{"id":1137,"date":"2008-07-12T19:22:09","date_gmt":"2008-07-13T03:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2009-06-28T03:57:57","modified_gmt":"2009-06-28T11:57:57","slug":"quick-overview-digital-light-color-color-mechanic-pro-20-mac-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=1137","title":{"rendered":"Quick Overview: Digital Light &#038; Color &#8211; Color Mechanic Pro 2.0 (Mac &#038; Win)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/color_mechanic_pro\/color_mechanic_pro.gif\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" alt=\"Ditital Light &#038; Color Color Mechanic Pro\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\nThis QuickTime Overview video shows the basic workflow of a Photoshop plug-in called Color Mechanic Pro 2.0 without audio commentary.  Color Mechanic Pro is developed by a software company in Massachusetts called Digital Light &#038; Color.<\/p>\n<p>What does Color Mechanic Pro do?  This Photoshop plug-in lets you pick a color, and you can change the hue, saturation and brightness of colors surrounding it.<br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<table width=\"295\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"140\" valign=\"top\"><a href=\"mac\/color_mechanic_pro\/canada_35_bg_061904_00.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/color_mechanic_pro\/canada_35_bg_061904_00.jpg\" width=\"140\" height=\"105\" alt=\"Ditital Light &#038; Color Color Mechanic Pro\"  \/><\/a><br \/>\nScreenshot 1 &#8211; Before<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td width=\"140\" valign=\"top\"><a href=\"mac\/color_mechanic_pro\/canada_35_bg_061904_00.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/color_mechanic_pro\/canada_35_bg_061904_00.jpg\" height=\"105\" alt=\"Ditital Light &#038; Color Color Mechanic Pro\"  \/><\/a><br \/>\nScreenshot 2 &#8211; Before<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table width=\"295\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"140\" valign=\"top\"><a href=\"mac\/color_mechanic_pro\/canada_35_bg_061904_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/color_mechanic_pro\/canada_35_bg_061904_01.jpg\" width=\"140\" height=\"105\" alt=\"Ditital Light &#038; Color Color Mechanic Pro\"  \/><\/a><br \/>\nScreenshot 1 &#8211; After<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td width=\"140\" valign=\"top\"><a href=\"mac\/color_mechanic_pro\/canada_35_bg_061904_02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/color_mechanic_pro\/canada_35_bg_061904_02.jpg\" width=\"140\" height=\"105\" alt=\"Ditital Light &#038; Color Color Mechanic Pro\"  \/><\/a><br \/>\nScreenshot 2 &#8211; After<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<table width=\"295\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"140\" valign=\"top\"><a href=\"mac\/color_mechanic_pro\/solstice_18_bg_062203_00.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/color_mechanic_pro\/solstice_18_bg_062203_00.jpg\" width=\"140\" height=\"105\" alt=\"Ditital Light &#038; Color Color Mechanic Pro\"  \/><\/a><br \/>\nScreenshot 3 &#8211; Before<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td width=\"140\" valign=\"top\"><a href=\"mac\/color_mechanic_pro\/quail_05_bg_040806_00.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/color_mechanic_pro\/quail_05_bg_040806_00.jpg\" width=\"140\" height=\"105\" alt=\"Ditital Light &#038; Color Color Mechanic Pro\"  \/><\/a><br \/>\nScreenshot 4 &#8211; Before<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table width=\"295\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"140\" valign=\"top\"><a href=\"mac\/color_mechanic_pro\/solstice_18_bg_062203.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/color_mechanic_pro\/solstice_18_bg_062203.jpg\" width=\"140\" height=\"105\" alt=\"Ditital Light &#038; Color Color Mechanic Pro\"  \/><\/a><br \/>\nScreenshot 3 &#8211; After<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td width=\"140\" valign=\"top\"><a href=\"mac\/color_mechanic_pro\/quail_05_bg_040806.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/color_mechanic_pro\/quail_05_bg_040806.jpg\" width=\"140\" height=\"105\" alt=\"Ditital Light &#038; Color Color Mechanic Pro\"  \/><\/a><br \/>\nScreenshot 4 &#8211; After<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\nAccording to the software developer, Adobe Photoshop CS1, CS2 and CS3 can all run this plug-in.  Fireworks CS3 is able to run the plug-in but fails to apply final effect to a selected image.  <\/p>\n<p>In case you had to know, I only used Color Mechanic Pro for 30 minutes or so before making a workflow video. So don&#8217;t trust everything that I show in this video.&nbsp; <!--more--><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<table width=\"440\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhvt.net\/quicktime\/eng\/screenshots\/color_mechanic_pro_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mhvt.net\/quicktime\/eng\/screenshots\/color_mechanic_pro_01.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Ditital Light &#038; Color Color Mechanic Pro\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhvt.net\/quicktime\/eng\/screenshots\/color_mechanic_pro_02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mhvt.net\/quicktime\/eng\/screenshots\/color_mechanic_pro_02.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Ditital Light &#038; Color Color Mechanic Pro\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<li> Color Mechanic Pro version: Exposure 2.0 for Mac<\/li>\n<li>Adobe Photoshop version: Adobe Photoshop 10.0.1 for Mac<\/li>\n<li>This video version: 1.0<\/li>\n<li>Video length: 5 minutes 7 seconds<\/li>\n<li>Video file size: 17.1 MB<\/li>\n<li>Video format: QuickTime<\/li>\n<li>Video compression: H.264<\/li>\n<li>Video resolution: 900 x 675 pixels<\/li>\n<li>Audio effects: Not available<\/li>\n<li>Audio commentary: Not available<\/li>\n<p><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<table width=\"440\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"200\"><a href=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"machouse\/video_tutorials_no_visitors.gif\" alt=\"Mac video tutorials\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td width=\"200\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhvt.net\/quicktime\/eng\/vtc\/quick_overview\/color_mechanic_pro.php\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"machouse\/video_tutorials_members.gif\" alt=\"Mac video tutorials\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>&middot; Please read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhvt.net\/quicktime\/eng\/terms_guests.php\">Terms of Use for Guests<\/a> before watching any of the video tutorials.<br \/>\n&middot; Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhvt.net\/quicktime\/eng\/membership.php\">here<\/a> for video membership information.<br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\nColor Mechanic Pro is a product of Digital Light &#038; Color.<br \/>\nAdobe Photoshop CS3 is a product of Adobe Systems Incorporated.<\/p>\n<p>Original photo images used in this QuickTime Overview video come from <a href=\"http:\/\/pdphoto.org\">PD Photo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This QuickTime Overview video shows the basic workflow of a Photoshop plug-in called Color Mechanic Pro 2.0 without audio commentary. Color Mechanic Pro is developed by a software company in Massachusetts called Digital Light &#038; Color. What does Color Mechanic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=1137\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":342,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[161,160,72],"class_list":["post-1137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vtc","tag-color-mechanic-pro-20","tag-digital-light-color","tag-video-tutorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}