Review: PhotoEQ
With the popularity of cameras on phones, and the low cost of high-quality point and shoot camera, taking pictures is a daily occurrence for many of us. Although cameras today do a fairly good job at capturing images in all types of environments, it is very likely you are going to have to edit your images for size or problems with exposure, color, etc. For anyone who takes photography seriously and does it as either as a serious hobby, or make some income off of it, an application like Photoshop will most likely be used, but that is also a big overkill for the average person wanting to do some basic image editing and correction.
Today we are taking a look at PhotoEQ from SoftColor which offers a solution for image editing, color correction, and batch processing. They call this “guess-free” software for your images, so on the outside this looks like great software for image takers that I described above.
Using PhotoEQ
When you first open PhotoEQ you are presented with a small window where you can drag and drop an image or folder of images to be processed. A big plus to PhotoEQ is that it accepts most standard image formats including RAW.
PhotoEQ quickly opens into its editing window which is simply designed, and seemed very easy to navigate. There really isn’t a learning curve here and just about anyone should be able to open this up and immediately begin to work on their photos.
There’s a variety of selections that you can use to edit your image. Cropping, rotate, color correction, sharpening, de-noise, and red-eye adjustment. Just about everything is done with sliders and you can immediately view your edits. The screenshot above shows the color correction screen and you can use the auto adjustments, or fine tune them with the color sliders. PhotoEQ will also allow you to set adjustments for batch processing, which is very helpful if you need to process a bunch of images with limited time on hand.
I edited several images from various camera in PhotoEQ, and most of the results of editing and correction came out quite well. If you are not happy with the automated results, then experimenting with the sliders is the way to go to achieve the result you are looking for. If you need a simple and easy to use photo enhancement app, I suggest you download the 10-day free trial and give it a try. This is a fantastic choice for people who don’t want to spend hours in an expensive photo editing app, and want to fix their images so they can share them with friends and family.
Rating: 
PhotoEQ – (free trial, $33 full version)
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