Attention PhotoFrame 4 users! Here is the first preset posted to the onOne Exchange for PhotoFrame 4! This one is called Instant 55 with Tape. The primary edge effect looks like a Polaroid Type 55 film border taped down to a black background. It will work best if the background of your website or album page is black. Of course, this is just the setting for the preset. You can modify it to be white or any other color if you so desire. It also includes a very cool adornment from the Jed & Vicki Taufer of
V Gallery.
- Original photo
- After PhotoFrame 4
Photo copyright Bliss Studio
This is a preset that Dan Harlacher, the senior product manager here at onOne Software created. I’m calling it the Bridal Enhancer though I suspect it could be used on photos of anybody, not just brides. 
The preset combines 7 different PhotoTools effects, listed below in the order they were applied.
- Davis-Midtone Contrast Boost
- onOne-81A Warming
- Davis-Portrait Sharpen
- Kubota-Angel Glow A2
- onOne-Selective Focus Gaussian
- Kubota-Add Border P1
Don’t forget if any one of these effects in the preset don’t work for a particular image you’re working on, you can simply adjust the effect, change it’s strength using the Fade slider or remove it completely. Here are the before and after images.
Before PhotoTools
After PhotoTools
Photo copyright Kevin Kubota. All rights reserved.
As you’ve probably already heard by now, Adobe has announced Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop CS4 Extended along with major upgrades to the other applications that make up the Creative Suite. In case you are wondering about upgrading and continuing to use PhotoTools, preliminary testing with pre-release builds of Photoshop CS4 indicate you just need to run your PhotoTools installer again after installing Photoshop CS4.
The one caveat I have for this is that in the past, we’ve tested our plug-ins with pre-release versions of Photoshop and then between the last developer release and the release version that you buy on the store shelves, things can change that cause things not to work so well. We’ll be watching for this and if anything happens, we’ll let you know and let you know how we’ll make sure that PhotoTools works with Photoshop CS4.
