Still, some plug-ins are better then Photoshop and they still survive. Yes, over the years Photoshop made some plug-ins obsolete by incorporating that idea or technique. It’s not surprising that Topaz is doing what the posters are complaining about. So, it is a hard time to be a company trying to make Photoshop plugins. Over the years Photoshop has gotten better and better and doing things you used to have to buy a plugin to do (HDR, noise reduction, focus stacking, sharpening, upscaling, etc), and many of the companies have folded and the existing products are comparatively more expensive and come without lifetime free upgrades. For awhile, there were many plugins that would do things that you just couldn’t do in Photoshop (or LR), and often several competing competing companies offering the same function. I have been using Photoshop since version 4, and the plugin market has gone through a lot of changes. any alternatives, as plugins for Photoshop? Remask is already available in Studio (though for the life of me, I can't get it to work in the same way as standalone).Īnyway, back to the original question. Gradually, they will all be integrated and no longer be available separately. Some are now only available in Studio, some are available separately. It adds too many extra steps to get to where you need to be.Īlso, of all of Topaz's applications, it seems that Remask would be the least likely to be migrated to Studio. The only argument against is if Studio slows things down to an unacceptable level. If you use a single product (like remask), it is the most clunky stupid way to work. Studio may be wonderful for people who use lots of effects. No, they've significantly changed the product to force you into an unnecessary wrapper, whether you want it or not. You will gain rather than lose functionality. Support and updates will continue just you have to use Studio. Standalone plugin support has been completely dropped. So we recommend simply using the adjustments in Studio to save your system resources from running multiple programs. All future plugin upgrades you will find in Studio. I have not yet used Topaz Studio to open any K1 "Pixel Shift" RAW files, so the jury is still out on how it handles Pixel Shift RAW files.įrom what I'm seeing now, this just might replace most of my need to use Adobe PhotoShop and Adobe Elements in my workflow.Your plugins will continue to work with a host editor like Photoshop or Lightroom. I saved it as a JPG file and also a TIFF file (268MB). I then opened a 42MB DNG K1 file and made some adjustments to it. I saved the adjusted image as a JPG file (30MB) and also as a TIFF file (102MB) - everything worked great. I opened and adjusted a 30MB PEF file I'd taken with my Pentax K3II camera. I played around this morning with a few of my Pentax RAW files. Fortunately, the Topaz website had saved all of my passwords for me. The first time I used each plugin I had to reload the password for it. I re-downloaded each one and installed them in the "Topaz Studio" file on my computer's hard drive. So the free download has only more basic features - but I would think most serious photographers would want to add to this free download a few of the "for sale" Topaz plugins.įortunately for me, I had purchased most of their plugins a few years back. The free Topaz Studio download does not include their popular plugins that they sell. Topaz Studio does offer layers, and layer masks. I downloaded it as a "STANDALONE" program and gave it a try. Today, Topaz announced a free, new, full-featured photo editing platform called " Topaz Studio".
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