Topaz Adjust trial
I’m using a rainy Saturday morning to experiment with a Photoshop plug-in called Topaz Adjust.
You can accomplish a number of effects with this plug-in. It is especially good at generating the extreme contrast, almost illustrated, hyper-sharp look. Seems fairly comparable to another plug-in that has been available longer, Lucis Pro. The main difference is that the latter costs $600 and needs a hardware dongle to use. The Topaz plug-in is $49.
Here’s another one. A photo of James’ from earlier this year. The before looked like this:
The Topaz version looks like this:
Might be a little “overcooked,” but it’s a neat effect. The only other thing I did to this photo is I created a mask of the background and added some lens blur for more depth of field.
One more:
August 30th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
I like what it did to the dock Doc.
August 30th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
dock doc? You have so much flexibility with it. You can dramatically increase the contrast and details, like the dock. Or you can soften to the point of a painting like the first pic’s sky.