One onOne with Mike Wong

Back in May, I posted an example of our Photoshop plugin FocalPoint in use by New York photographer Andy Marcus. Well, I've received a few more samples from Andy recently and wanted to share one of them here.

The original is on the left and the photo processed with FocalPoint is on the right. First, the original photo is a great shot and illustrates what a great photographer Andy is. Second, I think the "after" photo illustrates that Andy is an artist when he's not behind the camera as well. Having a vision of what you want to convey to your client and being able to execute that vision with a variety of tools, whether it's with a plugin or not, is a talent and Andy clearly has it.

I really like the way Andy has softened the edge and added a vignette to really bring attention and focus to the bride. Thanks for sharing your work with us Andy!

Photos copyright Andy Marcus. All rights reserved.

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I was looking through a couple of our video tutorials for our Photoshop plugins the other day and it dawned on my just how many there are up there. We have 79 videos (in Flash and QuickTime format) that cover all of our plugins for Photoshop. Seventy-nine! Wow. I knew we had a lot, but I must admit, I didn't realize there were that many.

So be sure to head over to our Tutorials page and check them out! They're all free of course!

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American Photo Magazine recently announced their 2008 Editors' Choice Awards and I'm happy to pass along that not one, but two plug-ins from onOne Software made their list this year.

Genuine Fractals made the list in 2006. The Plug-In Suite made the list in 2007. For 2008, our newest Photoshop plugin FocalPoint 1.0 along with PhotoTune 2.2 made the exclusive list.

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It's been a very busy time here at onOne. Fresh on last week's announcement of our new FocalPoint 1.0 plug-in for Photoshop becoming available, we've got an announcement for today with the availability of Essentials 2 for iPhoto.

Essentials 2 for iPhoto is an external editor for iPhoto and is launched from within iPhoto when you have a photo selected. When you install Essentials for iPhoto, the installer will ask if you want to set Essentials for iPhoto as the external editor for iPhoto - doing so will allow you to simply select a photo and then click the Edit button and off you will go to our app. When you're done, it will drop you back into iPhoto.

The plug-ins in Essentials 2 for iPhoto are based on PhotoTune (for color correction), FocalPoint (for selective focus and adding depth of field), PhotoFrame (for border & edge effects) and Genuine Fractals (for enlarging photos).

Be sure to check out the Essentials for iPhoto training videos.

The press release is available here.

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I just saw that Dave Cross has posted a review of PhotoTools Professional Edition over at his blog.

You can watch the video below (it's cool that Google let's you grab the video playback code with the click of a mouse!), but I would also highly recommend heading over to Dave's blog for other videos, photos and in general good stuff.

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I've been asked several times lately how to use the Layer Mask Mode in PhotoFrame that I figured it was time for me to do a post about it here.

Layer Masks are a great way to selectively edit, show or hide part of a layer in Photoshop in a non-destructive manner. I love layer masks and PhotoFrame (both the Professional Edition and the Standard Edition) have a feature called Layer Mask Mode that allow you to apply a PhotoFrame frame/edge to the layer mask as opposed to a new layer of its own. If you're wondering why you would want to do this, one reason is if you want an edge to a photo that you're going to post to the web. Maybe you'll put the photo on your site which has a black background and you also want to post the finished photo to your flickr account which has a white background. Adding a layer mask with a frame in it allows you to save the file as a transparent PNG file so that one image can be placed on multiple site and no matter what the background color of the site's page, the edge will look the same as if it blends seamlessly into the page background.

Now that you know what a layer mask is and why you might want do to it, here's how you actually do it.

Continue reading "PhotoFrame Pro 3 - Layer Mask Mode" »

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You may have seen our press announcement yesterday about our acquisition of the Liquid Resize technology developed by Austrian developer Sabet Ramin which as in turn based on the paper issued at Siggraph 2007.

I've gotten a few emails and phone calls since then asking what impact this will have on Genuine Fractals. The short answer is that this won't have an impact on Genuine Fractals.

Here's the longer answer...

The two technologies, while both involve resizing, are quite different.

