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The PhotoTools 2.5 Solution

Photographic Effects
Designed by photographers for photographers, PhotoTools 2.5 includes over 200 professional effects from top wedding photographers and Photoshop Hall-of-Famers. The Professional Edition adds over one hundred more! PhotoTools 2.5 includes over two-dozen new creative effects to make your images standout. First are new effects designed to use the MaskingBug like dynamic vignettes and graduated filters. Second is a new collection of environmental effects that simulate rain, snow, fog, even rainbows. There is also a new collection of overlay effects to create a authentic vintage and grunge looks. They give your images the professional look in just a few clicks. The range and scope of effects in PhotoTools is unbeatable. Below is a sampling of the categories of effects.

• Image Optimize: Color and tone corrections, lighten and darken color or tonal ranges, improve shadow and highlight detail.
• Landscape Enhance: Enhance color and contrast, add a touch of sunlight or add environmental effects like rain, snow, fog and rainbows.
• Portrait Enhance: Retouch portraits by automatically smoothing skin, enhancing eyes and whitening smiles.
• Black and White Treatments: Convert your images to black and white with all the control of the darkroom.
• Photo Filters: Add a wide range of traditional photographic filters like polarizer, warming, cooling, color enhancing and graduated colors.
• Camera Tricks: Recreate in-camera techniques like lens pan and flare
• Lighting Effects: It’s like a studio in a box. Take your flat-lit images and add drama with additional lights and cast shadows.
• Film & Darkroom: Try out different films, toners and darkroom techniques.
• Stylized Effects: Recreate the look of popular movies or the special effects that wedding and commercial photographers add to their images to give them the edge.
• One-Click Art: Turn your image into a comic book or impressionist masterpiece in one click.
• Overlay Effects: Add an overlay to give your image that authentic vintage or grunge look.

Stack'em Up
The real power of PhotoTools 2.5 is its ability to stack multiple effects, just like using multiple filters over your camera lens. You can stack up to 16 effects on top of each other, creating your own unique look. You have complete control over the strength of each effect and can seamlessly blend them together, just like adjusting opacity in Photoshop. By stacking and combining effects, you can create an endless variety of custom effects and corrections.

Full Control
PhotoTools 2.5 gives you all the control you need when you add an effect. Many effects have options that control their color or look. Every effect's strength can be controlled with the fade slider from subtle to strong. You can also use the MaskingBrush to selectively apply effects. You can paint an effect in or protect an area from being effected. Now in PhotoTools 2.5 we have added the FocusBug style mask controls from FocalPoint as well. This new control, dubbed the MaskingBug you can position effects in round or square areas quickly to create vignettes or graduated effects.

NEW onOne Panel
The new onOne Panel in Adobe Photoshop allows the user to quickly launch PhotoTools without having to navigate through Photoshop's menus. But it takes that power even farther by giving users access to their favorite presets right from the panel as well. This will save users time by allowing them to apply their most frequently used effects right inside of Photoshop.

Easy Access to the onOne Exchange
The onOne Exchange is a community website managed by onOne Software that enables users of PhotoTools 2.5 to download free presets for their own use. Presets are easily imported into PhotoTools 2.5 directly from the File menu. Users of PhotoTools 2.5 can also upload any presets that they have created to be shared with other PhotoTools 2.5 users on the onOne Exchange. Access to this is built directly into the PhotoTools 2.5 user interface.