[andybak]

Can you clarify what you mean by 'worse'? The clipping, over-saturation and other 'defects' are all intentional aspects of this kind of process.

Or do you mean something else?

[waxjar]

I'm familiar with the processes. I get what the writer of the plugin is going for. I just think it would look better if the effects were applied with an image editor like Photoshop.