onOne Software: Perfect Photo Suite 8

Product boxes of Perfect Photo Suite 8.

onOne Software, Inc., a leading developer of innovative and time-saving solutions for digital photography, introduces Perfect Photo Suite 8—the photographer’s choice for photo editing. Perfect Photo Suite 8 is a full-featured, standalone photo editor that integrates seamlessly with Adobe® Photoshop®, Lightroom®, Photoshop Elements, and Apple® Aperture®. Made up of eight powerful modules, Perfect Photo Suite 8 offers photographers the best tools to solve the most common problems in digital photography, inspire creativity, and create extraordinary images.

“We listened intently to the digital photography community about what they wanted for their image processing in today’s world of plug-ins, online apps, and subscriptions,” said Craig Keudell, president of onOne Software. “We made it a priority to respond quickly and design a cohesive new product that continues to focus on photography and is built for photographers of all levels, from enthusiasts to professionals. We’ve leveraged our extensive experience as a plug-in company and evolved the Perfect Photo Suite into a complete and powerful photo editor that, unlike existing plug-in collections, works as one, elegantly designed product that seamlessly integrates into any workflow.”

The new tools and capabilities alongside Perfect Photo Suite 8’s eight modules—Effects, Enhance, B&W, Portrait, Mask, Layers, Resize, and Browse—allow photographers to enhance, retouch, and stylize images in a layered workflow, replace backgrounds, create high-quality enlargements, prepare images for output, and batch process workflows. The modules share a unified interface, each targeting a specific image-processing task. Each module provides only the tools necessary to complete the job at hand, eliminating screen clutter and confusion for the user.

Perfect Photo Suite 8 Includes:

NEW! Browse

Quickly get to images wherever they’re stored—whether they’re on your computer, network, or on a cloud-based storage service. Find the exact image you want by previewing them side-by-side and navigating through them with intuitive keyboard shortcuts.

Perfect Photo Suite 8 Software: screen shot of Browse.

NEW! Perfect Enhance

It provides the essential tools for basic adjustments that almost every image needs to go from good to great. You’ll find tools to improve color, tone, and detail, and brushes for spot healing, cloning, and removing objects with content-aware fill technology. Use it to adjust brightness and contrast, remove a color cast, remove dust spots, and add sharpening and vignettes. It is an ideal module to start with when using Perfect Photo Suite 8 as a standalone application or when quick corrections are needed.

Perfect Photo Suite 8 Software: screen shot of Perfect Enhance.

RE-ENGINEERED! Perfect Effects

Enhance and stylize images with a robust library of photographic effects and powerful tools that allow you to combine, blend, stack and paint-in effects to create the look you want.

Perfect Photo Suite 8 Software: screen shot of Perfect Effects.
Photo by Mykal Hall

Perfect B&W

Develop stunning images that recreate the timeless look of black and white master photographers. Use a library of expertly crafted presets for instant results or powerful, darkroom-inspired controls for your own custom look.

Perfect Photo Suite 8 Software: screen shot of Perfect B&W.
Photo by Mykal Hall

Perfect Portrait

Focus on the art of portrait creation because the most time consuming retouching tasks are automated in the Portrait module. Improve skin texture and color, remove blemishes, and enhance eyes and mouths to create flawless portraits.

Perfect Photo Suite 8 Software: screen shot of Perfect Portrait.

Perfect Layers

Combine and blend images without Adobe Photoshop. With layers, you have the power to swap faces, create balanced exposures, retouch portraits and landscapes, create layouts and composites, and more!

Perfect Photo Suite 8 Software: screen shot of Perfect Layers.
Photo by Dave Schelske

Perfect Mask

Create high-quality masks with state-of-the-art tools that help you select subjects and isolate backgrounds for removal—even around hair and trees and through glass and veils.