Genuine Fractals is designed for those who want to increase the size of a file to get a higher resolution file for printing purposes and to maintain the aspect ratio of the original file.

The technology in Liquid Resize, on the other hand is meant for when you want to resize a digital image and change the aspect ratio of the image, but not distort the image. I'll post some examples of Liquid Resize in the next couple of days, but in the meantime, I hope this answers the question for most people.

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Like many other companies that develop software for the Mac, we've had to update some of our plug-ins to be fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. We announced the updates earlier this week and most users should get their update through our auto-update feature when you launch the plug-in from within Photoshop.

But like many things in the software world, there seem to be a few cases where users are getting a message during the update process that the installer could not locate a version of the software to be updated.

If this happens to you, please visit our online knowledge base where our Tech Support team has posted an article on how to work around this issue if you run into it.

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We have officially released our Mac OS X 10.5 (aka Leopard) updates today. For details on the releases, you can go to the official press release and read all of the juicy (or not so juicy) details.

If you just want to go and download the updates, you can go directly to the updates page and start downloading the patches that you need and you'll be good to go. The download page can be found at http://www.ononesoftware.com/download.php#updates.

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I was just looking at the landscape shot of the Three Sisters mountains that I talked about in the last entry on PhotoTools (see PhotoTools - Landscape Enhance with Glow) and realized that I stopped a little short with that picture. So, in my effort to procrastinate yet again on my big project, I'd like to offer up a quick tip on how you can use PhotoTools to clean up an image like this that has an area that is under exposed that you want to, well, expose.

To correct this, I'm going to use the Digital Fill Flash effect in PhotoTools. This is something that you would normally do with a flash or reflector to increase the brightness in dark areas of your subject matter. This is a great technique to use if you exposed your image for the sky for example and under exposed the foreground. You can click on most of the screenshots for a larger version.

Open your image in Photoshop and then launch PhotoTools or PhotoTools Professional Edition (this effect is in both versions).

Next, go to the Image Optimize section and choose onOne Digital Fill Flash.

Double click on the Digital Fill Flash effect and it will be added to your stack. You can see that we will get some improvement in the middle of the photo where it is too dark.

It is still a little dark for my preference so the next thing I did was to adjust the Fade slider to increase the strength of the Digital Fill Flash effect. By default it is set to 50% but I'll move it all the way up to 100%.

It's still just a little too dark for me. Not much, but enough that it will bug me if I don't fix it. I can't move the slider up past 100 but one of the cool things about PhotoTools is that it lets me stack multiple effects together. In this case, I'm just going to stack the Digital Fill Flash effect again to deal with those pesky dark areas of my photo. So just double click the Digital Fill Flash again and you'll see that by default it sets the strength to 50% which I will leave alone this time.

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I've got a new Preset for PhotoTools Professional Edition that I'd like to share today. I was going through some pictures for a year end project and found this picture that I took in Central Oregon at a place called Black Butte Ranch. It's a shot of the Three Sisters mountains, part of the Cascade Mountain Range. I love it here. It's absolutely wonderful and we go every summer. Anyway...the original photo was a bit flat with some room for improvement. PhotoTools to the rescue.

I started off with an effect to improve the overall tone and then dropped the Kubota Radiant Landscape effect. I could have stopped there but decided to drop the Kubota Soft Glow effect which added a little more to the clouds. At that point, I stopped. Sometimes it's hard to stop, but that's the secret, knowing when to stop.

Here's the preset if you'd like to download it and use it. You'll need PhotoTools Professional Edition because of the use of Kevin Kubota's effects.

All images copyright Mike Wong 2007.

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I was recently going through some pictures that I took throughout 2007 as part of a year-end slide show, semi-movie project that I like to do for my family. While cruising through my Lightroom library, I stumbled upon this picture of my son that I took in October at one of his soccer games.

I really liked it for two reasons. First, I really liked the lighting - that late afternoon light in the fall can be really nice. Second, I liked it be because Nathan wasn't pulling a goofy face which is he prone to do at his age in just about every picture I take of him. The goofy faces are nice, but even a parent wants a straight face sometimes. Anyway, I thought it would make a good black and white photo so I quickly opened it up in Photoshop CS3 and the took it into PhotoTools Professional Edition.

