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Posted by on Feb 8, 2013 in Lightroom, Photoshop | 9 comments

My onOne Photo Suite Webinar is Live

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Hi everyone. A couple of weeks ago I was supposed to do a webinar for onOne Software and how I use it in my workflow with Lightroom. Unfortunately we had a few technical difficulties, where the webinar filled up past capacity (over 3000 people), and it kicked the host and I out. So there were many eager people waiting, but I couldn’t get in to the webinar to actually teach.

Anyway, onOne is working on a fix for future webinars, but we figured I could go ahead and do a video on the things I was going to teach that day in the meantime. So here’s the link to their website if you want to check it out. It’s about 37 minutes long and I talk about how I usually start in Lightroom, and then jump over into Photoshop and any plug-ins to finish things up.

Here’s the link:
http://www.ononesoftware.com/landing/mkwebinar/

Enjoy and have a great weekend!

Matt Kloskowski

Matt Kloskowski

Education Director at NAPP / Kelby Training
Matt is a full time Education Director for the NAPP and Kelby Training. He's a best-selling author of various books on Photoshop and Photography co-hosts the live weekly photography talk show "The Grid" and is co-host of "Photoshop User TV". In his spare time he practices as a 1st degree black belt in Taekwondo and enjoys spending time with his family in Tampa, FL.
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  • CBWyatt

    I just watched your video and hopefully you will be able to do a live webinar soon. My only question now is how you decide which plugins to use. In your video when you went from LR directly to the onOne plugin, I saw you had some NIK plugins too. If you are doing a b/w image, when would you choose Silver Effects Pro over onOne’s Perfect B/W, or are they so similar there is no difference?

  • http://thelightcavalry.zenfolio.com/about.html Mark Adams

    That was great, The layers trick for sharp landscapes near and far is just brilliantly simple. NIK has some catch up to do – it needs to be faster and work as a suite. Brushes seem more intuitive than control points.

    How do you manage the huge extra files? I convert them to JPG’s and delete the TIFF/PSDs.

    Adobe should integrate something like PerfectSuite into Lightroom.

  • http://profiles.google.com/2thepres John Adams

    Nice piece and tips, I have become a big fan of OnOne recently as well. It is really conducive to creating and trying some neat stuff i would have never considered in PS -;0)

  • Lex

    Hi Matt I enjoyed your tutorial. I noticed the little camera in the Mac upper toolbar. What software do you use to create the tutorials?
    Thanks and keep up the great work,

    • http://www.mattk.com/ Matt Kloskowski

      Hi Lex. It’s called Screenflow.

  • Jody Carbone

    Hi – just wanted to say thanks for this. I’ve been playing with Perfect Photo Suite (I’m a total noob), the tutorial helped quite a bit. I learned a thing or two, but also am more motivated to explore some fringe plugins. Layers was big – learning Photoshop is kind of like being asked out by Megan Fox, way intimidating! :) Also, I’m on conference calls all day, I really appreciate the standalone video.

    Thanks again, I’m a big fan.

  • http://www.facebook.com/torgeir.rye Torgeir Rye

    Thanks for sharing you knowledge with us. I appreciate it allot. Yes, I like PPS 7 and it helps me speed up the workflow.

    Though there is one thing that you should be aware of. The facemask is often too big, covering the hair and eyebrow and they get blurred as well.
    Sometimes also earrings and ear accessories is blurred.

    But that’s easy to adjust with the Masking brush (Paint out mode) after you have applied the portrait adjustments. That is when you are in Layer mode in the Perfect photo suite.

  • Michael Colby

    Matt, thanks for the video. I was one of the many people who got kicked out of the live broadcast, along with you.

    I am a longtime user of OnOne Perfect Photo Suite (as well as Topaz tools and Nik Silver Efx). I was quite interested to see your workflow of using Perfect Photosuite tools to achieve results in with Perfect Photo Suite that would have taken far more work and time (with less natural intuitive controls) to achieve in Photoshop.

    That said, one thing i wonder about the the difference in “non destructive” workflow of doing the work in Perfect Photo Suite, launched from a photoshop layer. One of the things that photoshop has gotten more powerful at enabling with, each new version of photoshop, especially since the addition of “smart layers,” is a non-destructive workflow in which one can always step back and adjust prior steps.

    As far as i can tell, using Perfect Photo Suite, launched from a PS layer involves choosing one of 2 compromises:

    1. launching it, making the desired adjustments and then exiting back to PS with a now fixed layer, that can’t be changed, only blown away if you

    or

    2. Launching it from a smart layer, making the desired adjustments and exiting back but incurring the significant impact of a having a smart layer that itself has to invoke the external application every time more computational layers are placed above that layer. The benefit, however, is that one can return to the original Perfect Photosuite adjustments in that layer and change them.

    neither is a particularly perfect compromise. #2 is only really workable if the computer has tons of memory (more than i have in my mac pro), something faster than my Quad core 3ghz Mac pro and photoshop swapping (and in fact the os and software) is accessing an SSD rather than a hard drive.

    I’m curious about your comments and thoughts about use of Perfect Photosuite in a non-destructive, re-adjustable PS workflow.

    thanks

  • Michael Colby

    I’m also convinced that slowly over time 3rd party tools are going to simplify and take achieving the result and tasks in photoshop that previous required an intense mastery of photoshop. I’m a big fan of Portrait Professional, in which one can quickly achieve portrait retouching results, including changing the shape and contours of face, nose, eyes, mouth, etc in minutes that would otherwise take far longer in photoshop, even for a photoshop master.