Perfect Portrait
Recently, onOne Software announced a major upgrade to their collection of Photoshop plugins, called Perfect Photo Suite 6. Now at version 6.0.2, the suite includes major upgrades including Perfect Mask, Perfect Portrait, Perfect Layers (for Lightroom users), Focal Point 2, and more.
To share a few of the best features from my five favorite plugins, I teamed up with Peachpit.com to bring you some feature articles. The most recent of these is a demonstration of how easy it can be to smooth the rough edges of any portrait with Perfect Portait, a new product built from the ground up with people shooters in mind!
Simulated Aperture Controls in Bokeh 2 (legacy UI)
Bokeh Power – Focal Point 2
Focal Point 2 works a bit like Photoshop’s Lens Blur effect except that it’s easier to control the depth of field and/or produce a nice looking bokeh effect for your backgrounds. It provides you with on-preview controls for managing the scope and angle of the blur effects, as well as a detailed group of simulated lens aperture controls to control the look of the bokeh (plus an aperture preview which is something that’s not been a part of Photoshop’s blur regimen). Creating Lens Blur Effects with Bokeh 2 will show you how easy and fun it is to get started with this plugin and the powerful Focus Bug technology.
Deep Forest Glow Options in Perfect Effects
Get Creative with Perfect Effects
Another cool plugin from onOne is Perfect Effects, which provides different ways of styling your digital photos using presets, and a powerful set of controls for making your own! One of the areas I find this plugin to be very useful is shots that were not taken under perfect lighting conditions. For the example shown in Creative Color Effects with Photoshop and Perfect Effects, we create a pleasing glow to the photograph and also realistic looking rain effect.
Perfect Mask Offers Serious Control
Background Swap!
One of the most common tasks in a Photoshop workflow is to swap out a background element from one photograph and use that of another. For example, you might take two or three shots of a landscape scene, and swap out the background that has a overly bright sky or maybe cars that are in the frame. Precise Background Swaps Using Perfect Mask shows you how easy and accurate onOne’s tools are for selecting the colors you want to keep and those you want to hide, when creating a mask.
Lightroom Layers? Yes.
If you’ve ever wished that you could use layers during your Lightroom edits, Perfect Layers from onOne will get you the next best thing: a true round-trip workflow where you can start in Lightroom, make your layered edits in Perfect Layers and then find your results right back inside Lightroom!
Creating Layers with Lightroom and Perfect Layers will show you how easy it is to do background swaps as an example. For this example we show how you can easily swap skies or ground-plane subject matter, all without going into Photoshop.
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