The workspace itself is organized in the contemporary style with thumbnails in a filmstrip below and adjustment tools in a panel to the right of the preview. Navigating between CK apps is easily accomplished with the dropdown “Open with” submenu of the File menu in each app or the Save and Share icon. And FX Photo Studio is a special-effects app with more than 200 presets in 20 categories including Color Fantasy, Groovy Lo-Fi, Grunge, Vintage and many more.ĭespite the power of the CK apps and Aurora HDR, the learning curve is minimal and no manual is needed. The Snapheal app functions much like content-aware fill in Photoshop, but allows you to brush a mask over the area that you want to remove as well as use a selection to isolate it. Motion blur and tilt-shift functions are also available as well as vignette effects and face detection for portraits. The Focus app allows you to adjust the softness of very specific parts of your image, including the ability to brush on a mask to retain sharpness on a specific area. (Using a stronger-than-needed preset and backing off the opacity turned out to be the quickest way to reduce noise.) ![]() The ten adjustable presets in Noiseless give you one-click noise reduction that is often more than adequate for an excellent result while retaining edge sharpness. The Intensify app provides controls for sharpening, enhancing structure and detail, and controlling contrast. The remaining Macphun apps have specific capabilities to extend and simplify the image editing and enhancing process. You can use Aurora HDR with RAW or TIFF file formats and work with single or multiple files to create the final HDR image. Layers are also available with a variety of blend modes and luminosity masking. It provides a range of presets from natural to grunge, with sliders to adjust the look and to blend the HDR image with an original. The new Aurora HDR app is the result of a joint project between Macphun and renowned HDR photographer Trey Ratcliff. As with most of the Macphun apps, a variety of sliders allow you to fine tune the presets to your liking and save the result as a new preset. ![]() Its latest update adds presets from respected photographers to the more than 150 presets already available in the program. Macphun’s Tonality app puts the beauty of monochrome imaging at your fingertips. If you are unfamiliar with them, they greatly extend the emasculated capabilities of Photos on the Mac, and function much as the On1 Photo 10 suite, Google Nik Collection and Topaz Labs programs if you are using Photoshop, Lightroom or Affinity on the Mac. Other than Aurora HDR, the other Macphun apps have been around for a while. Free trial downloads of the CK and of Aurora HDR are available from. ![]() You can buy the Creative Kit apps individually for $30 to $60 each, but the kit is the better bargain as you will likely find use for more than a couple of them. It’s not part of the $130 Creative Kit, but we gave it a try anyway. The newest addition to the Macphun family is the standalone Aurora HDR app ($99) for creating high dynamic range photos. These function as standalone programs, as part of the CK and as plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, Photoshop Elements and Photos (El Capitan OS or later). Macphun’s recently updated Creative Kit (CK) is a bundle of six Mac apps: Tonality, Intensify, Noiseless, Focus, Snapheal and FX Photo Studio.
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