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Welcome to the onOne Software Labs blog. This is the home for projects that our development team is working on, whether they are features for the next version of the Perfect Photo Suite or photographic apps that we haven’t yet announced.

The goal with onOne Labs is to give you a sense what we have in the pipeline. Some of the things we’ll show here are in the early stages of development, while others will be nearing completion. What we’re hoping is that you’ll give us feedback on features and product direction: what looks good and what needs work. With each post, you can tell us with a simple thumbs up/thumbs down rating — think, “I love this/I could care less” — and you can leave a comment with anything constructive that you’d like to add.

onOne Software is a small company, made up of photography lovers like you, and we’re always looking to improve what we do and how we do it. We’re hoping that, by being transparent and up front about the things that we’re working on, we’ll develop better products, products that you’ll want to use. Please let us know how we’re doing.

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Perfect Enhance

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Example of Perfect Enhance user interface

Example of Perfect Enhance user interface

Perfect Enhance is a new module we are working on and will be included in a future version of Perfect Photo Suite. It provides a place for simple, common adjustments that almost every image needs. It includes adjusts for brightness, contrast, color, sharpness and vignette. Perfect Enhance also includes frequently used tools like: Crop, retouching and red-eye reduction. It is perfect for photographers who use the Perfect Photo Suite on its own rather than a plug-in through Adobe Photoshop®, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom® or Apple Aperture®.

  • Quick Fixes pane gives you one-click automatic adjustments.
  • Color & Tone pane for getting the best brightness, color and contrast from your image.
  • Vignette pane for darkening the edges.
  • Sharpening pane with powerful progressive sharpening and built-in options for different output types like printing or on-screen display.
  • Each control pane starts in a simple mode, but can be expanded to show advanced options.
  • Popular Detail adjustment from Perfect Effects.
  • Powerful Retouch Brush with Clone-Stamp Option.
  • New Magic Eraser for removing unwanted objects instantly.
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Lightpad

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Lightpad is an iPad app for adding awesome, one-tap effects to your images. It comes with a great collection of built-in effects, but one of the things that we think is cool about Lightpad is that it can import presets designed for Adobe Lightroom®. What this means is that you can tap into the huge market of free or paid presets for all kinds of effects and looks. And, if you’re using Lightroom on a Mac or Windows computer, you can sync your presets with Lightpad via Dropbox.

It’s worth noting that Lightpad isn’t meant to be a full-scale image editor; it really is designed to be a lightweight app that lets you apply a variety of “looks” to the images on your tablet.

Lightpad’s basics:

  • Works on the Apple iPad to start, but other devices to come.
  • Full-screen photo browser makes it easy to find your images with full-screen previews and metadata.
  • Quickly browse hundreds of effects (presets) with real-time previews. You can even scroll through presets on an image with gestures.
  • Control the strength of each preset with a single slider.
  • Automatically syncs your Lightroom presets from your desktop to your mobile device, powered by Dropbox.
  • Import Lightroom presets from Mail and Safari on your mobile device.
  • Opens JPG, TIF and RAW files.
  • Processes and saves full-sized images, up to the iPad’s limit of 20 Megapixels.
  • Share images to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram as well as email and print, plus your Photo Stream.

Let us know what you think about this project, by clicking on the Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down icons below, or, if you so choose, by leaving a comment. We know that, if we continue with this project, we would also want to do a version for Android devices, but what about form factor? Is this a phone app or a tablet app (or both)? Is there anything else you would want with an app like Lightpad?

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Perfect Eraser Tool

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The Perfect Eraser tool is like the Retouch Brush on steroids. You can simply paint over an object you want to remove and we will reconstruct what could have been behind it. You can use it to remove small and medium sized distractions automatically. It uses a process called inpainting or content-aware fill. It is perfect for removing powerlines, graffiti or photo-bombers.

  • Brush over distractions to remove them instantly.
  • Recreates the area behind the object to be removed with realistic detail.

Let us know what you think about this project, by clicking on the Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down icons below or by leaving a comment.

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Quick View Browser

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The Quick View Browser is coming in Perfect Photo Suite 7.5. It adds an elegant full-screen view of your images, effects and presets. Whether you are looking for the right image or the right look, the Quick View Browser will make fast work of the problem. Just press the Quick View Browser button (or keyboard shortcut) and will see the full array of options to choose from. You can visually navigate categories, then dive into them to find just the right look.

  • Browse folders and images quickly to find the right one to work on.
  • View all your effect or preset categories at one time, then dive into them to find the perfect look with an effortless, tablet feel.
  • Variable thumbnail sizes gives you a few large previews or many small ones depending on your screen size and content.
  • Back button and breadcrumbs makes it easy to navigate a complex folder structure.
  • Fully keyboard navigable.

Let us know what you think about this project, by clicking on the Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down icons below or by leaving a comment.

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