FocalBlade lets you sharpen your photos for screen display and print as well as produce great looking Blur, soft Focus and glow effects. It is a Photoshop-compatible plugin which can be used in dozens of graphics applications including Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, PhotoImpact, Photo-Paint, Fireworks and Photoshop Elements under Windows as well as MacOS X. It also runs natively in Photoshop CS3 on Intel-Macs. It works with 8bit and 16bit RGB and grayscaled images.
Main Features
* Effectively sharpen your images for display and print without unwanted side-effects
* Reduce noise and produce great looking blur, soft focus and glow effects
* Several modes for novices as well advanced users
* Wide range of automatic and manual tools including a split view feature
* Ultra fast rendering with hyperthreading, multiple processors and cores
* Allows Batch processing of image files
* Can be applied to images with 8bit and 16bit per channel
New in Version 2
* Renders 10 to 120 times FASTER than Version 1 (depending on the used settings and CPU).
* Supports one, two and three pass workflows and different output devices
* Stronger sharpening with less artifacts: Up to 2000% and 32 pixel in all modes.
* Softproof feature for simulating the sharpness of prints on screen
* Full scripting and smart filtering support
* New color noise reduction and grain features
* Protect certain colors from being sharpened
* Improved edge mask options
* Up to 3200% preview zoom, a navigator tool and many other UI improvements
* Support for Lab and CMYK image modes
* More than 80 presets included
