Unique Tone Control: Utilizing Topaz' IntelliColor technology, overall image tones can more effectively be balanced to realize a more natural appearance.Sharpening procedures have been refined in order to prevent halos or other common sharpening artifacts in order to realize a more natural image quality.
Effect Mask: Detailing can be brushed in or out using the selection tools in the Effect Mask tab and edge-aware masking enables precise selections to be made for greater control.Improved Functionality: A refined design enables Detail to run more quickly and handle larger image sizes more effectively.Enhanced Detail Control: Each image is broken down into three levels of detail separation, as well as three levels of tonal separation in order to allow for more precise overall, highlight, and shadow detail adjustment.Working to produce more vivid detailing within imagery, Detail is a tool designed to enhance the look of imagery by intelligently isolating specific details of an image and selectively enhancing them in order to create a more contrast-rich, sharper-appearing image with maintained exposure detail throughout. Over 200 effects from eight different collections can be applied when converting an image from color to black and white, and include: Traditional, for classically-styled black and white effects Toned, for adding differently colored tones or tints to images like copper, gold, selenium, sepia, and antique Stylized, which combines traditional black and white images with creative effects like diffusion, cartoon, paint, multi-tone, and more Cyanotype, which mimics the cyanotype printing process to give a rich blue hue to images Albumen, for adding a range of traditional colorings to images, from purple to chocolate brown, to simulate the look of albumen printing techniques Platinum, which gives warm blacks and silvery whites with an especially notable tonal range or Opalotype, which is reminiscent of printing onto translucent white sheets of glass and then hand-tinting or coloring imagery.Artistic styles, vignetting, and border effects can be added to imagery to further refine the overall appearance.To give images a more authentic or nostalgic appearance, popular film grain styles can be applied to images to simulate the look of scanned film types.Tonal contrast is a core feature of the plug-in and helps to produce blacker blacks and whiter whites, with an extensive range of mid-tones.
Additionally, most of these plug-ins can be used in conjunction with the following host programs: Adobe Photoshop CS, Photoshop CC, Photoshop Elements, Photoshop Lightroom, Apple Aperture, iPhoto, Corel PaintShop Pro, PhotoImpact, Serif PhotoPlus, and IrfanView, with some also capable of working as standalone applications themselves.ĭesigned to expedite and enhance the entire process of converting an image to black and white B&W Effects presents a complete range of controls for maintaining high image quality with a rich tonal and contrast range.
photoFXlab is also included as a standalone means for accessing and implementing the features afforded by most of these plug-ins. This item includes all of Topaz Labs' editing plug-ins on one convenient DVD, and includes Adjust, B&W Effects, Clarity, Clean, DeJPEG, DeNoise, Detail, Glow, Impression, InFocus, Lens Effects, ReMask, ReStyle, Simplify, Star Effects, and Texture Effects. The Topaz Photography Collection from Topaz Labs LLC addresses nearly all aspects of a post-production digital workflow and is comprised of 16 dedicated editing modules, as well as an intuitive standalone navigational application, to perform some of the most frequently desired editing procedures used today.