I have a new laptop (Windows 10). I purchased PE 2018 and installed it. I have the Noiseware 8BF file on my desktop (Windows 7) with PE 8. I copied the 8BF file to the plugins folder on the laptop. When I tried to use it I got the message:
I also copied from the downloads on my desktop the file Noisewarestandard plugin setup 4110 to the laptop downloads and ran it. It ran and finished. I tried again to access the plugin and got the same message about "one or more etc."
I downloaded the plug-in and installed successfully. Now a new problem. I have no idea where to find my license key. It's been a few years. I purchased in 2007. My Imagenomic plugin on my desktop lists a product ID: 9027-244A-4979-9F39. I tried using that but it failed. I suppose I will be asked to purchase anew.
"Eva,
The Adobe forum gurus were wrong as usual as there is no 64 bit version of Noiseware Standard plugin...it is 32 bit only and we don't market or actively support it any longer.
Also, we don't support Elements 18 with any of our plugins at this time. You could try Noiseware 5 plugin which is 64 bit but it may or may not work.
The Noiseware Standard keycode will not work in Noiseware 5 as they are 2 separate products. If you find that Noiseware 5 plugin is working for you in Elements 18 then sales could give you a coupon to upgrade from Noiseware Standard to Noiseware 5 for 20$.
Regards,"
I think my best be is to keep Photoshop Elements 8 on my desktop. When I need the plugin I can copy the photo I'm working on from the laptop to the desktop and finish the work there when I have access to it.
Another reason for keeping my Photoshop Elements 8 on my desktop is to create PDF slideshows which I have been doing since the very first versions of PE. I think that option is no longer available on PE 2018.
I can tell you that it's a long time I stopped using their plugins, and the main reason is that Elements provides very good noise reduction, especially if you use the ACR plugin for jpegs as well as raws. If Elements has the right tool, its users are not a potentail market for Imagenomic expensive software which explains why they don't care for Elements users.
They may be right that your original Noiseware plugin that you installed in pse 8 was only 32 bit, but on the download page linked above it said there are free upgrades from older versions to newer Noiseware versions that do support 64 bit photoshop/pse.
Sorry your having such trouble with Noiseware support, but I can't find anywhere on their website where it says Noiseware standard license can't be upgraded, such as in the below web page about upgrading and it also explains how to recover your keycode.
It's me again, please forgive me if I'm making to much questions to all of you but there are many possibilities that I finally take this as a serious business, and I need to purchase the most appropriate tools to do my job.
I would like to build a Family and Social Photography Studio; I would like to automate the most the portraits retouching so I was thinking between PortraitPro and Imagenomic Portraiture, wich one would you chose, or do you advise me another one from your experience?
I primarily use Portraiture inside of Photoshop. I find that Portraiture does an excellent job, and is easy to use. I have it put it's edits on a separate layer, which gives me the opportunity to fine tune what it did.
Again, these are just my personal preferences. I even like Portraiture's smoothing a bit better. I'm not saying Portrait Pro is bad, just that I personally prefer the results from Portraiture and find it easier to use.
There are a few times I'll pull an image into Portrait Pro to modify the basic look of makeup. And sometimes a slight angle issue will make a face look just slightly off..Portrait Pro can pull it back to what looks normal to the eye more intuitively than I can do with Liquify.
I use PP as an action in PS. In PS, before I send it over to PP, I make a layer copy and send THAT layer over to PP. Once there I automatically turn off face shaping. You have to if you do it this way or the layer won't line up right with the original one back in PS.
I then do all my corrections and then bring it back into PS. Then I lower the opacity of the PP file to about 60-75%. You have to eye it with each file to see what is too much or not enough. That way some of the original file comes through and puts back some of the original file like skin texture. Most people soften WAAAAAAAY too much and it looks SOOOO bad. Then I do the rest of the retouching with my PS tools like stray hairs, scars, wrinkles that are still too deep, etc.
I shoot sometimes corporate portraits . If you let PP do everything "automatically" then it can overdo the editing, so I reset the edit and then carry out the edits manually. Its pretty easy with sliders and quick (literally a few minutes and you are done). For family shots, you can select each face separately for editing. For your purpose this is probably good enough. Skins and eye bags are easily made smoother. Do remember to take photos of people with glasses on and off . This you may need photoshop to edit glare and distortion behind the lens, if the glasses are strong.
For commercial use, PPro is a major time saver. No brainer in my opinion. You could always spend the time in Photoshop, but for the level of editing required maybe an overkill, kill of time and hence money.
I've had an extremely negative experience with Imagenomic/Portraiture over the last 6 months - Their version 2 stopped working in newer versions of PS - totally understandable and they offer a V3 upgrade for free for existing customers.
To make the story short - while I provided them all my license codes - they lost their records of my license and even though, at their request - I sent them photographs of the original disc and codes (full pro suite) they refused to acknowledge it. I went back and forth with them for months on this - at one point they admonished me for continuing to ask for help. And it's not like I was contacting them every day - once every couple of weeks or less!!!! The last time I waited a whole month so as to not offend them. They have now just decided to ghost me and leave it unresolved.
I have purchased the pro suite in 2017. Now they do not want to help me activate my plugins. No matter what I did, how many proofs, link etc, they keep saying that they cannot find my info. Now they are not responding to my emails again or we go in a never-ending cicle, please provide ... Unbelievable!!!
I have always retouched by hand as I don't have a large client base but have been considering trying one of these. First things I noticed is Portrait Pro does not offer color management in it's Standard edition, a gotcha if you don't carefully read their comparison chart right down to the bottom. Portraiture's being an plug-in for only PS and LR means it's not for me. My preferred raw converter is C1P with Affinity as my pixel editor. I had Noiseware for many years but when upgrading my PC couldn't get the license to work either. So I will be looking at the Studio free trial to see if it's worth it for my needs. Thanks for all the suggestions and feedback.
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