Question about PS9

I want to do photo restoring and refinishing. Will PhotoPlus 9 do the job for me?
Tanks
Scrappy

depends on what kind of photo restoring and refinishing you need to do. PhotoPlus 9 is able to remove red eye, it has automated image correction and a scratch remover tool, correct over/under exposed images. You can see the new features of photoplus 9 here: http://www.serif.com/photoplus/photoplus9/ph9_newfeatures.asp

I like the replace color tool that you could use to...

Oh and by the way... i couldn't answer earlier because the forums didn't work :-(

Greetings,

Steve

Yes and no.

Yes if you make the effort to learn the program.
No if you expect it to do everything automagically.

Richard Hunt
Calcaria Software Services
Tadcaster, UK http://www.calcaria.co.uk

Scrappy,

PhP9 has the tools to allow you to do the job. It will not do it for you, any more than PP will put my magazine together for me.

Geoff

As others have said — yes and no.

Photoshop is the gold standard in the Photo Industry. I've compared the two and PhotoPlus has a wide variety of useful tools that are often very similar to PhotoShop. For the most part I like PhP9. There are two areas in which there are significant differences in capability. One is plug-ins. PhP9 will take a number of PhotoShop plug-ins but many don't translate. That's also true with other photo software. Adobe will continue to change and refine the plug-in protocols, so even earlier versions of PhotoShop may not run them. Since this isn't open source code, everyone else will be playing catch-up.

A more significant omission in PhP9 is the ability to do "actions." These are like "macros" or batch operations in other software — allowing you to do common procedures over and over again, without actually walking through all the steps. I and others have discussed this in detail in previous threads. Whether this is important for your particular needs is something you will need to decide.

Bill