Thread: Serif - PhotoPlus X3 review

PhotoPlus lines of the X3 is the so-called 'professional digital image editing solution,' but a look at price and features, it provides a confirmation that this is a software for home users to set up the enthusiasm.

Good day-to-day tasks, such as adjustment of holiday photos, portrait of the elimination of defects and adjust the color effect, the latest version of the software also provides a wealth of features to handle more challenging work (including stratification and shielding), but it is far where there is no such as a real professional image-editing software such as Adobe's Photoshop CS4.

With this in mind, we suggest that you ignore all references to the word 'professional', and accept the X3 line PhotoPlus what: a good, affordable image editing software, a passion and creativity at home, image editor Lane.

Who is more likely to appeal to those who are already familiar with the PhotoPlus interface, and plans to upgrade more than the total new, the software has a lot of common professional paint shop to deal with the documents and menu navigation. If you have Adobe PhotoShop and consumer-friendly elements of the X3 then set PhotoPlus can feel a bit heavy and original. If you do not have the smart, but easy enough to be familiar with the basic editing skills very quickly, especially if you are using step-by-step description of the subject appears in the 'how' group when you start the program.

One of the most significant changes in the new X3 version of PhotoPlus is an increase of raw materials. Because so many consumers get their hands of the more expensive digital SLR cameras the RAW feature, this is a positive action.
Gives you the opportunity to adjust the white balance, adjust your exposure, far more than you can control a JPEG file, and adjust its color balance, the most common raw materials studio opened RAW files (very similar to Adobe's Camera RAW).

With the adjustment of the scope of a preview of your document, and use some combination of 'before' and' after' It is easy to improve the basic exposure to the main file before the opening of additional adjustments. We can not help but get frustrated, but with the downturn adjusted to respond. This makes it difficult to make significant adjustments, quickly revealed the problem, also when more complex changes PhotoPlus the X3, especially when the use of interfaces, such as the QuickFix Studio.

Line claimed that they have enhanced the performance of the software, optimize memory usage and improve speed. Unfortunately, however, for the more experienced image editor can not keep up with the pace of this software. If you can do something with the trial and error basis, your image editor, like all a bit slow, do not mind waiting for the impact of the application and then QuickFix Studio is a great work, step-by-step through the photos.

With this dialog box, you can adjust your exposure, as well as reduce noise, shot conversion to black and white, or correction of a more practical, such as the elimination of red-eye or skin defects. You can choose to check the 'easy to repair' in the software allows for automatic correction, or you can have greater control over the impact of the use of personal slider.

If you would like to get more creative with your shots, rather than simply use software to repair photos, and then there are some new tools and a convenient filter X3 can be too much of PhotoPlus.

To honor the recent popularity of high dynamic range (HDR) image of a new Human Development Report, the combined features make light work (pun intended) to create great photos using a dedicated tool for built-in. Create a successful image of the Human Development Report relied on a number of versions of the same photo, different levels of contacts, this is pre-planned, need some settings.

If you have a lot of different work and then contact the X3's PhotoPlus Human Development Report and do a good job adjusting the combined image. However, you can also adjust the risk of man-made and quite good results.
And a new filter stack (including Film Grain and Page song), there are new effects of the reflection layer.

Version of the X3 provides new support for Microsoft's HD Photo format a document for about half the size of your shot and the quality of the potential higher than the JPEG file, but in dealing with high-definition, standard JPEG shooting the X3 we find that very frustrating PhotoPlus.

We tried to sRGB JPEG image size 2848 x 4288, the procedure found to indicate that high-detailed pictures, the fit to the screen. Portrait orientation of images for the 16% zoom, for example, we look forward to over-intensify the fire. Whether it is to pull the work, about half, this is not so much the problem, but frustrating to enlarge close inspection of the continuous level of detail.