Perfectly Clear by Athentech is a Photoshop or Lightroom plugin and a mobile app that just goes. Perfectly Clear either makes my pictures better, or leaves them alone. Important to me is the ability to fix color shifts caused by less then perfect white balance. For this, I check the Correct Tint box, and Bingo!, I usually get what I need far faster and better than if I piddled around in Photoshop with curves adjustment layers and masks. Sure, I can and have been doing what this software does manually in Photoshop since the early 1990s, but when time is money, Perfectly Clear lets me get a lot more done in a lot less time. It corrects exposure and contrast by default.

If you want it to fix tints usually caused by poor white balance, just click the Tint Correction box. If you want to reduce noise, hit the Noise Reduction box. I really like this software over all the others I've tried because:ġ.) It works fast its defaults are smart enough to correct what they can, and leave good photos alone.Ģ.) Usually gets everything right on the first default click. This is critical to saving me time if I wanted to move sliders and use masks, I'd just do it without the plugin.ģ.) It's very easy to install. Photoshop plugins are usually a pain to get installed, but I followed the obvious click path, and all I needed to remember to do was close Photoshop and reopen it for it to appear in my FILTER drop down.Ĥ.) Also gets rid of noise if I need it to.īecause it leaves great photos alone, it works great for batch processing.īecause it works without needing a new layer, when I'm done and use my Photoshop Action to resize, sharpen and brand as ©, I don't have to drag my © text layer above any adjustment layers, saving me even more time.

I don't bother with RAW images, however this plug-in will work on anything after you open it in Photoshop or Lightroom.įor all of these, the defaults are where you want them, and you can adjust if needed. The key is that it's smart enough to know just how much of each to add or subtract depending on the image - this intelligence is why we pay for this software. Gets it right almost every time, and it doesn't clip blacks or whites.īumps it up when it needs to, and I've seen it knock it back down if I shot a portrait with my saturation set way too high. Helps render them natural and appealing, without infrared.

Perfectly clear plugin