COMPANY: ICT | URL: www.lucisart.com | TYPE: Standalone | PLATFORM: Mac, Windows | PRICE: No longer available
Sales of LucisArt ended on May 9, 2008 at 3pm EST. Its replacement, LUCISART PRO, is scheduled to be released in August 2008.

The new advanced LucisArt Pro is intended for professional photographers and will be priced accordingly ($595 retail, with a $60 "plugsnpixels" discount code available for new customers and for those who purchased any LucisArt product prior to January 1, 2007).
With the unique LucisArt, users can repair image exposure, reveal incredible image detail and create beautiful artistic effects. LucisArt is so easy and intuitive to use that there is no manual, only a short installation note and a two-page help file.

LucisArt provides complete creative control of digital images, enhancing the smallest detail in bright and shadowed areas simultaneously. You've never seen effects like these! Make the most of your digital photographs. Play with your digital images. Extract the possibilities, the art hidden inside your image.

Based on patented technology originally developed for medical and scientific imaging, LucisArt gives you incredible creative control of your image and amazing access to image content.

Patented Pixel Relativity Shifting

LucisArt's patented Lucis algorithm creates a map of an image's relative contrasts by comparing each pixel to every other pixel along hundreds of radial lines in two directions. The LucisArt controls allow you to select a range of contrast variations that you would like to see more clearly. Contrast variations within the selected range are enhanced, and contrast variations outside the range are diminished but not eliminated.

LucisArt is shifting the relative emphasis of contrast variations, allowing you to view image content that would be difficult or impossible to view any other way. Each time you process an image with LucisArt you have shifted all of the relationships between the pixels. There are an unlimited number of unique special effects you can create with LucisArt. As a result, LucisArt is very computationally intensive. It requires 5-7 times the image size in RAM. There is no limit on the file size LucisArt will process provided there is sufficient memory.

LucisArt features:

Exposure: Correct scans and repair improperly exposed images. Improve overall image contrast and accurately enhance image detail throughout the image.

Whyeth: Accurately enhance the smallest image detail. Create an antique look or dry-brush watercolor effect. Detail is represented by small variations in contrast. The effects Exposure or Whyeth enhance small contrast variances. The larger the button, the smaller detail. Details emerge throughout the image, in the bright, dark and midrange areas simultaneously, because LucisArt is selecting and enhancing relative contrasts.

Klimpt: Create a surrealistic, brilliantly colored image with one click. Klimpt is a preprogrammed series of LucisArt processings. First the image is drastically smoothed (Winslow at about 95%). Then detail is enhanced (equivalent to applying Exposure at about the 3rd button from the left). This creates Klimpt 1. Klimpt 2 is created by enhancing detail again. Klimpt 3 is created by enhancing detail a third time. Klimpt images tend to be bright and surrealistic. Few Klimpt images alone are beautiful. However, if you mix about 20% of a Klimpt image with about 80% of the original image you get an image that looks like a Monet, especially for landscapes and seascapes.

Klimpt is also useful for bringing back bright colors when your image has turned muddy from processing it multiple times.

Winslow: Mimic a watercolor painting where the brush strokes vary depending upon your image’s relative contrasts. The Winslow watercolor special effect enhances larger contrast variances. So the image's smallest contrast variances will be smoothed. Detail is smoothed based on the image's relative contrasts, resulting in a varied and beautiful watercolor effect. The further you move the slider to the right, the more the image is smoothed.

Sculpture: A combination of image smoothing and detail enhancement brings out mid-range contrast patterns for a sculptured look. Sculpture is enhancing midrange contrast variances. So the smaller and larger contrast variances will be smoothed. Midrange contrast patterns emerge, resulting in a sculptured look. As you move the slider to the right, the more smaller contrasts are smoothed relative to larger contrasts. The larger buttons make the pattern more pronounced.

Plaid: Add a textured and sculptured appearance to your image by creating radiant lines and patterns. Plaid is just like sculpture except contrast variances are only compared along a few radial lines instead of hundreds of radial lines. This results in beautiful angular artifacts.

Mix: Mix the LucisArt image with the original image in any proportion to make any effect as pronounced or subtle as you prefer. This is especially useful when fixing image exposure.

LucisArt processes 8-bit RGB and grayscale images.

LucisArt is compatible with Adobe Photoshop versions 6-CS3 and Adobe Photoshop Elements versions 2-6 on all Windows XP and Vista computers.

LucisArt is compatible with Adobe Photoshop versions 6-CS2 and Adobe Photoshop Elements versions 2-4 on all Macintosh computers. Note: LucisArt will only work in Adobe Photoshop CS3 on Intel Macintosh computers by running Photoshop CS3 under Rosetta. LucisArt is compatible with Photoshop CS3 on all older Macintosh computers.

Complete access to image content with Lucis Pro
For more advanced users, Image Content Technology also offers the high-end Lucis Pro 5.0, a standalone Windows-only application with functionality and control beyond what Lucis Art offers. All of the effects in LucisArt are a subset of the settings available with Lucis Pro 5.0. Lucis Pro 5.0 allows full access to image content via two sliders. With one slider you increase image detail. With the other slider you can smooth the image. Combinations of image smoothing and detail enhancement reveal midrange contrast patterns.

A 15% discount for Plugs 'N Pixels visitors is also available for LucisPro.
See more LucisArt examples here (sample website made with SiteGrinder 2).

See this page for training in LucisArt techniques.

See this page for free LucisArt actions.
Before-and-after medical image enhancement