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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Digital Image Processing => Topic started by: willie45 on June 28, 2006, 09:12:25 am

Title: Curves plug in for Elements 4
Post by: willie45 on June 28, 2006, 09:12:25 am
Hi
I am pretty new to this digital imaging game and have started processing images using PS Elements 4. I quite like the idea of being able to use curves but am unwilling to pay for CS2 just to get this function. A web search has shown that there are a number of free plug ins for Elements 1,2,and 3 which offer curves but I can only find one which seems to be compatible with version 4. This is a plug in  called Curvemeister, which sells for 80 USD and seems to me to be a lot to pay simply to get curves.

I am also wondering if the purchase of Capture 1 LE which has curves control on it would make sense. This would of course give me access to a very good RAW convertor as well.

Any opinions or advice would be gratefully received.

Thanks

Willie
Title: Curves plug in for Elements 4
Post by: DarkPenguin on June 28, 2006, 10:40:51 am
Paint shop pro maybe?
Title: Curves plug in for Elements 4
Post by: Ilya Razmanov on June 28, 2006, 11:09:53 am
I'd suggest giving a try to Smart Curve from

http://free.pages.at/easyfilter/curves.html (http://free.pages.at/easyfilter/curves.html)

It gave me some compatibility issues with hosts different from Adobe ones but I suspect it should be fine with Elements 4. It's free anyway, so why not to try it. Note, it's Windows only.

Ilya Razmanov
http://photoshop.msk.ru (http://photoshop.msk.ru) - Photoshop plug-in filters
Title: Curves plug in for Elements 4
Post by: francois on June 28, 2006, 11:35:28 am
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Hi
I am pretty new to this digital imaging game and have started processing images using PS Elements 4. I quite like the idea of being able to use curves but am unwilling to pay for CS2 just to get this function. A web search has shown that there are a number of free plug ins for Elements 1,2,and 3 which offer curves but I can only find one which seems to be compatible with version 4. This is a plug inĀ  called Curvemeister, which sells for 80 USD and seems to me to be a lot to pay simply to get curves.

I am also wondering if the purchase of Capture 1 LE which has curves control on it would make sense. This would of course give me access to a very good RAW convertor as well.

Any opinions or advice would be gratefully received.

Thanks

Willie
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Well, Curvemeister is more than just a curve tool. You can read a review [a href=\"http://www.outbackphoto.com/workflow/wf_32/essay.html]here[/url]. There's a demo version available for download (http://www.curvemeister.com/downloads/cmdemo/index.html).  I guess that most of the free plugins will do what you require and Curvemeister might be too "extreme" for your needs.

As for Capture One, a demo is also available (here (http://www.phaseone.com/)). At $99, it is more expensive than Curvemeister and since you already have a RAW converter in PS Element, I would not consider it unless your experiments are very positive.
Title: Curves plug in for Elements 4
Post by: JLK on June 29, 2006, 07:09:55 am
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Hi
I am pretty new to this digital imaging game and have started processing images using PS Elements 4. I quite like the idea of being able to use curves but am unwilling to pay for CS2 just to get this function. A web search has shown that there are a number of free plug ins for Elements 1,2,and 3 which offer curves but I can only find one which seems to be compatible with version 4. This is a plug in  called Curvemeister, which sells for 80 USD and seems to me to be a lot to pay simply to get curves.

I am also wondering if the purchase of Capture 1 LE which has curves control on it would make sense. This would of course give me access to a very good RAW convertor as well.

Any opinions or advice would be gratefully received.

Thanks

Willie
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Hidden Power of Elements (for Version 4, Richard Lynch) should provide you Curves, plus many other tools. It's under $20 at Amazon. I have the version for PSE2, and it works pretty well.
Title: Curves plug in for Elements 4
Post by: willie45 on July 01, 2006, 07:55:49 am
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Hidden Power of Elements (for Version 4, Richard Lynch) should provide you Curves, plus many other tools. It's under $20 at Amazon. I have the version for PSE2, and it works pretty well.
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Thanks for the tip re this. It seems a valuabe book and software. I have ordered through Amazon. Also thanks to everyone else for their advice and help.

Willie