Perfect Photo Suite 8 Software: screen shot of Perfect Mask.
Photo by Clay Blackmore

Perfect Resize

Perfect Resize is renowned across the photographic and printing industries for its ability to increase image size well over 1000% without loss of detail or clarity. It is ideal to resize and prepare all images for print, whether shot with a DSLR camera or a mobile device.

Perfect Photo Suite 8 Software: screen shot of Perfect Resize.
Photo by Vincent Versace

What Else is there… 


Perfect Eraser ­–
Using content-aware fill technology and simple brush strokes, the Perfect Eraser removes objects and automatically reconstructs the image with realistic results.

Twice as Many Filters ­–The Effects module now includes new adjustable filters including: HDR Look, Dynamic Contrast for tonal clarity, Vintage, Grunge, Antique, and more.

Perfect Photo Suite 8 Software: screen shot of Filters.

The filters in Perfect Effects are at the core of every effect available and created in the module—and now there are twice as many. These filters can be independently adjusted, combined, stacked, blended, and selectively applied to create the best effect for any image. New filters include:

• Dynamic Contrast that adds stunning clarity to images by exaggerating its levels of contrast without sacrificing highlight or shadow detail, creating halos, or affecting saturation.

• Lens Blurincludes the best part of FocalPoint technology to create bokeh, tilt-shift, and selective focus

• Vintage turns photos into a nostalgic memory with retro-style filters.

• HDR Look gives images the edgy look of high dynamic range. Settings are adjustable and create effects that range from subtle to surreal.

Customizable Presets –All built-in presets included in Perfect Photo Suite 8 may be deconstructed by their filter settings and personally customized.

FocalPoint is now in the Effects Module ­–The best parts of FocalPoint technology to create bokeh, tilt-shift, and selective focus effects after the shot, are now in the Effects module as the Lens Blur filter.

Perfect Batch Utility ­–Powerful batch processing of actions from one or multiple modules, including the insertion of a watermark.

Perfect Photo Suite 8 Software: screen shot of Perfect Batch Utility.

Multiple File Handling:As a photo editor, you can now open and work with more than one image at a time. Move between images to edit or copy layers from one file to the next.

Improved Masking Bug:Redesigned Masking Bug in the Effects and Layers modules make mask creation easier and more intuitive.

Higher Quality Effects:Performance enhancements improve effects by minimizing artifacts without sacrificing processing speed.

Improved RAW file handling:Open and process RAW files faster and with better quality. Support for new cameras also added.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

Mac OSX

• Current maintenance release of OS X 10.7, 10.8, 10.9 (64 bit only)

• Intel Core 2 Duo, Xeon or better processor(s)

• 4 GB RAM (8 GB+ recommended)

• 1.5 GB of available hard disk space

• OpenGL 2.0 capable video card with 256 MB dedicated VRAM, 1280×720 resolution or higher


Windows

• Current maintenance release of Windows 7 or Windows 8

• Intel Core 2 Duo, Xeon or better processor(s)

• 4 GB RAM (8+ GB recommended)

• 1.5 GB of available hard disk space

• OpenGL 2.0 capable video card with 256 MB dedicated VRAM, 1280×720 resolution or higher


Optional Integration

• Adobe Photoshop CS5, CS6, CC

• Adobe Photoshop Elements 10, 11, 12

• Adobe Photoshop Lightroom® 4, 5

• Apple Aperture 3


Other

Internet connection for activation, auto update checking, online help, content downloads and tutorials.

Availability and Pricing

The Premium Edition works with Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, Aperture, Photoshop Elements, and as a standalone application. Owners of previous versions of Perfect Photo Suite Premium Edition can upgrade for $99.95. New users may pre-order the Premium Edition for $179.95.

Perfect Photo Suite 8 for Adobe Lightroom & Apple Aperture works with Lightroom, Aperture, Photoshop Elements, and as a standalone application. It is available for $129.95 | $79.95 upgrade. The Standard Edition works as a complete standalone photo editor and is available for $79.95.

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