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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 215106" data-attributes="member: 9240">A couple days in and my opinion so far is that I really wish I could buy a version of Perfect Mask that worked with PS for less than $99 as it would save me tons of time with things like the product shots I just did (background smoothing that took me about 5-10 minutes per photo could be done in 2 minutes or less).&nbsp; Perfect Enlarge seems to work extremely well, but I haven't had the opportunity to go through some old JPEGs I shot in Rocky Mountain Nat'l Park before going DSLR (i.e. no RAW files) and see how they look set up to print larger than 5x7.As for the rest of it, with the advent of Nik's Analog Efex I see very little here that can't be done by the Nik tools.&nbsp; Whether you can do them &quot;better&quot; or &quot;easier&quot; is hard for me to judge since I've been entrenched in them for a year now and find them far easier to use with the Control Point methodology than the PS layer mask approach onOne has.&nbsp; That said, if you are used to using stacked layer masks then this might be an easier transition?I doubt very highly that I will purchase it at the end of the trial, and absolutely certain that I will not come back to it at the $299 price tag it commands after that (though I can get it for $199 with my NAPP membership).&nbsp; Nice tool, particularly the masking software, but way overpriced compared to others, and Nik in particular, for the rest of it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 215106, member: 9240"] A couple days in and my opinion so far is that I [B][I]really[/I][/B] wish I could buy a version of Perfect Mask that worked with PS for less than $99 as it would save me tons of time with things like the product shots I just did (background smoothing that took me about 5-10 minutes per photo could be done in 2 minutes or less). Perfect Enlarge seems to work extremely well, but I haven't had the opportunity to go through some old JPEGs I shot in Rocky Mountain Nat'l Park before going DSLR (i.e. no RAW files) and see how they look set up to print larger than 5x7. As for the rest of it, with the advent of Nik's Analog Efex I see very little here that can't be done by the Nik tools. Whether you can do them "better" or "easier" is hard for me to judge since I've been entrenched in them for a year now and find them far easier to use with the Control Point methodology than the PS layer mask approach onOne has. That said, if you are used to using stacked layer masks then this might be an easier transition? I doubt very highly that I will purchase it at the end of the trial, and absolutely certain that I will not come back to it at the $299 price tag it commands after that (though I can get it for $199 with my NAPP membership). Nice tool, particularly the masking software, but way overpriced compared to others, and Nik in particular, for the rest of it. [/QUOTE]

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