Tiffen has delivered a winner with this software. They have packed more filters in here than any photographer would likely use in a lifetime. This particular more advanced version of, Tiffen Dfx Essentials Creative Digital Effects Software, is super simple to use. Each filter can be used at preset levels, or it can be tweaked with parameters. The workflow is different and more photo-like than the twisted difficult to learn menus and words in Adobe Photoshop Elements.

With this standalone version, you load your digital image, which appears in the center panel. Across the bottom are selections for different gangs of filters - much like choosing from the Tiffen filter catalog. You click on the gang, then click on a selection with that group - so HFX may have gradients included. Then a panel on the right fills up with all the... Read more

This software is amazing, and so much fun for the money!! I particularly like the defog and colored enhancing filters, but there is no limit to how creative you can be with so many choices. There is only one drawback (and why I didn't give it 5 stars): after applying a filter and saving, a lot of the meta data is lost. I emailed Tiffen about this, along with some sample photos. After checking it out, they said there was a bug in the EXIF that will be fixed in the next version. So beware, you will lose some meta data. I am still happy with my purchase, and use this software often as part of my workflow.

Update 1/10/11 - I finally updated my Mac from OS X 10.5 TO OS X 10.6 and this sofware didn't behave property. An update to the latest version 2.0.2.2 is required when updating to Snow Leopard and is available for download from Tiffen.com. I did not have to re-enter my license code, it must have been stored somewhere on my computer.

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