SILKYPIX Developer Studio Pro 8 adds “clarity” that enhances the texture with its own image processing technology. In addition, the correction functions such as adding a brush function to the partial correction tool has been enhanced. This product is RAW development software for professionals.

Full Basic Functions
SILKYPIX allows you to make adjustments such as exposure (brightness), white balance (shading), tone (light and dark sharpness) while maintaining a high quality of image without deteriorating the image. In addition, anyone can easily perform high-quality adjustments because basic adjustments are arranged in order from the top of the control panel. Furthermore, fine tuning adjustments for each item can be minutely performed with the "Slider" control.

A Variety of Functions to Recreate the Photographer’s Images
The Partial correction function is included to adjust saturation and brightness of specified areas. In addition, the newly adopted Brush in SILKYPIX Pro8 can be used to designate areas for partial correction more freely than ever. What is more, a variety of fine adjustment functions such as Fine color controller which can be used to adjust each specific color and Highlight controller which restores colors in highlighted parts as well as recover gradation are available.

Easy Editing with Tastes
SILKYPIX Pro8 has 10 types of maker tastes installed which can take on various shooting scenes in advance. Just by choosing a taste such as "Landscape" or "Portrait," you can make a finished photograph easily that fits your image. In addition, you can save your adjusted parameters as a taste. Parameters are very useful functions, and you can easily create pictures from the same image by applying them to other photographs.

Compliable with JPEG and TIFF
With "SILKYPIX RAW Bridge" available only on SILKYPIX Pro8, JPEGs and TIFFs are expanded to 16 bits, so even JPEG and TIFF images can be adjusted to a high degree of image quality with less image degradation.

New Features in Version 8.0:

Clarity adjustment
A “Clarity” parameter has been added to the “Tone” adjustment item to adjust the luminance level of each pixel based on information from surrounding pixels. Increasing the effects of “Clarity” will make it possible to finish the details of the subject in a bold picture, so it is effective when you want to finish bold scenes with a hazy surrounding. In contrast, by lowering the “Clarity” you can finish with a soft ambience like with a soft focus, so you can use it to effect with women and children’s photography.

A Brush added to the Partial correction tools
A “Brush” that makes it possible to select correction areas more freely to “Partial corrections” was added in “SILKYPIX Developer Studio Pro7.” Using the “Brush” makes corrections easier even in difficult areas of “circular correction filter” and “gradual correction filter.” More creative adjustments have become possible by making partial corrections that do not take the form of the subject.

Strengthening the Monochrome Controller Function
A Monochrome Controller function has been installed specialized for adjusting monochrome pictures. Eight kinds of “Color filters” can be selected, and it is possible to reproduce filters when shooting monochrome photographs on your screen. In addition, since the “Lightness” can be adjusted for each hue, you can make a thorough finish to your black and white photographs. Even beginners of black and white photography can easily switch between color and monochrome images after applying parameters in the preview display, so you will be able to intensify the understanding of effects on monochrome photographs due to changes in color.

Underwater Photo Controller Installed as a Function for Correcting Dedicated to Underwater Photography
A function from “SILKYPIX Marine Photography” for RAW development software dedicated to underwater photography has been installed into “SILKYPIX Developer Studio Pro8” called Underwater photo controller. With this Underwater photo controller, you can correct the bluishness that is difficult to adjust with the normal white balance by using “White balance for underwater.” It also features “Color restoration,” which actually reproduces colors lost in water, as well as “Muddy reduction” to eliminate murkiness in water.

Focus Peaking Function Installed
A Focus peaking function has been installed to detect the parts focused on from adjacent pixels in the image, and to display them with colors added to those parts. With this function, you can clearly check the area of focus.

Improved User Interface
We have improved the design to be clean and simple to make it possible to concentrate on adjusting images. In addition, the layout has been changed to make it easier to understand for those using adjustment functions for the first time. Also, you can now change the background color of the preview display according to your preference.

Windows Version / macOS Version

– Support Canon EOS Kiss X9 / Rebel SL2 / 200D.
– Support Casio EX-ZR4100.
– Support Leica TL2.
– It is now possible to import “tastes” by dropping saved “tastes” files onto the preview window or thumbnail window.
– Fixed a problem that color reproduction was inaccurate for sRAW and mRAW images taken with Canon EOS 80D and a certain light source (such as incandescent light bulbs). (*1, *2)
– Fixed a problem that “Output color space” at “Development settings” sub-control does not change correctly to AdobeRGB when opening JPEG/TIFF images that embedded AdobeRGB ICC Profile.
– Fixed the default pixel size of RAW taken with Nikon D3X. (*1, *3)
– Other small fixes.

*1 To enable this fix, you must delete temporary files through the menu. To delete temporary files, select [Help] – [Troubleshooting] – [Delete temporary files] from the menu.
*2 By enabling this fix, the colors of sRAW and mRAW will be changed that compared with the previous versions. However, when you adjusted sRAW and mRAW images with previous versions, the colors of the images will not be changed. To enable this fix, you should select [Parameters] – [Initialize development parameters] from the menu.
*3 The pixel size was changed from 6064 x 4028 to 6048 x 4032 in FX format, from 4016 x 2636 to 3968 x 2640 in DX format, and from 5104 x 4028 to 5056 x 4032 in an aspect ratio of 5:4.

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