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"When it comes to evaluating and adjusting color, it's always good to compare "before" and "after" images. Even subtle color changes can benefit greatly from having a reference to judge any change that one makes to a digital image."

"20/20 Color MD uses this principle with its six-step wizard that walks you through each enhancement for dynamic range, color, and more. With a before and after screen, advanced color-correction algorithms and the ability to fine-tune the effects to your preference, this software reduces the time needed to improve the look of your digital photographs."

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"Even if you remember lots of things about the people whose portraits you’ve taken, you can’t always remember the exact color of their skin. And trying to figure out if it looks funny because there’s a little cyan in the shadows, or too much magenta in the midtones, can hang you up for hours. PhotoTune Software’s SkinTune to the rescue. Select the person’s ethnicity, try out a series of sample patches until the color looks right, then watch as the whole image follows suit."

"Definitely much easier than messing with Curves."

"For those of us who prefer to spend more time taking photos than fixing them, there's PhotoTune 20/20 Color MD, whose price and ease of use belies the extensive testing and sophisticated technology behind it."

"On the rare occasion that the end result isn't quite what you had in mind, you can use fine-tune controls to subtly change color levels, brightness, contrast, saturation, highlights, shadows, and dynamic range."

"PhotoTune's 20/20 Color MD version 2 is a wizard-style Photoshop plug-in designed to correct colors or enhance an image. Color correction is complicated and subjective and the whole purpose of 20/20 Color MD is to simplfy the process."

"I was surprised at the saturation control possible with this new version."

"Bottom line, it's an effective tool for color correction and enhancement."

Rating: 4 STAR

Intuitive Color Correction

"PhotoTune’s 20/20 Color MD 2.0 ($50) is a remarkably easy to use image enhancing and color correcting plug-in for Photoshop."

"In our tests, it increased both detail and color in shadow areas, balanced colors, and toned down glare. Professionals can use the advanced controls to adjust exposure, and separately balance color in highlights and shadows. You can also save “snapshots” of your adjustments at any point in the process to compare with subsequent adjustments. You can also include 20/20 Color MD in a Photoshop Action for batch processing. Version 2 adds support for 16-bit images, a simpler 6-step wizard with greater precision, return to previous step, window resizing, and a final numerical display."

"We recommend it highly."