onOne Plug-in Suite 5 for Adobe Photoshop now shipping

Announced in October, award-winning creative plug-in specialists onOne Software plug-in Suite 5 for Adobe Photoshop has began shipping.

Plug-in Suite 5 brings together a range of plug-ins to help pros and serious enthusiasts enhance photographs.

Plug-in Suite 5 includes full versions of the following plug-ins:

FocalPoint 2 – Promises to give photographers the best way to add the most realistic depth of field and selective focus control to any image after it is photographed. Offers greater flexibility and control over the look of the blur with FocalPoint 2's new blur algorithm, FocusBrush, Lens Presets and multiple FocusBug features.

PhotoTune 3 – New version of PhotoTune 3 uses patented eye-fidelityTM technology, originally developed by and licensed from imsense to optimise the dynamic range, colour and sharpness of images so that they look more true-to-life. The improved Wizard promises fast colour and tone correction in a few steps while giving pro users direct access to advanced and innovative controls. SkinTune, which represents two years of research and analysis of thousands of skin tones insists onOne, now offers one-click colour correction of portraits and the option to correct just the skin in an image.

PhotoFrame 4.5 Professional Edition – Offers over 100 new professionally designed frames, backgrounds, textures and layouts including over a dozen from professional photographer Kersti Malvre. Additionally the software comes with one thousand design elements like film edges, borders, textures, backgrounds and adornments, along with complete layouts where users can simply drop an image in and they are done.

PhotoTools 2.5 Professional Edition – Designed by photographers for photographers, preview and combine Photoshop Actions in a single, intuitive interface. Now includes a new MaskingBug control based on the FocusBug control from the award-winning FocalPoint plug-in. The new MaskingBug allows photographers to create high-quality masks to selectively apply effects to images. PhotoTools 2.5 Professional Edition includes over 30 new creative effects, for a total effect library of 280.

Genuine Fractals 6 Professional Edition – Billed as the industry standard for enlarging photosgraphs, Genuine Fractals 6 enlarges images up to 1,000 per cent while maintaining sharp edges and important image details according to onOne. The software now includes an automated gallery wrap feature and output options for tiling an enlarged photographs.

MaskPro 4 – Mask Pro 4 uses a colour-based method that aims to allow users to easily remove unwanted backgrounds from photographs. onOne claims “unique” Color Decontamination technology allows users to get realistic results by maintaining transparency in hard to mask objects like hair, smoke and glass in a fraction of the time using traditional tools.

Plug-in Suite 5 costs $599.95, around £363, users can upgrade $199.95.

Customers who own any one or more of the products in Plug-in 5 will be able to upgrade as well by visiting http://www.ononesoftware.com/upgrade.

Plug-In Suite 5 works with Photoshop CS2, CS3 or CS4 on Mac or Windows, including Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) and 64-bit Windows. Also, four of the plug-ins integrate with Lightroom 2 and Aperture 2.1.