on 2014-05-13 14:24 Stanley Halpin wrote
I haven’t used it enough to make a strong endorsement, and I haven’t used Photoshop ever so I can’t do a comparison. But I can say that the integration with LR5 is smooth and painless. Much much easier to go to and from Perfect Photo than PSE12. (Fairly new iMac, 16gb memory, LR5.) If I were a Photoshop user who was unhappy that the only Photoshop upgrade path is via subscription, I would be all over this product as a possible alternative. For the price, it is worth a serious look.
perhaps it's different for Lightroom, or for the full version, but i tried out the freebie with Aperture and found it somewhat awkward; to process an image with the "plugin" really just sends it to the external application; it's nice that when done it adds the resulting file (a 386 MB PSD, after adding one effect to a 25 MB DNG!) back to the Aperture catalog, but it then quits Perfect Effects, which means every round trip has to relaunch the app
other than that, controls are a little wonky, and many names of effects are a real turn-off (e.g. "amazing detail finder"); a lot of the effects i would probably never use (e.g. cross processing) and it was fairly slow on my quad i7 with 16GB RAM, but some of the utility effects are pretty good for quick fixes
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