SoftColor Blog
Feb 24 2010

The Buzz about Toolbox 2

Color Management in the Command Line

“These days with Apps increasingly building feature on top of feature (and generally being a big memory-hog) it’s nice to see a super-light command-line tool like SoftColor.” - Marco Kramer / digital-engineer.net

http://www.digital-engineer.net/archive/entry/color-management-in-the-command-line/

Jan 29 2010

SoftColor Toolbox 2.2 Released

We are happy to announce major 2.2 update to SoftColor Toolbox 2.

In this update our target was to make Toolbox 2 tools more faster and easier to use.

Toolbox 2.2 has now our new Color Correction Engine 3.0 which gives to you more performance and accuracy for automatic color correction. We have also rewritten all manual controls: Color EQ, Exposure, Correction Intensity.

We have made many improvements to our command line tools to make them easier to use. One of the best features is automated template generator for configuration files which is included in softcolor.exe tool. You can make templates with softcolor.exe /MakeTemplate command.

Check all new features in action from Toolbox 2 video tour page.

This is a free update for all Toolbox 2 users. Toolbox 2 single license price for one computer is 299 €

Download Toolbox 2.2


SoftColor Toolbox 2.2 Release Notes:


New Features:
  • SoftColor Color Correction Engine 3.0
  • Rotating, flipping and straightening images (0-360 degrees).
  • Rotated images are cropped automatically.
  • Filter for sharpness with automatic edge preservation
  • Configuration template generator
  • Support for V4 icc profiles
  • New tools for background server configuration>
Improvements:
  • Performance improvements for resizing and resampling
  • Faster color management engine
  • More details and information to user when Toolbox is processsing
  • Configuration file syntax improvements


Post by: Petri - CTO / Co-Founder
Jan 02 2010

SoftColor Photo2 2.0 Coming

We are developing totally rewritten 2.0 version of our Photo2 software.
It will released during spring 2010.

Photo2 2.0 will be an advanced color correction, image processing and color management software for rest of us.

Single license price (sales tax/VAT) will be 99 € for one computer.
Photo2 2.0 is a free update for current Photo2 1.x users.

Stay tuned: www.softcolor.fi/photo2/
Post by: Petri - CTO / Co-Founder
Oct 05 2009

SoftColor Toolbox 2.1 Update

We have made some updates to SoftColor Toolbox 2

New Features:

  • DirectoryServerService.exe is MS Windows service (automatically starting when OS start and it is non interactive). By using it you can start multiple directory polling configuration DirectoryServer.exe process without need to log windows with certain user. When service is stopped it will stop all started DirectoryServer.exe polling applications automatically.
  • Updated raw format support
  • Fixe layer composition issues with Photoshop CS4 (.psd file formats)
Download SoftColor Toolbox 2.1 - www.softcolor.fi/toolbox/download/
This is a free update for Toolbox 2 customers.
Post by: Petri - CTO / Co-Founder
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