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The underwater digital filter TBFD

 

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July 10, 2007 New version of the digital filter : version 3.0
Download Click here to download the new version of the plugin.
New features

- the window is sizeable and offer you a better view of the pictures and the corrections made on them.
- the plugin is twice faster than the previous version.
- the plugin finds automatically the langage of the operating system.
- new optionnal tools using the color spaces RGB, HSL and LAB.
- correction of the white balance bug.

 

Creator of the filter Thierry Bernard. Independent developer.
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Download the filter Click here to download english version of the filter
Name of the filter and version The name of the filter is TBFD (Thierry Bernard Filter Diving) and the downloadable version is 1.1.
Language English.
Comments

The filter is free. Developed by a passionated photographer. it is downloadable for free on the site of Guillen Photo. If you wish to know the last modifications or evolutions of the filter, send a message directly to Thierry Bernard (address above).

 

Goals Correct colors, contrast and luminosity with a simplfied control panel.
Installation set up

The set up is manual.
After the downloading of the filter, copy it to the plugin or the filters folder of the Photoshop software. TBFD can be use either with Photoshop CS, CS2, CS3 ou Elements.

Photoshop menu

To activate the filter, click the meny Filters\TBF\TBFD. You need a loaded picture to work with the filter.

What we think..

Certainly the best filter of correction of colors that we tested so far. Complete, simple, easy to use, it makes possible to correct the majority of the underwater digital shots. It is not necessary to use the internal tools of Photoshop.
If you like the filter do not hesitate to let it know to the author. A remarkable work for the UW photographers. If you encounter a problem do not hesitate to send to him a question (e-mail above).
This filter is particularly intended to the underwater photographers who shot directly in JPEG (without using RAW mode) with a camera not calibrated. This filter functions only on images coded on 8 bits.

 

Launch the filter.
After having loaded a photograph in Photoshop and having chosen the meny Filters\TBF\TBFD, the following window pops up. We chose a photo made with a point and shoot camera that we had in test.
The window makes it possible to control visually and in real time the effects of the filter according to the settings.


 

    Before

    After

    Values

    • Fine correction: 1
    • Remove blue cast: 0
    • Increase red:3
    • White Balance : 26
    • Luminosity : 5
    • Contrast : 5

    Before

    After

    Values

    • Fine correction: 25
    • Remove blue cast: 12
    • Increase red : 3
    • White Balance : 46
    • Luminosity : 19
    • Contrast : 10

    Before

    After

    Values

    • Fine correction: 26
    • Remove blue cast: 82
    • Increase red : 3
    • White Balance : 46
    • Luminosity : -26
    • Contrast : -33

     

 

Amar and Isabelle Guillen for www.guillenphoto.com
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