In short, it would take a lot more testing to convince me that Perfectly Clear is somehow worth the asking price.Ī quick second sample of a Capture One pre-demosaicked image: Default Capture One 12 output (above) of sample image by Ashish Maurya Both programs have good demosaicker, unlike Perfectl圜lear, and cost less (older, equally good versions of SilkyPix are frequently on promotion), and PhotoNinja costs about the same as Perfectl圜lear, also with a decent demosaicker and some other benefits not found in PC. Reassuringly, Perfectly Clear’s output after first passing the image through Capture One is similar to Perfectly Clear’s stand-alone processing, although this may be greater credit to Capture One in producing a fairly natural rendering.Ĭolor Projects and Silkypix are interesting litmus tests in another important way. Lightzone also shares the warm grass tones, but has none of the blue in the jacket.Īs Color Projects and Silkypix are my benchmarks for saturation, I would put this in the top 5 of most saturated outputs – not as nuclear as PhotoWorks thankfully, but definitely up there. ON1 gives a similar, but fainter rendering, much less saturated, and Silkypix also has much the same rendering, a little darker, less warm and less saturated. Comparing the colours to other programs that I’ve tested, the output looks like a brighter version of what Color Projects 5 was giving (Color Projects 6 gave much colder colours by default), fairly close to Luminance HDR, but slightly warmer and more saturated, while PhotoNinja is more similar in terms of tone curve. We can see that no alterations have occurred other than tonal values – colours and curves have been changed, most noticeably in terms of saturation and tone curve.
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However, I thought it might be at least worth seeing whether it is capable of improving Capture One Pro’s output, so here’s that attempt, using the same file, only processed first through Capture One Pro: “Original” with only Capture One 11 default processing Processed first with defaults in Capture One Pro 11, then Perfectly Clear 3.10 (defaults minus sharpening)Īnd let’s not forget to zoom in: Before (Capture One Pro 11) After (Capture One Pro 11, then Perfectl圜lear 3.5 – again, defaults without PC sharpening) The program is quite expensive, so having it in addition to a commercial demosaicker is a big idea. Capture One output.Īdditionally, the demosaicker produced a lot of diagonal texture, digital grain and colour artefacts even when sharpening was switched off. The same problem needs to be worked around when using Perfectly Clear to process already-demosaicked images, e.g. (above), defaults without sharpening, 100% crop So, as a minimum, for every file you open, you will have to select your own new preset to get rid of the excessive sharpening. Overwriting the original preset did not seem possible within the program. It seems you will have to do this every time – I was able to save the altered default as a preset, but I could not set it to be the new default when opening a file. I strongly recommend that you deactivate sharpening, as this reduces the scale of the problem and makes the bokeh less harsh (see below). Perfectly Clear 3.10 produced jaggies in the JPEG export in all of the 15 presets I tested, including the default. Let’s zoom in to 200% to see some rather extreme jaggies (extra image added in response to a reader’s comment): I ran my usual review file by Beka Pukhashvili through Perfectly Clear as a first test, and already noticed a few interesting details (pun intended).
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If you would also only pay for software that delivers great image quality down to the last pixel, then this review is for you.
You’ll notice that I’m first and foremost concerned with the quality of the output, and therefore have a raw workflow in mind. It seems to be a program that some swear by while others ignore it. Since this latest version works as a stand-alone besides being a plug-in to several other demosaickers, I thought I’d give it a spin. The current version of Perfectly Clear is still being marketed as Perfectly Clear 3.5, but the actual version number is now 3.10.
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