If you squint when you take a picture of a sunlit white house, your print of that house should convey that original experience. Ansel Adams called the anticipation previsualization. George DeWolfe, developer of the PercepTool 3 Photoshop CS5–CC plug-in, says that PercepTool 3 “…performs perceptual effect and tone mapping operations…” and “…mimics the visual luminosity cortex of your brain and your original perception.” At first, this sounded a bit esoteric and impenetrable to me; however, some images I processed using the PercepTool filters resulted in a dimensionality and luminosity of the original scene that isn’t readily available in either Photoshop or Lightroom.
Company: George DeWolfe
Price: $89.95 (Upgrade: $49.95)
Web: http://georgedewolfe.com
Rating: 4.5
Hot: Results
Not: Slow processing times.