Tiny Command Line Tool for Color Correction, Image Processing, Color Management, Easy to Use for, Hot Folder Processing, Lightweight Server, Software Integration. SoftColor Toolbox is a color correction, image processing and color management command line program tool. All processing uses SoftColor's layer based color correction and image processing engine.

SoftColor Toolbox reads multiple image formats and raw camera formats. Toolbox can save processed images in JPEG, TIFF, PNG and PSD formats. It also handles ICC color profiles. You can convert and render between RGB and CMYK color spaces. A major benefit is the special feature for multi layer output in Photoshop PSD files. Toolbox also includes convenient server tools for bulk background directory processing.

Command Line Tools
Toolbox is an easy-to-use tool with simple command line interface. Toolbox is based on command line parameters and configuration files. It uses INI-file format for configuration files.
Toolbox 2 has three type of command line tools:
1. softcolor.exe - Tool for single image files processing
2. softcolor4folder.exe - Tool for processing folders
3. directoryserver.exe - Tool for hot-folder processing

With softcolor.exe you can also generate configuration file templates automatically.

Color Correction
Behind color correction automation is our in-house developed spectral illumination detection algorithm. This makes possible to learn a computer think colors like a human being. This gives you automatic and fully tweakable solution to fix color balance, exposure and contrast problems in your digital images.

Layer Based Processing
A major benefit in SoftColor Toolbox is layer based processing. This gives to you full freedom adjust processing as you want. You can simple select which processing layers you want to use with your images. In color correction you easily can adjust correction intensity to get colors which feels good to you.

SoftColor Toolbox2 process each step as separate layer:
1. Color Balance
2. Exposure
3. Contrast
4. Image processing and filtering
5. Color Management

Image Processing
You can do all regular image processing task with SoftColor Toolbox. Resize or crop images to specific size. You can also Toolbox 2.2 has new features for rotating, flipping and straightening images. Toolbox has also filters for sharpness and unsharp masking.

Color Management
SoftColor Toolbox includes support for standard ICC profile based color management. You can convert and render for example between RGB and CMYK color spaces and deal with many other color spaces. Toolbox version 2.2 has been updated to support v4 ICC profiles.
You can use color management with color correction and image processing or you can use toolbox only for color management.

Tweak It as You Want
Toolbox 2 uses SoftColor Engine which gives you full freedom to adjust automatic color correction, image processing and color management as you want. Layer based color correction gives you fast and flexible way to tune output colors as you like.

Photoshop Document Output
SoftColor Toolbox 2 can save output image in Photoshop document format (.psd). With this feature original and improved are stored in same output file as layers.

Lightweight Servers
Toolbox 2 includes lightweight tools for processing images on your file or content management server. You can use completely automatic processing on background or you can include manual file and folder tools with your export functions.

Easy to Integerate
SoftColor Toolbox 2 is tiny collection of tools which you can easily wrap with your program projects. In the best case you only need one line code to get color correction, image processing and color management to your software.

The license of this software is Free Trial Software, the price is $410.00, you can free download and get a free trial.