The Digital Photography Show #96 - OnOne Software's $500 Giveaway

Today we're joined by Mike Wong of OnOneSoftware, who gives away a copy of the $499 Plug-In Suite 4. I say "$499" because that's what they charge for the bundle; if you bought the plug-ins individually, they'd cost over $1000! You can get the show here. 

"Suite?" They should call it "sweeeeet!" Cause it is. ("Sweet" instead of "suite." Get it? Funny, right? That's the kind of phonetic humor I just can't do on the show. See what you're missing?) Even better, although it's called the Plug-In Suite 4, it has six great plugs:

1. Genuine Fractals 5 Print Pro for high-quality enlargements,
2. PhotoTools 1 Professional Edition
3. Mask Pro 4 for removing backgrounds
4. PhotoFrame 3.1 Professional Edition for the perfect finishing touch to your photo
5. PhotoTune 2 for professional quality color correctionz
6. FocalPoint 1 for adding selective blur and vignettes to your photos.

Schwing! Be sure to send us an answer to the trivia question we ask on the show by Sept 30, 2008, for a chance to win this fantastic bundle: TheDigitalPhotographyShow@gmail.com.

Here's just a little something something I played with in FocalPoint. This effect took about 15 seconds to apply:

Before Focal Point:

After Focal Point: 

These is just my quick example, which would be pretty good if, for some reason, you wanted to call attention to the "staff only" warning on the sign. I used Focal Point's blurring capability to put the focus on the lettering. While I was in the FC control panel, I also threw in some vignetting to darken the edges a bit. See how the blur and light work together to draw your eye to what I want you to focus on? It was so easy. This is a plug-in I'm going to love playing with.

Visit the Focal Point homepage for some better examples and the free video tutorials.

In other news, Michael and I talked about the Canon 50D and the teaser ad for a possible Canon 5D replacement. Of course, that camera is just imagined at this point, but you can buy a 50D today!  Nikon's also been making news with the D90. David Pogue from the NY Times thinks the video capacity of this bad boy is nifty.

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Comments

[Ryan]

I listened to this week's podcast and did not hear a Trivia Question for the Onone Saftware giveaway. I even listened to the podcast twice, and still didn't catch anything. How can I enter this contest?

[Jim Gilliland]

Good show with a lot of content. In fact I think a complete show with Nikon and Canon reps. on to discuss the full frame verses the DX or cropped frame sensor cameras. I have heard others with the same feeling as you have Scott and then others say no way will the crop sensors go away. I would like to hear first hand from Canon and Nikon.
The Onone software interview was very good. I agree that if time is worth anything it is far cheaper to buy a product like the ones sold by Onone than going through photoshop every time you need the effects they provide.
Keep up the good work.

[Mike Wilkes]

Just listening to the podcast. I hope you realize there are 2 reasons the camera manufacturers don't bring out an amazing 5-6 Megapixel P&S.

One, megapixel is an easy way to differentiate themself from the competition that everyone can 'understand' and compare on. It's the same as BHP for cars and MHz or cores is for CPUs. It may not make it any better for the user, but they can say 'mine's bigger than yours'.

The other reason is if they made a P&S too good, noone would buy all that expensive glass for their SLR ;)

[Bob]

Hi,

Was listening to your show and you were commenting how you wouldn't recommend anyone buying a crop sensor DSLR because of the investment in lenses.

That argument is not valid when talking about Nikon. The full frame ready lenses work wonderfully on cameras like the D300/D90.

In fact I will argue a great strength of the Nikon system is that if you get 2 bodies - for instance a D300 & a D700 you have the best of both worlds. On the Full frame you get amazing wide angles, speed, ad noise characteristics and on the crop sensor you get the extra reach.

Bob

[retail software]

Nice blog post. I used Focal Point's blurring capability to put the focus on the lettering. While I was in the FC control panel, I also threw in some vignetting to darken the edges a bit.

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