MatchLight 3.0 Now Available for Windows and Mac as a Photoshop 7.0 Plugin!

MatchLight Software is designed to help you predictably and consistently calibrate the lighting and camera characteristics of two or more images in order to create a realistic image composite.

Photographers: How to Shoot with MatchLight
Visit our online Tutorial “On the Set: How to Shoot and Create Realistic Composites” which provides an illustrated overview of how to integrate MatchLight into your next shoot.

Designers and Digital Artists: How do I Design using MatchLight?
Our Reviewer's Guide (pdf 2.4 MB) contains a real world case study that shows how you can design your layout starting with backgrounds and effectively collaborate with your photo studio to get incredible creative results--at a fraction of the time and cost!

Click Here to: Purchase MatchLight 3.0

MatchLight Adobe Photoshop™ 7.0 Plug-in:
MatchLight's unique image calibration capability is now seamlessly integrated with Photoshop (available for Windows & Mac).

When used in combination with MatchLight's Patent Pending Light Targets™, MatchLight Software enables you to create LightMaps™ that photographers use to calibrate background and foreground images for Light Direction, Light Elevation, Light Quality (hard, semi-diffused, diffused) and Camera Elevation. MatchLight gives digital artists a powerful tool that can be used for all of your image compositing projects.

About LightMaps™
MatchLight Software's primary purpose is to graphically illustrate all of the lighting and perspective characteristics present in a photograph. Used in combination with MatchLight Light Targets, MatchLight Software automatically outputs this information into a graphical illustration we refer to as a "LightMap".

Why are LightMaps important? Imagine trying to build a house without a blueprint - the results could be disastrous. Well, building a realistic image composite is really no different. In attempting to photograph two different subjects, at different times, in different locations, perhaps even by different photographers, that will later be composited in a realistic manner-- can be a daunting challenge to even the most skilled professional.

We've all seen bad composites: The lighting is wrong, the feet are “floating”, the perspective is jarring- need we go on? Good composites, however, share something in common: The Lighting and Perspective of BOTH the foreground AND background images are identical giving the final composite a natural look--- nearly indistinguishable from actually having shot on location. This is where LightMaps make the difference: LightMaps are a “blueprint” to help photographers and digital artists build great composites!

Now for the first time, there is a predictable and consistent method to create realistic image composites. If you've tried it the old way, you know how painful it can be which is why, in spite of powerful image manipulation tools like Photoshop and others, realistic image compositing has not been widely adopted until now.

Features	Benefits
Performs analysis on digital images that contain MatchLight Targets	Helps you create more realistic image composites in Photoshop
Creates a "LightMap™" that graphically expresses: Light Diffusion, Light Direction, Light Elevation, Camera Elevation	Matching these 5 characterisitics means your image compositing process can be cut down to as little as 20 minutes - even for complex multi image composites!
Print a LightMap or save as a .JPG.	Easily communicate lighting and camera perspectives via email
QuickComp™	Automates masking, cutting and pasting of foreground to background for screen res preview of final composite.
"Find a Background" Button (Note: requires Internet connection and MatchLight Target to be present in the image to be matched.)	Analyze your image and then click on the Find a Background Button to instantly search our database of over 25,000 images that match your:        - Light Direction,        - Light Elevation,        - Camera Elevation, and more!
Create custom backgrounds using the MatchLight system to save time and money.	Go on location only when you really need to! By getting that favorite location shot as a background, (on a day when it's "perfect"), and using the MatchLight System, you'll never need to worry about the light or weather impairing or even canceling a shoot! Plus you save the hassle and expense of travel and logistics!

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