p.1 #4 · Anyone using Perfectly Clear plugin for CS6?
I use it occasionally in both Photoshop and Lightroom when preparing proofs. It works quite well but I don't particularly care for the "sameness" it produces, and I prefer to process my selects manually. The Default and Landscape presets are quite good but I've never found the Portraits preset to be very accurate.
p.1 #8 · Anyone using Perfectly Clear plugin for CS6?
The fact that KR recommended this plug-in explains the noise introduced. At first glance a questionable plug-in from a questionable site. Do yourself a favor and use a more reliable site than KR for accurate information.
I've not actually used the plug-in and your example dose not compel me to try. But if you like it that's all that really maters.
p.1 #9 · Anyone using Perfectly Clear plugin for CS6?
I didn't look at this image close enough before posting. It's actually already had noise reduction and some sharpening run on it through CS6 before using Perfectly Clear and that is why it's extra noisy on the jacket.
p.1 #11 · Anyone using Perfectly Clear plugin for CS6?
While the photo posted can't be considered a superlative advertisement for the plug-in; there's nothing wrong with the product. It is the same technology that is marketed and sold to retail chains who do photo processing. And ultimately that's my problem with it; you end up with the same generic looking processing you'd get with a machine in a store.
But before Adobe revamped its Auto Color, Tone, and Contrast algorithms in Photoshop CS5, PerfectlyClear produced better results and without the color shifts that occurred when using Auto Tone, for example, in earlier Photoshop versions and which required changing the blend mode from Normal to Luminosity to prevent such shifts.
For quick and dirty batch processing the plug-in works just fine.
Feb 22, 2013 at 04:47 PM
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p.1 #12 · Anyone using Perfectly Clear plugin for CS6?
Save your money. Just create a fake color profile with a modified gamma value in Photoshop. All you need to do is (1) convert your image to that fake color profile; (2) convert back to either sRGB or whatever you fancy and you're done.
p.1 #19 · Anyone using Perfectly Clear plugin for CS6?
I could certainly be a bumbling idiot (and have been charged as such on occasion , but I'm really not getting it. The processed pix looks - to my eye - worse than the original. As Mescalamba noted with either Color Efex or Vivezia you can get much more (and better) selective improvement.
Robert
, but I'm really not getting it. The processed pix looks - to my eye - worse than the original. As Mescalamba noted with either Color Efex or Vivezia you can get much more (and better) selective improvement.