onOne Software (www.ononesoftware.com/) has announced Perfect Photo Suite 9, an updated version of its photo editing and effects app for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. Included in the new release are performance and feature improvements, all designed to help you streamline your photo-editing tasks, so you can spend more time shooting and less time processing your photos.
The new version sports an overhauled Browse module, which adds fast previews of RAW files; new rating, ranking and keyword tools; and sophisticated filtering capabilities; a new Smart Smart Photo feature, which lets you re-edit your photos — with previous settings intact — after saving and closing them; and a new Quick Mask brush: run it over an area that you want to select (or remove), and a detailed mask is automatically created.
Perfect Photo Suite 9 will be available in late October in two versions: Premium and Basic. The Premium edition supports Photoshop CC, CC 2014, and CS6; Lightroom 5 and 4; Photoshop Elements 12, 11 and 10; and Apple Aperture 3, and has an introductory price of US$129.95. The Basic edition, which doesn’t have plug-in support, is $79.95. For a limited time, owners of earlier versions of the Perfect Photo Suite can upgrade to Premium for $89.95.