The Product: OnOne Plug-in Suite 4 for Photoshop: Overall PPS Rating, 7/10
Includes Six plugins. We’ll review each separately below. Review by Gavin Seim
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The Hot:
- Product interfaces have become mostly unified making them easy to work with.
- When purchased as a suite, it’s a good value. You’ll have plenty to play with.
- Effects and tools are effective and generally simple to use and customize.
- Aperture & Lightroom* integration on certain apps
The Not:
- No auto update makes in version updates a hassle and easy to overlook.
- When purchased separately there’s STD/PRO options adding confusion and making the prices too high (not unlike many plugin companies. These so called Pro versions do not have enough extra features to warrant the cost. The full suite does include the pro versions where applicable however.
The Bottom Line:
This is a great collection of plugins. If you want to broaden your editing arsenal in one shot, Plugin Suite 4 is a great place to start. While the whole suite is the best value, all plugins can also be purchased separately.
*One thing to note is that Lightroom integration is little more than export plugins and not self contained integration in LR. This is probably due to limitation with Lightrooms support for plugins, but it’s still a disappointment.
Promo’s and discounts:
OnOne gives PPS some specials as well. Promo code PRPHTSHW is good everyday for 10% off any OnOne product. Also thru Dec 31st, here’s a promo page that will save you $100 on the suite. Note that OnOne has no say in this review, and it contains only my honest opinions.
Individual Product Reviews:
Genuine Fractals 6: Review 9/10
Genuine Fractals is a standard among many photographers when it comes up scaling image resolution. I use it whenever I make large prints. It can quickly take those pixels and make a 300DPI file for whatever print size I need. It can even add sharpening in the same pass (though I usually sharpen separately) GF just gives something more than built in Photoshop up-conversion methods and I really like it.
I wanted to tell you all about our bundle discounts. Their pretty simple, but can save you a lot. The Seim workflow is lead by Power Worflow2, but is meant to co-exsist with the other effects like B&W Presets and then finish up with actions like Creative Essentials and Hollywood Effects. Bundles are a great way to get more Lightroom presets and Photoshop actions for less.
