CARTOON HDR PRESET TOPAZ DETAIL PRO
CARTOON HDR PRESET TOPAZ DETAIL SOFTWARE

This image uses a lot of different filters and textures. Since the background was not too exciting, I decided to give him a little more holiday spirit by both painting and adding several filters. I decided I needed to practice some painting so I picked this funny guy who sort of waltzed into my shot. This bird is a Masked Lapwing that was photographed at the Palm Beach Zoo. And as always, it was a lot of fun to do!….Digital Lady Syd On another stamped layer Nik Viveza 2 was applied and just a little bit of vignetting was added along with a little work on the nose and mouth. On separate layers above lots of painting with PS was done to add my own painting flair. Then created a stamped layer (CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+E) on top so it can be taken back into Topaz Impression 2. Topaz has several nice textures in their blog that can be downloaded if a nice one is needed. Next Artiste Old Master texture from French Kiss (see sidebar for website link) was placed underneath the dog layer. Again the layer was duplicated and following the Topaz blog, the image was taken into Topaz Impression 2 where the Cartoon Your Critter preset was downloaded from the Community.

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(I think the results depend totally on the image IMHO, so if you do not like the results of one, try the other.) I did not like the results Topaz Simplify gave to this image, so Lucis Pro 6.0.9 (unfortunately no longer available) was applied on a duplicate layer of just the selected dog. So how did I get to this point? Well I used Topaz (see sidebar for website link) ReMask, but I also tried Photoshop’s Mask and Select, which gave a great result too, just to see which is is better. I did not follow the steps exactly since my image is not really a cartoon effect, but I liked the final results. This time she let me take a few images of her, so I thought I would take advantage of this photo and try out a recent Topaz blog called Cartoon Your Critter – Make Your Pet a Work of Art by Taylor Seaton. Her name is Kaila and I get to play with her every now and then when she is on one of her neighborhood walks.

In any case, I recently tested one such program, DxO’s FilmPack 3.1, to see if it offered up creative variations that could be used as is or as foundation images when interpreting subjects and scenes.This is one of the cutest puppies I think I have ever seen.

CARTOON HDR PRESET TOPAZ DETAIL SOFTWARE

Perhaps using film names is better than poetic fantasy terms, like “misty blue dawn,” but then again entirely subjective descriptors, rather than supposedly clinical ones used in these software programs, might be just as handy for today’s photography crowd. Half academic and half nostalgic, the programs use film brand names to describe saturation, contrast, color nuance, and grain structure variations that are then applied to an image. The question is-does anybody really know what a given image would look like if they shot it on Kodachrome 25, or Fuji Acros, or some obscure color negative film that even in film’s heyday was little used or appreciated? Perhaps the more pertinent question is-how many people have made photographs using film? But film references are what a number of so-called film emulation software programs use for describing presets that can be applied to a digital image.

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