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Tweddo is a multi-purpose cross-platform photo processor and batch photo editor for Windows and macOS. The application is focused on running photo editing tasks on large collections of photos in an automated setting.

It is different from other batch photo editors in that it offers a toolset to enhance and restore large photo collections (e.g. scanned photo archives). It provides specific processing jobs, such as infrared cleaning (also referred to as Digital ICE), automatic color correction, removal of color casts, advanced automatic trimming of photos, fixing photo negatives, et cetera. Besides that, it is high performant, handling large images with ease, and offers flexibility in configurations. It is also a regular image batch processor, fulfilling basic image editing tasks such as resizing, cropping, rotating, converting, and watermarking.

History and Background
Tweddo originated in October 2016 due to a struggle in digitising a home archive of photos, including over 4000+ of photo negatives (35mm film and 16mm film) and printed photo material. The founder and developer of Tweddo was unsatisfied with the slow and intensive workflow of scanning and post-processing the photo negatives, and decided to write software that could assist in the process. The software was first intended to be used as infrared dust and scratch cleaner for photo negatives, that can be used after negatives are scanned and save on the disk. In the end it was decided to add more and more features to the package, finally resulting in a full featured photo batch editor.

The name Tweddo is a combination of two components: Twente and Reddo. Twente is a region in The Netherlands where the company Tweddo is localized, and Reddo is Latin for restoring and repeating.

Features
Tweddo offers a full stack of feature to enable fast photo editing in batch mode:


 * 53 processing jobs to choose from
 * Multi-core processing
 * Multi-platform support (Windows XP+, OS X Mavericks 10.9+)
 * Support for all popular image formats
 * Large image size support
 * Dragging and dropping images
 * Support for multiple outputs
 * Adding folders recursively
 * Histogram analysis
 * A/B image comparison view (before/after)
 * Overriding job settings per image
 * Export/import of job lists
 * Monitor/watch folders (automatically running jobs on new images)

Supported image file formats
Tweddo supports reading and writing to all popular image formats, including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000 (JP2), PNG (8-bit and 16-bit), GIF, TIFF (8-bit and 16-bit), ICO, TGA, and PSD. All popular RAW image formats are supported for reading only, including ARW, CR2, CRW, DCR, MRW, NEF, ORF, RAF, and X3F. In the future, Tweddo aims to support more image file extensions, including vector based image files and PDF.

Available processing jobs
Processing jobs are at the core of the application, and gives you the possibility to do something with the image queue. Each processing job has its own specific purpose. The following processing jobs are available.

Sizing
• Resize

• Canvas Size

• Crop

• Auto Multi Crop

• Aspect Crop

• Trim

• Auto Trim

• Skew

• Flip

• Mirror

• Rotate

• Auto Rotate

• Auto Orientation

Graphics and Effects
• Vignette

• Photo Filter

• Blur

• Posterize

• Color Replace

• Negate

• Sepia Toning

• Charcoal

• Oil Paint

• Emboss

• Solarize

• Pixelate

• Add Noise

• Add Image/Watermark

• Add Text/Watermark

Enhancement
• Auto Contrast

• Auto Color Correction

• Auto Gamma

• Levels

• Color Balance

• Brightness/Contrast

• Hue/Saturation

• Kelvin Temperature

• Temperature/Tint

• Exposure/Gamma

• Vibrance

• Black & White

• Colorize

• Decolorize

• Auto Decolorize

Restoration
• Denoise

• Auto Denoise

• Sharpen

• Auto Sharpen

• Infrared Clean

• Fix Negative

File Handling
• Output

• Move/rename/copy original

• Delete original

• Strip data

Editions and Licensing
Tweddo is Freemium software and is available in four editions. Each edition has some feature limitations:


 * The Free edition is useful for all basic image operations that need to be run in batch mode. It provides full access to 23 processing jobs and supports all image formats.
 * The Home edition is designed for people wanting to post-process large collections of photos. It provides access to 40 processing jobs, and enables features such as adding folders recursively and histogram analysis.
 * The Professional edition is designed for professionals wanting to enhance and restore large collections of photo archives. It provides access to all 53 processing jobs, and enables before/after output comparison, saving job lists, and job overriding.
 * The Enterprise edition is designed for use in commercial businesses and provides folder monitoring. This is also the only edition that is allowed for commercial use.

The processing jobs that are not available in an edition are available for trial, but will automatically add a watermark to the end result.

Beta series
The first beta release of Tweddo (v0.9) was released on May 16, 2017. The beta release was available for bug fixing and interface testing. The beta series consisted of 8 minor releases, fixing bugs and adding new functionality. Version 0.9.7 was the last minor version in the beta series.

v1 series
The first stable version of Tweddo was released on August 21, 2017. Major changes incorporated in this series included many bug fixes, improved interface, and some new functionality.