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Features:7/10

Ease of use:10/10

Qualityofresults: 710

Value for money:9/10

VERDICT

FINAL SCORE:8/10

shots or finishing up a composition with a cool
texture. There are a fair few really useful filters
that you can apply to your work, such as the
Noise Reductions, Sharpening and Vignettes,
and it’s useful that you can add a number of
them to your work.
If you’re looking for deeper cuts though,
Perfect Effects 9 can be quite limiting. It’s great
for building up your work with filters and
textures, but it’s not an in-depth editor. You can

It’s reliable, great to use with bulk-editing and it provides some

lovely tints for your work... Well worth a download

A solid piece of software to use

alongside Photoshop, Perfect Effects

is useful not only for photographers,

but also for artists and designers too

mask and blend these filters, but the program

starts and ends with quick fixes unfortunately.

That’s not to say that Perfect Effects 9 can’t

quickly become a regular app for touching up

your pictures; it’s reliable, great to use with

bulk-editing and it provides some lovely tints

for your work. The plug-in for Photoshop is

well worth a download, whether you’re looking

to retouch a start picture or complete a

finished piece of work.

BASIC ADJUSTMENTS

GET TO GRIPS WITH PERFECT EFFECTS AND MASTER HOW TO EDIT YOUR PHOTOS WITH THE PROGRAM

01

DRAG YOUR IMAGES

Perfect Effects has a classy-looking

opening screen that provides a user-friendly way

to drop your images straight onto the program.

Here, you’ll be able to either edit your original

artwork, or a copy, and you can change colour

settings and file formats too.

03

MASK YOUR IMAGES

Just as in Photoshop, much of the

perfecting is in the masking with Perfect Effects.

The masking options are between the left-hand

presets and the preview window; they include

the ability to simply brush masks away, use

gradients or even use vector-based masks.

Mask away the effects that you create with your

presets to focus your effect.

02

APPLY EFFECTS

Perfect Effects offers a whole host of

effects from simple monochrome ones to more

advanced and exciting HDR filters, and even just

colourful tints to add to your photos. Layer them

up as you like, and experiment with whichever

ones you feel complement your picture.