New Release of Piccure+

[ameerat42]

There's a 30-day trial. If it's good I'll (cough!) get it...
Standalone and plug-in for Photoshop versions...

Manual and System requirements (p4): https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/piccureplus/ManualPiccure%2B_EN.pdf
Website for download (Win and Mac): http://relaunch.piccureplus.com/

[ameerat42]

Well, I tried to see online how to buy a registered version. - Could not find:confused013

I have downloaded and tried the 30-day trial (standalone version), and it seems to work OK.

Because I have CS2 Photoshop, I had to close this while installing Piccure...

Just wondering if anybody here uses it much, can give impressions...

[CapnBloodbeard]

never heard of it before - what does it offer that LR/PS doesn't already do?

[ameerat42]

For me:
1. Saves me worrying about LR.
For all:
2. Gives you Adaptive Deconvolution sharpening.

It's explained in the links above:nod:

[Gazza]

Well, I tried to see online how to buy a registered version. - Could not find:confused013

I have downloaded and tried the 30-day trial (standalone version), and it seems to work OK.

Because I have CS2 Photoshop, I had to close this while installing Piccure...

Just wondering if anybody here uses it much, can give impressions...


:url: (https://petapixel.com/2014/10/02/piccure-software-promises-give-300-lens-magic-3000-lens/)......as a standalone program and as a plugin for Photoshop, Lightroom, and Photoshop Elements. The price is $109 after a 14-day free trial period....








I downloaded the trial for a quick play and PS 2018 kept crashing...Piccure+ is now in the bin

[ameerat42]

Ta for that link, Gazza. Fancy finding it in a not-Piccure site.

I use it as a standalone program, not a plug-in, and have had no trouble
at all. Maybe forget using PS2018 with it. Give the 30-day trial a whirl:confused013

Piddy about it being $(presumably US)109. Half that and I would have found it possibly
useful. Of the tests so far I have not concluded much.

- - - Updated - - -

Now, since the last post I have been RTM* and have found...
"...piccure+ does not work very well on JPGs, especially JPGs from smartphones...."

AND

[Supported raw files include] Sigma SD1 Merill:eek:

No wonder I "couldn't really see much"!
So, back to the RAWing board.

*Reading The Manual.

[J.davis]

I find it useful for sharpening. I'm a bit lazy and use the same settings all the time, once I found what I liked.
I use my unedited NEF files to sharpen, then process in LR.

[ameerat42]

John. Ta for your reply. I tried everything yesterday: jpegs, raws, and finally tiffs.

I find it can de-noise - not that I do that much at all - but sharpening! ALl the settings
I tried ended up producing artifacts. I finally gave up.

When I say "tried", it was systematic - trying various methods on the same file, changing
then and retrying, etc. I just :confused013 Can you tell me what you sharpen and what
a typical setting would be? Ta.

[J.davis]

I use it for my Wren pics, it brings out the feather details better than what I can do in LR. I found a manual for it and went from there.
My settings are

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[ameerat42]

John. Is the top one with Piccure and the bottom one in LR, or not Piccure?

[J.davis]

Top one is being processed in Piccure+ and the bottom one is finished pic in LR.
They are good pics, but I can't get good res on this site from my computer.

[Cage]

Am, do you think it's time to bite the bullet and get Adobe CC ?

The $109.00 for Piccure is seven months CC sub.

CC is $0.47 per day, or less than the cost of a cup of coffee per week. :nod:

[ameerat42]

John. From what "I can see" the better one is from LR:confused013
This is what I've been finding from the past several days of trying.

Kev. I do "just fine, fanks" (to be frank) with my (humble) CS2. It's just
that I expected "so much more from Piccure" than just an accidental rhyme. Below are screen grabs
at 100% crops of a portion of a moon shot (posted elsewhere) showing Piccure vs CS2 sharpening.

I'v got a few weeks left for the trial, but I don't expect anything new.

Piccure vs CS2 (Hi-Pass) sharpening of original tiffs re-sampled to 4x...
1. Piccure...
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2. CS2...
133265

I prefer what you can get from the 2nd one here.

So..., I won't be buying Piccure in a hurry:eek:

[J.davis]

My second one is processed in LR after initial run through Piccure +.


https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/piccureplus/ManualPiccure%2B_EN.pdf

[Mark L]

Am, do you think it's time to bite the bullet and get Adobe CC ?

:D
I have CS6 and it does what I want. If I had CS2 I'd want an upgrade of some sort because it doesn't do what I want.:th3:
If AM is happy so be it.;)

[ameerat42]

Alas! I am easily pleased.:o