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09/29/2016 02:29:25 PM · #1
I just came across an ad for LandscapePro by the makers of PortraitPro. I know that a lot of photographers use and like PortraitPro and I am wondering if anybody has any first hand experience with LandscapePro and what they think about it. It is on sale for 50% off at the moment.
09/30/2016 08:50:57 AM · #2
It would be interesting to see the answers. I have not heard of it
09/30/2016 10:33:22 AM · #3
Very interesting program. I'm testing the trial version, it's fascinating. Currently a half-price sale, and at 60 bucks it looks very buyable. Their Portrait Pro is an industry standard, and their support has always been great.
09/30/2016 10:54:31 AM · #4
Originally posted by Bear_Music:

Very interesting program. I'm testing the trial version, it's fascinating. Currently a half-price sale, and at 60 bucks it looks very buyable. Their Portrait Pro is an industry standard, and their support has always been great.

I trust that you will do well in putting it to the test and I look forward to hearing what you think of it afterwards.
09/30/2016 11:17:37 AM · #5
I'm also interested in Robert's assessment... I probably wouldn't buy it, 'cause I'm old school and I like to do things using the basic tools, but there are times when automation is a beautiful thing.
09/30/2016 12:10:41 PM · #6
It's quite intriguing. I like it. Basically it's a very sophisticated selection tool that lets you designate specific areas of the image as "sky", "Water", "trees", "faces", a whole bunch of things, and quickly and easily refine the selections on those areas, then apply area-specific adjustments to the differently labeled areas via preset and/or slider-based tools. It seems to be terrifically versatile with a short learning curve; it might a godsend for folks who don't have the mileage in on Photoshop/Nik/Topaz to do this stuff layer by layer. And it looks like a good, fast tool for the rest of us landscape photographers too. Of particular interest is the lighting tool, which is a real WOW addition.

ETA: It looks like you could actually process an entire landscape image to a high level, from RAW, without ever using Photoshop if you get the upscaled version, which also works as a plug-in to PS. The standard version doesn't support RAW and is standalone only for JPG and TIFF files.

Message edited by author 2016-09-30 12:14:30.
09/30/2016 12:12:54 PM · #7
Originally posted by Bear_Music:

It's quite intriguing. I like it. Basically it's a very sophisticated selection tool that lets you designate specific areas of the image as "sky", "Water", "trees", "faces", a whole bunch of things, and quickly and easily refine the selections on those areas, then apply area-specific adjustments to the differently labeled areas via preset and/or slider-based tools. It seems to be terrifically versatile with a short learning curve; it maight a godsend for folks who don't have the mileage in on Photoshop/Nik/Topaz to do this stuff layer by layer. And it looks like a good, fast tool for the rest of us landscape photographers too. Of particular interest is the lighting tool, which is a real WOW addition.


Played with it and for sure, that feature is absolutely mind blowing. Alone worth the price of the program.
09/30/2016 12:38:54 PM · #8
I was actually a little put off by some of the features, like the ability to add cloud shadows, swap skies... to me that is out-of-bounds. Again, I'm kinda old school, and while I most certainly believe that post-processing is part of the artistic process, some of that goes farther than I would go.
09/30/2016 03:29:14 PM · #9
Originally posted by tanguera:

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

It's quite intriguing. I like it. Basically it's a very sophisticated selection tool that lets you designate specific areas of the image as "sky", "Water", "trees", "faces", a whole bunch of things, and quickly and easily refine the selections on those areas, then apply area-specific adjustments to the differently labeled areas via preset and/or slider-based tools. It seems to be terrifically versatile with a short learning curve; it maight a godsend for folks who don't have the mileage in on Photoshop/Nik/Topaz to do this stuff layer by layer. And it looks like a good, fast tool for the rest of us landscape photographers too. Of particular interest is the lighting tool, which is a real WOW addition.


Played with it and for sure, that feature is absolutely mind blowing. Alone worth the price of the program.


for those of us who aren't testing... what does it do..?
09/30/2016 03:50:56 PM · #10
It's on my "To Look At..." list now and wondering if this software can add much to a well made photo...
09/30/2016 05:38:29 PM · #11
Originally posted by Mike:

Originally posted by tanguera:

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

It's quite intriguing. I like it. Basically it's a very sophisticated selection tool that lets you designate specific areas of the image as "sky", "Water", "trees", "faces", a whole bunch of things, and quickly and easily refine the selections on those areas, then apply area-specific adjustments to the differently labeled areas via preset and/or slider-based tools. It seems to be terrifically versatile with a short learning curve; it maight a godsend for folks who don't have the mileage in on Photoshop/Nik/Topaz to do this stuff layer by layer. And it looks like a good, fast tool for the rest of us landscape photographers too. Of particular interest is the lighting tool, which is a real WOW addition.


Played with it and for sure, that feature is absolutely mind blowing. Alone worth the price of the program.


for those of us who aren't testing... what does it do..?


Basically lets you make the lighting more dramatic in an interactive way. It's not really extreme, but it's powerful. And fast...
09/30/2016 05:40:13 PM · #12
Originally posted by kirbic:

I was actually a little put off by some of the features, like the ability to add cloud shadows, swap skies... to me that is out-of-bounds. Again, I'm kinda old school, and while I most certainly believe that post-processing is part of the artistic process, some of that goes farther than I would go.

Well yeah, but WE don't allow cloud-swapping, even though it's possible in Photoshop. So that's just a feature of this tool we can't use for DPC. Be a real godsend for, say, architectural photographers in Sunny Southern California :-)
10/02/2016 01:36:43 PM · #13
Not to hijack thread - but if someone were dq'd for cloud swapping within standard editing, what would the official reason be, given that there is no longer a major element rule?
10/02/2016 03:39:29 PM · #14
Have been playing with the trial version. I'm not yet used to the selection method, not sure I like it. But the effects can be really awesome. Here a nice example of a sky-wise not very interesting image, but LandscapePro makes it quite interesting within only a few clicks:
10/02/2016 03:51:36 PM · #15
Originally posted by skewsme:

Not to hijack thread - but if someone were dq'd for cloud swapping within standard editing, what would the official reason be, given that there is no longer a major element rule?

Using more than one original to composite an image.
10/02/2016 09:23:21 PM · #16
What if you just dodged in some clouds - to 'improve' the photo?

(Btw, do you mean using more than one 'scene' - as multiple origs are allowed.)

Message edited by author 2016-10-02 21:33:49.
10/02/2016 09:33:03 PM · #17
Originally posted by skewsme:

What if you just dodged in some clouds - to 'improve' the photo?


Sounds a little dodgy... you might get burned.
10/02/2016 09:37:35 PM · #18
Originally posted by skewsme:

What if you just dodged in some clouds - to 'improve' the photo?

Well, we allow textures in Standard editing, and we've already DQd one image a little ways back for using a cloud shot as a "texture" to fill an empty sky, so we have that end of the spectrum covered. What you're suggesting, that someone might try creating "clouds" with the dodge 'n burn tool, is probably self-defeating in that I doubt it could be done well enough to score well.... But in the end all I can say is that we deal with these sorts of rule-evading when and if they show up.
10/02/2016 09:46:52 PM · #19
That cloud-texture shot was before the rules changed, I believe?
I'm not really asking for me, per se, am asking for underlying rationales.
Seems like "open-ended rules until we decide otherwise, TBD" will always elicit problems.
But it may be a tree falling in the forest.
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