[Leica] More Image manipulation freeware

[douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)]

It's all for Windoze again, sorry Macintosh Clan

I found this on a CD in a computer mag a while back, and was quite 
impressed. I've just downloaded the newer version here:

http://www.vicanek.de/plugins/contrastmask.htm

This is a pretty good bit of software - in fact I consider it superior 
to the PS light & shadow adjustment.
It works exactly as shown on the website (which also has a wonderful 
example of a dirty sensor on the bottom test shot :-( )

I'm still trying to get my head around his Perspective transformer, it's 
a totally different approach to what I've used before (PS - good. And  
Mediachance - good and very intuitive). Its like having your image on a 
tilting and rotatable table, which is rather strange to get the hang of 
at first

http://www.vicanek.de/plugins/perspective.htm

I'm hoping to try out his other stuff soon- some of it looks 
fascinating, very useful and very simple to use. More when I get some 
results. I really like the one for getting rid of telephone and power 
cables.

Cheers
Douglas
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