onOne Software Perfect Photo Suite 7 Premium Edition Software (DVD-ROM)

What's New in Perfect Photo Suite 7?

Perfect B&W

Easily develop your own quality black and white images. B&W's effective, intuitive tools give you both instant results and complete creative control. Use Perfect B&W to add dramatic and elegant looks to your photos and create the many moods black and white photography can evoke

Whether you are a hobbyist photographer or a working professional, achieve classic black and white looks instantly with a library of expertly-crafted effects - or customize your own unique look using darkroom-inspired controls that replicate time-honored processing techniques. Enhance tone and contrast by boosting shadow and highlight details or bring back a touch of selective color. Control the exact appearance of your image using a set of essential adjustment brushes and achieve precise edge detected masking with the all-new Perfect Brush

Presets Library

Reproduce vintage style using film grain and darkroom techniques quickly with the library of presets available in Perfect B&W, including presets designed exclusively for Perfect B&W by top industry professionals. Discover the perfect preset for your image with built-in search and instant live previews. Mark your favorites for quick and easy access, and expand your creative toolkit with even more presets available in the onOne Marketplace, a good source for digital accessories to take your images to the next level. Choose from a wide selection of hand-picked, professional design elements created by industry experts to save you time and effort with your digital photography. In addition to presets, browse backgrounds and textures, templates for albums, and more

Keep Your Favorites Handy

Save time and stay focused on your image editing when your favorite effects are always close at hand. Keep the presets you use most often in your Favorites panel, including ones you've personally created

Essential Adjustment Brushes

Precisely dodge and burn, add contrast and detail, and apply selective color with a set of brushes designed specifically for black and white processing. You control where and how much with simple brush strokes. Wacom tablet users can also control brush size and strength using built-in pen pressure and sensitivity support

Perfect Brush

Paint inside the lines with precision using the edge-detecting Perfect Brush Whether you're painting in effects, detail, contrast, highlights or selective color, the Perfect Brush will apply adjustments smoothly to the specific area you're working on while automatically recognizing the edges around it

Blending Modes

Use Blending Modes to blend your black and white image with your original to achieve a unique hand-painted or grungy contrast look. Choose from a selection of 30 modes to change the brightness, contrast, and color of your image and dramatically alter its appearance. Modes include Original, Normal, Lighter Color, Darken, Screen, Linear Light, Luminosity, Multiply, and Overlay

Toner Presets

Imply mood, add depth and create striking contrast within your images using the Toner Presets in Perfect B&W. Select from a collection of toners such as Black Tea Subtle, Cyanotype Subtle, Selenium Strong, Coffee Strong, Copper Medium, Faded Antique, and Sepia Strong, or build your own

Filter Presets

Get the effect of photographic filters after the shot. Use built-in color filter presets to enhance contrast in your image and adjust the relative brightness of the details you care about, whether it's the sky, foliage, or people. A green filter lightens foliage and darkens skin, and is a good general purpose filter. A yellow filter boosts contrast and reduces haze in landscapes. It will increase the difference between clouds and the sky. An orange filter is useful for Fall foliage. It increases the contrast between reds and yellow, and will also darken skies. The red filter is your secret to dark, dramatic skies. It lightens reds and darkens blues. The infrared filter simulates infrared film. It turns skies black and foliage white for a surreal look

Tone Curve

Optimize the balance of tone and contrast in your image. You can adjust your shadows, mid-tones and highlights to create the exact look you want

Film Grain

Add the timeless look and feel of vintage film stock using our library of authentic film grain. Choose from a selection of carefully crafted film types that integrate realistic grain onto your images

Finish Your Image with Borders, Edges and Vignettes

Accentuate your images with flexible vignettes and authentic film and darkroom edge effects of sloppy borders and print edges

Works Where You Do

Perfect B&W integrates seamlessly into your workflow, no matter what tools and software you use. It works as a plug-in to Photoshop and Photoshop Elements or with Lightroom or Aperture. You can also use Perfect B&W as a standalone application

Perfect Portrait 2

Now you can focus on the art of portrait creation, because the most time consuming retouching tasks have now been automated. With Perfect Portrait 2, you can improve skin texture and color, remove blemishes, and enhance eye, lips and teeth

Integrates directly with Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, Photoshop Elements or Apple Aperture as a plug-in. Also works as a standalone application. The flexibility allows you to operate seamlessly in the workflow of your choice

