Perfectly Clear: Anyone have Alentech's Perfectly Clear? I just purchased it at the New York show but it doesn't seem to do what was demonstrated exactly. Good photos are made worse...

SteveG Loc: Norh Carolina

Anyone have Alentech's Perfectly Clear? I just purchased it at the New York show but it doesn't seem to do what was demonstrated exactly. Good photos are made worse where ad they were demonstrated they were basically left alone. I think its a settings issue.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

SteveG wrote:

Anyone have Alentech's Perfectly Clear? I just purchased it at the New York show but it doesn't seem to do what was demonstrated exactly. Good photos are made worse where ad they were demonstrated they were basically left alone. I think its a settings issue.

I'm glad I didn't notice their booth, or I might have been tempted. You're talking about the phone app for $2.99, right? The online reviews look good.

The samples at the bottom of the page seem to indicate that there are 16 different types of corrections. Are they selectable individually?
http://www.athentech.com/products/android/

SteveG Loc: Norh Carolina

This is for the PC version with Lightroom. There are 12 basic corrections all automatic but all adjustable.

SteveG Loc: Norh Carolina

Yes! I'm sorry, its the same full program as the phone app but much more involved. I found a video on You Tube that helped but......... I am finding that my images directly from my Sony Nex 6 actually look a little better that after Perfectly Clear adjusts them. What I am beginning to believe is that if you have images that are NOT properly exposed then it will do a great job but if they are properly exposed then, while the changes are subtle, they may not necessarily be an improvement. I still don't know if I'm doing something wrong, if I have the correct version or that the way the booth was set up, they were set up with poorly exposed images.

IowaDave Loc: North Iowa

I used it in Lightroom all time and love it.

SteveG Loc: Norh Carolina

I am starting to figure it out. Not there is much to figure. My only issue right now with it is that there were some old photos that I had that it really blew out the highlights and made it much worse. I have also noticed on occasion that it will adjust the photo, for the worse, not the better. But that's not frequent. Have you run into any of this?

IowaDave Loc: North Iowa

yes, when it opens in Perfectly Clear it makes it's own adjustments, but you can choose default, landscape, portrait, fix dark, fix noise or tint removal. Then you can tweak the settings a little more to suit your tastes. But 95% of the photos I run thru this editor improves. I shoot raw and it works good. But my nephew was out west and took 90 pics in jpg and I run them all thru the editor and it improved them too. It is really simple to use. I got it on a online black friday promo last year.

SteveG Loc: Norh Carolina

I picked it up yesterday at the NYC show for $119. What I am finding though is that my Sony Nex 6 exposes so well, even RAW that the corrections are really extremely subtle. I am really happy with them before even running them through. But for the most part it is an improvement. When it's not, I just delete the new file.

cthahn

SteveG wrote:

Anyone have Alentech's Perfectly Clear? I just purchased it at the New York show but it doesn't seem to do what was demonstrated exactly. Good photos are made worse where ad they were demonstrated they were basically left alone. I think its a settings issue.

What is it??

SteveG Loc: Norh Carolina

It's basically the ultimate "I Feel Lucky" one click program for correcting your images. I was introduced to it at the NYC Photo Show and was blown away by just how good it is. Check it out.
http://www.athentech.com/

CanonShot Loc: Lancaster County, PA

SteveG,I bought the same software at the 2012 NYC show. I use it as a plug-in edit in LightRoom and it serves its purpose on a limited basis, which is why I bought it. With PSE 10,LR5,and shooting with good equipment, there are still times I want to run some images thru Perfectly Clear.

After a year of use, I feel the same way as iDave above. It has its niche, and I would not think of Perfectly Clear as a stand-alone pp editor.

Happy shooting with the Sony Nex 6.

rpavich Loc: West Virginia

Thanks for the heads up...I'm downloading the beta now...

authorizeduser Loc: Monroe, Michigan

I use Perfectly Clear 1.71 with Corel Paintshop Pro X6 and it works great most of the time. It will occasionally over expose a photo and then there are times it appears to have done very little.

SteveG Loc: Norh Carolina

You may have to play with it a bit before getting it right, maybe not but if you need any suggestions from my brief experience I'll be glad to help!

GaryS1964 Loc: Northern California

Before you spend that kind of money on it take a look at the public beta of Perfect Photo Suite 8. Has a new "eraser" tool which in my limited usage works better than Photoshop CC's spot healing brush and their other content aware fill tools. It does layers and has an easy to use but powerful masking tool plus some other stuff.