Presentation

Active Studio is a very easily and powerful tool to retouch your photos.

With a few mouse clicks you can improve your photos and correct common defect of digital photography :

• Defect of exposure,
• Poor colors quality,
• Sharpness,
• Rotations and fix an uneven horizon.

You can also apply advanced filters to create special effects, such as progressive blur, partial black and white, correct colors balance, or a "Sepia" effect. Many other possibilities for correction and creation are available and you can let your imagination, and creativity free.

With Active Studio, apply complicated effects without complication !

Description of the features

Discover Active Studio reading these essential points.

Customizing Active Studio

• Customizable and intuitive interface :
  • Adjust the interface to your screen size,
  • 13 pre-defined themes, including 3 than using the colors of Windows,
  • Creating your own themes,
  • Colors and font are customizable.
• Automatic positioning of the thumbnail preview (depending on the size of your screen) to not hide the workspace.

More !

• Extract images from a video : some buttons allow rapid positioning and locate the desired image, click on "Save" button and that all !
• Extract images from a file with multiple images (Animated .Gif for example).

Work with your pictures safety

• Restore the original image at any time, even if you have saved your picture many times,
• Back to the last state of the image, (at the same state when you open it),

Working better

• New module to search an image on your hard disk, tree display of your files with a dynamic counting photos in each folder,
• Real-time preview of the effects in a thumbnail or in the picture itself,
• Zoom and magnifier,
• Quick access panels to settings,
• History of all changes applied to the image,
• Undo and redo of effect by group (Undo or redo the last 15 changes eg),

Retouch quickly your pictures

To retouch quickly and efficiently your photos, the basic settings doing all the work for you. In this mode, you haven't to adjust complicated settings, just click on a button to get an impressive efficacy correction.

• Crop the image to keep only the essential part,
• Straighten the uneven horizon without a "dark corner" effect,
• Correct red-eye in a photos taken with a flash, (you can also correct eye yellow or green, for photo of animals for example)
• "Magic!" Button to adjust, with one click, the light, contrast and colors of your photo,
• Automatic light adjustment,
• Automatic contrast adjustment,
• Automatic colors adjustment,
• Rotation or mirror effect, in one click.

Further retouching

For further correcting your photos, and "work" your pictures, use the advanced settings, which you can set amount of parameters to achieve the desired result.

• Advanced effects :
  • Lights effects :
    • Brightness,
    • Contrast,
    • Gamma,
    • Glow.
  • Blur :
    • More blur ,
    • Motion blur ,
    • Radial blur,
    • Zoom blur,
    • Partial blur.
  • Sharpness :
    • More sharpness ,
    • Sharpnened edges.
  • Colors :
    • Hue,
    • Negative,
    • Colors balance,
    • Black and white,
    • Partial Black and white,
    • Bi-color,
    • Saturation,
    • Color temperature.
  • Edges :
    • Glowing edges,
    • Lighten edges,
    • Darken edges.
  • Special effects :
    • Color diffusion,
    • Emboss,
    • Mosaic,
    • Add noise ,
    • Sepia,
    • Canvas,
    • Twirl.