Improved Automatic Face Detection

Give each face in your image the specific attention it needs. Perfect Portrait 2 automatically recognizes each person in your photo and allows you to retouch each separately. Speed through your group photo retouching by moving from one face to the next with a simple click of a button

Improved Automatic Feature Detection

Perfect Portrait 2 does more than simply find each face - it also quickly and automatically locates the eyes and mouth in a portrait. You no longer have to waste time painting in the features or using complicated manual "wizards". Because the features are identified right away, you can quickly get to the task of enhancing those critical features. Use the new Eye and Mouth Control Points to refine how the features in your image are recognized, allowing you to easily localize where brightening and color enhancements will appear

Skin Blemish Removal and Smoothing

Get great looking and natural skin as Perfect Portrait 2 maintains realistic skin structure so portraits don't look over retouched. You can quickly reduce wrinkles and deep pores and smooth skin to an even consistency. Perfect Portrait 2 can be used on just the face or the entire body

Perfect Brush

With simple brush strokes of the new edge-detecting Perfect Brush, you can accurately select or remove the areas of your image you'd like to retouch

Retouch Brush

Remove distracting acne, stray hairs, veins or other large blemishes with a few simple clicks. Just dab the Retouch Brush on an imperfection to make it disappear

Color Correction

Automatically achieve accurate and natural skin color in Perfect Portrait 2. You'll be able to remove stray color casts and adjust your overall image color to complement the skin tone in your image

Works Where You Do

Perfect Portrait 2 integrates seamlessly into your workflow, no matter what tools and software you use. It works as a plug-in to Photoshop and Photoshop Elements or with Lightroom or Aperture. You can also use Perfect Portrait 2 as a standalone application

Perfect Layers 3

Enjoy all of the benefits and creative power of a layered workflow, allowing you to combine, composite, blend and retouch multiple images-all without Photoshop. work on multiple files directly from Lightroom or Aperture-or from within Perfect Layers 3 itself as a standalone application. Easy to use tools that have been designed specifically for photographers allow for creative and impactful masking, blending, retouching, addition of color fill layers, and more--giving you a wide array of creative options to create the exact images you envision. Because the software preserves all of the layer information as a PSD file, you can always return back to make further adjustments

Improved Blending Modes

By blending layers together, especially copies of the same or similar images, you can create high-impact, stylized looks in Perfect Layers 3. By changing the blending modes, you can control the brightness, contrast and color of the image to dramatically alter the appearance. And, by adjusting the opacity, you can control the strength of the effect

Masking Tools

Control how much of each layer is visible by using the powerful Masking Brush and Masking Bug. Similar to using a layer mask, you can paint with the Masking Brush to reveal or hide areas of a layer. With the Masking Bug, you can quickly create gradient masks for making vignettes and graduated filter effects. Both tools work together and are non-destructive and can even be re-edited with Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. If you use a Wacom pressure sensitive tablet, you can even control the brush size or opacity by how hard you press while painting

Perfect Brush

Achieve precise edge-detected masking. Brush smoothly applies or removes adjustments to the specific areas you're working on without going "outside of the lines"

Retouch Brush

Just dab the Retouch Brush on a blemish and it's gone automatically. This is perfect for quick touch ups. The Retouch Brush can also remove dust spots, power lines and other distractions from your image

Color Fill Layers

Change the mood of your image by inserting a new layer, filled with a solid color, in your stack. This changes the color of layers under them. It's one more way for you to expand your creative options with non-destructive, re-editable adjustments. Perfect Layers 3 includes presets that simulate common color correction and black and white conversion filters. You can also use the built-in masking tools to selectively place and control the strength of these color fill effects

Background Library

Replace an unsightly or uninteresting background in an otherwise great image with one of the backgrounds included with Perfect Layers 3. Choose from a library of more than 140 backgrounds, including skies, sunsets, walls and muslin

PNG File Support

Now, you can harness the creative possibilities of working with objects containing transparencies, like PNG files. Stack, position, and blend beautiful and dramatic borders and textures while utilizing their built-in transparent elements to create added dimension to your images

Borders and Textures from PhotoFrame

Seamlessly add that perfect finishing touch to your image with a collection of borders and textures handpicked from PhotoFrame. Located in the Extras Library of Perfect Layers, you'll find a creative assortment of frames, edges, borders and textures that you can easily add to your images. With PNG transparency file support now built into Perfect Layers, you can now add any of these borders and textures to your image as their own layers, allowing you to stack, position and blend them exactly how you like

Works Where You Do

Perfect Layers 3 integrates seamlessly into your workflow, no matter what tools and software you use. It works as a plug-in to Photoshop and Photoshop Elements or with Lightroom or Aperture. You can also use Perfect Layers 3 as a standalone application

Inspired by and Designed with Scott Kelby

onOne Software has worked closely with best-selling author, trainer and Photoshop expert Scott Kelby to design Perfect Layers 3.

