OnOne Suite 8 Public Beta

[havoc315]

For anyone looking to try an alternative photo editors, the public can beta test the newest edition of OnOne software.

It's a great, affordable, easy to use alternative to photoshop. I use it alongside Lightroom. Particularly strengths are: very easy to use portrait cleanup (skin smoothing, eye brightening, etc), very effective masking/layering (great if you need to replace an overcast sky with a nice blue sky). The newest edition also has a content aware eraser brush. I've been experimenting with it, and it performs ok so far.
Then of course, you also have lots of filters, effects, etc.

Anyway, it's a nice way to play with it while it's free.

 

[2Tiggies]

I really like OnOne. For some reason I have always struggled with it being really slow though. I used it as a trial about a year ago and had it not kept freezing I would have purchased it

 

[havoc315]

Supposedly this version should be a bit faster. I find it fast -- unless I have a lot of open programs clogging memory.

I just find it very quick and easy to use for some go-to tasks.

 

[DoDaLeCa]

I've got the V7.5 suite and have prepaid the upgrade to V8 - haven't downloaded the open beta yet.

OnOne has good customer service and every month they send out a link with free presets for one of the suite programs.

Nothing here that can't be done in Photoshop (but with a bit more time). Photoshop has a lot more capability though if you need it but at the cost of a steeper learning curve and time.

I tend to use it with PS and that way each effect is on a separate layer so I can change the interaction between effects.

 

[Daisy14'sDH]

Is it a standalone program or a plug-in? I'd like to try it but am a huge rockhead with a very long learning curve and poor patience

 

[havoc315]

Is it a standalone program or a plug-in? I'd like to try it but am a huge rockhead with a very long learning curve and poor patience

Can use it either as standalone or lightroom plugin.

 

[photo_chick]

I love OnOne's Perfect Photo Suite (I have 7.5), I recently used the heck out of Perfect Portrait when I did headshots for a local dance school. And Perfect Resize is what used to be Genuine Fractals. It can rez up images with amazingly little IQ loss and with much better results than what Photoshop can give you. However, I don't see Perfect Photo as a replacement for Photoshop. There are things an image editor needs to do that the Perfect Photo Suite just doesn't do.

 

[havoc315]

I love OnOne's Perfect Photo Suite (I have 7.5), I recently used the heck out of Perfect Portrait when I did headshots for a local dance school. And Perfect Resize is what used to be Genuine Fractals. It can rez up images with amazingly little IQ loss and with much better results than what Photoshop can give you. However, I don't see Perfect Photo as a replacement for Photoshop. There are things an image editor needs to do that the Perfect Photo Suite just doesn't do.

It really depends on how much you're trying to do. For a professional, it's certainly not a replacement. For many casual users, it can be a quick and simple alternative. I've started to use Perfect Portrait which does even more.

And version 8 has much stronger image editing. Particularly the content aware eraser.

 

[traylorc]

I really like Perfect Photo Suite...I frequently use it in conjunction with Lightroom.

 

[Daisy14'sDH]

I'm going to try it but I want to know what the known issues are. Is anyone here a member that can few the page?
http://prerelease.ononesoftware.com

 

[havoc315]

Haven't read the forum but I've been using the beta version without any significant issues. Not many preset options yet... It could be a little faster. But no significant drawbacks I've encountered.