Has anyone used Alien Skin Bokeh?

Question

I was wondering if anyone has had experience with using the Alien Skin Bokeh application. Is it worthwhile, or it gimmicky? Thanks!

Answer 1

I've played around with it, but elected not to buy it. I was fairly impressed with the results, when it worked, but found it only worked in a tiny subset of cases.

here is pretty much a best case example:

the subject is pretty clearly defined from the background (decent shallow depth of field to begin with) and doesn't have long hair.

I could not create a single example that I'd consider worth posting for any person with long hair, which was dissappointing. If you're willing to spend a great amount of time in photoshop tweaking the selection, perhaps you may do better.