Platform & workflow

• Project templates or custom setup
  Quickly choose from presets, or set your own canvas resolution and shape.
• EXIF color management
  Ensure a consistent appearance throughout your workflow using PhotoKey's color management system, which supports embedded color profiles and ICC files.
• Client preview on second monitor
  Impress clients and passing customers at shows with a clean, full quality preview on a second screen, with all interface elements hidden.
• Import formats
  TIFF, JPEG, PNG, BMP
  RAW (crw, .cr2, .nef, .raf, .dng, .mos, .kdc, .dcr, .srf and .sr2)
• Export formats
  TIFF, JPEG, PNG
• Export to FTP server
  Upload your finished images directly via FTP, with a fully automated mode ideal for creating your own streamlined workflow.
• Export to email
  Send finished or work in progress images to clients by email from inside PhotoKey. You can even email an image direct to a Facebook wall or brand page. Please note that some email providers may not support this feature.
• 250 professional backdrops
  PhotoKey 8 Pro comes with 250 print-resolution, 20 megapixel standard backdrops so you can get started immediately. Themes include: Adventure, Beauty, Corporate Portrait, Gothic, London Sightseeing, Pets, Seniors, Studio Background and Urban.
• Retina on Mac, HiDPI on Windows
  PhotoKey 8 Pro's refined interface is designed for Retina & HiDPI displays, ensuring a slick, precise experience.

Compositing & realism

• Automatic green screen removal
  The green screen is removed instantly from your photos and replaced with a new background. You can then fine tune the results or simply export the finished image. It's a super fast workflow.
• Instant background replacement
  PhotoKey automatically removes the green screen and composites your subject onto the new background, so that you can focus on your photography.
• Professional chroma key
  The advanced chroma key filter includes professional green screen removal and matte cleaning features with fine detail control.
• Luminance key
  Create a realistic matte effect based on the luminosity of your source data. Useful for cutting objects out from white or black backgrounds and ideal for smoke, fire and transparent objects. No green screen required.
• Remove color matting
  Works hand-in-hand with the Luminance key to improve the appearance of cutouts to remove dark or bright edging.
• Spill simulation pro
  Remove unwanted green spill light from your subject and replace it with natural ambient lighting simulated from your new background. Ultimate realism every time.
• Light wrap
  Essential for realistic composites with bright backgrounds, light wrap allows some of the ambience from the background to bloom naturally onto the foreground.
• Red eye removal
  Avoid flash reflections with the integrated red eye removal.
• Matte cleaning
  Create the perfect key with a versatile toolkit of matte cleaning tools, from UV and alpha blurs to erode and edge recovery.
• Quick crop
  If your framing includes visible lights, equipment or the edges of the green screen, easily hide them using the integrated crop tool.
• Freehand masking
  There's always the possibility of a client wearing a green item of clothing. PhotoKey's masking features ensure that this is never a problem.
• Blend modes & transparency
  Blend modes change the way layers react with each other as they are composited.

Batch processing

• Process multiple foreground images
  Import as many foreground images as you want. You can process them individually, or batch process entire groups.
• Choose from multiple backgrounds
  Import multiple backgrounds to try out different combinations.
• Quick jump to backgrounds
  PhotoKey 8 Pro makes it easy to find your backdrops by remembering your folder locations and featuring a dedicated button to your included 250 background images.
• Link to hot folder for automatic import
  Set up your camera to save photos to a specific folder on your computer and PhotoKey will automatically import and process the images as soon as they are available.
• Export to multiple background variants
  Each photo can be exported to several background variations, giving your clients more choice without giving you more work.
• Fully automated processing from import to export
  Combining the hot folder feature with batch exporting and FTP upload provides a fully automated workflow. PhotoKey 8 Pro automatically processes your photos and exports the finished images.

Photoshop integration

• Layer exchange
  Send your Photoshop layers direct to PhotoKey for a super-fast, integrated workflow.
• Best of both worlds
  Combine PhotoKey's advanced green screen removal with Photoshop's extensive layering and brush features.
• Combine multiple green screen images
  Multiple individual green screen photographs can be easily combined in a single Photoshop project, enabling more complex compositions.
• Action compatible
  The PhotoKey 8 Pro plug-in is compatible with Photoshop Actions, improving your productivity by recording complex operations and automating your workflow.

