Customer Reviews

Plug-In Suite 4 - Full [Old Version]

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4 star:		(1)
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1 star:		(4)

 

 

Let me start by saying "take a pass on this!" The software is very buggy and dramaticly slows down the computer. Certain programs also complete shuts down Adobe Photoshop CS3 when you try to apply an effect. It is FAR TOO EXPENSIVE FOR WHAT IT IS! Basicly using Photoshop's own tools in their interface to create the result.

There are several programs in the suite but I find them disappointingly simple and basic in execution. For example, Skin Tunes basicly just warms up ALL skin tones to try and make subjects look more appealing regardless of their 'presets' of 5 different skin types. Absolutely no varying from that formula, VERY LAME!

Focal Point does NOT provide any better or more 'out of focus' area than can be done with Photoshop alone with just a little more work. Very Disappointing!! Also file sizes become prohibitively HUGE!

Photo Tools is basicly Photoshop filters but in OnOne's interface and is no where near as usable as NIK's Color Efex Pro 3.0.

Genuine Fractals has yet to give me noticably better results when cropping and enlarging than doing it without using the software. Again, interface is SLOOOOOOOOOW!!!!

As others have mentioned, you will need a high end video card that is OpenGL 1.5 or better. So if you don't have it in your computer already that's at least another $160 upgrade. Making this software even more expensive!

I didn't buy the software here. I wish I had because Amazon has a much better return policy. The retailer I did purchase it from will not take it back and refund my purchase. So currently fighting the situation. But I wanted to keep others, like me, looking for ways to speed up their retouching workflow from making the same mistake of purchasing this product. I would tell you to spend a solid weekend or an hour a day for a solid week or so learning and doing tutorials on Photoshop and go that route.


****I am adding to this comment to this review because I am impressed enough to make mention that the company personnel read this review and contacted in effort to help me. This has NEVER happened before and frankly I am quite pleased by the gesture to make things better. It is the company I thought didn't exist anymore and one I will certainly do business with again in the future based on their effort to improve.

Thank you!!*****

I use this alot for my customers photos and they LOVE the effts. When I upgraded to Windows 7 this weekend it stopped working. To get it to work again I did two things: I set CS4 to 'Vista' compatibily mode. And I set the install program to Vista as well and reinstalled. Then the pesky error 11 went away and it ran. Marverlous software!

OnOne has this third party activation program you need to activate your program for it to work. It has a tendency to disappear and you are left with grayed out commands. The activation seems to become buggy with time and you are left with a non working program. I wasted a lot of money purchasing their products and will never again buy any software from this company

I was so excited to try the Plug-In Suite on my iMac (24-inch 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) - by all the documentation, it should work fine. Well it kinda did. I really only got as far as to test Phototools, which worked well in Photoshop CS4 except for a bug that made transparent blocks on your images after applying the presets. The FAQs on the vendor website provided a work-around for that. Fair enough. From Lightroom 2, however, i was not able to access the presets as I should have been. More solutions in the FAQ and Forums, but none that fixed the problem for me. A few emails with tech support yielded the suggestion that I run Disk Warror and repair permissions and try again. I did, no joy. So, back it goes to OnOne (30 day return policy) and perhaps I will give it a try in a year or so once they work out the kinks. I had really high hopes for this one.

Make sure you have open GL 1.5 video card before you buy this product. Check out the onone forum before you purchase, you will be glad you did.
Thanks to Amazon and their great return policy!!

This is the most expensive piece of (insert expletive here) software I've ever owned. I guess it's my fault though. I probably didn't squint hard enough to read the fineprint about the open GL 1.5 video card. Buyers beware! Tear your computers apart, make sure you know what you have, and for the love of God, read, read, read all you can about this product. Go to onone website and get a taste of the problems others are running into before you commit.

I have been very pleased with the software (I regularly use PhotoTools and PhotoFrame) but I have used the other plug-in's occasionally as well.

I could easily and highly recommend the product except that with the "older" version (Suite 4) compatibility with Photoshop ends at CS4. I just upgraded to CS5 from CS3 and was highly disappointed to find on OnOnes's website that they would not provide the update to Suite 4 that would make it compatible with CS5 - if I wish to continue to use the Plug-In's I would have to upgrade to Suite 5. I feel like I spent enough money upfront with Suite 4 that the least OnOne could do is to continue to add support for future products (I'm not talking about providing patches that fix issues/bugs with their own software but updates to their software that keep them compatible with the latest version of Photoshop).

While there is a discount for past customers to upgrade to the newest version of OnOne's plug-in's it seems to be a hefty price to pay every couple of years just to keep current with revisions of Photoshop.

Absolutly fantastic plug-ins, worth every penny !! They are the first ones I go to when postworking an image, and I have ALOT of plug-ins !! :)

this product is marvelous, it take away a lot of the hard work in going through with the menu in adobe photo shop .i will recommend this software for any photographer

Still on the learning curve with this but I love it so far. A bit pricey but that's life.