AKVIS MakeUp 3.0

If you are not yet tired of looking at Marcel, you soonwill be. In this month’s issue of the DoubleClick wewill take a look at a couple more updated programsfrom AKVIS. MakeUp 3.0 is the first of them.

AKVIS MakeUp 3.0 improves portraits and addsglamour to photos, giving them a professional look.The software automatically smooths small defectson the skin, making even our Marcel look radiant, asyou can see in the image above. It is amazing howmuch a good complexion adds to rejuvenating andfreshening up a look ! Just open any portrait withAKVIS MakeUp 3.0 and click on the Run button. Thesoftware will retouch and freshen up the skin with-out changing other aspects of the photo.

There are two modes – Express as shown above,which offers the minimal set of slider controls com-bined with a huge set of presets, and Advanced,shown on the next page, which has a much fuller setof parameters for the user to play with (also com-bined with a huge set of presets). In Express modeyou can do the correction with a single click usingthe default settings, while in Advanced mode youcan choose the tone of the skin more precisely usingthe eyedropper tool and other tools. Speaking oftools, the simplified tool palette offers blemish re-moval, red eye suppression, teeth whitening, and lo-calised smoothing and blurring options. In Advancedmode the program shows an expanded tool set andthe user can achieve special effects, for example -High Key Lighting, which blows out harsh shadowsand thus removes small imperfections and the shad-ows under the eyes.

Operating in Advanced mode also givesaccess to expanded controls forSmoothing, Correction (sharpness,brightness hue, saturation levels, andcontrast) and Effects, like glow and vi-gnette.The software is ideal for process-ing marriage photographs or graduationparty photos. On such special occa-sions people try to achieve a perfect re-sult – flawless portraits of the mainparticipants. Thanks to Batch Process-ing feature, you won't need to processevery single picture, but just apply thechosen settings to the whole folder withthe event shooting.

AKVIS MakeUp is available in twoversions – as a standalone applica-tion and as a plug-in. Like the otherAKVIS programs that have appearedrecently in the DoubleClick, MakeUp 3.0is freely available from AKVIS as a fully-featured demo version - so you can geta copy risk-free and try out all the fea-tures of the software during a 10 dayevaluation period. When the evaluationperiod is over, you must enter a regis-tration key to continue using the pro-gram. The plug-in version is compatiblewith Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Ele-ments, Corel Paint Shop Pro, etc. Mini-mal requirement for the stand-aloneversion is a G4 Mac with 1 Gig of RAMbut an Intel Mac is much better suited.

Like with other AKVIS programs, sup-port for MakeUp 3.0 is abundantly available on the internet. AKVIShas a fine selection of photo editing programs and maintains an on-line library of up-to-date tutorials for all of their products (via the linksbelow). You can order AKVIS software online and pay with your creditcard or PayPal. You will be able to choose how to pay at the cart pageof the selected store. As a plug-in or a stand-alone program MakeUp3.0 costs about $40. A combined Deluxe license for both costs about$50. When the payment is effected you will get a license key to youre-mail within minutes.

Submitted by Michael Shaw

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