Windows and Mac PhotoshopCS & 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. Pro Edition $299*   overview tech spec purchase trial version

MatchLight Adobe Photoshop™ CS & 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 product is “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 and LightTargets make the difference: LightMaps
are a “blueprint” to help photographers and digital artists build great composites and LightTargets give the photographer to "fixed points" with which to compare and calibrate perspective and scale!

Now for the first time, there is a predictable and consistent system to create realistic image composites. If you've tried it the old way, you know how painful it is.

Why not just use Photoshop without MatchLight? We love Photoshop! It's great for compositing but if you don't get the lighting and perspective right in camera _before_ you go to Photoshop you'll have only two choices:

1. Spend hours on the computer tweaking things to get them right or;
2. Re shoot using MatchLight and get it right in a few minutes on the set.

Use MatchLight and get it right from the start!

*MatchLightV3.0 Professional - $499  All the items contained in the Standard version PLUS 3 LightTargets and an extended User License that allows you to create your own LightTargeted images!

Note: Both Standard and Pro software are available as a download or as a shipped** box.
If you sleect the Pro Edition the LightTargets are shipped to you.

Click Here to: Purchase MatchLight 3.  **(Shipping is extra)

Overview

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!

Technical Specifications