June 12, 2011 by Brian Matiash • Comments Off
Last week, two of our friends, Towner Jones and Ron Martinsen, posted some great content around the Perfect Photo Suite and we'd like to share them with you.
- The first article by Towner is a fantastic screencast he recorded, showing a very creative way to use Perfect Layers 1.0 to generate a custom photo layout/collage. If you've been waiting to get a sneak preview of Perfect Layers 1.0, look no further than Towner's post!
- Next up is a guest blog post by yours truly (Brian M) and is hosted by the ever-prolific Ron Martinsen. Ron had asked me to create a screenflow using several Perfect Photo Suite products to give a truly unique look to one of my images. Naturally, I went with a grungy UrbEx HDR photo and worked in some PhotoTools and FocalPoint love. You can check out the guest blog post on Ron's blog!
Thank you, Towner & Ron, for including us on your great blogs!
January 24, 2011 by Brian Matiash • 3 Comments
When we updated PhotoTools 2.6, we added a new category of presets that work really well with HDR images. It turns out that they were very popular, so we expanded the category with some new HDR presets that you can download and import into PhotoTools for free.
Click here to download our 'Presets for HDR' Expansion Pack
We've also put together a quick video tutorial showing you how you can import these presets into PhotoTools, as well as share your existing presets with other PhotoTools users.
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August 28, 2010 by Mike Wong • 1 Comment
One could argue that processing your HDR photos AFTER they have been aligned, merged and tone-mapped by your HDR software of choice be it Photoshop CS5, Photomatix or any of the other HDR programs out there. In fact, photographer Brian Matiash (who is extremely skilled at HDR photography) says this in an installment of his HDR Best Practices guides.
To prove his point, he's started a new series in this blog called Behind the Curtain, where he shows you the tone mapped HDR image and the final image after post-processing. One of his keys to success in his post work is PhotoTools 2.5 Professional Edition. Brian has found a variety of effects that he really enjoys using to create his signature style and in this series he shares what those effects are. Take a look at his work (it's amazing) as it is sure to inspire you (it has me) to go out and shoot more and see just how far you can push PhotoTools.
So be sure to take a look at the first installment of Behind the Curtain - The Royal Clipper. It's amazing to see the before and after shots here.
June 2, 2010 by Mike Wong • 15 Comments
For years, you have been able to access our plug-ins for Photoshop from the onOne menu, a menu that we created and then inserted into Photoshop's menu bar between the Window and Help menu items. The method that was available to us for many years is no longer available in Photoshop CS5 ((there were hints of this in some instances of Photoshop CS4 as well, but it's really gone for good in CS5)).
So for many of you who have just updated to the Photoshop CS5 compatible versions of our plug-ins, you don't see the onOne menu that you are so accustomed to seeing and you're wondering "how do I access my plug-ins?". A quick trip to the Filter menu shows nothing from onOne. That's because, technically, our plug-ins are not filters.
Where you will find them is under the File > Automate menu. What? Where? Why? The reason is that beginning in Photoshop CS4 ((maybe it was CS3, I can't remember for sure)) most of our products were converted over to Automation plug-ins so that they could be used in a batch process or as part of an action.
Starting in Photoshop CS4, we knew that eventually we'd no longer be able to use the beloved onOne menu so we took advantage of the new panels that Adobe introduced in the CS4 release. The new onOne panel gives you all the functionality of the older onOne menu. But how do you get to it? In Photoshop, go to the Window menu and then to Extensions. There, you'll see onOne. Select onOne from the Window > Extensions menu and you'll get the new onOne panel. The onOne panel can be docked along with any of the other panels in Photoshop so you can customize your workspace.
So now you have two options, either the onOne panel or the File > Automate menu. Good luck! If you'd like to see a video of this, Dan Harlacher, our senior product manager recorded one to show you how to access the onOne panel.
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January 26, 2010 by Mike Wong • 7 Comments
One the most common questions we have received since the release of our Plug-In Suite 5 is "How do I get to the plug-ins? I only see Mask Pro 4 in the Photoshop CS4 Filter menu. Where are Genuine Fractals, PhotoTools, PhotoFrame, PhotoTune and FocalPoint?" Well, the short answer is that technically, the only "Filter" that we develop here at onOne is Mask Pro 4. The rest of the plug-ins technically are Automation plug-ins and "live" elsewhere within Photoshop.
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