Photo Effect Studio Pro is available on the Mac App Store
App Developer: Liqing Jiang – Everimaging Ltd
Version Reviewed: 2.0.1
License: US$7.99 Requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later
Photo Effect Studio Pro is a digital photography application specializing specifically in altering your photographs. It’s not a replacement or a competitor for Adobe’s Photoshop or Pixelmator but it does offer some very compelling options to be a very good companion to both these applications.
Many times users may not need the complete feature set available with higher end applications, and with that in mind Photo Effect Studio Pro fills the void.
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Absolutely nothing – unless you happen to be a photographer trying to scrape every last ounce of quality out of your digital pictures.
Perhaps you’ve heard photographers talking about RAW, so what is it? Let’s begin with the familiar JPEG format most digital cameras produce. JPEGs do not contain all the information that registered on the camera’s sensor when you pressed the shutter release. When you pressed it the computer inside your camera took the data from the sensor, applied white balance, sharpening, saturation, and several other variables to that image. Then it applied compression using the JPEC codec which basically throws away data it considers to be superfluous to the image, which is why JPEG is described as a “lossy codec.”
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