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Then in PS on a few New Layers, mainly just painted in some lines in the foreground palm fronds as they were really blurred. A Curves Adjustment Layer was used for this. The light was really dark in the palm tree, but really bright behind her so it was hard to get that looking correct. Not much was done in Lightroom, and Photoshop added Viveza 2 filter to sharpen her up a bit. Hi Blake, Once again, a great tutorial and lots of inspiration and direction.Īs photographers and artists we need to continue to emphasize that all art has an initial phase and gets modified to a certain extent.I think this is a little Eastern Bluebird female who was helping me while I cleaned up my flower beds in my front yard.
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I have been wondering if there was a masking ability in Impression, now I know how to do it.īlake, extraordinary tutorial, with your great tutorials you have helped me to take my images to another level…Thank you very much for sharing. Like Tom, I started playing with Impression after your webinar and just bought it a little while ago. You got me playing with Impression last week, and just earlier today, I purchased it from Topaz. Sorry, you can, however, use anything you learned from this with LR, just not with the layer masks. I have Lightroom 5 and Elements I also have Photomatix and a number of Topaz software. If you want to see how this image was created in Topaz Impression watch the video tutorial below! Blake, I really do appreciate your tutorials on impressions. The second is 3 presets or styles all mixed into one! Cantilever beam problems You can do the exact same thing in Topaz Impression and obtain beautiful results! Look at the before and after below. One thing painters do is mix different mediums together in one piece, like Acrylic paint and water color, or pastels and charcoal. Of course, the single click presets developed by Topaz Labs are great, but there is so much more to it than that! As many of you know I used to be a painter. Topaz Impression can be a very powerful painting tool in Photoshop.
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I can assure you the folks at Topaz Labs are doing everything int heir power to help where they can, I was talking with Darcy about that prior to the Webinar on Tuesday. I know many have had video card issues with it and I understand those frustrations. Topaz Lens Effects tonal adjustment, focus shift, vignette.I have been experimenting with Topaz Impression non-stop since it came out last week. Here are a couple of screenshots of this editing process in action. You can stack additional new or duplicates of the same effects categories onto the image until you get what you want. Each preset is fully editable, with Texture Effects presenting you with several categories of effects to adjust, depending on which preset you start with. Notice the many additional effect adjustments shown at right. The latest addition to the Collection is Texture Effectsperhaps your quickest means to both soft and grungy photo effects. Here are a couple more subjects treated with Glow. Your image is turned into a festival of light resembling fiber optics, neon, liquid and other fantasy treatments. Below are four more examples of 1-click artwork in various Impression styles, all from unedited presets. Impression mimics various classic art styles and applies them to your image in a single click. If you prefer creating something more artistic rather than detail-enhanced or grungy, Topaz Impression is the way to go. Of course Adjust can simply pop the details hidden in your images or obscure them altogether without making a statement if you so choose. Below are several examples of the beach image treated with totally different Adjust presets, each of which I chose to draw attention to the juxtaposition of the power plant with the public beach these effects would be perfect for an environmental poster. If you were only going to choose a single Topaz plug-in, Adjust would definitely be the right one. A decade later, I definitely consider them one of the top players in this niche. Topaz Labs came on the scene in and immediately began garnering attention as a viable contender in this field. In this review I will give an overview of the various creative and corrective functionality the Collection offers and spotlight a handful of the plug-ins, rather than write 17 individual reviews. Topaz Labs offers the Topaz Photography Collection which gathers 17 different plug-ins and standalone apps into a single set.