{"id":27604,"date":"2014-05-11T01:00:07","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T08:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=27604"},"modified":"2014-05-06T10:32:19","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T17:32:19","slug":"perfect-effects-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2014\/05\/11\/perfect-effects-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfect Effects 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Free software, impressively engineered.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=http:\/\/www.ononesoftware.com\/landing\/pe8offer target=_blank><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/Screen%20PerfectEffects_free_offer.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"696\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>Click the image for the download.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>onOne Software is offering its Perfect Effects application, usually $100, free for a limited time.  You can download it by clicking the above image.<\/p>\n<p>I did so and it installs as a plug-in in PS CS5, LR 5.4 and Aperture, becoming immediately available in LR which is my default processing application.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/PerfectEffects_Lightroom.jpg\" width=\"886\" height=\"321\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The engineering could not be better.  Export a file from within LR&#8217;s Develop module and you get a simple display with a large number of effects to choose from.  Save the file and it is saved as a &#8216;.psd&#8217; copy in your LR catalog, adjacent to the original.  I especially like the &#8216;Glow&#8217; effect when subtle hints of age are called for in an image, and you can easily modulate the glow amount with a slider.  Selective application of effects is also possible.  A nice tool for the working photographer.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how the application&#8217;s display appears:<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/PerfectEffects_display.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"625\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And here are the &#8216;before&#8217; and &#8216;after&#8217; images:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/SpecialEffects_before.jpg\" width=\"1014\" height=\"681\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Before Special Effects &#8216;glow&#8217;.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/SpecialEffects_After.jpg\" width=\"1014\" height=\"681\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<i>With Special Effects &#8216;glow&#8217;.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free software, impressively engineered. Click the image for the download. onOne Software is offering its Perfect Effects application, usually $100, free for a limited time. You can download it by clicking the above image. I did so and it installs as a plug-in in PS CS5, LR 5.4 and Aperture, becoming immediately available in LR &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2014\/05\/11\/perfect-effects-8\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Perfect Effects 8<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adobe-lightroom","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27604"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27608,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27604\/revisions\/27608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}