George DeWolfe's Perceptool

[Doug Dolde]

Peter are you a girl ?

[Stephen Best]

For that result? Go away.

The fact of the matter is that, in the rights hands and with some tweaking, the method I outlined is very powerful and achieves results that can't be otherwise obtained. And it has more knobs to play with than Perceptool's one trick pony, the latter clearly based (in part) on the technique I outlined. And it's free.

Rest assured, next time I won't bother.

[Michael Gordon]

Peter are you a girl ?

Doug demonstrates once again his keen sense of tact and humility.

[Kirk Gittings]

I haven't tried the Perceptool yet, but the idea of having any kind of one-click filter for photos kinda puts me off. Half the fun is working with all sorts of tools to get the look you like. A one-click filter assumes there is some sort of "correct" look.

Natanm. Dude. PERCEPTOOL has a FREE trial. Try it. It is not a one click filter. It is tool with a fair amount of adjustment. You might try it before you make such presumptions.......

[Harley Goldman]

Kirk,

Doug Dolde has referred to Perceptool as a "one click script" on another forum (Naturephotographers.net), if not also here as well. I am assuming that is what is being referred to in the post.

[nathanm]

From the site:

"In the software, one click changes the luminance image into the luminosity percept of the visual cortex. For those of you making that one click, remember that the development time and research involved behind that click took 30 years."

This is followed by two very mundane examples of basic contrast changes in an egg and a landscape. Sorry, but color me underwhelmed. I'm just referring to the concept of any sort of "this is THE best tool!" kind of thinking, that's all. I mean, when you know all the possibilities available with Photoshop and Lightroom it's hard to get excited about something that seems to do something basic. And the other thing is that I don't necessarily WANT to make things so quick and easy when making art. The journey is the whole point.

But I have downloaded it, and am installing now. I'll gladly eat crow if it turns out to be the cat's pajamas.

[nathanm]

*tries it*

Meh. No thanks. Slow, unresponsive sliders, results are nothing special. If it works for ya'll that's great, but I will have to pass on this one.

[Donald Miller]

The fact of the matter is that, in the rights hands and with some tweaking, the method I outlined is very powerful and achieves results that can't be otherwise obtained. And it has more knobs to play with than Perceptool's one trick pony, the latter clearly based (in part) on the technique I outlined. And it's free.

Rest assured, next time I won't bother.

Stephen,
Thanks for posting the action that you did. I have tried it on several images and the results are quite nice.

Best regards,
Donald Miller

[Kirk Gittings]

Stephen,
Thanks for posting the action that you did. I have tried it on several images and the results are quite nice.

Best regards,
Donald Miller

I agree, a very useful tool.

[Ed Kelsey]

Has anyone tried his new version?

http://www.georgedewolfe.com/perceptool.html