PhotoWiz ColorWasher is a plugin for correcting the colors, contrast, exposure and saturation of 8bit and 16bit photos. It is a Photoshop-compatible plugin which can be used in many graphics applications, e.g. Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop Elements, PhotoImpact, Photo-Paint, Fireworks, IrfanView, under Windows as well as MacOS X. It also runs natively in Photoshop CS3 and CS4 on Intel-Macs and works in the 64bit version of Photoshop CS4 under Windows Vista64.

ColorWasher features a wide range of automatic, semi-automatic and manual tools for correcting, enhancing and restoring photos. It is very easy to use as it offers interactive explanations and hints for each feature, incorporates an Easy Mode and detailed step-by-step instructions in the manual.
ColorWasher lets you do professional photo corrections within seconds and also offers a Cloak mode for processing dozens of images very quickly.
ColorWasher can be used on digital photos as well as scanned photos. It even achieves great results on old and faded photos. But you can also use ColorWasher to enhance web graphics, drawings, cartoons, paintings or screen shots. ColorWasher is also recommended for photos in RAW format. Some RAW converters don't produce perfect color correction results, so after the RAW files have been converted you can still apply ColorWasher to enhance the result.
Moreover, if you want to create artistic and stylish color or b/w effects, ColorWasher lets you correct photos and apply impressive color effects in one step.
ColorWasher is revolutionary algorithms help you to turn even the worst photo into a delightful visual experience. Unlike other tools ColorWasher contains seven sophisticated methods called Cast Types for reconstructing lost colors and details in photos. ColorWasher's exposure correction features are superior to simple brightness and gamma correction methods used in known graphics applications and plugins. It also features built-in mechanisms for hiding image noise, camouflaging overexposed areas, boosting contrast, keeping saturation constant, fixing chopped histograms and increasing the number of colors in photos. To make ColorWasher that effective a lot of time has been invested for research, evaluation and testing.

Changes in ColorWasher v2.04 (May 2009):
- A 64bit version of ColorWasher is now available. It can be used with the 64bit version of Photoshop CS4 under Windows Vista64
- We did not test it under XP 64bit, but it will probably work too.XP/Vista visual styles are now supported. To (de)activate it please use the new Dialog Theme checkbox on the Prefs tab sheet.
- Double clicking the label of a slider or combo box resets it to its default value.
- ColorWasher is now created with another development tool. As a result the plugin file size was reduced to less than 2/3 of the previous version. ColorWasher itself is now leaner and consumes less memory, although the memory consumption of the image processing algorithms remains the same.
- Bug Fix: Pressing the Reset button now also activates the balance icon on the Color tab sheet again.
- Bug Fix: In Version 2.03 it was not possible to select "Strong" from the Exposure Fix combo box.
- Bug Fix: Clicking the Balance icon on the Color tab sheet now recalculates the color of the non-selected color box.
- Bug Fix: Dragging the preview while the Info tab sheet is visible does not display an error message anymore.
- Bug Fix: Prefs > On Reset > Own Default works now after restarting ColorWasher.
- Bug Fix: Pressing Yes on the initial message box did not display Easy Mode.
- The Output Drag check box on the Prefs tab sheet has been removed, because it was too slow and not really useful.
- The installation now supports 38 languages.