Perfect Effects 4

An easy, fast and effective way to create images with impact. Choose from a robust library of photographic effects to add professional looks to your photos instantly, including the popular HDR and retro looks. You can also recreate the look of film and darkroom techniques, add glows, vignettes, borders, and correct common photography problems. With the ability to stack, combine and blend effects, and paint in effects to specific areas, your creative options are vast. Perfect Effects is the next generation of PhotoTools 2.6 and can be used as a standalone application or integrated directly into Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, or Apple Aperture

Enhanced Library of Effects

Enhance and stylize images with the robust library of professional effects included in Perfect Effects 4. With just a single click, you can add popular HDR or vintage looks to your image, recreate the look of film and darkroom techniques, and more. You can also add depth and dimension with texture effects, highlight with glows, simulate filters after the shot, and enhance detail and color. Combine, stack and blend your choice effects to create your own unique look

Browser and Keyword Search

Quickly find the effects you want to use with the updated browser and new search functionality. Use the expandable column views to instantly preview how the effect will look on your image so you can confidently create the look you want

Favorites

Save time on image editing by keeping your favorite effects, presets and extras always close at hand. Put the styles you use most often, including ones you've personally created, in your Favorites folder

Paint-in Effect Brushes

Now you'll find Basic Brushes in Perfect Effects 4. With simple brush strokes, you can paint-in effects on specific areas of your image. Solve some of your most common digital photography problems with this handy brush set. Make areas darker, lighter or warmer. Add detail, glow or more color. You can also reveal highlights and recover shadows

Masking Tools

Selectively apply any of the effects from the Effect Library to specific parts of your photo with masking controls. Use the Masking Brush to apply or remove effects to specific areas and the Masking Bug to quickly create vignettes and graduated filter looks

Perfect Brush

Achieve precise edge-detected masking with the Perfect Brush. It will smoothly apply or remove adjustments to the specific area you're working on without going "outside of the lines." Turn on the Perfect Brush when using the Paint-in Effect Basic Brushes or the Masking Brush

Improved Blending Modes

Blend effects to create impactful and stylized looks in Perfect Effects 4. By changing the Blending Modes, you can control the brightness, contrast and color of the image to dramatically alter the appearance. And, by adjusting the opacity, you can control the strength of the effect. Perfect Effects 4 now includes over a dozen more blending modes including Linear Burn, Color Dodge, Pin Light, Luminosity, and more

Borders from PhotoFrame

Seamlessly add that ideal finishing touch to your image with a collection of borders handpicked from PhotoFrame. Find a creative assortment of these design elements in your Effects Library. Stack or blend any of these frames to your image to create the look you want

Works Where You Do

Integrates seamlessly into your workflow, no matter what tools and software you use. It works as a plug-in to Photoshop and Photoshop Elements or with Lightroom or Aperture. You can also use it as a standalone application

Perfect Resize 7.5 Pro

Perfect Resize 7.5 Pro, formerly Genuine Fractals, increases image size faster and without the loss of sharpness or detail that you might normally expect. The same patented, fractal-based interpolation algorithms that were in Genuine Fractals are at the heart of Perfect Resize 7.5 Pro with several improvements. Faster processing speeds, new presets that optimize clarity and detail of different image types, built-in output presets, and the redesigned user interface add to the power of Perfect Resize. Now, it's even better for preparing all types of images for print-including photos taken with DSLR cameras and snapshots taken with mobile devices. Perfect Resize 7.5 Pro can now be used as a standalone application, or directly with Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, or Apple Aperture

Optimal Results for Any Image Type

New presets powered by Genuine Fractals technology are now included. Each are designed to optimize the clarity and detail of different image types to give you the best quality enlargements for your every photo, whether taken with a DSLR camera or mobile phone

How Large Can Perfect Resize Go?

