Further, speedy navigation is available via keyboard shortcuts, and you can create a selection of images here for batch processing. Below the metadata are Sources and Folders, where you can create favorites to quickly access your current crop of most used images. Both views display key metadata at the upper left. Preview your images side by side in a thumbnail grid or in a large detailed view. Use Browse to view and select the images you want to work with, whether they are on your desktop, an external drive, a network, or in the cloud via a service like Dropbox or Google Drive.

Using Perfect Photo Suite 8 as a stand-alone, or if you simply want the convenience and speed of doing everything within one program, you start with the new Browse module (#1). In this overview I’ll highlight the new features added in Version 8, while the sidebar will give you a sampling of everything else PPS8 has to offer. PPS8 is available in versions to work with Adobe’s Photoshop, Elements, and Lightroom on both Mac and Windows, as well as Apple’s Aperture, and requires 8GB of RAM. With eight modules and hundreds of one-click presets, the tools in PPS8 for automated and manual enhancements help you to correct, stylize, and retouch images in a layered workflow. What’s more, it works as a stand-alone with layers and masks if you seek these more advanced options.

Whether you need to add special effects and edges, perfect a portrait, enlarge a small file for a big print, erase an unsightly sign, pump up detail, add lens blur, or simply make basic color and tonal corrections quickly, Perfect Photo Suite 8 (PPS8) from onOne Software has an incredible number of tricks up its sleeve.

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