In the image above see for the Colour Burst preset that Basic Adjustment, Texture and Vignette have been used. See the following imageĮach preset will load with a different set of adjustments depending on what has been used to create the preset. See the following image for some examples which come up in a grid view.īy clicking the box with lines in it in the preset preview you are taken to the Adjustments in a column on the right. I have selected one of the 150 presets which is called Colour Burst.īy clicking the dropdown you can narrow down the presets into categories as follows –Īn alternative to the built in presets is to click Browse in the top right menu to get one of a growing category of Topaz Community Effects. In the following picture the main screen is shown. To make Texture Effects available for any compatible program as a plugin all you need to do is run it once as a standalone program. For Elements and Photoshop go to filters and select Topaz Texture Effects. When used as a plugin open the picture in your program, do a duplicate layer if you have that facility. Used as a standalone program you bring a picture into Texture Effects by browsing or drag and drop. The first image shown below is the original before any editing. Another of my images image taken at the same location but looking in the opposite direction was shown on a local TV Station and after being chosen as their Facebook Cover Photo for a week gained 9000 likes. The main image I tried it out on was taken a few weeks ago at a pathway under a tunnel of trees. All the editing was done just using the standalone program.

Rather than use the standard Topaz Press images for a demo I decided to play around with some of my own images. Another method is to use opacity of the layer you apply the effect on if your program has layers. This allows for quick masks to remove the effect from part of the picture. A very useful feature is a brush tool when you get to editing the effect.

If you dislike anything stronger than mild processing of photos the effects can be dialed down substantially using opacity settings. I have no problems but I do have 16GB of RAM. One point to note is that as with any image editing software it will work better and faster with a high quality system. Texture Effects can either be used as a standalone program or can be accessed as a plugin in: It is worth taking a look with a free 30 day trial. I really like discovering software which can create amazing effects in minutes rather than the hours it would take to do the same in Photoshop. It is available as a standalone program or as a plugin and for Windows or Mac.

I have had for a few days now a Review copy of the latest software from Topaz which is Topaz Texture Effects released for sale on Tuesday 10 th November.

Topaz Texture Effects Review and Tutorial

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