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Review By Jeff McIntosh
onOne Photo Tools
Product Overview
onOne PhotoTools 2 – Professionally edit and enhance your digital images with 100s of effects
onOne PhotoTools 2 is an easy to use Photoshop/Elements plug-in, providing hundreds of amazing effects to help you enhance and really get creative with your digital photographs.
onOne PhotoTools 2, is the ideal way for digital photographers to achieve a range of professional looks without the need for in-depth Photoshop expertise. onOne PhotoTools 2 authentically reproduces a wide selection of camera, filter and darkroom techniques, and simulates the appearance of different films with a variety of grain and contrast effects.
onOne PhotoTools 2 also features the option to ‘stack’ multiple effects in one image, just as you would with camera filters or layers in Photoshop. You can then control the order of each effect and how they blend together for a truly unique look. With a built-in batch processing mode. onOne PhotoTools 2 offers digital photographers an excellent combination of versatility, creativity and convenience.
As an upgrade to onOne Phototools, this new version also includes numerous additional features and functions, including:
* Dozens of new photographic effects and enhancements
* An ‘effects library’ allowing you to select, preview and preset effects quickly and easily
* Support for Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom and Apple Apeture
* Masking controls allow you to selectively apply each effect in the Phototools stack
* PhotoTools 2 can be used on short video clips inside Photoshop
* Easy Access to the onOne Exchange, a new community website and forum
* Broad general enhancements, including better memory usage for working on larger images, faster previews, improved color management support and a new, searchable user guide with improved video tutorials
Product Features
- Extensive range of versatile effects – Extensive effect ranges are on offer, including: Image Optimisation, Landscape Enhance, Portrait Optimisation, Film and Darkroom, Stylised, Overlay, Photo Filter, Tinting Treatments, Black and White, Colour Treatment, Camera Tricks, One Click, Edge Treatment and Frame Treatment.
- Stack multiple effects together – PhotoTools 2 allows you to combine and ‘stack’ effects in the same way you would stack layers in Photoshop or combine camera filters, offering a tremendous amount of creative control and flexibility. You also have control over the strength of each individual effect within a stack, so if you are unhappy with the default settings of an effect on your image, you can adjust it to suit. All effect stacks can be saved for easy re-use.
- Batch processing – Once you have created the perfect look you can use PhotoTools’ powerful batch processing engine to apply it to an entire folder of images. Vastly speed up your production with the ability to batch process files with multiple output formats (such as TIFF and JPEG) of differing sizes (for print or web), colour spaces (again for print or web) and names – even add watermarks!
- Powerful action previews – Get full-screen previews of an effect on your image before you choose to apply it.
Product Requirements
- Host Applications :
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Photoshop Elements
- Operating Systems :
- Mac
- Windows
- System Requirements :
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- Windows XP/Vista
- Macintosh OS X 10.4.8 or later
- Microsoft .NET 2.0 Framework or higher (Windows only)
- Universal Binary - supports PowerPC and Intel processors (Macintosh only)
- Photoshop CS2 (v9.0.2) - CS4; Photoshop Elements 4 or later
- 512MB RAM (1GB recommended)
- 50MB hard disk space
- OpenGL capable video card with 128MB VRAM (256MB recommended) at 1024 x 768 or higher resolution
- Adobe Flash Player 9
