Photo Enhancement Software and Plugin Collections

[Plug-in] Alien Skin Software, which has developed several popular effects plug-ins, has recently released its first set of image repair and photo retouching filters, Image Doctor. This set includes four filters: Smart Fill, Scratch Remover, Spot Lifter, and JPEG Repair.

[Plug-in] A line of corrective filters specifically designed for repairing, restoring or enhancing photos. Includes 6 filters: AcuBlur, AcuSharp, AcuMask, AcuClean, AcuNoise, and AcuBoost.

"Retoucher allows removing dust, scratches, flakes, stains, water spots and other artifacts that appear on damaged photos."

Edit, retouch, and enhance photos, stitch together multiple photos, organize images in albums, and more.

[Standalone or plug-in] Automatically enhances and improves color, contrast, sharpness, saturation, and tonal range. Detects and removes moire patterns as well as dust and scratches.

[Plug-in] One-step picture enhancement plug-in to rebuild color, sharpen, and increase image detail. Works in RGB or CMYK mode.

Smooth skin and surfaces while keeping details. Plug-in for Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Jasc Paint Shop Pro, Painter and more.

"Digital Darkroom is an exceptionally easy-to-use program for importing images from scanners or digital cameras and performing basic image editing and manipulation. A simple click on sample images performs most modifications and instantly preview the results."

"DxO Optics Pro automatically enhances images produced by Digital-SLR, advanced Digicams, and their lenses with revolutionary optics, noise and lighting corrections packed in an all-new, easy-to-use feature rich application."

"Fisheye-Hemi is a Photoshop plug-in filter which provides correction for hemispheric fisheye lens distortion."

[Plugin] Offers about 20 plugins for B&W conversion, noise reduction, sharpening, lens correction, color correction, image enhancement, and creative imaging.

"MakeUp Pilot is a portrait software that allows to apply makeup directly onto your photos. It helps you to quickly and easily remove small defects on your skin."

"PearlyWhites is an Adobe Photoshop compatible Plug-In filter that automatically whitens and brightens teeth in digital images."

"PhotoAcute software processes sets of photographs taken in continuous mode. It utilizes superresolution algorithms to convert a sequence of images into a single high-resolution and low-noise picture, that could only be taken with a much better camera."

[Standalone] PhotoCleaner is a one-click tool for automatic digital photo enhancement with batch processing. It fixes contrast, color shift, unwanted softness. It can resize images using high-quality algorithms, rotate photos, and add a nice-looking framing and title/copyright text.

[Plug-in] Correct barrel distortions, pincushion distortions, and all wide-angle distortions in Photoshop, Elements, Paint Shop Pro, Photo-Paint and other photo editors.

"PhotoMagic adds beauty and perfection to photography. PhotoMagic offers all you need into one photo suite: professional, award winning, and patented technologies provide you with the highest possible quality."

If you have ever shot a high contrast scene, you know that selecting the correct exposure will not avoid blown out highlights and flat shadows. Photomatix Pro offers two ways to solve this problem: HDRI + Tone Mapping or Exposure Blending. Photomatix Pro is a stand-alone program for Mac and Windows.

[Plug-in] A suite of Photoshop-compatible image enhancement plug-ins for Windows: SharpnessEditor (SHED), ExposureEditor, ColourstichEditor, ColourEditor, SaturationEditor, ContrastEditor, TransparencyEditor, BrightnessEditor. Each plug-in is available individually or the full package can be purchased. A preview-only demo of the full package can be downloaded.

"SensorKleen enables you to quickly and easily remove dust artifacts from DSLR camera images."

"ShineOff is a Photoshop compatible plug-in filter that automatically removes the shine from skin."

"Topaz Vivacity is a set of image enhancement plug-ins for Photoshop and other software that reduces ISO and film grain noises with little loss of details; eradicates JPEG/JPEG 2000 compression artifacts; sharpens and corrects edges without overshooting and noise amplification; and enhance image resolution."