INTENSIFY - New Amazing and Awesome Photographic software ONLY for MAC

On 10th December I got an email from the MacPhun software company showing the new amazing and awesome photography editor tool they have just released and is really stunning and jawdroping the results that they are showing as examples of before and after.

It is called INTENSIFY

All the information about it is here

The slogan is "Reveal details never seen before in digital photography"

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ONLY for MacOS The worst news for me is that is ONLY for MacOS !!!!! but anyway I want to share the news for all of you that have a Mac and can be able to use and enjoy this gem of software. I know that for Windows there may be similar software from Topaz, Nik and OnOne software BUT is NOT the same like this one, this

AND this software does not cost much as you may think for the quality given, only $30 for standalone version and $60 for the Pro version with Photoshop plugin.

What amazes me is the excellent quality results shown in the examples from the plain original AND how is easy seems to be able to get this effects

PRESETS

There are already included many presets to get a direct and just one click effect applied to your images

Go to KEY FEATURES tab and then go the Presets part and there is the original photo at the right and in the left there is some presets that you can click and see the result of that preset and how different it becomes after and be amazed by the quality and all the details that are brought up.

BEFORE & AFTER

BUT, what is even more stunning and awesome is the examples given in the Before & After tab

There is white line in the middle that you CAN MOVE with the grey button slider that is just below and so you can very easily compare the before and after of the effects.

Also you can change the example photo using the left or right arrows, and choose one the 6 photos available.

Is really amazing how from a foggy and cloudy photos you can get such clarity and amount of detail as shown

here below is one of the examples

Just a side note: Lightroom / ACR does similar, you can tinker values and get pretty impressive results similar to this.

[edit] just that some parameters in that program are probably more dedicated towards pumping up an image's appearance.

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maybe is because I have not yet learned how to do it.

It's not that difficult enhancing appearances and boosting lights and darks of photographs via Photoshop alone. Increasing contrast, manual dodging and burning and some more manual retouches would really do some magic. Of course, you can always just deal with it in camera at the spot by taking a great photograph from the start. You can do everything this software offers in Photoshop alone. And as a reminder, most features boasted by 3rd party photography-plugin/software developers are definitely doable in Photoshop by itself. You really don't need anything else.

Just don't let yourself fall over the preset trap. Presets only know somethings. It doesn't know what's best for your photographs/designs nor does it care about anything. It's always useful having personal presets that correct certain habits you have with pictures or recurring issues but they're useless to everybody else out there. Presets are nothing more than just things that demo features or just a starting point if somebody else made them. Presets are best useful when you make them for yourself.

But anyway aside the ideal talk n stuff that software's nice.

Just a thought though. I typically spend around 10 to 20 hours editing / retouching a single photograph (if it needs to). But most other things just fly by with a couple clicks. Maybe that program might be worth it haha.

I've made two filters in the past that does similar to this.

http://filterforge.com/filters/9812.html
http://filterforge.com/filters/9726.html

Just some classic techniques