ArcSoft Magic-i Visual Effects 2.0.99.136

ArcSoft Magic-i Visual Effects is a handy Windows utility designed to apply several effects to your webcam, thus enhancing the video chatting experience over the Internet.

With a fairly clean and easy to navigate interface, ArcSoft Magic-i Visual Effects presents its main modules straight in the main window, with all features nicely organized in an intuitive sidebar.

You can thus change webcam settings, enable face tracking and configure digital zoom, apply a series of filter, select a new frame or a theme, set up your avatar and enhance the webcam with the help of various effects.

The “Webcam Settings” screen lets you configure brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, sharpness, gamma, white balance, backlight compensation, exposure, focus and gain, all supposed to enhance the quality of the streamed content.

The “Face Tracking” tool provides two different modes, single and multiple, while the “Digital Zoom” can be easily configured with the help of intuitive tools.

As for “Filters”, “Frames”, “Themes” and “Avatar”, there are numerous built-in options, starting with black and white and face mosaic utilities and ending with various drawings to make you look like a princess or a race driver.

Last but not least, the “Enhance” tab gives you the power to configure noise reduction and dynamic lighting, again supposed to contribute to a better video quality.

The application quietly sits in the System Tray and even comes with a so-called “Private” button that allows you to instantly replace the streamed video with a still picture and thus stop video broadcasting.

Of course, ArcSoft Magic-i Visual Effects works on all Windows versions and since it's designed to be used with your webcam, it needs just a minimum amount of hardware resources.

Which means ArcSoft Magic-i Visual Effects is one affordable and useful application, especially thanks to rich offering it boasts.