December 23, 2011 by Mike Wong • 1 Comment
As 2011 comes to a close, we would like to take a moment and thank you for your continued support of onOne Software. We sincerely appreciate your business and recognize that without you, our loyal customer, none of us would be doing what we love every day.
With your support, 2011 will go down as a year to remember for all of us at onOne. Rest assured though, all of us are working hard to make 2012 even more exciting for you and your photography. But for now, we would like to wish you a very special holiday filled with good times with family and friends.
In order to allow our customer care staff an opportunity to spend time with their family during this Holiday week, we will have limited support hours through January 2, 2012. For a list of days and times where we will have live support from our Portland, Oregon office, please read this Support article.
December 1, 2011 by Brian Matiash • Comments Off
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November 24, 2011 by Mike Wong • Comments Off
Here in the United States today, it is our Thanksgiving holiday. Many of you reading this live in the U.S. so you already know what this holiday is all about. For the rest of you, it's basically a time when we give thanks for all that we have and a time to spend with good friends and family.
Today, more so than any other day in the year, I am especially thankful for the obvious things like my family, friends and good health. But I am also sincerely grateful for all of you out there in the extended onOne family. If you have ever purchased one of our products, ever downloaded a trial version, ever watched a webinar, read a newsletter or for even just reading this blog - Thank You. I really mean it.
Over the past 6 and a half years, I've seen the onOne Community grow beyond anything I imagined when we first started. For that, I thank you.
Please know that every day, and especially this day, I am, along with the rest of us here at onOne, extremely thankful for your support. I hope you all have a Happy Thanksgiving.
September 9, 2011 by Mike Wong • Comments Off
It has been a whirlwind of non-stop demonstrations of our new Perfect Photo Suite 6 here at Photoshop World this week. One after the other, we've had a lot of great feedback from those who have been able to see the live demonstrations.
Users of PhotoTools 2.6 can't wait to get their hands on Perfect Effects 3 so they can not only get the live preview of each effect on their own image, but also the ability to edit pretty much every aspect of each effect to their own liking.
Users of Mask Pro 4 are really excited about the new features and algorithm updates in Perfect Mask 5 that will make it easier for them to remove and replace backgrounds.
Wedding and portrait photographers have been floored by Perfect Portrait 1 not only by how easy it is to use, but by the quality of the results. We've gone to great lengths to make sure we keep skin pores and texture in tact so as not to produce that overly smooth mannequin look.
Unfortunately, I haven't had the time to write down all of the great comments we've received so far to share with you, but I can point you to two articles written in the last couple of days by some photographers who have seen the Perfect Photo Suite 6 in an early pre-announcement demonstration.
Andy Kruczek, a commercial photographer from the U.K. who does a lot of photo compositing and enhancing, got a sneak preview and here's a quote from his review.
"This, it’s fair to say, is not a simple upgrade. Many of the component parts of the Suite have undergone a total rewrite, new features have been added by the bucketload and the look and feel is now slicker and much more modern. The new features and layout make for an incredibly powerful set of tools. So powerful in fact, that I found myself questioning the need for Photoshop at all."
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Colby Brown, a professional landscape, travel and humanitarian photographer who teaches photography workshops and has been an instructor for National Geographic, wrote this post on Wednesday of this week.
"With this latest upgrade, I truly feel like onOne Software has taken post processing to the next level. As a partner of onOne Software, I was given the opportunity to check out PPS6 (Perfect Photo Suite 6) last week and I can honestly tell you that I was blown away by what I saw. I am so excited about many of the new features that I have already began to re-imagine my workflow when it comes to processing my images."
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I just wanted to share this with you in case you too are excited about the new Perfect Photo Suite but wanted to hear from a couple of photographers who have had a chance to see it in action. We'll be shipping Perfect Photo Suite 6 in late October so we'll keep the early feedback and sneak peeks coming until then.
If you'd like to see the Perfect Photo Suite 6 before it begins shipping, sign up for one of our Webinars as we'll be demonstrating it next week.
September 7, 2011 by Mike Wong • 6 Comments
I'm very excited to share with you today our announcement of the new Perfect Photo Suite 6. This is a really big update to the Suite and has been in the works for quite some time and we're finally ready to give you a sneak peek at this update which will begin shipping (or downloading) in late October 2011.
What's New in Perfect Photo Suite 6
As your workflow has changed, so have our products. We have heard over and over again for the past couple of years that more of your workflow is centered around Lightroom and Aperture. Also, that because you're spending most of your time in these types of apps, you're going less and less to Photoshop. Not that Photoshop is any less of a product - because it's not - but because you want as few distractions as possible in your workflow and let's be honest, there's a whole lot in Photoshop that most photographers have never and will never use.
For that reason and others, one of the biggest changes to Perfect Photo Suite 6 is that in addition to functioning as a plug-in for Photoshop (because lots of people still work there everyday), all of our products that are part of Suite 6, will now function as standalone applications as well as plug-ins. This means you can use our products as plug-ins to Lightroom or Aperture and not have to have Photoshop as the host application.
The Perfect Photo Suite 6 introduces four new products - Perfect Portrait 1, Perfect Layers 2, Perfect Effects 3 and Perfect Mask 5. Perfect Resize 7, FocalPoint 2 and PhotoFrame 4.6 remain in the Suite but have not undergone any significant updates with one exception that I'll get to in a moment.
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