I got the upgrade for free and this guarantee is true with all their plug-ins. And the guarantee that you are will receive free upgrades – this is a no-brainer in my opinion. Price! Price! Price! This program has all the features of the other programs and is a great value if you are not specializing in black and white photography.

For more info on the image processing, see Image 1 at end of blog.ġ. The final step in the program was to set the Overall Transparency slider to 0.35. Only the Color brush was not used above, which can really give an image a very special effect. A Detail brush was used to paint over the cups, a Smooth brush was applied to the reddish hanging jacket and white sack, a Burn brush was added over the white sack to tone it down a bit, and a Dodge brush was used on the top cup to make it show up a little more. In Local Adjustments, several different brushes can be applied to the image at different overall strengths. The Adaptive Exposure slider was increased to 0.16 and the Regions was changed to 15.10 – these two sliders are usually where all the Topaz magic occurs when adjusting image exposure. In the Basic Exposure section only the Contrast and Brightness was changed slightly. The Traditional Collection’s Warm Tool II preset was used as a starting point. The image above shows an example of how I like to use this plug-in. It has a cleaner interface that is more in line with Lightroom (which I think has the best interface of any program) and its competitors. It now supports very clear large thumbnail views of the large number of presets (over 200) that come with the program. I loved the original version so to me the newer release is just a better and updated version of the original. When I am stuck on what to do with an image and nothing seems to look right, I can almost always find the answer in Black & White Effects – it never ceases to amaze me what it can do with an image! The actual black and white effect creates very good results also. And black and white treatments are not the first thing I think about when using this plug-in – I think creative expression (as you can see by this and my related blog posts). It is a very easy way to adjust the tones and color effects without having to do more manipulation later in Photoshop, which is usually required with other black and white plug-ins. Behind Topaz Detail 3 and DeNoise 3, plug-ins I consider essential for any image, Topaz (for website link see my Tidbits Blog sidebar) Black & White Effects is my next most used Topaz plug-in – even more than Adjust. I first reviewed this plug-in with its initial release back in my Topaz B&W Effects Plug-In – A Real Winner! blog where I cover lots of things I still like about this plug-in. Digital Lady Syd Reviews Topaz Black & White Effects 2.1

Topaz texture effects v1.0.1