Design

• Free layer positioning
  Re-frame your foreground and background to create new compositions. Change from a portrait image to landscape, or from a wide to a close-up.
• Create additional layers
  Create deep composites with additional elements in front and behind your foreground.
• Add overlay graphics
  It's easy to add a logo, frame, border, watermark or other element on top of your main image using the overlay system.
• Create text captions
  Add captions and titles to your images inside PhotoKey - now including new drop shadows.
• Shadow casting
  Automatically generate a drop or perspective shadow cast onto your background.
• Greeting card design aid
  Design your own greeting cards with PhotoKey's simple visual design aid.

Color correction

• Auto enhance
  Easy one-click color, contrast and levels fixes.
• White balance
  Easily resolve white balance issues by defining the white point.
• Auto skin tones
  Detect faces and automatically set the white balance to produce pleasing skin tones with minimal effort.
• Levels
  Adjust the levels of your foreground and background.
• Contrast / auto contrast
  Tweak the appearance of your foreground and background.
• Brightness, Saturation & Contrast
  Automatically correct problems with color in your images.
• Color temperature
  Warm up or cool down your images.
• Color balance pro
  Adjust color balance without affecting luminance.
• Hue colorize
  Quickly tint your images.
• Hue shift
  Shift the entire color spectrum.
• Sharpen
  Bring out the definition in your photographs.
• Blur
  Soften the image - very useful for creating soft backgrounds.

Creative filters & effects

• 2-Point Color Gradient
  Create a simple color gradient. The start and end points can be positioned and customized.
• 4-Point Color Gradient
  Generate a 4-color gradient with adjustable color blocks.
• Bilateral blur
  Effective for smoothing textures while retaining fine edge detail.
• Color vibrance
  Increase the intensity of the most muted colors, while leaving your already well-saturated colors alone.
• Defocus
  Blurs and adds bloom to the image.
• Duo tone
  Superimpose one contrasting color halftone over another color halftone. Made popular by Spotify.
• Diffuse
  Create a soft look.
• Vibrance
  Enhance local contrast, saturation and sharpness to add punch to your images.
• Leave color
  Create dynamic splashes of a single color or hide a specific color.
• Half tone
  Create stylish half tone effects, perfect for newspaper print and pop art visuals.
• Silhouette
  Generate a quick, solid color silhouette of your foreground.
• Three strip color
  Recreate the classic Technicolor-style look from early color cinema.
• Bleach bypass
  Instantly create a distinctive, high contrast look. Perfect for gritty and urban-styled images.
• Focus blur
  Blur the image while retaining an in-focus area.
• Soft focus
  Add a soft focus look to your finished image.
• Tint
  Give your images a distinctive color palette, from sepia to platinum.
• Vignette
  Apply fully customizable vignette framing to your image.
• Vignette Exposure
  Instead of applying an overlay, this vignette effect adjusts the exposure of the edges of the frame for a subtler and more natural result.

System requirements

• Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.11 El Capitan or OS X 10.12 Sierra
• 64-bit operating system
• 550MB free hard disk space for installation
• Internet connection is required for activation and web services
• Intel Core i3, Core i5, Core i7 or AMD equivalent
• 2GB RAM (4GB or more recommended)
• Photoshop plug-in: Requires Adobe Photoshop CC2015 (64-bit only)

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Free training & support

PhotoKey 8 Pro comes with a range of free training resources to provide you with the information you need to go from amateur to pro. While you learn our online support systems are ready to provide you with technical guidance.

• Dedicated support team: The FXhome support team provides technical, customer and sales support throughout the work week. If you have any burning questions you can head over to our support ticket submission page to get the help you need - https://fxhome.com/questions/submit
• Reference manual: All software comes with a comprehensive guide showing each and every feature and how they can be used - https://fxhome.com/reference-manuals/photokey8pro