GETTING STARTED IN 3 EASY STEPS

You can consider piccure+ as a “RAW converter with extended sharpening capabilities”. We always recommend putting it at the beginning of your workflow. There is a detailed handbook available (Menu/Handbook), which you can download from the Download section.

1. DOWNLOADING AND INSTALLING PICCURE+

Go to the top of this page and download piccure+. After the download, you will need to install the program. Usually the software will download into the default “Download” folder. If you cannot find the downloaded installation, search for “piccure” in your Finder (Mac) or Explorer (Windows). In some cases, your browser may prohibit you from downloading a program from the Internet. In that case, please check your browser settings.

> In Windows, please close all Adobe programs prior to installing piccure+. In addition, make sure you are logged in with Administrator rights.

> If you’re on a Mac, you will need to double click on the downloaded program. This will cause a new drive to be mounted. Go to that drive (it will be on the left side, right below your hard drive in the Finder window). Double click on the file piccure-a3.mpkg, and follow the instructions on the screen.

2. RUNNING PICCURE+

Standalone

If you are using a Mac, run piccure+ by opening the program in the Applications folder. The standalone application is called piccure+.

In Windows, you can run piccure+ by clicking on Start/Programs/piccure+/piccure+.

The standalone application is capable of processing RAW images as well as processing batches of images. We recommend using the standalone version if you have a large number of images to process and would prefer to have the images processed overnight.

Plugin

Run Adobe® Photoshop®/Lightroom® or Adobe® Photoshop Elements®. Open the image you would like to correct. Then select Filter/Piccure+/Run piccure+.

In Lightroom®, click Photo/Edit in/Piccure+ and save the current photo as a copy, ideally TIFF 16-bit.

3. PROCESSING IMAGES WITH PICCURE+

Standalone

Simply add images to piccure+ by dragging them into the main window. You can choose different processing settings for every image. We recommend you use the default settings (Lens+, Speed, Normal, Rendering 15, Denoising deactivated) in case you are not exactly sure what caused the degradation in image sharpness. Then click “Process”. You may change the target folder for the processed images by clicking “Save as”. All processed images will be saved with the string “_picc” added to the filename into the project folder. By clicking “Process”, you can start the image processing. Once an image is finished, you can double click on the image and compare the result against the original image.

Important: The image will be saved with the extension “_picc” in your project folder (Documents/piccure/Projectname). You can change the target directory on the user interface (bottom left) in the “Batch” mode (four rectangles). The image will be saved in the same image format as the input file (color space, bit-depth, file format, and EXIF information will be preserved).

Plugin

piccure+ will correct the image once you have opened the file in Adobe® Photoshop® or Photoshop Elements®. You can choose different processing settings, but we recommend you use the default settings (Lens+, Speed, Normal, Rendering 15, Denoising deactivated) in case you are not exactly sure what caused the degradation in image sharpness. Simply click “Process” to start improving your image.

Hint: If you are concerned with a specific section of the image (e.g. corners or main subject), we recommend that you zoom into that section and then click “Preview”. The processing will be significantly faster since only that section will be processed. In order to apply piccure+ to the entire image, click “Process”.

Hint: If you get very bad results, choose Lens+, set the Quality to Quality+, set Optical Aberrations to Micro, and the Rendering to 10. Subsequently increase the setting for Optical Aberrations to see if the results improve. Once you are satisfied, you can adjust the Rendering.