What is Topaz, and what does it do?

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I've been offered a legit copy of Topaz, which I'm told I must have. But what does it do and what are it's benefits? I've read the advertising blurb, but that tells me very little. I use Elements 9 and have the Colour FX suite as well. Is Topaz any use to me at all?
 
I poped around a mate who has topaz and had a play, it's had topaz ajust 4 one of the presets (can't remember which one) then topaz denoise, which wasn't bad to be honest, finally it went through I think was topaz focus (something like that) the sharpening one anyway, which was a bit strong on the full size but looks ok on this size, again just used a preset as I don't know the slider to play with .
Bottom ones obviously the topaz one.

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isnt that the house that i edited a photo of? :P
 
slightly less fire in this pic though!
 
Topaz is a silicate mineral of aluminium and fluorine with the chemical formula Al2SiO4(F,OH)2. Topaz crystallizes in the orthorhombic system and its crystals are mostly prismatic terminated by pyramidal and other faces. :)


Topaz Labs are a software company that produce several plug-in for popular image editing applications.

Topaz Adjust™
The easiest way to make photos pop with exposure, detail, and color.

Topaz DeNoise™
Completely eliminate noise with
the best noise reduction tool available.

Topaz InFocus™
The simple sharpening solution that recovers detail and enhances clarity.

Topaz ReMask™
The fastest way to mask or extract
a subject from its background.

Topaz Detail™
Manipulate detail and sharpen with absolutely no halos or artifacts.

Topaz Simplify™
Create a variety of stunning painterly
and artistic effects from photos.

Topaz Clean™
Take control of extensive smoothing
and stylized edge capabilities.

Topaz DeJPEG™
Fix JPEG artifacts and drastically improve the quality of web images.
 
Terry St said:
Here's a picture that shows what topaz adjust can do.
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I can't see the effect? I'm guessing its supposed to be HDR? what was the before picture like? I do see a huge amount of noise in what was probably deep shadow before hand (i.e. on the top right of the car, rear wheel arch, etc)
 
I think that car photo thing is horrible:thinking:
the shadow from the lad on the left has run over the cat's tail! and the guy on the right appears to have lost his :bonk:
 
The shadow from the guy on the left is quite wierd. He's got a sort of black halo all round him. There's a bit of a feel that some of the guys have been photoshopped in, although I presume they haven't.
 
It was an experiment of photo merging and my first attempt at it. I set the tripod up for an hour and captured a number of images to work with. There are 6 photographs layered there and I wanted to see what I could do. With a bit of practice I'm sure I'll master it.
 
I think Terry's version is the more appealing of the two, but then I'm not a fan of overblown HDR anyway.
 
It's one of the 2 hdr presets in topaz (the others marginally better) that said you can ajust them to suit, that one is totally OTT I aregree... bit of fun though.
 
Terry St said:
If somebody would like to post a photo here I'll put it through Topaz to see what it can do.
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can Topaz make my kitchen as clean as yours? :D
 
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