I added two effects that Jack Davis created for PhotoTools. The first was a Black and White effect specifically designed for portraits (effect name: Davis-WOW Portrait-B&W). I then added the Davis-Diffuse Glow effect set to the Substantial Large setting because I really wanted to get a nice glow and blow out some of the highlights on the left side of Nathan's face so they would blend into the background. I know Jack would disagree with me about blowing out the highlights but I had almost blown them out in the original photo so I figured I might as well go to town and completely blow the highlights and get a cool effect. Finally, I added a small amount of sharpening with Jack's Davis-Portrait Sharpen effect set to Small. The result...

I really like this final result and when I printed it on my Epson R2400, I liked it even better. I can't wait to get the print home and put it up in my office.

Now if you would like to get this same type of look, you can either repeat those steps in PhotoTools Professional Edition - which will save you about 15 steps in Photoshop, or you can download this preset and import it into PhotoTools Professional Edition and get it with a simple double-click. Hope you enjoy it.

All images copyright Mike Wong 2007.

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Time sure flies by. I apologize for not posting recently, seems like I hit Thanksgiving and just didn't come back up! The truth is I've been incredibly busy on several different projects this past month and am just now coming up for air but only because I'm procrastinating on working on something else.

Anyway, I wanted to let everybody know that we're running a big holiday promotion sale where you can get 20 percent off of any single onOne Software plug-in for Photoshop using the coupon code HLDY7 in the checkout process. No mail-in rebate forms, just an electronic coupon and you'll get your discount. Pretty cool.

Also, if you've ever considered getting more than one of our products, check out the Everything Bundle that we're offering. You get Genuine Fractals Print Pro, PhotoFrame Professional Edition, PhotoTools Professional Edition, Mask Pro, Intellihance Pro and PhotoTune all for only $499.95 or $399.95 if you already own any version of any onOne product. It's a pretty good deal if you ask me. :-)

I've got a couple of pictures I'll be posting shortly so be sure to look for those as well.

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I am happy to be posting today that we have gone GM with PhotoTools and PhotoTools Professional Edition and it is now officially available for download. For those of you who pre-ordered PhotoTools, the CDs are in production and orders should begin shipping by November 29, 2007.

Thank you to everybody who has pre-ordered either PhotoTools or PhotoTools Professional Edtion. You're going to love it when you get your hands on it.

Here's an example of a photo I enhanced with it - and you can even download the preset that I used and add it to PhotoTools Professional Edition.

Here's the original photo.

Here's the PhotoTools enhanced version.

It's a somewhat subtle change, but sometimes subtle is better in my opinion. It all depends on the shot.

If you have PhotoTools Professional Edition, you can download the preset or recipe that I used to create this and use it yourself. Just download this preset file (Skin Smoothner LOTR) then unzip the file and then you'll need to get it into PhotoTools. To do that, launch PhotoTools, then go to the File menu and choose "Show Presets Folder". A new window will show up in the Finder or in Windows Explorer and you can then copy this file into the User Presets folder.

We're going to be creating a place for users to upload their own presets to share with others so stay tuned!

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For those of you moving to Leopard, please note that we are still testing our plug-ins with the final, shipping version of this new OS from Apple. For more information, you can click here to go to the onOne Software Knowledge Base.

We'll let everybody know when updates are available.

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Macworld UK has announced its Best of Show awards for London's MacLive Expo 2007.

The Macworld Best Of Show awards are hand-picked by the Macworld editorial team, who spend the day examining every stand for the most interesting, innovative and exciting products premiering at the show.

onOne PhotoTune 2.2: PhotoTune 2.2 is an Adobe Photoshop plug-in that provides professional level colour correction in an easy to use plug-in. It incorporates ColorTune technology (formerly known as 20/20 Color MD) with its patented colour correction process and SkinTune technology, developed after more than two years of in-depth skin color research.

