On 5/13/2014 7:39 PM, steve harley wrote:
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
I've been looking at the manual and I'm not sure that it really does
anything that a deft hand with various filters can't already do in
Photoshop in combination with DXO Filmpack. However I can't run it at
the moment so I can't really make any comparisons.
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