Large discount on Topaz Photoshop Bundle
Just a heads up... if you haven't purchased the Topaz Photoshop Bundle or are on the fence, we have a "This Weekend Only" special going on at Scott Kelby's Photoshop Insider blog. It's a quite substantial discount, so definitely check it out and leave a comment there if it helped.
Photoshop Insider : This Weekend Only Deal on Topaz Photoshop Plug-ins
Scott's blog is also an excellent source of photography/photoshop information and overall a highly recommended read. Thanks Scott for making this possible!
New Topaz DeNoise Tutorial
Ashley wrote a new noise reduction, in which she covered the following topics:
- Benefits of using Topaz DeNoise
- When to use Topaz DeNoise in your workflow
- Best photo noise reduction and cleaning methods
- Basic DeNoise operation
- Working with image color noise
- Advanced steps to take with Topaz DeNoise.
Check it out here: DeNoise Tutorial (pdf)
Any questions? Discussion here: DeNoise Tutorial Discussion
New Topaz Discussion Forum
This has been a good month for website feature additions! We've just released a Photography + Photoshop + Topaz discussion forum that you can access here:
http://www.topazlabs.com/forum
Sign up for lots of benefits! We have big plans for the forum, and in the future we will be integrating our customer back-end into it, which means your owned products can be integrated into your profile for forum perks and recognition. More immediately, we will be putting up contests (with prizes!), tutorials, techniques, and other goodies onto the forum. We also think it will be a great way for Topaz users to get in touch with other Topaz users to share tips and show off their unique images.
But it's not exclusively Topaz-related stuff either - feel free to post about general photography or Photoshop topics as well! Occasionally we might even have a guest poster that will write a "How I Did This" tutorial or something similar on the forum. We at Topaz are also very heavily involved in our forum, so it's a great way to get in touch with us as well.
All gallery submissions will now go through the forum. If you're interested in beta testing Topaz software, we've also now formalized a beta tester program.
See you on the forums!
Call for Photos – Topaz Photo Gallery
We're putting up a photo gallery on our website that will showcase different photographers and images that use Topaz software. Instead of the smaller photos on our product pages, this gallery shows beautiful full-sized images for all to see.
We'd love to have some of your Topazed images up there. If you're interested in submitting some photos to the gallery, please see the forum post here:
Send however many images you want, as long as they've been Topazed in some way, with any of our software. We'd love to display your photos to the world!
Like Topaz Presets? Check This Out
I know the mass of sliders in Topaz products can be intimidating at times. When we released the first Topaz presets system in Adjust all the way back when because of your excellent customer feedback, it understandably took a large role in improving the overall usability of our products.
Realizing this, the completely user-driven and -led Topaz Flickr group and the website AtnCentral has created a centralized Topaz presets depot where anyone can submit or download presets. Here's the direct link:
http://www.atncentral.com/topaz.htm
To download presets, simply open up the appropriate Topaz product and click Presets -> Import from Internet. Paste in the appropriate link and you'll instantly have it in your Presets dialog. Very cool! Besides Topaz presets, AtnCentral is a great place to get an abundance of free regular Photoshop actions as well.
By the way, I'd like to thank Jorge Diaz of the Topaz Flickr group and Jim Lewis of AtnCentral for their efforts in making this happen and providing Topaz users with a valuable new resource. Thumbs up all the way.