Mr. Contrast

Mr. Contrast is an Adobe Photoshop plugin that was designed to help photographers, graphic designers or users that are interested in photo manipulation enhance their projects by performing contrast adjustments, thus emphasizing certain details.

Given that this utility is not a standalone program, it needs a host application to be implemented into, in this case, Adobe Photoshop. Installing the plugin on the target computer can be accomplished by extracting the contents of the archive it comes packed in and moving it to the Plug-Ins folder of Adobe Photoshop, after identifying it.

It is worth mentioning that Photoshop needs to be closed during the setup or restarted after it so that the plugin can be loaded into the application accordingly. After installation, users can launch the plugin via the Plugins category from the Effects menu.

The main window of Mr. Contrast shelters a handful of adjustable slider bars and a preview area, where users can keep track of their progress without switching the workspaces. Among the customizable parameters, users can find detail size, glow size, soft glow, harsh glow, original color, colorize, dry mix, detail mix, soft glow mix, gamma and contrast. Randomizing the result can be done by hitting the dice button.