Kodak's Digital ROC and Digital SHO plugins

Has anyone tried these plugins with Photoshop? Are they worth the price?

Thanks,
Robert

 

I've used the Digital ROC with good success. I scanned a number of family
photos (negatives, slides and prints) that had faded and/or developed color
casts. It works on about 90% of the issues I had to deal with.

If you're in the same situation, I'd recommend it.

As to Digital SHO, if you're using Photoshop CS (highly recommended if you
do a lot of digital photography/imaging), then the highlight/shadow feature
does the same. Haven't used this one (as I have Photoshop CS), but several
friends report good results under PS 7.

 

Thanks for your reply.

Do you know how Digital ROC actually operates on images? In my testing,
I've noticed no abberations (blank spots) in the histogram after using it.
I have to assume that it does things that levels, curves and hue/saturation
cannot do.

-Robert

 

From my reading, it basically analyzes images for certain color casts,
contrast, etc. and makes the appropriate adjustments. All of this can be
done using levels, curves, etc., but this plugin simply does all of the
adjustments w/o opening up levels, curves, etc.

You can use levels, curves, etc to achieve the same result, but this plug in
just does it for you - i.e. less pain and frustration.

 

Folks,

don't know where you are located but there's a great article on how roc and
gem and ice etc work in the Summer 2004 edition of Better Photography
(Australia).

Regards

Don from Down Under

 

Don - do you have a link to their website (Better Photography)?

Thanx

 

http://community.webshots.com/photo/42670345/42670526IIeqQz

Uni

In my testing,