The Alien Skin Photo Bundle is a compilation of five plug-ins: Bokeh, Blow-up, Image Doctor, Exposure, and Snap Art.  One of the biggest draws of this bundle is the lower price, a $500 savings over buying the plug-ins individually. 

Bokeh, as the name implies, is used for adding depth of field effects to photographs that have little or no bokeh, giving the user the potential to breath new life into an otherwise less interesting photograph.  This is one of my favorite plug-ins in this bundle.  When using masks in conjunction with this plug-in, there is a lot of control to be had.

Blow-up is pretty straight forward.  It allows you to enlarge and crop images that may not be large enough for a particular purpose.  I found this plug-in to do a much better job than simply using the image size command inside Adobe Photoshop.  Blow-up allowed me to enlarge photos without creating the jagged edges that usually come along with enlargement. 

Image Doctor is another of my favorites.  It has several subcategories as well, including smart fill, dust and scratch remover, blemish concealer, skin softener, and JPEG repair.  Smart fill works to varying degrees, depending on the photograph.  JPEG repair does well eliminating artifacts, but does introduce some softness, which is to be expected from such a function regardless.  I used "skin softener," the most.  One of the available options is to reduce the effects of oily skin, which reduces hot spots on the skin from a flash, reflector, or the sun.  This feature is fantastic and saves a lot of time on an otherwise tedious task, as demonstrated below.

A selection of the areas that need to be fixed must be made before accessing Image Doctor.

After selecting the hot-spots in my image, I now open the Image Doctor drop box, and choose "skin softener."

Choosing "soften oily skin" reduces the effect of the hot-spots on the girl's skin.  There is also a slider, not pictured, under the basic tab above, allowing the user to adjust the intensity of the effect.

Above is my final image after a combination of the demonstrated editing with Image Doctor, and a few other Adobe Photoshop tools.  Mouse over the image to see the original photo.

Snap Art is a program to create art "in a snap."  This filter has many subcategories as well, creating many options to turn your photographs into works of art in a variety of medians.  

Finally we have Exposure, which is a fantastic plug-in to quickly change the appearance of your photographs.  This filter allows you to replicate the appearance of many different film types in color and black & white.  Most of the film types have alternate option to replicate the effects of the film without the film grain if it is not desired.  I have included a few examples of different film types within Exposure.

In conclusion, this is well thought out, highly functional software package.  While not all photographers will find a use for every filter, if one finds interest in two or three of the included plug-ins, it would be more economical to buy the whole package.  With all the great features of this package, there is one, possibly significant, problem with two of the plug-ins.  If you use a 64-bit operating system, Exposure and Image Doctor will only function if accessed within the 32-bit version of Adobe Photoshop.  While the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Adobe Photoshop are installed together, it proved to be a bit of a hassle for me to save my file, close 64-bit photoshop, find and open 32-bit photoshop, and reopen my file just to use two plug-ins.  For this reason, and the fact that those are two of my most used plug-ins, I deduct one star, but still award this great software bundle a well deserved 4/5.