5/11/2023 0 Comments Topaz star effects reviewThat’s right, I took my one image and ran it through each of the 21 possible adjustment styles. ![]() I’d like to give some face time to each style but there just isn’t room here in the blog to do each justice. You can select a creative style, then edit within that style to go for a unique look and feel all your own! This is a very clever and unique approach to photography work flows, because now you can look at your photo with various edits in an simple and easy preview to see how various adjustment styles will look on them. To the bottom center are all the slider controls for exposure, details, color, and yes – even noise handling. See that left-hand column? There’s 21 different variations of creative adjustments done to your photo to give you a specific look and feel to your images – all at the click of a button. Lo and behold, within this one plugin are 21 different photo adjustment presets! That’s right – 21! Here’s a quick look at the interface: So, into the first plugin I went – the Topaz Adjust. The green stalks and purple base also served as a nice contrasting set of colors to see how things progressed. Kind of a neat image: one flower all by itself ina sea of red tulips. Wanting to find an image that had some depth, color and tonal range to it, I picked one from a photo walk I did in Boulder a month or so ago of the tulips: I’ll address those in another post, just because, well… even just the 7 plugins for Photoshop was going to be a lot of plugins to review in one blog post! Thinking I was up to the challenge, I powered on and installed each package, then fired up Photoshop. ![]() There’s also two video plugins available: Enhance and Moment. ![]() In the case of the Topaz Suite – boy did I bite off more than I could chew! The Topaz Labs package consists of 7 different Photoshop plugins with somewhat descriptive names for each plugin package, ranging between: As is always the case, I like to say “thanks” in my own small way by giving the vendor some “air time” on the blog with a personalized review of whatever it is they are contributing. So, as everyone is likely already aware, Topaz Labs approached me recently to sponsor a giveaway and generously donated their entire suite for some lucky listener/reader.
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