When I first talked to Darcy of Topaz about this she mentioned a new Paint Filter program. However, Topaz Labs has just announced their newest software addition, Topaz Impression. Even if you print it on canvas I can pick up on it almost instantly. Knowing all of this it is hard to pull one over on me with a ‘Paint Filter’. I know quite a bit about paint application, color blending, and brush techniques.
One year I painted nearly 65 paintings while I was going through a Color Theory, Composition, and abstraction experiment. I used to be a painter, I haven’t picked up a brush in nearly 4 years (and I miss it) but I painted for a long period in my life. If I looked closely I could see repeating patterns and shapes that made up the image. I could always tell a Filter was applied to get the look. There was always something I did not like about them though.
I have also used many paint filter programs. I have used many Painting Filters in Photoshop. The adjustments in this group alone could justify the purchase of this plug-in if you're into creating images that look film-like with realistic grain and as if printed through the old-fashioned, chemical development process on specific types of photo paper.Finally an ACCURATE Paint Filter Program! This is a great group of adjustments which goes well beyond what you can achieve in Photoshop. Color (convert the brushed-over area back to color).For images with no clearly defined edges this approach is no match for the results you can achieve with selections and masks in Photoshop. In this case you can turn edge-awareness on and the plug-in goes a great job of preventing that the local adjustment bleeds outside the intended area. The adjustments are performed by brushing over the areas that should change but this is very difficult to do with any degree of precision unless your image has clear edges which the adjustment must follow. The intention with this group of adjustments is to make it possible to perform adjustments locally on the image. Camera Shake (adds a camera shake effect).Simplify (simplify Size and Feature Boost) - combines detail into blotches.We like these adjustments, they are fun to use and can create some great effects. This is a group of adjustments that goes beyond mere conversion to monochrome. Topaz B&W Effects presents us with a hue slider and a strength slider and while we assume that any real filter can be simulated with these sliders, but presets would have been faster and easier to use. We would have liked set presets corresponding to the traditional color filters for film photography: Red, Yellew1, Yellow2, etc. We are puzzled by the lack of presets for the color filter adjustment. The curve tool has a number of handy presets hereunder also "Negative" which turns an image into a negative, or vice versa. Color Filter: A hue and a strength slider - refer the illustration above.here you can adjust the balance between the grey nuances corresponding to red, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and magenta This adjustment is borrowed from Topaz Adjust and allows you to increase the dynamic range by recovering detail selectively in the shadows and highlights Basic Exposure: Contrast, brightness, boost blacks, boost whites.The available adjustments are as follows: 1 CONVERSION Nature Very simple, but beautiful and convincing.Does open source software 'call home' ?.Weekly Challenge Caption Contest - September 11 - 18.Weekly Challenge Winners Weekly Challenge #589 - Shadows.Project 52 PROJECT 52-11-1 - Color- A riot of color.Thematic Post Processing Challenge #433.Caption Contest Caption Contest now to September 25.HD Pentax-D FA 21mm F2.4 ED Limited DC WR.Mindshift Gear Rotation180 34L Backpack Review.July 2022 "Vacation" Photo Contest Winners.Announcing Our September, 2022 Photo Contest.Announcing the Pentax K-3 Mark III eBook.August "Dramatic Sky" Contest Finalists Announced.
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