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1. PICKTORIAL REVIEW SKIN
2. PICKTORIAL REVIEW PATCH
3. PICKTORIAL REVIEW FULL
4. PICKTORIAL REVIEW PLUS
5. PICKTORIAL REVIEW PROFESSIONAL

And while Picktorial 3 includes a new Metadata panel, it is far from a complete IPTC implementation. While Picktorial 3 seems designed to appeal to mass-market Mac users who are advanced amateur photographers, I was somewhat surprised at the lack of any initial auto-correction to get the user started in editing an image. All of these tools performed up to expectations for me. It’s also quite simple to create color and luminosity masks. And the ability to make local adjustments with hue, saturation and lightness tools, as well as performing split toning locally, is unique. There are always issues with this approach when you have leafy trees against the sky and want to replace the sky, but Picktorial 3 handles the issue as well as other programs. The ability to brush on local adjustments using the edge-aware Magic Brush almost eliminates the need for selection tools and is well implemented. In fact, the entire program feels more responsive than many of its competitors.

PICKTORIAL REVIEW PATCH

Speaking of speed, the Picktorial 3 patch tool is vastly faster than Lightroom’s spot-removal tool. The adjustments appear instantly on a recent iMac. When you are finished, you can adjust the smoothing with texture, structure and the point of frequency separation with sliders.

PICKTORIAL REVIEW SKIN

The skin smoothing brush automatically applies frequency separation smoothing as you brush it on. The amount and implementation of current, state-of-the-art, image-processing algorithms is impressive. If you are importing images with existing sidecar files, Picktorial 3 can’t read them, although it does read adjusted Aperture files. There are short but useful and informative videos available from the company as well.Īlthough Picktorial is not catalog- based, you can connect your camera, card reader or external drive, and import images or folders of images into your computer using the software. These instructions are easily hidden when no longer needed.

PICKTORIAL REVIEW PLUS

On the plus side, the first time you use a tool, a window opens with some instructions for the tool’s function. This is a good thing as the Help function offers more descriptive information than actual “help” and requires you to have an Internet connection to access. I found it very intuitive and easy to navigate. You make global and local adjustments in the Adjust panel where you can crop and rotate, adjust exposure, adjust color, use curves and brush all of these global adjustments locally using the Retouch subpanel. The Inspector panel holds four subpanels: Presets, Adjust, Info and History. The four subpanels of the Inspector panel provide the power in Picktorial 3. While the interface is not fully customizable, you can open and close each of the main panels from the View menu, with icons or with keyboard shortcuts. Keyboard shortcuts generally follow Photoshop and other advanced image program standards, making keyboard navigation in the workspace feel familiar. The right side Inspector panel contains the editing tools, presets and image-specific information. The interface features a central Viewer window with a browser beneath. An opening splash screen can take you to a review of new features for previous users or tutorials for new users. With no need to switch from a library to a Develop module or to mouse through a tabbed workspace that requires a redraw for each tab, it is quick and easy to familiarize yourself with the Picktorial 3 workflow. Picktorial 3 costs $70 and is available free to owners of previous versions.

PICKTORIAL REVIEW FULL

These include full support of the latest compressed and uncompressed RAF files from Fuji X-Trans cameras, auto lens corrections based on embedded metadata for all supported cameras, skin smoothing using automatic frequency separation techniques, easy-to-use color and luminosity masks, advanced local adjustments using the new edge-aware Magic Brush, and a single-window interface with new tabs for metadata, presets and history. New features are found in version 3 of Picktorial along with features that separate it from its competition. Picktorial 3 provides non-destructive RAW file editing while offering native plug-in support for browsing and editing images in Aperture libraries.

PICKTORIAL REVIEW PROFESSIONAL

Particular attention is paid to presenting professional tools in a clean, simplified interface. Using some of the latest available technology and custom-built algorithms, Picktorial 3 is designed to bridge the gap between mass-market photo editors and high-end professional applications. Just a few years since its initial release, Picktorial has the feel of a well-developed program. Earlier releases from the Israeli-based startup laid the groundwork for this powerful upgrade. With the release of Picktorial 3, Mac users gain another powerful yet intuitive image-editing app.