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Perfect Photo Suite 8 and its new Enhance filter

November 28, 2013 by Rod Lawton Leave a Comment

Perfect Photo Suite 8 and its new Enhance filter

OnOne Software has worked hard to promote its new Perfect Photo Suite 8 product, and it's finally been launched officially. You can take a look for yourself at the OnOne website, and download a 30-day trial while you're there – click the 'Try now' link at the  top of the page. I'm going to take a look at all the new features in forthcoming … [Read more...]

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Filed Under: ON1, Perfect Suite, Software Tagged With: Quick fixes

Do you sharpen on export? It makes more difference than you might think!

November 6, 2013 by Rod Lawton 3 Comments

Do you sharpen on export? It makes more difference than you might think!

If you use Aperture or Lightroom, it's so easy to export pictures at specific sizes for web use or emailing that you probably don't give the settings a second thought. But in order to reduce your pictures to the required size, your software has to carry out a resampling process that can leave fine details softer than they need to be. That's why you … [Read more...]

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Filed Under: Adobe, Aperture, Apple, Lightroom, ON1, Perfect Suite, Software Tagged With: Sharpening

How to combine Focal Point Focus Bugs and Vignettes

October 18, 2013 by Rod Lawton Leave a Comment

How to combine Focal Point Focus Bugs and Vignettes

Focal Point 2 is part of OnOne Perfect Photo Suite. It's designed to replicate the shallow depth of field effects associated with wide lens apertures and the changing focus planes of tilt shift lenses, using one or more 'Focus Bugs' and manual 'focus painting' brush tools. More than that, though, it's designed to help you emphasis your picture's … [Read more...]

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Filed Under: ON1, Perfect Suite Tagged With: Bokeh, Vignette

How to combine Perfect Effects frames and blend modes

October 11, 2013 by Rod Lawton Leave a Comment

How to combine Perfect Effects frames and blend modes

OnOne Software's Perfect Effects is just like Nik (Google) Color Efex Pro, offering a range of different filter effects from a single interface. Where Color Efex Pro lets you 'stack' filter effects, Perfect Effects lets you do even more, with a Photoshop-style system of layers, complete with different blend modes. This means you can combine Perfect … [Read more...]

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Filed Under: ON1, Perfect Suite Tagged With: Blend modes, Borders and frames

Create a miniature effect with this Focal Point 2 tilt shift technique

October 4, 2013 by Rod Lawton Leave a Comment

Create a miniature effect with this Focal Point 2 tilt shift technique

Tilt shift effects are all the rage right now, either as tools within image-editing programs or built directly into the camera. They deliberately defocus parts of the image to create the look of old-fashioned lenses, highly-controllable studio or architectural lenses or, in the case of this Focal Point 2 tilt shift technique, they make a real-world … [Read more...]

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Filed Under: ON1, Perfect Suite Tagged With: Tilt shift

How to adjust curves with the Perfect Effects Tone Enhancer

September 27, 2013 by Rod Lawton Leave a Comment

How to adjust curves with the Perfect Effects Tone Enhancer

OnOne Software Perfect Effects isn't just for image effects – you can also carry out everyday image-editing adjustments, thanks to the Perfect Effects Tone Enhancer. This is used for some of the effects in the presets panel on the left of the window, but if you want to access it directly it's best to go straight to the tools panel on the … [Read more...]

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Filed Under: ON1, Perfect Suite, Software Tagged With: Curves

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