The brush tool has really been improved – it does not crash my system if too many strokes are made too quickly. I inverted it and used the Brush tool to just paint back the bird.
Lightroom topaz clarity plus#
I did not want the background to appear crisp, so by clicking on the plus sign on the upper right of the adjustment, a layer mask is opened. In the screenshot below, you can see the Precision Control mask created for this image. So there really is a major benefit to using the upgraded version in Clarity for Studio. Not sure I understand how these setting work exactly yet, but the website does a good job of telling what they do.īy using the Studio interface, each adjustment can be masked, different blend modes applied, and opacity adjusted. Three new sliders have been added: Details (to help recover detail lost from increasing the brightness of the different color or whole image), Suppress Artifacts (to remove rough and unnatural edges and helps reduce artifacts to reduce detail), and Color Sensitivity (set higher to add saturation in the whites and grays in surrounding image). Also some presets are in a drop-down (Extreme Hue I and II, Increase Cool, Increase Warm, Red Cool, Red Warm, Subtle Hue I and II). Not a lot different other than each color has individual sliders where the color is shown in the image, and a Gray Color is available. The second part of the original Clarity was called Hue/Sat/Lum and now is called HSL Color Tuning. Hopefully Topaz will address this situation in a future update. The good news is that there is a field for searching for your presets if you can remember what you named them. Unfortunately at this time there are no subcategories so one long list of presets occurs – I cannot seem to figure out a logical order to them and my personal presets are all over the place. All your original Clarity presets are migrated over.
There are also presets on the left side which I did not use for this image. This image shows settings for the Color Detail preset. The Preset drop-down has several choices for setting up these sliders (Balance, Brighter, Brightness, Color Detail, Color Boost, Details, HDR, Little Things, Reduce Shadows, Saturation Boost, and Sharp). Also there are Equalization buttons (low, medium, or high) which are supposed to emulate the Region technology in Topaz Adjust. Some of the feathers on the bird are crazy sharp! The Lighting section sliders are better at detecting the Shadows, Midtones and Highlights – these appear to be derived from the original Toning Section Black Level, Midtones, and White Levels sliders.
Lightroom topaz clarity update#
The Contrast section contains the original Micro, Low, Medium and High Contrast sliders but the website says they are now much improved – I believe they are after using the update on the bird image. Precision Contrast AdjustmentĪs you can see the Clarity Dynamics section from the Topaz Labs Clarity plug-in is now called the Precision Control Adjustment.
See image below for an example of the bird as it looked in Clarity for Studio (click to see large view Flickr). By selecting Clarity, an interface very similar to Topaz Studio will appear that contains two adjustments, Precision Control and HSL Color Tuning. In Photoshop, the new Clarity update will now be linked as Clarity in Topaz Studio (Filters -> Topaz Studio -> Clarity) instead of in the regular Topaz Labs individual plug-ins. Topaz does a great job of walking you through this new process on the Topaz Studio website. If you have Studio already running, just go to the website to find the Clarity update by clicking this link.
Lightroom topaz clarity download#
Instead it will be updated in Studio (to download go to my Tidbits Blog sidebar and for more info check out my see my Introducing the Free Topaz Studio blog) before adding the Clarity update. Before going any further, please be aware that Topaz is not going to update the actual Topaz Labs version if you own it. The Heron above was not processed very much in Lightroom, all in Clarity Topaz Studio and a little in Nik Viveza to adjust the light on the birds head and wing tip. It is now much improved over an already excellent filter that is one of the best Photoshop plug-ins around. This week Topaz released an update to their very popular Clarity plug-in and it is a really nice upgrade.
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