SidewinderPhotoColourBalancer

Cameras deliver pictures in high-quality format, but the file can be pretty large and with settings which might not be suitable to your needs. As such, SidewinderPhotoColourBalancer comes with a comprehensive set of tools which allows you to adjust the RGB color levels of your pictures to prevent color level calculation distortion.

First of all, you might want to know that the application doesn’t come inside a setup package, so you get to benefit from all its has to offer from the moment download is done. This also allows you to carry it around on a USB flash drive to use it wherever needed, but you do need to be sure that Java Runtime Environment is on the target PC.

The application is generally built to process raw picture formats, such as 24bit JPEG pictures, or no alpha PNG and BMP pictures, which are the only supported formats for input. Most functions are found in the main window, with additional ones showing up in particular cases, such as the quick color presenter hue board.

Truth be told, the interface looks and feels a little rough around the edges, and you might need to invest a bit of time and effort into getting the hang of things. There’s a preview section for the image, which can be adjusted in size and lets you specify the zoom level through a drop-down menu, which can be a little difficult to get just right.

You can access a hue board for in-depth management of color levels. Changes are visible at the press of a button. Red, green, blue, and white colors benefit from a variety of sliders to adjust amount of tint to use.

It’s also possible to somewhat automate this operation. The quick color presenter lets you analyze and select processed images with different color configurations.

Additional tools allow you to include text at particular positions, crop based on a selection box, as well as to flip and rotate.

All things considered, we can state that SidewinderPhotoColourBalancer comes with good intentions, letting you adjust the color levels of your pictures in several ways. It also comes with additional editing tools, but it can take a little getting used to.