in a group Details, Which contains parameters enhance the contrast contours of objects in the image. The effect is particularly noticeable in the pictures with a lot of small details. Final finishing of the sharpness in the group Micro SharpnessThe parameters of which, significantly, affect the overall level of sharpness of the picture, at the same time without causing side effect of noise.

The latter group panel image settings OpacityResponsible for transparency - the degree of influence of the totality of the manual settings.

presets

All values ​​in the panel Adjust can be stored in the form of parameter sets, or presets (presets), - this second level toolkit Intenify, which is divided into three groups: the preset (Default), often used (Favorites) And user presets (Custom). All your saved parameter sets available in the third group. Any preset marked with an asterisk becomes available in the second group.

The contents of the first group can not be changed - it holds several dozen presets compiled Intensify developers together with professional photographers, grouped according to their appointment. For example, several presets are ideal for on the architectural theme frame, another group of parameters needed to create all sorts of black-and-white images, and so on. D.

groups

The third level of application tools - layers. Each layer is defined by a set of values ​​on the panel Adjust. With multiple layers, they can be overlaid on each other, strengthening or weakening certain parameters to each other. However, primarily, the layers are useful for selectively processing the original image: using the mask can be clearly limit the scope of the underlying layer.

To edit the mask three tools provided: brush, eraser and a black and white gradient fill. Brush draws on the mask white color, which exhibits the action associated with the mask layer. Eraser, on the contrary, draws a black insulating action those photos the bed that they should remain intact. The gradient also provides a smooth transition from maximum exposure settings to zero minimum.

When working with masks is very convenient to use the / key, which clearly shows the light (red) and black (transparent) areas of the mask of the selected layer.

Something else…

Intensify professionalism is determined not only tools, but also support a wide variety of RAW-format. In addition, the program allows you to export the processed photos in iPhoto application, Aperture, Photoshop, Photoshop Elements and Lightroom, which (except for iPhoto) Pro-version Intensify also able to work as a plugin.

Support staff for OS X 10.8 / 10.9 Export options in the social networks, email and iMessage and Support Click the full-screen mode - it goes without saying. But for the support of graphic tablets (in particular, the influence of the forces pressing the stylus on the size of the brush) - separate respect. :)

of the minuses

From objective shortcomings I find it difficult to call anything - Intensify uniquely successful debut. But what I personally did not have enough in the application, so it is such basic image editing tools like crop, rotate and flip. Without it, even the simplest preparation of photos for processing into Intensify and export must be carried out in other applications online. Without this we can not speak about the self-sufficiency of the product.

→ Buy Intensify the Mac App Store for 979 rubles.

→ Buy Intensify Pro Online developer for $ 50.

→ Download the demo version from the developer.