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Despite this, not everything was a success. The documentation makes claims for landscape enhancement but if a portrait has a significant landscape element to it things got a bit sticky. Choosing Portrait as the default setting messed up the background really badly; choosing Landscape as the default did nothing to correct the colour flaws of the image or the face.

The image used was one that we had previously tested with onOne Skin Tune and the legacy files were dragged from the archive to make the comparative composite image. In all cases Skin Tune outperformed Perfectly Clear.

During these tests we discovered a flaw in the interface. The preview panel depicts a devastating amount of artifacting in the image when the defaults for Portrait, Noise Removal and Fix Dark are employed. This translates to the processed image in the case of Portrait but not the other two; in other words the preview is a poor representation of what will eventually be created. The landscape default increased the contrast of the image (unacceptably).

Overall then the review has left a bitter-sweet taste. The repair of over-reddened faces is very effective and easier for the unskilled to deploy than Photoshop. For professional standard images (ie correctly white balanced, sharpened and graded) there is little that needs to be done anyway.

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