And it would be great if there were fit and fill zooming options. But there's no full-screen window option, which would be useful. Mac Retina displays work fine with the plug-in. Of course, that's only a problem for you if you have a 4K monitor. Its interface is on the tiny side in 4K, unlike Lightroom, which adapts to high-resolution displays. The program had an issue with my 4K display. Perfectly Clear's interface still needs a little work. The Lucid apps don't accept raw camera files. In Photoshop, you open the plug-in from the Athentech section of the Filter menu and can choose to edit a copy or the original. To start Perfectly Clear from a photo view in Lightroom, I right-clicked and chose to open the plug-in, which offered choices of TIFF, JPG, and PSD file formats, but I could only edit a copy that included the already-applied Lightroom corrections, which makes sense. It makes changes to an image's brightness, contrast, color, and sharpness based on eye science, according to Athentech. You could think of Perfectly Clear as a whole program designed for just that one function-auto correction. ![]() Another approach is to start out by trying the auto-exposure button in Lightroom, Capture One, or DxO Optics Pro. I'm probably not alone in having spent many minutes adjusting Lightroom ($9.99/Month at Adobe) or Photoshop slider controls trying to get a single image looking just right. Most serious photographers have a set process for getting their photos looking better. After this quick setup, I could invoke the plug-in from within Lightroom and Photoshop. Check boxes let me set it to work in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. To install, download and run the executable program file, choose your language (English, German, French, Portuguese, and Spanish are available). There are no Windows app store versions of these, but you can get Lucid desktop, a simplified version of the Perfectly Clear plug-in, for $49. In the Mac App Store, you'll find Lucid Eyes, Lucid Exposure, Lucid Details, and more, ranging in price from free to $2.99 for Lucid Skin. For Windows there's Perfect Skin for $59 and Perfect Eyes for $49. ![]() If your workflow is not tied to Photoshop or Lightroom, there's another way to get Perfectly Clear's imaging magic-by purchasing Corel's PaintShop Pro X6 Ultimate ($79.99 at Paint Shop Pro), which, for $99 total, includes the plug-in.Īuthentech also sells subsets of Perfectly Clear.
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