![]() After 2 years of development and countless hours in our test lab, we're proud to introduce the next level of image optimization with Ashampoo Photo Optimizer! We've gone through thousands of settings combinations to find the ones that offer the best results at a high hit ratio. Shots hastily taken with a cellphone camera are now easily recoverable! Dull colors, unfavorable lighting or lack of contrast–Photo Optimizer's advanced algorithms detects it all! Once analyzed, your photos are recreated and now full of vibrancy and life–exactly what good photos should look like. Each individual image is meticulously analyzed for potential weaknesses and room for improvement. The secret of the new Photo Optimizer lies in its one-of-a-kind image optimization. ![]() Genius, right? Unrivaled image auto-optimization ![]() Need to quickly straighten the horizon after auto-optimization, fix the perspective or do some cropping? Now you can. Ashampoo Photo Optimizer features a customizable "Favorites" menu so you can bundle all your favorite functions in a single instantly accessible location. Now, you no longer have to navigate through various menus and categories to reach them. We all have our favorite functions that we most frequently rely on. Give your photos a second chance and get the right perspective, always! Enter Photo Optimizer's new perspective correction! Fix horizontal or vertical distortions in just a few clicks and save shots that would have otherwise gone straight to the bin. Other times, you forgot to bring your tripod and failed to keep your camera completely straight. Buildings and other tall objects almost seem to fall over, putting an unintended comical spin on your photos. Some photos look better in black and white or at least give the illusion of being older photos than they really are and like most other photo manipulation programs, this is easy to do in Ashampoo Photo Optimizer 9.Taking shots of buildings often leads to unpleasant, and easily noticeable, perspective distortions, due to the position of the photographer. There’s a lot of detail in the shot and it also looks a little blurred, but after sharpening, there’s is a big improvement. In this photo, also from 1976, I snapped a scene on a freighter in the port of Montevideo, Uruguay. The effect used was adaptive sharpen and it does appear sharper than the original. Here’s another photo, this time scanned from a 1976 photograph with the original being a little blurred, presumably because when I took the photo, I and the subjects were moving. This is a photo from 1993 which I scanned on a flatbed at about 300 dpi and as you can see, the slider is evident, before and after. This can be set to horizontal or vertical and the optimisation is immediate, i.e., on the fly. What I like most about Ashampoo Photo Optimizer 9 is the before and after slider which literally shows you how your photo will look when the effect has been applied. In this example, I simply reduced the temperature and increased the contrast for a richer photo and I think the result looks much better. For the purpose of this review, I’ve chosen a photo of a cornfield that has too much sunlight so the scene looks overexposed, with before and after images. When opening the program you can add a folder or a single file for optimising and then choose the various options to improve the photo. ![]() Ashampoo Photo Optimizer 9 is just that – a photo optimiser for bringing out the best in your photos and it’s a very simple program to use. ![]() Sometimes those photos need a little help, perhaps because of the light, the horizon may be off or the picture simply needs optimising to bring out the best in it. I take a lot of photos when I’m out and about in Buenos Aires, mainly for adding to Google Maps, but they also serve as a useful diary reminder when I want to look back on times past. However, optimising images even further is more for the enthusiast, which is where Ashampoo Photo Optimizer 9 comes in. Those of us who write for DCT use a lot of images and usually, those images need to be resized or even touched up for the best presentation. ![]()
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