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November 29, 2005 - With the release of AKVIS Coloriage V.2.0 for Mac andWin, AKVIS LLC presents the cutting edge technology of automatic B&W photocolorization. Since its first appearance in May 2005, the software has already wonthe "Best of Soft 2005" prize of PC Magazine/RE.
AKVIS Coloriage adds color to black and white photos with the same ease withwhich a child paints images in a coloring book ("coloriage" means a coloring book inFrench). The colorizing technique is easy: you take the Pencil tool, select a colorand draw a rough outline within the area to be colorized; the program recognizes theborders of the area and paints in the new color keeping the tone transitions. Nolayers manipulation, no manual painting!
The list of the tool's uses is practically endless. Home users can apply it tocolorize old B&W photos from the family archives, for example, to make a present tothe grandma by adding color to her early days' photos. Professional designers canuse AKVIS Coloriage to try different color schemes for interior and exterior design,as the program allows changing the color of objects with a mouse click. Anime andmanga enthusiasts can apply the program to add color to hand sketch drawings.
The software does not only colorize B&W photos, the available Keep-Color tool makesit possible to replace colors only in defined areas of the picture, while the areasmasked with the Keep-Color tool remain unchanged. Thus, you can recolor clothes onyour color photo or change the color of the hair, eyes, etc on a portrait. Selectivedesaturation and selective colorization of a color photo is made easy. Examples ofcolorization and color replacement are available at:http://akvis.com/en/colori age/examples-add-color.php
Th e new version is available for both Windows and Macintosh users. Newto the version are the Undo/Redo buttons and translation of ColorLibrary into English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian andJapanese. Color Library with its subtle tones for skin, hair, grass, sky and othernatural elements ensures flexibility in the choice of colors.
Operating as a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements and CorelPhoto-Paint, AKVIS Coloriage requires no complicated techniques or special knowledgeto achieve beautiful results, whether the task is delicate colorization of heirloomphotographs or trying new color schemes on a photo of your house. Visithttp://akvis.com/en/colo riage-tutorial/index.php to see this intuitive software makea simple black-and-white photo bloom with color. You can also find there AKVIS software for old photo restoration (scratch, stainsand dust removal, etc).
AKVIS LLC offers a 10-day fully-functional trial of AKVIS Coloriage 2.0 andregistration costs USD $97.00 for a home license and USD $246.00 for a businesslicense. Home users can enjoy the full line of AKVIS digital imaging processingsoftware in the AKVIS Alchemy bundle (Retoucher, Chameleon, Stamp, Enhancer andColoriage) for USD $250.00, a savings of $121.00 over purchasing each separately.These details are available at http://akvis.com/en/discounts. php#all.
