On a recent comment, oneowner and I discussed Topaz’s Legacy plugins . . . which prompted me to play with a few I haven’t used in a while. The photos I used to play with the plugins were those of the recent bird post (HERE).
The first candidate was the Gray Catbird . . .
My aim was to transform photos into drawings. I think the above is me using Impression 2. I liked the results, so I continued.
I then grabbed a cardinal (a photo of one) . . .
That didn’t quite achieve the look I wanted, so I tried a few other settings.
That still missed the mark, so I kept trying . . .
Those were closer to what I envisioned, but not quite what I wanted, so I turned to Simplify 4 . . .
That looked too realistic, so I kept on playing . . .
I was getting closer . . . and then I got as close as I could to what I wanted.
I learned a few things . . . one, the photo you choose greatly influences the results. Two there are still options in those plugins that I’d not tried before.
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Excellent catbird and last two cardinals! Two thumbs up!
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Thanks, AnnMarie . . . yup; the Alpha and the Omega.
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I think you nailed it. Even some of your “fails” look very nice to me. It’s Tuesday, so I have a bucketful of Museum work to do. But maybe this weekend I’ll get a chance to play around. I’m not going to do any legacy updates untill I see what I have to work with now. Stand by…
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There really aren’t any Legacy updates per se. The final versions of the plugins are what they are.
Studio and Studio 2 incorporate many of the functions and you can purchase additional modules for stuff that’s missing from the free versions. The functions are sometimes the same as the plugins but more often than not, they are amalgamations of what has gone on before.
Think of it as a consolidation of various features, so rather than having 13 plugins each doing separate but sometimes overlapping things, you have fewer modules doing a combination of things.
I think that’s why they went away from the plugins and went with the standalone programs and Studio route.
By the way, I’m on their subscription model and, really, for what you get, it’s pretty good. Meaning, I think I get the value for the money, but your mileage might vary.
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YAY for trying and learning!
I think each and every one of them is great! Each very artistic and pretty!
I know I’ve said this many times before…but I do love how the “drawing”/ B&W look makes me focus on the details and I enjoy that! While the vibrant color photos are so beautiful, my eye goes first to the color/colors and sometimes that’s all I see.
(((HUGS))) 🙂
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Thank you, Carolyn.
I have so many tools that sometimes I forget I have some of them, and it’s a joy rediscovering them.
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That is very cool!
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