FocalBlade is an image sharpening tool designed to enhance photographs for both display and print, while minimizing unwanted side effects. It offers a range of features for users seeking to sharpen images, reduce noise, and apply blur, soft focus, and glow effects. The tool includes several modes catering to novices as well as advanced users, and provides both automatic and manual controls, including a split view feature for comparison.
The software boasts ultra-fast rendering by utilizing hyperthreading and support for multiple processors and cores. It can process images in batches and works with files in 8-bit and 16-bit per channel formats. FocalBlade comes with more than 80 presets, and its second version introduces performance improvements, multi-pass workflows, enhanced sharpening capabilities, a softproof feature for simulating print sharpness, scripting and smart filtering support, and new color noise reduction and grain features. Users can protect specific colors from sharpening, take advantage of improved edge mask options, and utilize a preview zoom up to 3200% along with a navigator tool. The tool supports Lab and CMYK image modes and offers various user interface enhancements.
FocalBlade is available as a plugin and as a standalone application. The plugin version functions as a filter in applications such as Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop Elements, Photo-Paint, PhotoImpact, IrfanView, and others, and can be used as a smart filter in Photoshop. The standalone version supports Camera Raw, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, PSD, and additional image formats. It also works as an external editor in Adobe Lightroom, ACDSee, AfterShot Pro, and similar programs, allowing for non-destructive editing of multiple images and serving as a raw converter. Color management support is provided, though its implementation depends on the host application.
9 and higher). The Windows standalone version can be run on macOS using Wineskin, and the Mac plugin can be used in Lightroom, Aperture, and iPhoto with Launchbox.
Focalblade sits in PulseGate's Image editing category. It focuses on improving image sharpness and reducing noise for photographers and designers using Photoshop and similar tools. Focalblade is a consumer product aimed at photographers and graphic designers. Pricing is paid. Focalblade is available on the web and Windows.
Behind Focalblade is The Plugin Site. Among its 5 catalogued features are image sharpening, noise reduction, and batch processing.
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