Free white balance + highlight recovery plugin- looking for input

glennchan

Hi everyone,

I am developing a free plug-in for white balance + highlight recovery. The plug-in lets you white balance an image by drag-selecting a neutral area to eliminate the color cast. It will also recover highlight detail that is normally clipped and discarded by the white balance process.

So it's: (1) faster (2) lets you recover highlight detail.

Download page for the free white balance + highlight recovery plugin

Some specific feedback I'm looking for is:
A- Does it crash, are there bugs?
B- For some images, the normal tools (and this plug-in) can't perfectly white balance the image. Do you notice this? Should I research how to make a plug-in that would let you perfectly white balance an image? (I suspect it's due to cheap consumer cameras cheating the digital signal processing and introducing non-linearities into the image. But I'm not sure because I haven't tried it yet.)
C-Any other comments or suggestions you might have.

Thanks!

Pupator

Plug-in installed and working for me (Vista 32Bit, Photoshop CS 3.0.1). I need to run it on a lot of images before I give any feedback on the quality.

lfortier

Plug in installed. Windows XP SP3.

Initial test: Great!

glennchan

Thanks for the feedback. It's released and up. The only change is that the PC version build 001 had some of the sliders accidentally reversed; otherwise there are no changes.

I'll probably make a free tint/toning plug-in next.