Using this software, is just a matter of outlining your subject. The software does the rest and gives you a head start in perfecting the mask.Īnd don’t worry if you are dependent on Photoshop to edit your photos. Topaz Mask AI integrates seamlessly with Photoshop. While you’re working in Photoshop, you can easily open the image in Topaz Mask AI through the Filter menu, and once you’re done with the mask in Mask AI, you can again have it open and ready in Photoshop. This way you don’t have to jump between applications manually. The apps play very well together to make your work so much easier. Topaz creates products by talking to users, finding their problems, and solving them. If editing is taking you too long then check out Topaz Studio 2 (see our review here). ![]() It’s a one-payment full photo editing suite that allows some very quick and powerful edits. Topaz Mask AI uses the concept of trimap for masking. You can tell what regions you want to keep by painting it green. To indicate what you want to cut out, fill it with red. And outline the edges of your subject with blue. But there are not that many around anymore.Īdobe is not making the life of plug-in makers easy by constantly modifying the UI or structure so the plug-ins won't work anymore or by incorporating their idea/plug-in into their own product.In my experience, you’d really want to be careful when using the blue brush. 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. Your plugins will continue to work with a host editor like Photoshop or Lightroom.
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