[Read the full story and see the other Best of Show products]

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One of the best new features that came out in Adobe Photoshop CS3 was the addition of Smart Filters. The new Smart Filters feature allows you to have an editable filter. You can apply a Smart Filter and then you can go back later and edit the effect as opposed to having the effect be completely destructive on a layer. What's more, you can change the opacity of the filter, the blend mode and you can edit it with a layer mask that is added automatically.

Not all filters can be Smart Filters though. PhotoTune 2.2 for color correction, one of our latest plug-ins for Photoshop, can be used as a Smart Filter though. Here's how.

Step 1: Open your file and if necessary double click on the background layer to convert it to a non-backgroud layer. Next go to the Filter menu and choose Convert for Smart Filters.

Step 2: Launch PhotoTune and make your adjustments using the six step color correction wizard. Click Apply.

I'm only showing the final step of PhotoTune here in this tutorial.

When you apply the filter, you'll go back to Photoshop and you'll see that your layers palette now has two indented items under the primary layer that we started working on.

The Smart Filters layer has a white layer mask so that all of the filter effect is visible. Remember with layer masks that White reveals and Black conceals. You will also see the ColorTune 2 filter under the layer mask. The white layer mask is revealing all of the ColorTune/PhotoTune filter. You could select a brush, set the color to black and paint on the layer mask to hide portions of the PhotoTune effect.

Step 3: Edit Your Smart Filter (Optional)

This step is optional and may not be needed, but let's do it for the sake of the tutorial. Let's say you're not quite happy with some of the fine-tune settings you added after the PhotoTune six-step color correction wizard. You can easily make an adjustment without having to go through the color correction process again. To do this simplly double-click on the ColorTune 2 layer and you'll be sent back into the PhotoTune ColorTune filter. Under the image on the right, click on the word Current and then selection Last Filter.

This will load up the previous settings so it is identical to what you saw before you double-clicked on the ColorTune 2 layer. Now, make any adjustments you want and click Apply.

That's all there is to it. Give it a try and also be sure to try this with any other Smart Filter compatible filter. I think you'll find it's a great new way to work!

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Well, it's 3:11 am here in New York and I'm still up working. I just finished getting a few things ready for PhotoPlus which starts in less than 6 hours. Nothing like getting things done early is there?

Before I call it a night, er...morning, I thought I'd throw a post out there. Here's a picture I took with my new Canon Powershot G9 (which I absolutely love by the way) that I took yesterday morning on the flight out of PDX. And no, the pilot had not said that it was safe to turn on approved electronic devices. :-) I saw the sun hit the bottom of the wing from the other side of the plane and had to get the shot. Nothing happened to the plane, so I'm assuming a point-and-shoot camera is safe. :-) (this isn't the first time I've taken a picture during takeoff before the ":approved elevaction")

Here's the before shot straight out of the camera.

I wanted to pull some of the dirt and grime out of the wing though as well as clean up the white balance and get that correct. So I ran it through our soon-to-be-released Photoshop Plug-In, PhotoTools Professional Edition and got this.

The effects I used were Omaha, which reproduces the look from Saving Private Ryan and then I added Kevin Kubota's The Look action. I really like the end result.

All images copyright Mike Wong 2007.

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I just got Tim Grey's DDQ email and in there, Tim mentioned that he'll be speaking at the upcoming Columbia Northwest Council of Camera Clubs' Annual Convention that takes place October 12-14, 2007 in Gresham (just east of Portland) at the Mt. Hood Community College.

They've got a nice campus there (my younger brother used to perform in music competitions out there in high school) so if you're in the area add this event to your calendar. You'll be treated to a nice campus setting and some good speakers including Tim.

Learn more about the Columbia Northwest Council of Camera Clubs.

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Earlier today, PopPhoto.com posted on their website their October 2007 list of Top 5 Must Have Software Programs...and I'm extremely happy to share with you that Genuine Fractals 5 was on their list!

Here's the link to their site. PopPhoto.com Top 5 Must Have Software Programs.

