If you have a vision for how you want the photo to turn out, these tools can easily and simply help you get there. If you aren’t sure what would make a photo work, the color pro filters and the silver fx filter can give you dozens of directions to go in. The U-point selection controls blow photoshop away. With reduced effort, I’m turning “photos” in “pieces”. It’s inspired me to look at old pictures I could never get quite right with photoshop, and helped me produce great results with them! Bottom line for me–well worth the price of a quality lens, at a fraction of the cost!
Rating: 5 / 5

I’ve used it for 6 months now, and it has improved the quality of the photos and really cut down the time spent processing them.

- Viveza: This is the most awesome app. in the suite. I run pretty much every photo through viveza, even those who looks great to begin with. Playing with to control points and making localized color corrections makes it easy and fast to improve the overall quality of the photograph, as well as making certain elements of the photo to pop out.

- Color Efex: Nice piece of software, but not as useful as viveza, dfine or Sharpener. The filters are easy to apply and adjust, both globally and localized. The quality of the filters is great, and makes the process og creating certain effects fast, easy and fun. You can get in minutes the same effects you would spend hours trying to do in PS. But just like with other PS filters and effects plug-ins, it should be used with care. Overuse will ruin the photos.

- Silver Efex: Nice black&white conversion software. Like Color Efex, not the most useful software, but it does B&W conversion extremely well. The localized adjustments are great, and gives me much more flexibility than the channel mixer in lightroom and PS.

- Dfine: This is actually the best Noise reduction software I’ve tried( I’ve used Noise Ninja and Neat Image before). As with the other apps in the suite, the localized adjustments makes the work so easy and renders such excellent results, that I can’t see myself using other programs anytime soon.

- Sharpener: It’s a very good sharpening tool, and gives you more flexibility and power than any sharpening method in PS.

The price of the suite is steep, but the quality is unmatched by any other plug-in suite out there, and all the apps in the suite are easy to use, intuitive, fast and renders excellent quality.

I highly recommend this to anyone who like to work with their photos and explore more creative photo enhancement, without spending a lot of time with each photo. I also recommend it to anyone who makes money from their photos, and want to work more efficiently.
Rating: 5 / 5