SILKYPIX DEVELOPER STUDIO 4.3 MANUAL
SILKYPIX DEVELOPER STUDIO 4.3 SKIN
SILKYPIX DEVELOPER STUDIO 4.3 UPGRADE
SILKYPIX DEVELOPER STUDIO 4.3 PRO
SILKYPIX DEVELOPER STUDIO 4.3 SOFTWARE

Of course, this is a very questionable (maybe even dangerous) notion, both photographically and socially (evocative of the matter of the 'flesh tone' crayon once included in crayon packets).īut, as we will see in a moment, it worked like a champ on a young Caucasian redhead from St.

SILKYPIX DEVELOPER STUDIO 4.3 SKIN

According to the program documentation, if we click this (or draw a rectangular area with it) on the subject's skin, this directs the color balance so that area will be rendered with a 'beautiful skin tone'. We can use that to ping a spot (or draw a rectangular area) on an object in the scene we believe to be 'neutral' in its reluctance. One is the traditional 'gray balance' (often called 'white balance') eyedropper. I found that the 'white balance' tools were very helpful in dealing with this. I say that rather than 'color temperature' since, rigorously, a chromaticity not on the Planckian locus (that is, not a 'blackbody' chromaticity) does not have a true color temperature.

SILKYPIX DEVELOPER STUDIO 4.3 UPGRADE

I can upgrade to the Standard Version 6 from my custom Panasonic-only version (version 4.3) for 82.50 USD.īut it may in fact be possible to download the Panasonic-only version free and run it (I don't yet know for sure).Ĭan it be used to work on files from other cameras? Yes, by temporarily transplanting the metadata from a suitable Panasonic camera file (after saving the original metadata, if we want that to survive the whole scenario).ĬCT is coordinated color temperature.

SILKYPIX DEVELOPER STUDIO 4.3 PRO

For the latest vintage, Version 6, for the 'standard version' (there is also a 'pro' version), the cost is about 135.00 USD (235.00 USD for the Pro version).

I am reticent to suggest the purchase of the regular version of this program because of the cost. It is refreshing to see what is usually called 'white balance' more accurately described as 'gray balance'. In fact, as is often the case with 'really Japanese' software, often the descriptions are refreshingly candid.

SILKYPIX DEVELOPER STUDIO 4.3 MANUAL

There is an extensive user manual (online), which only here and there breaks into 'Japlish'. However, the English language user interface is quite clear. (The JPG files from the Panasonic cameras have already been adjusted in-camera.)Īs we might imagine from its slightly corny name, this is a really Japanese program. These adjustments can also be applied, on a manual basic, when working from a JPG file. When working from an eligible Panasonic raw file, the program automatically apples corrections for geometric distortion, vignetting, and lateral chromatic aberration from a database of lens profiles. The image can also be resized (I haven't yet looked into the subtleties of that). There are extensive provisions for controlling the parameters of a new file (JPEG 'quality', for example. That operation is in fact described as 'developing'.

But of course the edited image (called a 'scene') can be turned into a new file. It is not an all-purpose image editor, and so has no provision for layers, objects, masking, and the like.Īll its operations are done on a 'nondestructive' basis, leaving the victim file unchanged but capturing a recipe for all changes in a separate file. The program provides for image rotation and for cropping, and as well for perspective adjustment.

SILKYPIX DEVELOPER STUDIO 4.3 SOFTWARE

Included is an eyedropper for fingering a known neutral object in the scene, a tool rarely available in other image processing software when working on a JPG file. Of course we all hear that it is not possible to do as thorough a job of white balance color correction on a JPG file as on a raw file, but Silkypix does not seem to understand that. Of particular interest is that its very flexible set of color correction tools (including those for 'white balance') can be applied to a JPG file. it is perfectly happy (subject to the above limitation, of course) to load a JPG file and perform all its available operations on it. This version will only open files tagged as coming from one of a long list of Panasonic cameras (but see below on overcoming that limitation).Īlthough it is billed as a 'raw developer'. My Panasonic DMC-FZ1000 camera came with a customized version of Silkypix Developer Studio, a 'raw developer' published by Ichikawa Soft Laboratory.

Silkypix developer studio 4.3