Photoshop Support has the news on the newly announced Perfect Photo Suite 7.5, which will be free to current users, $199.95 for the Premium Edition and $99.95 for the Lightroom and Aperature Edition.I see this as a must have plug in for all photographers and photoshop users. They give upgrades for large updates and the program is always reasonably priced!
onOne software has announced it's new Perfect Photo Suite 7. A revamp of their already awesome photoshop and lightroom plug-ins, with new versions of Perfect B&W, Perfect Protrait 2, Perfect Layers 3, Perfect Effects 4 and Perfect Resize 7.5 Pro and older version of Perfect Mask 5 and Focal Point 2. This is an awesome company too. They gave all their 64 bit upgrades free for their users, so that has created some serious loyalty at least with me. It ships in Late October.You can read all about it at their web site.
Photoshop support has the link to the free 6 Bokeh Brushes from Bittbox, which are free for personal use or $9.99 per file for commercial use.
Layers magazine has an excellent article on the powerful new Type Styles in Adobe Photoshop CS6. This is very cool, as you can apply layer styles to different type layers, and then if you change the style, you automatically make global changes to text. TOO COOL!
Arstechnica and Dave Girard have another excellent review, this time of Photoshop CS6. Well worth checking out, even if you have already picked it up.
At Adobe TV they have a 60 minute video on what is new in Adobe Photoshop CS6. Worth checking out.
Check it out at her blog. She looks at the Mercury Graphics engine, Camera Raw 7, Photographic Blur Effects, and straightening with Adaptive Wide Angle, as well as new type styles, shape Layers and the new Crop Tool. Worth checking out.
OneOne has released a version of Perfect Effects 3 Free. Not the full suite, but quite a few effects.The next generation of PhotoTools 2.6 FreeBased on the popular, new Perfect Effects 3Over two-dozen professional photographic effectsLive, full-screen effect previewsCombine multiple effects to create your own unique lookIncludes Perfect Layers for creating layered filesWorks as a standalone application or directly with Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Lightroom or Aperture
OnOne Software has updated it’s perfect Photo Suite to 6.1. It is a free update for 6.0 Users.Here are there updates.Improved Refine BrushRebuilt for improved results, the Refine Brush in Perfect Mask now better recognizes soft edges, like hair and trees, so you can make your edges more defined between your foreground and background.New Color Spill BrushRemove unwanted reflected or transmitted colors with the new Color Spill Brush in Perfect Mask to ensure all areas of your image reflect their true colors.Enhanced Brushing PerformanceExperience faster, smoother and more responsive brushing functionality, including improved opacity control with Wacom tablets and reduced brush stickiness, that allow you to create high-quality and natural looking masks with just a few strokes.Retouch Portraits with Faster ToolsImages and presets now open faster in Perfect Portrait, and the automatic detection of smaller faces has been improved, so you get to the task of retouching your portraits more quickly. Visual Tips to Get You Started FasterGetting Started tips show you the key tools to use when you open each module, recommending the first steps to take to start realizing your photographic vision.Select Your Performance PreferencesNow you can optimize the Perfect Photo Suite’s memory usage and undo behavior to match the resources of your computer.Additional performance updatesImproved panning speed and responsivenessUpdated Raw processing library, added support for 35 more camerasAbility to change thumbnail size in matrix view on the browserImproved tool tracking when interacting with other controlsImproved speed when using as a Photoshop plug-inImproved preview quality at all zoom levelsAdded mask thumbnail to Stack in Perfect EffectsPerfect Mask Pen Tool greatly improved for classic useBorders in Perfect Effects now scale non-proportionally to fit the image betterI love how this company does business. The 64 bit versions of their plug ins were free, and they keep releasing either free versions of plug ins or making some of them completely free. This is a company that not only loves it’s customers, but knows it’s whole suite is good enough that it is worth giving away stuff for free since it will make enough sales.
Adobe Labs has released Adobe Photoshop CS6 Beta. Download it here. You can read all about it here.You can check out Russell Brown’s 6 Favorite Features at Youtube. Here are Julianne Kost’s 6 Favorite Features, and Terry White’s 6 Favorite Features.Interesting that it has serious video features now, though I would rather just have more feature integration in After Effects.This will obviously be down once CS6 comes out, which is likely soon, and will available within the cloud before too long.