Vivid-Pix Land & Sea Scuba Picture-Fix
Diver|October 2017

THE UNDERWATER WORLD IS PACKED with life and full of vibrant colour, but the first time you take an underwater photograph you’ll find yourself looking at a dull greenish blue picture and wondering where all the excitement went.

Vivid-Pix Land & Sea Scuba Picture-Fix

Yes, you can start to invest in bigger and better camera gear and wide-angle lenses and big flashguns, but wouldn’t it be good if there were a simple-to-use piece of software that would automatically turn your snaps into works of art?

Enter Vivid-Pix Land & Sea Scuba Picture-Fix Imaging Software. Not, perhaps, the snappiest name I’ve heard, but it tells you exactly what the software is intended to do.

Note especially the use of the word “scuba”. Company head Rick Voight is an enthusiastic diver, and it was his disappointment with his own underwater pictures that led to the development of the software and the founding of the company.

There are different versions of the software for PC, Mac, iPhone and iPad, with an Android phone and tablet version on the way. The company also offers software to restore old, faded and discoloured snapshots to their full glory, which is another application that relies on delivering better colour balance and contrast adjustment.

I chose to try the Windows and ioS versions, and found both easy to download and install by following the on-screen prompts, as you’d expect these days.

How It Works

Once installed, you open the programme and from there on it’s even easier. Start by clicking either Land or Sea, just to the right of centre of the home screen, then hit Select Image(s) to open the file or files on which you want to work.

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