Claro Layout

Print & publishing professionals working with Adobe® InDesign® workflows want to benefit from the leading technology in automatic image analysis and enhancement but prefer to stay in their operator’s trusted environment.

Based on Claro Individual Image Analysis technology, the Claro Layout plug-in automatically and individually analyzes and enhances each image inside Adobe® InDesign® documents.

Layout and design professionals now can:

• increase the quality of their documents
• stay in their trusted InDesign® environment
• use RGB images flexibly during layout, then optimize the chosen image content from within InDesign®

Claro Layout uses professional ICC color conversions and profile assignment

Claro Individual Image Analysis
Automatic image enhancement is a real challenge. What is good for one image is not good for the other. A straightforward hot folder solution, simply applying one set of filters and algorithms to every image in a hot folder, will simply not do the job. Although it seems contradictory, automatic image enhancement needs an individual approach.
With its Claro Individual Image Analysis, Claro analyses every individual image thoroughly, looking for such parameters as:

• sharpness
• brightness
• contrast
• color balance
• natural greens
• skin tones
• Exit information
• … and more.

This extensive individual analysis is fundamental to our image enhancement technology. It is due to this fundamental approach that we achieve consistent high-quality results even when the origin and quality of the original images vary significantly.

Claro utilizes superior enhancement techniques: for example, the sharpening algorithms. The sharpening that will be applied to a given image varies in amount and threshold, depending on the sharpness and  (reduced) noise levels in the original image, a sophisticated anti-halo filter is applied to reduce the undesirable side effects of sharpening.

Another example are images taken in bright sunlight that always have high contrast levels. Ideally, details should be preserved and enhanced both in the bright as well as in the dark areas of the image, without effecting overall brightness of the image. This is now possible with the Claro™ local contrast-enhancement algorithm. Individual image analysis ensures that this technique is only applied to images that require it.

General

• Claro Individual Image Analysis for automated image enhancement based on each image’s specific requirements
• Consistent image enhancements across a wide range of image types (TIFF, JPEG, PSD, Photoshop EPS, BMP, etc.)
• File output support for TIFF, JPEG, EPS, PSD (including original layers, compatibility layer and processed layer)
• Multi-platform availability
• Integrated operation inside Adobe® InDesign® workflows

Image manipulation

• Images inside Adobe® InDesign® files can be enhanced, resampled and color converted
• ICC based color and grayscale conversions and profile assignment & embedding
• Device link profile conversions
• Resampling and resizing of images

Image optimization

• Local contrast enhancement of image details with respect for overall image brightness
• Superior control over and dynamic optimization of sharpness, brightness, saturation, noise, black point/white point, and color balance

Workflow

• Seamlessly integrates into Adobe® InDesign® workflows
• Embed processing information into XMP

• Decrease file size by optimizing image resolution and keeping only the  desired part of the picture
• Provide consistently high-quality image enhancements across varied individual images
• Save large amounts of time on producing image-specific enhancements
• Process with confidence, knowing Claro Layout will only enhance images where needed, perform in-file image enhancement inside Adobe® InDesign® documents, as well as image output with correct ICC profiling
• Maintain close image handling control