Product Description

Essentials for iPhoto is a collection of four tools to help you correct color, remove unwanted backgrounds, add creative borders and resize your photos to get a larger print. You ll spend less time behind the computer and more time behind the camera! Plus with its built-in tutorials and easy-to-use palette you ll be up and running in no time.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2921 in Software
• Brand: Onone Software
• Model: EEXE-20208
• Released on: 2008-07-30
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Mac, Windows XP
• Dimensions: .25 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
Photographers can now spend less time in front of the computer and more time behind the camera with onOne Essentials for Photoshop Elements software. An easy to use Photoshop Elements plug-in, onOne Essentials for Photoshop Elements features four key tools to help you correct colour, remove unwanted backgrounds, add creative borders and resize your digital photos with no loss of quality.

onOne Essentials for Photoshop Elements features Make It Better; a simple to use but very effective image adjustment and colour correction module. Simply compare two corrected images side-by-side and pick the one you prefer. The Cut It Out tool makes it easier than ever to remove a subject from its original background, without losing detail even in semi-transparent areas. Recreate film and darkroom edges or add artistic effects with Frame It, and increase image size whilst maintaining quality with Enlarge It. Taking control of your images has never been easier.

Make It Better - This module combines the power of several Photoshop Elements image adjustment dialogues into a single interface. Instead of making a series of complex changes, simply compare automatically corrected images side-by-side and select the best. For more advanced corrections, fine-tune controls for colour cast removal, brightness, contrast, dynamic range and saturation are still available, with the option to create presets for easy re-use. Cut It Out - Thin or semi-transparent areas in a picture such as hair, smoke or glass can make cutting a subject out of its original background difficult. 'Cut It Out' uses unique colour decontamination technology to paint away unwanted colours, even through semi-transparent subjects, so they blend naturally with a new background, with no lost detail or colour halos. And unlike the Extract tool in Photoshop Elements, you can see your results in real-time and fix your progress at any time with any of the tools available in 'Cut It Out'.

Frame It - The 'Frame It' tool makes it easy to add realistic film and darkroom edge and border effects to your images. You can also create artistic edges such as torn paper, brush strokes or realistic frames and mats for wall hanging. You can even stack multiple edges and frames to create your own unique look. 'Frame It' comes packed with over 500 edges and frames to choose from; use the built-in browser to search for your favourites.

Enlarge It - The 'Enlarge It' tool enables you to increase an image up to four times in size, without the loss of sharpness and detail that you would normally expect. Create poster-size pictures from a 4 x 6 print, maintaining sharp edges and minute details. A must for any photographer who regularly enlarges prints or needs to crop a section out of an image to get the perfect composition.

Customer Reviews

Welcome Plug-In for Element User's
I must profoundly disagree with a previous reviewer over his view that Essential v2. is simply `gimmicky`. There are many, indeed thousands of `actions' that can be incorporated into Photoshop Elements. Many of them free if you search the right Forums. Some are indeed gimmicky and some, like Essential 2 are very very good. The program not only boasts 4 distinct and separate `actions' ie: Make it Better, Cut It Out, Frames and finally Enlargement, but also has, within its set-up, 6 instructional video tutorials for the user to implement and learn howto use the separate programs. It installed flawlessly on my Vista 32bit system. I am a simple enthusiast when it comes to photo manipulation and have found this software to be of great benefit when worked in conjunction with Elements tools. The Cut It Out and Enlargement sections of the program being the most intuitive and useful to me. The results from the Cut It Out, or Masking section, is amazing. Especially for hair!! Just check out the inboard videos and/or on the onOne.com website for yet more videos and howto and/or what to do. A great deal of effort has been put into this program to make it user friendly. The Frames section can be counted in their hundreds and can all be manipulated by size, colour, opacity etc..... the list here is endless. Basically its just a huge addition to the frames library already held within Elements itself. Why it should be thought of as a gimmicky piece of software is simply beyond me.

All in all I think that this software is a welcome plug-in to Elements and something that I am glad that I purchased. The downside is that the licence states that it can only be installed twice on differing machines. Although if you change your computer you can contact the onOne people for a work around. Anyway I think it well worth the pounds and pennies that I paid for it. So for all of us `non serious photographers' I think that this software together with Elements go hand in hand. For serious photographers, I very much doubt that they are using Photoshop Elements to begin with !!! All IMHO of coarse.

Not upto much
Was very dissapointed with this software, the effects in the framing section just look awfull and after playing with it for a while to see if these would suit any photos I decided this to be a gimicky piece of software. Didnt have much luck with the masking feature either but got to be honest and say I didn't spend to much time with it, so maybe decent masking could be achieved.
I personally would't buy this again, there may be a market for non serious photographers looking to add a bit of fun to there images.