Color correction

[Murphy in NC]

I am currently using dive plus however it is too cumbersome as I do not have a MAC. With MAC it works great. I have been emailing mysekf the photos and opening them on my phone and color correcting with Dive plus. Is anyone aware of software that can be used with a PC and is as good as Dive +.

Thanks

 

[rongoodman]

It's "Mac", it isn't an acronym for an anything.

 

[bvanant]

Is there a Mac version? I see that they have iOS and Android versions. It is really meant for phones in housings.
Vivid Pix also works well.
Bill

 

[TostitoBandito]

Is there a reason you don't use something like Lightroom?

 

[CamC]

As Bill says, Vivid Pix / LAND And SEA SCUBA is reasonable on a PC. Lightroom is awesome, but it's as much art as science - it has almost too many options.

I've never found anything that does as good a job as Dive+ with no input or fine tuning at all. I download JPGs from my camera to a desktop PC, sync to my iPhone, and use Dive+ to do bulk conversions on all the pictures I reckon need "enhancing" (which is most of them ;-) The whole process takes about 5 minutes for dozens for pictures, whereas it can take me half an hour before I'm happy with a single picture in Lightroom starting with a RAW file. YMMV.

 

[CamC]

This is what Dive+ can do in 2 seconds for a very poorly balanced JPG from a small point-and-shoot camera with no fine tuning whatsoever, which is more than good enough for my simple needs 99 times out of 100.

 

[Snoweman]

Is there a reason you don't use something like Lightroom?

I've tried editing the jpegs from my GoPro in Lightroom, and can't get close to the results the Dive+ results.

 

[TostitoBandito]

Ah, we're talking about jpeg editing, ok.

If you can't shoot RAW, yeah I guess use whatever can get you the best "look" in the least amount of time. I feel like the suites from Adobe, Apple, or their competitors could probably get similar results, albeit likely with more effort/fiddling required. That said, Lightroom is intended as a RAW file workflow, so that's not really its bag.

 

[Eric802]

I love Dive+ and use the app on my phone; it's great for photos but so glitchy with videos. Most of the time when you go to save a processed video you get an error that crashes the app.