PercepTool

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PercepTool

This software plugin for PS CS3 and CS4 is making a lot of headlines. It appears to be Mac only at this point.

Not a recommendation, just something new.

http://www.georgedewolfe.com/perceptool.html

With a little training it looks like what you would do in Photoshop anyway with layers and masks and selective tuning of the tones.

[Tim Kamppinen]

Ok, I read all that, but I still don't know what it's supposed to do. To me it just looks like increased contrast combined with some dodging and burning... yet he claims that the results are "nearly impossible" with manual photoshop...