Archive for 'Question of the Week'
Effect Creation and Positioning in Star Effects
Posted on01. Feb, 2012 by Ashley Robinson.
There seems to be just a little confusion about the way the new Topaz Star Effects works, which is causing some hiccups in some user’s workflows. So I wanted to take a moment to review how Star Effects works, answer some reoccurring questions and also to let you know about some enhancements in the works. [...]
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Can I move stars to an exact position?
Posted on27. Jan, 2012 by Ashley Robinson.
The short answer is no, you can select more points of light to include/exclude however you cannot position effects just anywhere in your image. However, there’s a reason for this. Let’s take a quick look at how the Star Effects™ program works and then I’ll show you a handy trick that you can use to [...]
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Cleanup and Mistake Correction in Adjust 5
Posted on21. Nov, 2011 by Ashley Robinson.
Tweet The ability to remove/undo an adjustment can often be just as important as applying adjustments. The new Topaz Adjust 5 features some useful “un-enhancement” tools that can be very helpful during your workflow. Let’s take a quick look at these tools. The Undo and Redo buttons are probably the most general and commonly used [...]
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Quick, Clean Photo Pop with Adjust
Posted on21. Oct, 2011 by Ashley Robinson.
Tweet I have a neat little trick for cleaning up an image in Topaz Adjust that I’d like to share with you. Often you have images that don’t need high-impact adjustments and will actually benefit more from subtle enhancements. For example, the image below is a little dull, washed out and the main building actually [...]
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Is the noise reduction option in Topaz Adjust a substitute for Topaz DeNoise?
Posted on16. Oct, 2011 by Ashley Robinson.
Tweet One of the convenient things about Topaz Adjust is the included noise reduction tool, which is great for quickly removing the minor instances of noise that can often arise during your editing. However, it also seems to cause a little confusion among users when it comes to the Topaz DeNoise program, and frequently I [...]