Athentic Perfectly Clear with X8 Ultimate

[JoeB]

Perfectly Clear v.2 is apparently bundled with X8 Ultimate. From those who have purchased X8 Ultimate I'm curious to know if that plugin has all of the same filters available in the plugin purchased directly from Athentech. Specifically I heard that it was lacking either the Beautify and/or Beautify Plus filter and was wondering if this was correct. What made me wonder was because the info on Corel's site says it's Perfectly Clear 2 SE and I don't see an SE version in the available downloads from the Athentech site. And in another thread one person was considering X8 Ultimate rather than X8 or even staying with X7 because of the bundling of Perfectly Clear 2. But if it's missing a filter preset that might be of importance to that person then he/she might have second thoughts.

[Ken Berry]

I'm afraid the SE (Special Edition) that comes with X8 has neither Beautify nor Beautify+... Curiously enough, though, the splash screen ("About") refers to "Beautify technology" but this may just be a hangover from the full version. The tutorials which come with the plug-in also have a separate one specifically on Beautify/Beautify+, but that makes it clear there are supposed to be buttons on the interface for each of these, but they are simply not there on the SE interface. The latter has six presets (Details, Vivid, Fix Dark, Fix Noise, Fix Tint and Landscapes) instead of eight. On the full version, Beautify and Beautify+ are placed directly below Details and Vivid.

See the attached images. This one shows the SE interface:

And this one shows an excerpt from the Tutorial for the full version:

[JoeB]

I suspected that it would be a somewhat lesser version than the downloadable Perfectly Clear 2 and that's obviously the case. Anyone considering purchasing X8 Ultimate to get Perfectly Clear at less than its normal price because it is bundled with Ultimate might want to first find out from them if they can upgrade to the full version and how much it would cost to do so.