Introduction - Version Reviewed: 1.1.2, 1 Apr '04
Curvemeister is an unusual plug-in for Adobe Photoshop. Many plug-ins are designed to make life easier by masking the power and complexity of Photoshop behind a new interface. Sometimes this means giving up some flexibility in the interests of simplicity, other times the plug-in has so many buttons, sliders and options that it introduces a whole new learning curve for the user. Curvemeister extends, with beguiling simplicity, the familiar interface of the curves command - you still need to understand what curves do and how they will affect your image, but Curvemeister helps you with previews, an interface that can display all the channel curves at the same time, alternative working spaces, sampling, black, white and neutral pins, and 16-bit support.
Curvemeister costs USD 34.95. A demo copy is available for download, which is fully functional, but watermarks are added to the image. It is compatible with all versions of Photoshop from 5 to CS.
I have no connection with Curvemeister other than the fact that the developer, , provided me a full copy for review.
If you only have one version of Photoshop installed on your system, installation is very simple. The set-up program is downloaded in a Zip file. You can run .EXE file from within WinZip and the plug-in is installed in the appropriate folder. Since I have Photoshop V7 and CS (and some leftover bits of V6), I had to copy the plug-in file, CurveMeister.8bf, to the Filters folder: