3/19/2023 0 Comments Using topaz clarity in lightroomTopaz Studio, on the other hand, doesn’t require Photoshop to run the app. In fact, Topaz Studio is a stand-alone app that works without Photoshop or Lightroom. In a way, Topaz Studio is an image editing app of its own. If you already have Photoshop then you’ll be able to connect Topaz Studio with Photoshop to effortlessly edit and enhance photos quicker than ever. Since Topaz Studio is a standalone app, it works faster than an ordinary Photoshop plugin as well. But, Photoshop is not required to use Topaz Studio. If you’re a fan of customizing and experimenting with effects of your own, you’ll certainly fall in love with Topaz Studio. The app allows you to create custom effects of your own and save them for later. When you’re connected to the internet, these custom effects will sync to your Topaz Studio account to let you access your custom effects through any device you own. Topaz Studio provides a workflow devoted entirely to creative photo post-processing. Topaz Studio has only one purpose: creative photo editing. This starts after you select your image and ends when you export your finished work. It’s designed specifically around the artisanal post-processing workflow of carefully crafting a single image to your vision. Studio is the editor to use when you want jaw-dropping images and you’re not afraid to spend the time to get them. It’s for creating works that push the bounds of your artistic vision the few that you know you’ll look back upon in years as one of your best creations.Howdy, everybody. It’s a new year - lots of new Lightroom users coming on board these days, and so I thought I’d kick this week off with how I think about “Clarity” (more precisely, the Clarity slider in Lightroom Classic or CC). Here’s a bit more in-depth on it, including a tweak I do to get better results: I think of it’s as the “detail enhancer.” If I want to bring out texture our detail, I know it’s the slider to reach for. Here’s our original image (it’s a stock photo from Adobe Stock). STEP ONE: If I see an image like this which has a lot of texture (the street, the sidewalks, the bricks on the buildings, the metal railings, etc.) I reach for the Clarity Slider to enhance the detail and texture. I cranked it up a lot here (I dragged it over to +74), which works for images that have a lot of hard edges like this. You couldn’t get away using this much on images that have people in them - it makes them look kinda bruised and dirty. You’ll know if you’ve got too far is you start to see dark halos appear around the edges of things in your image. Here I was able to crank it up big time, because of the nature of the image. STEP TWO: Let’s zoom in (Press Command-+ on Mac or Ctrl-+ on Windows) and then look at a before and after view (press the letter “y” on your keyboard to get to this side-by-side view). The original is on the left, and the version with added Clarity is on the right. One side-effect of applying Clarity is that it tends to make your midtones darker (after all, what clarity does is add Midtone Contrast). STEP THREE: My fix for the midtones looking darker is to (wait for it…wait for it…) brighten the midtones dragging the Exposure slider to the right a bit, usually between +20 (as I did here) to +30, but of course, as always (say it with me now), “It just depends on the image.” You may be totally cool with that, and depending on the image, I often like how those darker midtones look after applying a bunch of Clarity, but if you don’t like how it looks, then go on the next step. Well, there ya have it - short and sweet. I hope that helps those of you who might be hesitant about using Clarity, or maybe you’re hesitant about using a lot of Clarity, but when you use it on the right type of image, it can really make a big difference. Hope you found that helpful (and if you did, let me know in the comments, so I can do more tutorials like this). However, I love using Lightroom and Photoshop for edits and Adjustments.It’s a new year, full of opportunities and possibilities, and here’s wish you lots of both. I'm currently using Adjust, Clarity, Detail, Clean, Remask & Glow as trial versions and I really like the their interfaces and I love what they can all do for my photos. For those of you who use Topaz plugins with Lightroom & or Photoshop, I was wondering what your workflow looks like?
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