A brand new home page for ALCE with the new case studies and tutorial sections, the press release, great galleries of the ALCE masters and our user comments page.
We also invite you to visit our new blog.
ALCE | Advanced Local Contrast Enhancer
An easy-to-use and powerful Photoshop tool to effectively improve and finely tune the local contrast of an image, by means of a smart algorithm which avoids the clipping issues typical of methods like shadows/highlights. The user interface is simple and clean, with just one slider, allowing the user to customize the effect in a straightforward way. With improved performance with the new Version2.
A transfer of know how
This new section will presents interesting case histories that will help you to get the best from ALCE. Multiple layers application, ALCE as a sharpener, as a re-allocator of contrast, as an high pass style tool. And again ALCE for Black & White.
The first two articles will show you how to improve an image in three steps or get a great "high pass style image" preserving the color saturation.
Hours of training on basic and advanced use
The new collection of Marco Olivotto's Instructional video.
Install and first step with "Introducing ALCE" and advanced use with "Getting ALCE to work.
Again the classic tutorials of Davide Barranca on ALCE1.
To further inform you we also added here below the first Community Tutorial taken by the blog of Larry Lourcey.
Dan Margulis about us and Italy. Exerpt from his famous post "La Dolce Vita - An era ends"
They say that Italians get emotional at times like this, and that Italians love beautiful things. I admit to feeling a bit Italian myself as I write this. I *have* developed an emotional attachment to the country, no doubt. And the relationships I have entered into with several of my students in that country have evolved into something, well, profoundly loving. The old joke has it that in heaven, all lovers are Italian. Right offhand I can think of a couple of exceptions to this generality, but there is no need to go off-topic.
The truth is that it is a land of love and great beauty, made all the more beautiful professionally by seeing the new and sophisticated imaging algorithms being developed by Davide with Marco Olivotto, and by seeing how Alessandro, Daniele Di Stanio, Tiziano Fruet and others have brought first-class color instruction into a country where it was rarely found previously.
Pino Musi
William Branson III
Luca Campigotto
Hans Strand
The RBG | Roberto Bigano Group members
A simple yet powerful Photoshop tool to effectively boost the local contrast of an image, by means of a smart algorithm which avoids the clipping issues typical of methods like shadows/highlights. The user interface is simple and clean, with just one slider, allowing the user to customize the effect in a straightforward way.
In 2000 Imacon, now Hasselblad, created a new proprietary format for the Imacon scanners, the Flexible File Format or fff. 3F has determined the biggest revolution in the field of original analog scanning since the introduction of the drum scanner.
First of all forgive us the word play, which might come off as presumptuous. However, we felt like we came up with something that perfectly summarizes our philosophy in this arena by uniting the concepts of high resolution and quality reproduction.
User comments
This is the same difference between overcooked and al dente spagettis, or between a soft and a crunchy french baguette.
Rémy Gindroz, La Croix sur Lutry, Switzerland >
Hans Strand, Hägersten, Sweden - Hasselblad testimonial >
***Highly recommended and at US29 a bargain.
Nick Rains, Better Digital Camera Magazine, Australia
Rick Dahms, Seattle, WA, United States >
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