Enlarge your images 400, 800, or even up to 1000%. Requires Adobe Flash Player

Any Size Made Easy

Because most digital camera sensors are a different aspect ratio from common paper sizes, you are generally forced to crop your image to get it to fit a specific paper size, and it can be difficult to determine how to do this and whether to do it before or after you resize the image. Perfect Resize helps by providing over sixty built-in document size presets that allow you to precisely crop and resize your image in one simple step

Improved Enlarge Mobile Phone Snapshots

Have you ever captured a great image on your phone that you wished you could enlarge and print with great quality? With the high quality image enlargement tools in Perfect Resize, including a new resize algorithm for low-resolution JPG files, you can

Gallery Wrap

When making enlargements for canvas, it is common to wrap a portion of the image around the wooden stretcher bars, creating a gallery wrap. However, when wrapping an image in this way, important detail can be lost near the edges. The Gallery Wrap feature in Perfect Resize 7.5 Pro automatically creates extended margins by reflecting or stretching the areas near the edge of the image allowing you to create a gallery wrap without sacrificing any of the original image

Presets for Optimal Output

Automatically crop, resize and adjust sharpening on your image with the new presets in Perfect Resize 7.5 Pro. Find presets for specific printer manufacturers and paper types that address subtle but important changes that need to be made in resolution and sharpening for optimal output. Whether you're printing on canvas with a gallery wrap, preparing images for video, or creating images for the web, you can count on Perfect Resize 7.5 Pro to best prepare your image how you need

Tiling and Batch Processing

Now you can get large format printing from a small format printer, quickly and easily. The new Tiling feature divides an enlargement into smaller pieces, preparing it for printing on a standard-sized printer. Just specify the paper size and overlap option and Perfect Resize will automatically resize the image and create individual tiles that are ready for printing. New in Perfect Resize is an improved version of the onOne batch-processing engine. This allows you to resize an entire folder of images to a consistent size and create up to two new versions of an image. You can control the size, resolution, file formats, name and location, color space, and even add a watermark logo

Works Where You Do

Integrates seamlessly into your workflow, no matter what tools and software you use. Works as a plug-in to Photoshop and Photoshop Elements or with Lightroom or Aperture. You can also use Perfect Resize 7.5 Pro as a standalone application

Perfect Mask 5.2

Create high quality masks quickly and easily with new automated functionality and effective tools in Perfect Mask 5.2, the next generation of Mask Pro. Automatic Background Removal, Drop and Refine Brushes, and clean-up tools make selecting subjects and isolating backgrounds for removal highly accurate. Even when masking tough subjects like hair and glass on complex backgrounds, Perfect Mask 5.2 works well. Use the program directly with Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, Photoshop Elements or Apple Aperture as a plug-in, or use it as a standalone application

Keep and Drop Tools

Loosely brush areas you want to remove, like a distracting or boring background, with the Keep and Drop tools. Perfect Mask 5.2 automatically expands your brush stroke to similarly colored and textured areas to fill in or remove large areas of your image. This is a huge time saver. And, on consistent backgrounds this can be done in as little as a single brush stroke

Refine Tool

Mask through subjects that were extremely time consuming to mask before with a simple swipe of the Refine Tool. In tough areas like hair, tree branches and wedding veils, you can simply brush with the Refine Tool to automatically remove the background and any color fringes

Automatic Solid Background Removal

Remove solid color backgrounds with the click of a button. This means that if you shoot on a solid color, all the masking work is done for you. Perfect for green-screen shooting

Background Library

Replace an unsightly or uninteresting background in an otherwise great image with one of the backgrounds included with Perfect Mask 5.2. Choose from skies, sunsets, walls and muslin backgrounds, just to name a few

Flexible Previews

Create an accurate mask when you can see in real-time what you are selecting. Side-by-side previews and six different ways to look at your mask eliminate the need to toggle masks on and off to check your work as you go and help you make the adjustments you need and get the quality you want

Improved User Interface

Find all of your essential masking tools quickly with Perfect Mask's redesigned interface. All of the brushes, droppers and refinement tools are easy to access and right at your fingertips. With no tabs to jump between and fewer toolboxes to use, you can stay focused on creating quality masks within your images

Works Where You Do

Perfect Mask 5.2 integrates seamlessly into your workflow, no matter what tools and software you use. It works as a plug-in to Photoshop and Photoshop Elements or with Lightroom or Aperture. You can also use Perfect Mask 5.2 as a standalone application