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Stan Sholik with AfterCapture Magazine recently wrote a review of Genuine Fractals 5. One of the nice things that AfterCapture does is they post a nice quality PDF of their reviews so you can download it and read it at your convenience.

If you're interested in reading Stan's review, here's the link to the PDF.

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The podcast for the interview I did on Photo Talk Radio last weekend is now live. If you're interested, please visit their site and have a listen.

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I just finished up with my first LIVE radio interview with Howard Lipin and Mike Garcia over at Photo Talk Radio.

In the past, internet radio interviews that I've done were always recorded and turned into podcasts, but this was my first one that was live. I'm glad I didn't tell the guys in the office or my family as I'm sure they would have called in and heckled me.

Thanks again to Howard and Mike for having me on this morning!

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Recently at the Adobe CS3 Creative License tour stop in New York, I demonstrated the Magic Brush feature of Mask Pro 4 and how you can use it effectively without manually picking any keep or drop colors. Lots of people asked me to do a tutorial on this so here it is! The tutorial requires the latest version of Apple's QuickTime so be sure you have the latest and greatest version installed.

(Watch the video | 32.9 MB | 14:11)

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We're both honored and excited to have found out recently that the onOne Plug-In Suite 3 was recently named an American Photo Editors' Choice for 2007 in the category of Top Imaging Software.

This makes two American Photo Editors' Choice awards in a row for onOne. Last year Genuine Fractals received the award!

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James Dempsey over at Macworld.com did a nice write up today (or was it yesterday - why am I up so late?) about plug-in updates for the Adobe CS3 apps.

James mentions a handful of plug-ins and their CS3 savvy status for InDesign CS3, Illustrator CS3 and of course, Photoshop CS3. He also mentions the status of some font management apps including Extensis' Suitcase.

Being from onOne, I was especially happy to read James' comments on our plug-ins.

"I consider all four of OnOne’s Photoshop plug-ins to be the best on the market for what they do."

Thanks James! It's always nice to hear those kind of words. We work hard to deliver great products to users and we appreciate the mention!

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We're excited to announce that onOne Software has teamed up with Lynda.com to provide 1.5 hours of Mask Pro 4 video training available to all onOne Software users for free. That's right, free. Normally, Lynda.com charges for this type of content, but they're giving away this content to all onOne Software users. Just go to http://www.lynda.com/go/MaskPro and follow the instructions to get this content.

We feel that the best way to learn a new product is to watch a video of it in action. And the folks over at Lynda.com really know their stuff when it comes to teaching online. Be sure to check it out. If you don't have a copy of Mask Pro already, visit our downloads page and request a free 30-day demo. To add to that 30 days, onOne Software also offers a 30-day, no questions asked money back guarantee.

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If you're going to be upgrading to Photoshop CS3 this Spring and are wondering what onOne Software has planned in terms of updates and compatibility and such, here's a recap of what we plan on doing and how it will affect you.

Back in December 2006 (which seems like forever ago already) we announced our plans for Photoshop CS3 compatibility which included making free (via download) updates available for PhotoFrame Pro 3, Intellihance Pro 4 and Mask Pro 4. If you are a registered user of any of those products, you should be receiving an email from us alerting you to the availability along with a download link to get the update installers. If you are not registered, you can so at our online registration page. If you don't get the email for some reason, just give us a call at 888-968-1468 and we'll get you the download links.

For Genuine Fractals, it's a little different. We announced Genuine Fractals 5 in December as well and have stated that anyone who purchases Genuine Fractals 4.1 (standard or Print Pro) as a new purchase or as an upgrade, will get Genuine Fractals 5.0 for free via download when it ships this Spring. Upgrade pricing will be available for those who do not qualify for the free upgrade.

For those of you participating in the Photoshop CS3 public beta, you can download beta versions of Genuine Fractals 5, Mask Pro 4.1 and PhotoFrame Pro 3.1 to use. Please note Mask Pro 4.1 and PhotoFrame Pro 3.1 will require that you have full versions (not demo versions) of Mask Pro 4.0 and PhotoFrame Pro 3.0 installed already. The Genuine Fractals 5 beta does not have this same requirement but does have a timeout date.

