Topaz adapt G1

[Dave Lewis]

pretty much like what you can accomplish with the shadow and highlight tool in Photoshop.
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Dave Lewis

 

[mark1000]

Mark.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/30657645@N03/

 

[fotophool]

Topaz Adjust is a set of plug in filters for PS, PS Elements and a few other plug in friendly programs.

You can apply each filter (I think the latest version has 18) light, medium or heavy or any variation thereof. In other words, they're fully user adjustable.

Samples below.

fotophool

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7131002@N05/

 

[Michael J Davis]

Having followed this thread, found out what it is, seen the tutorials
and the website, yours is the only processed photo that I like. What
was the original like?

Thanks, give me a few mins and i'll post my own before and after shots.

Thanks Mark. I have to say I prefer the before with it's better colour saturation and bite!!

Mike
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Mike Davis
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[Carl Schofield]

Here are two landscape before/after images.

Panasonic G1
Before:



After Topaz+SilverEfexPro:



Leica M8
Before:



After Topaz:



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http://www.pbase.com/scho/panasonic_lumix_g1&page=all

 

[mark1000]

Having followed this thread, found out what it is, seen the tutorials
and the website, yours is the only processed photo that I like. What
was the original like?

Thanks, give me a few mins and i'll post my own before and after shots.

Thanks Mark. I have to say I prefer the before with it's better
colour saturation and bite!!

Mike
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Mike Davis
http://www.flickr.com/photos/watchman

My wife agrees with you on that one, but i was after that stand out look to the church stone work and not thinking of the colour's, next time i'll concentrate a bit more.

Mark.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/30657645@N03/

 

[mark1000]

Here are two landscape before/after images.

Panasonic G1
Before:



After Topaz+SilverEfexPro:

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http://www.pbase.com/scho/panasonic_lumix_g1&page=all

Wow!! i really like what you have done with this one, quite remarkable i think.

Mark.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/30657645@N03/

 

[Carl Schofield]

Thanks Mark. I've just started using Topaz and I like what it can do to liven up dull landscapes.

Regards,
Carl

Here are two landscape before/after images.

Panasonic G1
Before:



After Topaz+SilverEfexPro:

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http://www.pbase.com/scho/panasonic_lumix_g1&page=all

Wow!! i really like what you have done with this one, quite
remarkable i think.

Mark.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/30657645@N03/

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http://photos.schophoto.com/

 

[kittykat23uk]

This is a few examples of what can be done in PP with Topaz and photoshop:

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1006&thread=30692997

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http://www.kats-korner-uk.com/index1.html

 

[Michael J Davis]

Thanks Mark. I've just started using Topaz and I like what it can do
to liven up dull landscapes.

Well Carl, you may like those, but I'm sorry, I don't! ;-)

My object is to get a great photo of a landscape and only tweak it so that it looks like it did when I stood there!

However, that's not to deny Topaz can't be used gently.

It's a good job we've all got different tastes!

Mike
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Mike Davis
http://www.flickr.com/photos/watchman

 

[Jonas B]

(...)
After Topaz+SilverEfexPro:

Hmm.

I don't think this is a very good improvement. I wonder if there is a way to get a similar effect and avoid the ugly banding and blotchy noise?

I like a good B&W and I don't mind turning something a bit more dramatic than it really was from time to time. Not very often, but sometimes.

Is it something with lifting shadows that went wrong here, or in what step was it things went this way?

regards,

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Jonas

 

[toomanycanons]

(...)
After Topaz+SilverEfexPro:

Hmm.
I don't think this is a very good improvement. I wonder if there is a
way to get a similar effect and avoid the ugly banding and blotchy
noise?

I like a good B&W and I don't mind turning something a bit more
dramatic than it really was from time to time. Not very often, but
sometimes.

Is it something with lifting shadows that went wrong here, or in what
step was it things went this way?

regards,

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Jonas

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Does everyone see "blotchy noise" only some are more sensitive to it than others?

Personally, I never see "blotchy noise" but I guess I'm in the minority. What it is actually? Is it the same as "film grain"?

 

[Jonas B]

(...)
Does everyone see "blotchy noise" only some are more sensitive to it
than others?

Not everyone, and probably, respectively.

Personally, I never see "blotchy noise" but I guess I'm in the
minority. What it is actually? Is it the same as "film grain"?

I'm not a good pedagogue but you can make a try to see it: look at the upper right part, in the sky, first the smooth blue original and then the blotchy noise in the B&W version. It is far from film grain as grain is about small crystals and in this case you can look for bigger areas.

regards,

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Jonas

 

[Dave Lewis]

Nothing more than some heavy hand with the Shadow and Highlight tool and some Contrast adjustment:



Took me about half a minute. Why does anybody need Topaz. I just saved $99.
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Dave Lewis

 

[kernow]

I played with it a little and really wasn't too impressed, but used in moderation it is OK. Here's one of my experiments. I masked the sky because Topaz does weird stuff to skies that I didn't care for.



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Oll an gwella,
Jim



[LX1]

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[L1] * Olympus 25mm 2.8 * Hexanon 40mm 1.8 * Vivitar Series 1 135mm 2.3 * Tokina 500mm 8.0 *

 

[mark1000]

Nice to see some differing opinions, some like it, some don't, i like it but have only used it in a not to aggressive manner.

Mark.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/30657645@N03/

 

[Michael J Davis]

I'm not a good pedagogue but you can make a try to see it: look at
the upper right part, in the sky, first the smooth blue original and
then the blotchy noise in the B&W version. It is far from film grain
as grain is about small crystals and in this case you can look for
bigger areas.

Yes, that was one of the things I didn't like - and I didn't like the halo-ing around the trees. To my eyes that's even more noticeable.

And I can get that effect with Elements Shadow/highlight controls - the trouble is (was) no one could tell me how to avoid it!! LOL!



Mike
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Mike Davis
http://www.flickr.com/photos/watchman

 

[Dorito]

Wow fotophool - that last picture [rusty car] is superb!!!

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[Dave Lewis]

Kind of a fun look.
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Dave Lewis

 

[doto41]

Played around with the demo, it's fun, but needs learning and fine tuning.



and this was very easy to do



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Dov

fz8, minolta 0, raynox 250, oly c-180, oly b-300 (and hoping for more )

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