FocalPoint 2

Want to shoot a f/1.2 or even f/2.8 to get that soft background but don't have the lens? Get the same effect with FocalPoint 2, where you can simulate the look of those lenses after you take the shot. Create realistic selective focus and depth-of-field effects you would think could only be done in camera with FocalPoint 2. Choose from a selection of lens presets to produce a specific bokeh or adjust controls to adjust the amount and kind of blur you want. You can even paint in sharpness or blur exactly where you want. It has never been easier or faster to focus your viewer's eye and minimize distractions

Easy-to-Use Controls

Position your focal point and create your blur with the Focus Bug, an easy-to-use control with the most commonly used options. Use the Bug to set the size, shape, type and amount of blur, and the hardness of the blur edge. Create your look in fluid, real time-just as you would control a lens on your camera. You can even tilt your Focus Bug in 3D, creating swing and tilt movements just like a tilt-shift lens

Fast Glass Presets and Lens Simulator

Produce a bokeh, or out-of-focus region, in your image using new lens presets that are built into FocalPoint 2 to simulate effects created by highly desired, expensive lenses. The updated blur algorithm used in FocalPoint 2 closely matches actual lens blur to create authentic out-of-focus looks, including aperture-shaped highlights. The new blur algorithm is so accurate that realistic depth of field changes can be created that look just like they were taken in the camera

Add Multiple Points of Focus

By popular demand, FocalPoint 2 now allows you to use multiple Focus Bugs to define the areas you want to keep in focus. You can combine them to create complex shapes or to highlight multiple subjects

Focus Brush

Paint focus or blur right where you want with the new Focus Brush in FocalPoint 2. Use it to touch up the shape of a Focus Bug or manually paint anywhere you want. Use it with a Wacom Tablet for even greater control. It's easy to create realistic depth of field with even difficult foreground subjects

Highlight Bloom, Brightness, and Contrast Controls

Along with the existing film grain controls, FocalPoint 2 adds a new highlight bloom tool which controls how strong highlights are in the bokeh, or blurred area. There are also new brightness and contrast controls for the bokeh

Improved Vignettes

Reduce distractions and focus the viewer's eye with classic vignettes. The vignette controls in FocalPoint 2 have been improved to allow for a more natural, edge-only vignette, as well as the option to overlay the vignette in order to preserve detail

Improved Presets

Embedded previews now make it even easier to select the preset you want to use with your image, whether you're working directly in FocalPoint 2 or from the integrated Lightroom and Aperture palettes. FocalPoint 2 also automatically saves your last six used settings as recently-used presets, so you can easily reproduce previous settings

Works As a Smart Filter

FocalPoint 2 can now be used as a Smart Filter in Photoshop CS3-CS6, allowing you to make non-destructive, re-editable blurs and vignettes on Smart Objects like RAW files

Works Where You Do

FocalPoint 2 integrates seamlessly into your workflow, no matter what tools and software you use. It works as a plug-in to Photoshop and Photoshop Elements or with Lightroom or Aperture. You can also use the program as a standalone application

Redesigned User Interface

Easily navigate your workspace with the new intuitive interface in Perfect Photo Suite 7. All of your essential tools are readily available and the darker color scheme gives your image the primary focus. Find tools, such as presets and easy-to-use brushes, on the left side of your workspace that help you achieve instant, professional results. Or take creative control with fine-tuning tools on the right that help you create the exact look you want

Faster Editing from Adobe Lightroom and Apple Aperture

You can seamlessly send your images right to the Suite module of your choice directly from Lightroom or Aperture, make your adjustments, then get them right back into your existing image-editing workflow

Free Updates

As a registered Perfect Photo Suite 7 owner, you will get every update made to Suite 7 absolutely free. This includes any addition of new features, enhanced performance or improved modules for Suite 7. You won't pay more unless you choose to upgrade to a future full version of the Perfect Photo Suite

Additional Features

Integrated Modules

Move effortlessly between modules in Perfect Photo Suite 7 and experience a seamless workflow while you edit your photos. For instance, you can start by retouching a portrait in Perfect Portrait, move directly to Perfect Effects to add a creative effect or photographic filter, and then move to Perfect Resize to resize and prepare your image for print. Just click the module in the Suite menu bar to go from one to the other