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More news from onOne Software last week...we announced the immediate availability of 85 presets for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom that we're calling PhotoPresets with One-Click Wow! that everybody can download for free.

We worked directly with Photoshop Guru and Hall-of-Famer Jack Davis. The presets are unique from others in that they do not try to be everything to everybody or a one-size fits all. Presets that were developed by someone with some image may not necessarily work on your image (were the white balance corrections the same, what about HSL settings? the list goes on). This doesn't mean that we won't come out with other presets that help you recreate a specific look, but in general for color correction, the feedback we've gotten from most users out there who are over-whelmed and somewhat intimidated by the numerous sliders and curve adjustments available in the Develop module, welcome these kinds of presets with open arms.

As such, the PhotoPresets that Jack developed for us help walk you through the process of fixing and properly adjusting your photos. Start with a White Balance correction, then move into Tone Curve adjustements. Next, HSL (hue, saturation & luminosity) where you can push everything to grayscale except a color (i.e. blue eyes). Next, you can change to black and white, add a custom hand-tint and finally a variety of vignettes can be added. It's really quite simple when you go through the presets. The cool thing is that once you find a look that you like by combining these presets, you can save that preset as your own and in one-click, you're there!

So if you're using Photoshop Lightroom, go download a copy of our PhotoPresets for Lightoom. They're free! In the next few days, we'll be posting several video tutorials that Jack Davis created specifically for these presets.

If you're not a Lightroom expert and don't know where the presets go, don't worry, we've created an installer that puts the presets in the right place. Just run the installer and relaunch Lightroom.

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One of the most exciting new features in Genuine Fractals 5.0 is the exposure of two controls that let you fine tune your scaling results: Gain & Threshold. But what are they and what do they do? Read on to find out...

Continue reading "Genuine Fractals 5.0 - Gain & Threshold" »

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It's been a very busy start to 2007 for us here at onOne, so busy that it dawned on me last night that I have been a bit remiss about posting to the blog! So I'll try to make up for that today.

On the heels of the Genuine Fractals 5.0 public beta, we're happy to share with you a preview release of PhotoFrame Pro 3.1. The new update (free to all registered users of PhotoFrame Pro 3) sports a couple of new features as well as compatibility with Photoshop CS3 running natively on Intel-Macs (also referred to as a Universal Binary).

New features in PhotoFrame Pro 3.1 include 16-bit support so you no longer have to convert files to 8-bit and a new Auto-Rotate feature that will automatically adjust the orientation of a frame to best fit your image. Some of the frame content was developed and set by default to be applied in a portrait orientation, some was done for landscape. At the time we developed, we essentially had to flip a coin as to which one we did (rather than developing two of everything). The problem was if you wanted a landscape oriented frame on your portrait oriented image. Sometimes you couldn't see a difference but other times you could - it all depended on the frame.

But PhotoFrame Pro 3.1 fixes that. The plug-in will automatically detect the orientation of your image and compare it to the frame you are applying and make the necessary rotation so the frame looks good the first time and gives you a better user experience.

The beta will only work if you have a licensed version (meaning you bought it, not just downloaded a demo) of PhotoFrame Pro 3 on your computer. Full install instructions are available on the beta site so make sure you read through the release notes. This version is sooooo much faster on an Intel-Mac under Photoshop CS3 than it was running in Photoshop CS2 running under Rosetta.

Enjoy!

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Another day, another announcement. Earlier today, we announced our plans for updating Mask Pro 4, Intellihance Pro 4 and PhotoFrame Pro 3 to be compatible with Photoshop CS3. Yesterday, we talked about our plans for Genuine Fractals.

If you're using Photoshop CS3 in it's public beta form on Mac OS X and want/need to use any of our plug-ins you'll have to run Photoshop CS3 under Rosetta (which pretty much defeats the purpose of the CS3 public beta) for the time being. Rest assured we're hard at work on making the Mac versions of our plug-ins Universal Binaries and plan to share more on that in the coming weeks, so stay tuned.

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