LandscapePro
Edit your images in minimum time
From $79.90 Developer Anthropics Technology, landscapepro.pics Requirements OS X 10.7 or later This is a tempting alternative to the complexity of Photoshop for landscape enthusiasts. Click areas of your image to define grass, sky, water, people, and so on, then refine your masks by dragging the pointer. Next, choose your effects.
The app’s presets – which have intuitive names such as Morning, Storm, and Sunset – offer instant, impactful results, and you can apply different effects to each area – warming up your foreground but not your sky, for instance. You can even drop in entirely new skies from the app’s built-in library. LandscapePro applies effects intelligently, so a fiery new sunset will cast a new color on the ground below.
Getting good results often proves tricky, though – LandscapePro struggles to create accurate masks automatically, which means there’s much clicking and dragging required to get correct cutouts. Also, the app’s whole-image presets often look heavyhanded and out of place.
The Standard edition is the most affordable version, but still expensive at $79.90. To open raw files, among other tasks, you’ll need the $119.90 Studio edition; you could get almost a year’s subscription to the far superior Photoshop and Lightroom for that same amount.
LandscapePro needs to be more compelling to compete for all but the most drive-by landscape photographers.
the bottom line. A strong concept with lots of potential, but as it is, it isn’t worth the cash. DAVE STEVENSON