BackdoorArts
Senior Member
I sat through a demo of Perfect Photo Suite 7 while at a Kelby seminar. I was already a Nik Collection user at the time and found myself comparing the two products at every turn and not necessarily paying attention to everything it does. The things that stood out to me were the Resize tool, which will apparently preserve sharpness and clarity through unheard of levels of image enlargement beyond the original size making sensor MP's almost irrelevant (i.e. you don't need a D800 to produce print the size of a wall), and the Masking tool that allows you to far more easily create masks within a Photoshop document.
They just announced the latest version, Perfect Photo Suite 8, and are allowing people to access a free Beta version that will expire at the end of November, so you've got a month to play. The suite itself retails for, I believe, $129, so it's comparable with the Nik price. I don't know that it's worth having both, but I'm downloading and playing just to see what's what. I can't imagine it'll replace the Nik Collection in my workflow, but it'll be interesting to see what it offers on top of that. Unlike Nik, this seems to be capable of operating outside of Adobe and Aperture products, though I may have read that wrong, but if it does then it could potentially serve as a standalone photo editing solution ala Lightroom. And hey, for now the price is right.
Perfect Photo Suite 8 Public Beta - onOne Software
They just announced the latest version, Perfect Photo Suite 8, and are allowing people to access a free Beta version that will expire at the end of November, so you've got a month to play. The suite itself retails for, I believe, $129, so it's comparable with the Nik price. I don't know that it's worth having both, but I'm downloading and playing just to see what's what. I can't imagine it'll replace the Nik Collection in my workflow, but it'll be interesting to see what it offers on top of that. Unlike Nik, this seems to be capable of operating outside of Adobe and Aperture products, though I may have read that wrong, but if it does then it could potentially serve as a standalone photo editing solution ala Lightroom. And hey, for now the price is right.
Perfect Photo Suite 8 Public Beta - onOne Software