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Contact: Luxand, Inc. and Goldfinger Applications, Ltd.
e-mail: support@pictreat.com
Luxand, Inc. and Goldfinger Applications, Ltd. Launch PicTreat.com
Luxand Inc. and Goldfinger Applications, Ltd. announce the availability of PicTreat, a free, fully automated on-line service to enhance the appearance of human faces taken with digital cameras. The new picture enhancement service employing Luxand patent-pending revolutionary technologies allows photographers to enhance people’s faces automatically by simply uploading pictures into PicTreat. The service improves the appearance of human faces by automatically removing skin imperfections, correcting colors to produce healthy skin tones and removing red eye. PicTreat is coming from the authors of the popular baby face prediction service, makemebabies.com, which has produced 20 million baby faces to 10 million visitors since its launch a year ago.
About PicTreat
PicTreat is here to help photographers to enhance people shots without charging them an arm and a leg. The new service makes human skin look smooth and healthy by automatically removing skin imperfections and applying color adjustments that make pictures look their best. PicTreat automatically detects human faces in the photo, removing red eyes from the pictures without users having to make an extra click. The service is so fast that it only takes a second between uploading a picture and seeing its improved version!
PicTreat recognizes pictures taken with a digital SLR, point-and-shoot, mega-zoom or mobile phone. By applying different treatments to images taken with different tools, PicTreat offers individual approach to every photo uploaded.
Pictures taken with mobile phones can sometimes exhibit blotchy color noise. For PicTreat it is easy to remove, making phone-taken images look their best. The service corrects for varying lighting conditions by correcting imperfect color balance, making pictures look warm and inviting instead of being cold and dark.
Even images taken with a webcam can look better when treated by PicTreat! Human faces lit with computer monitors in a dark room can look anything but pretty. PicTreat compensates for this lighting condition and enhances other picture properties, making the image look its best no matter what tool was used to take it.
Thanks to advanced biometric technologies developed by Luxand, Inc, skin imperfections such as pimples, wrinkles, and freckles are easy to remove completely automatically. PicTreat smoothes the skin without making it look blurry or plastic, resulting in natural, healthy looking skin.
Images produced by PicTreat can be easily used in various photo sharing sites and social networks. PicTreat even allows cropping in correct dimensions for using the image as a social network profile picture. It is easy to produce a perfect avatar out of an ordinary snapshot!
PicTreat is a free service available at http://www.pictreat.com
About Luxand, Inc.
Luxand, Inc. is a private hi-tech company formed in 2005. Luxand research activities began with Artificial Intelligence and biometric identification technologies, allowing the company to develop a complete set of tools and libraries to perform fully automatic recognition of human faces and facial features. Today, the company provides a broad range of facial feature recognition solutions to online entertainment industry. Luxand technologies are used at online entertainment portals, chat rooms and movie Web sites around the globe. To learn more about the company, visit www.luxand.com.
About Goldfinger Applications
Founded in 2008, Goldfinger Applications is specializes in developing and supporting software platforms for a variety of social applications and social networks.
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NOTE TO EDITORS: For additional information on Luxand, Inc. and its technologies contact Alex Konoplev at ak@luxand.com.
Company Web: http://www.luxand.com
E-mail: ak@luxand.com
Postal address: 901 N. Pitt str., Suite 3255, Alexandria, VA 22314, USA
