BlackMagic 2.x

BlackMagic description:

BlackMagic may be used to colorize Black & White, Sepia, or IR (infrared) photos, or to color-correct ones with dull or inappropriate colors. Being extremely simple to use, its a software that transcends age and professional boundaries, providing an immense sense of achievement, pride and satisfaction for kids and adults alike. The resulting colorized photos have optimally saturated and consistent, correct hues - giving the appearance as if the photo had originally been 'shot' in colour! BlackMagic can deliver professional grade results with just a few minutes worth of effort (depending upon the image size & complexity).

Families can have lots of fun with BlackMagic HE (Home Edition), creating exceptional pieces of art by colourizing old black & white photos from the family album, or of their favourite stars from yester-years. This is nothing short of reviving invaluable family heirlooms to a new glory, that will be admired by generations to come.

Professional Artists and Photo-labs will appreciate the additional sophistication and power of BlackMagic Professional or Business Editions, enabling an unprecedented level of productivity and added value to any photo restoration project.

All BlackMagic editions incorporate the "TimeBrush RLC [Real-Life-Colour]" standard. The TimeBrush RLC technology was specifically created for colorizing black & white motion pictures of the Hollywood fame.

BlackMagic users are not required to pick specific colors - they simply identify the 'type of object' to be colorized. BlackMagic then automatically performs the needed calculations to dynamically vary all required color parameters based on the content of the photograph and advanced Neural Net algorithms.

For more details, work samples, and trial download visit http://www.timebrush.com/blackmagic/

BlackMagic 2.x was released on Nov 29, 2003. The current version will run on Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, NT, XP. Additional system requirements for BlackMagic include Win95/98/ME/XP/2000/ on Pentium+ (or equivalent) equipped PC.

BlackMagic is a shareware. You will be able to use the evaluation version available for download during a limited period, after what you will have to buy the full version to continue to use BlackMagic.

Size of BlackMagic 2.x download is less than 2000 Kb. DSL users will only need one minute to achieve the download, when 4 minutes may be required when using a 56k modem. (See below to download BlackMagic 2.x).