AKVIS presents the cutting edge technology of automatic photo colorization.AKVIS Coloriage is as easy to use as a coloring book. No layers manipulation, no complicated techniques. To colorize a black and white photo it suffices to indicate the desired colors by the stroke of the brush; the program does the rest of the work - recognizes the object's border and tailors thenew color to the grayscale tones of the initial picture.

You can colorize old black and white photos from your family archive, replace colors in your color photos or achieve artistic efffects by making partial colorization or selective desaturation.

Make a present for your grandmother by addingcolor to her school photo, replace the colors of your car to see how it would look in scarlet, see how you will look if you dye your hair red.

AKVIS Coloriage creates natural-looking colorization in a quick and entertaining manner. It works equally well for coloring of portraits, landscapes, fashion, and still life. The skin, sky, verdure, and tree color patterns help users to select realistic colors for their picture.

Use AKVIS Coloriage for the following purposes:
-add color to black and white photos;
-add color to hand sketch drawings (for example, manga drawings and comics);
-replace colors on a color photo;
-try different color schemes for interior and exterior design;
-selective desaturation and selective colorization of areas on a color photo.

Apply your creativity and you will find a wide variety of other usages for the software.
The program is available in twoversions - as an independent program (standalone) and as a plug-in to a photo editor. The plug-in version is compatible with Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo, Photo Paint, PhotoImpact and other popular editors.

Platforms: WinXP , Windows2000 , Windows2003 , Windows Vista Starter , Vista , Windows Vista Home Basic , Windows Vista Home Premium , Windows Vista Business , Windows Vista Enterprise , Windows Vista Ultimate , Windows Vista Home Basic x64 , Windows Vista Home Premium x64 , Windows Vista Business x64 , Windows Vista Enterprise x64 , Windows Vista Ultimate x64 , Mac OS X , Macintosh , Mac OS X 10.3 , Mac OS X 10.4 , Mac OS X 10.5

System requirements: RAM 512; Intel Pentium 3+; /G3+; res1024+