for mac download Icecream Photo Editor 1.43

May sold out a couple of days ago, and there are only a handful of places left in June, so we're really pleased with how well it's been received. As I mentioned, we scheduled two occurrences of the course: May and June. I've spent most of this week talking about black and white photography, particularly in terms of the launch of our new assignments-based course. If you're a Mac user I'd definitely suggest you give it a try.

The bad news is that this is a Mac only product, but the good news is that it's cheap ($75) and you can also download a demo version. None of these are quite as flexible as Camera RAW, but they do produce good results. It also has a range of interesting black and white conversion methods: CIELab Lightness, Luma, Desaturate, Intensity, Custom Tone, Channel Mixer and RAW Color Channel Mixer. Second, it has some great sharpening routines: Unsharp Mask, Hybrid Sharpen, which 'uses a combination of low pass/high pass image convolution filters' - and I'm not sure what that means, but it works well - DoG, which 'uses the Difference of Gaussians algorithm' (and I don't know what that means either), and my favourite R-L (Richardson-Lucy) Deconvolution which was a sharpening method that was developed to counteract the problems with the initial images from the Hubble Space telescope. In other words, it combines RGB and Lab Color into a single curve, so for this image I was able to use the Lightness curve for contrast and the a* curve for tone, but didn't need to convert to Lab Color first. First, it has the best curves tool I've ever used, with a single dialog that allows you to edit eight separate curves: RGB, Red, Green, Blue, Lightness, Chroma (ab), a* and b*.

It doesn't have all the bells and whistles of Camera RAW but there are two things I especially like. Anyway, to cut a long story short, I downloaded the new version recently and thought I'd give it another try. It's a programme I've had for quite a few years but as Camera RAW improved I've used it less and less. This is quite similar to a shot I posted back in May, but I've posted this one too as I've been experimenting with an alternative RAW processor: Iridient Developer.

For mac download Icecream Photo Editor 1.43