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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September 6, 2011 by Mike Wong • Comments Off
I wanted to make sure that everybody has at least heard about the work around for those of you who may still be experiencing a crash when applying PhotoTools 2.6 in Photoshop under Mac OS X Lion. Even if you have installed our latest update for PhotoTools that fixed the previously known crashers, the crashing still persisted for some.
The reason seems to stem from a preference in Photoshop to open new documents as Tabs vs separate Windows. Adobe is moving towards the tab interface and that preference is set to open as tabs by default, which is how our test machines were configured, which is why we never saw this issue happening here.
So if you have unchecked that setting and are having crashes with PhotoTools 2.6.4, trying turning the preference back on. You can read more about this on our Support site here.
A big thank you to Rick S who figured this out and posted to our blog comment thread.
August 19, 2011 by Mike Wong • Comments Off
Later today, I'm going to be having lunch with Seth Resnick as he's in town with his D-65 Digital Workflow workshop. Seth is a great photographer, instructor and an even nicer person so I'm really looking forward to seeing Seth again. But I'm not writing this to tell you about my lunch plans...I'm posting this to let you know about a discount that Seth is offering for an upcoming workshop next month in Mendocino, CA with Greg Gorman (another world-class photographer and extremely nice person). The workshop runs from September 11 - 16, 2011.
Here's a description of the workshop from Seth & Greg.
Learn or improve your studio and location lighting with Greg Gorman, and Seth Resnick for a special one week All shooting and creative workshop in spectacular Mendocino, CA
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World renowned photographer Greg Gorman invites you to join him at the Greg Gorman Digital Workshop in Mendocino, California where Greg shares his knowledge of digital photography in the intimate setting of his home and studio on the Pacific North Coast. Greg's special guest is Seth Resnick who is returning for a third time.
This workshop is ideal for any photographer looking to enhance his/her camera, lighting, color management, image editing and fine art printing making skills. The locations are beyond spectacular with shooting on the rugged coast, amazing sand dunes, the redwood forests, and vineyards.
The workshop provides two professional models from New York and Los Angeles and one on one instruction from Seth and Greg.
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The cost of the workshop is normally $4,250 but if you use the discount code D65 you can save $750 to bring the cost of the 6 day workshop to $3,500. I've talked to several photographers who have been to this workshop in the past and I'm told it's well worth it.
For more information, you can visit Greg's web site at http://www.gormanworkshops.com/Directory.html
August 15, 2011 by Mike Wong • 25 Comments
Update: Full installers for Suite 5.5.4 now available, look below.
Well. That happened faster than I thought. I said a few minutes ago that the installers would be ready later tonight, but I just got an email from our support team with the download links to the installers for Perfect Photo Suite 5.5.4. Please note, these are only the UPDATE installers intended for those who already have Suite 5.5.x installed.
This update to the Perfect Photo Suite adds our official support for Mac OS X (10.7) Lion as well as addresses the Time Machine error that prevented your automatic Time Machine backups from taking place. Please note for the Time Machine fix, you may have to replace any Mac OS X dock shortcuts you may have to any of the onOne products. If you don't keep one of our apps in your Mac OS X Dock, you should never know the difference.
If you are using Windows, there is an update for you as well that addresses some issues with Perfect Layers not launching properly.
Here are the direct download links - please note, you should only use these if you already have Perfect Photo Suite 5.5.x installed. If you are looking to install Perfect Photo Suite 5.5.4 for the first time, visit our Downloads page. Keep in mind that the FULL installers for Suite 5.5.4 have not been posted yet but will be available later this evening.
Perfect Photo Suite 5.5.4 UPDATE installer for Mac OS X
Perfect Photo Suite 5.5.4 UDPATE installer for Windows
If you own an individual product outside of the Suite, those update installers will be available on Tuesday, August 16, 2011.
Update: We now have the FULL installers available for Perfect Photo Suite 5.5.4 available as well. These installers are if you do not have Suite 5.5.x already installed.
Perfect Photo Suite 5.5.4 FULL installer for Mac OS X
Perfect Photo Suite 5.5.4 FULL installer for Windows
August 15, 2011 by Mike Wong • 10 Comments
Just a quick note to let you know we are uploading the installers for Perfect Photo Suite 5.5.4 to our download servers now. This free update includes the fixes for Mac OS X Lion compatibility as well as the fixes for the Time Machine errors that were previously reported.
The 5.5.4 update also is available for Windows users as it addresses an issue where Perfect Layers would sometimes not launch as expected.
Stay tuned for another post with the direct download links when the files have finished uploading.
