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Features & Benefits

Automatic Photo Correction & Optimization
At the heart of PhotoSumo is a comprehensive, rule-based Intelligent Expert System (IES) that automatically optimizes and enhances digital image files, preparing them for printing or viewing. Using sophisticated “fuzzy logic” and “artificial intelligence” (AI) algorithms, PhotoSumo, in effect, emulates the decision-making expertise of a traditional color expert, or digital imaging professional, to analyze, correct and produce high-quality image files. From these files, anyone from a photo lab technician to a photo hobbyist; from a publishing house to a minilab at the corner drug store can create exceptional images that are accurate in every way.

Expert Functionality
PhotoSumo acquires and analyzes photos as a human graphic-art expert would. It looks for problems associated with under or over exposure, contrast, brightness, color and details, and then corrects the problems automatically to obtain optimal, quality results. Red-eye can be corrected to natural eye colorautomatically. The original and corrected photos are then displayed side by side, for easy comparison and selection.

Saving Man-hours on photo editing
PhotoSumo eliminates infinite man-hours spent on fixing images in Photoshop or other image editing programs. It is an affordable technology built by a former chief color scientist at Scitex; the result is applicable to Photography and graphic arts industry. It gives digital photography professionals, designers, and prepress professionals in the digital imaging and graphic arts markets asophisticated,high volume, automatic digital image correction solution that not only speeds up processing, but also makes more digitalpictures useable with just a click of the mouse.

Skin Tone Color Adjustment
PhotoSumo provides advanced skin tone color adjustment tool to optimize the skin color hue, saturation, contrast, sharpness and individual controls on lighter and darker skin colors.

Advanced Sharpening & Hue Setting
PhotoSumo offers advaced tools on sharpening which provides separate controls on sharpening for big and fine details and at the same time provides adaptive smoothening and noise reduction.

Color Fine Tuning Tools
PhotoSumo provides an unique Workflow Color Adjuster which enables users to fine-tune the photo color reproduction. For example, if the rendition of the colors for some photos are too warm, or if the colors have shifted because of the particular lighting conditions, you may fine-tune the color gamut using Workflow Color Adjuster to correct this color bias.

Advanced Sharp-Smooth-Noise and Hue-Luminance-Saturation Setting in PhotoSumo

Cropping and Smart Scaling
After optimizing the photo quality, users can scale and crop the photos to a certain photo-print size. Users can select from a list of pre-set size, or can enter any custom size for the photo-print paper. Users can also define the resolution to generate the photos to suit the print requirement. If the photos do not proportionally fit the photo-print paper, PhotoSumo can crop the photos to the proportions of the photo-print paper.

RGB to CMYK conversion.
PhotoSumo can convert the original photos to the color format suitable for your RGB or CMYK photo printers using industry-standard ICC color conversion. Users can choose the source photo color space, and the target printer color space and the rendering intent for maximum control. This is a powerful tool to generate the right format for different print requirement.

PDF and Raw support
Apart from supporting popular image formats such as JPEG and TIFF, PhotoSumo also supports PDF and Raw files. In particular, raw files conversion incorporates luminance and saturation noise reduction, and controls on the color saturation and lightness are also provided.

Workflow Capabilities
PhotoSumo Server provides workflow capabilities such as predefined Hot Folders, and quick production of thousands of pictures per hour that is customizable to fit users needs, PhotoSumo is a user-friendly solution for professionals. PhotoSumo can also tightly integrated with the Compose’s Express Workflow, offering smart selection of photo processing setups based on photo characteristics written in the EXIF information.

Customizability
PhotoSumo customized through a preferences window that can be named and saved and be used later. Customizable options include: Dark Details, White Balance, Colour saturation, Selective Hues, Sharpen/Soften, Paper Type, Input/Output Device, Print Size & Resolution. It also enables multiple size setting (smart scaling) & cropping, and conversion from different RGB space into CMYK.