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I'm currently trialing Topaz Adjust (and Denoise) and at the moment I can't really make my mind up what I think about it so I thought I'd ask how useful others find it.
At the moment I think that it can be quite effective at producing a highly punchy and stylised image which can look good for some car, machinery and architecture but I'm finding the "look" that the presets give much less useful for landscape although I have made a few landscape shots that were taken in poor light for photography look maybe a little better by just using the sliders rather than the presets. I've not had any luck with anything with people in it and I personally find that the people shots on the Topaz website look awful.
I suppose that part of the problems is that I tend to like a more natural looking image rather than the obviously (and possibly over) processed. I find myself using Topaz and thinking "That's quite nice" only to come back later and totally change my mind about the shot. Some shots that I've processed in CS5 are almost exactly what Topaz produces so I suppose that it would be possible to get the total effect without Topaz, but Topaz does it quicker. I might buy it for occasional use but I don't think that I'll ever be using it for more than the odd shot here and there.
So, is anyone else using Topaz Adjust and if so I'd be interested to know what for, how often and what you think about it generally.
PS. Just spotted a similar thread here...
http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=367626
But I'd still be interested in anyones comments.
At the moment I think that it can be quite effective at producing a highly punchy and stylised image which can look good for some car, machinery and architecture but I'm finding the "look" that the presets give much less useful for landscape although I have made a few landscape shots that were taken in poor light for photography look maybe a little better by just using the sliders rather than the presets. I've not had any luck with anything with people in it and I personally find that the people shots on the Topaz website look awful.
I suppose that part of the problems is that I tend to like a more natural looking image rather than the obviously (and possibly over) processed. I find myself using Topaz and thinking "That's quite nice" only to come back later and totally change my mind about the shot. Some shots that I've processed in CS5 are almost exactly what Topaz produces so I suppose that it would be possible to get the total effect without Topaz, but Topaz does it quicker. I might buy it for occasional use but I don't think that I'll ever be using it for more than the odd shot here and there.
So, is anyone else using Topaz Adjust and if so I'd be interested to know what for, how often and what you think about it generally.
PS. Just spotted a similar thread here...
http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=367626
But I'd still be interested in anyones comments.
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