![]() ![]() Paint volume: How thick does the paint look.Number of strokes: High, medium, and low.Bush: There are currently 17 different bush options.The real power of impression is not evident until you start using these controls. Impression has a cornucopia of controls, and each control can be customized by applying the look, selecting the Impression layer, and then clicking on the down arrow. Below the name is the Impression layer where the look controls are. Studio 2 uses layers, and the selected Impression look name appears in the upper right. Impression has a number of presets (called looks), including chalk, charcoal, colored pencil, da Vinci drawing, Degas, Edward Hooper, Impressionist, palette knife, Pointillism, Renoir, pencil, sketch, van Gough, watercolor, and other effects. It is important to download and test this program prior to purchase. Topaz Studio 2 is frequently updated, and the below description may not reflect the state of the product when you read this. Topaz Studio 2 is resource intensive and it has minimum hardware and OpenGL requirements. Topaz Studio 2 can be run as a stand-alone product or as a Photoshop plug-in. It is a very powerful and highly customizable tool for transforming photos and other images into a wide variety of digital artworks, such as drawings and paintings. ![]() If something gets out of hand, you simply have to delete the offending layer and move on.Previously a separate product, Impression has just been merged with Topaz Studio 2, a powerful full-featured photo editor. When you make changes to an image, X2 creates a new layer and leaves the original layer alone. Further to that, images can be saved as Photoshop files with the PSD extensions and various color spaces (sRGB, Adobe RGB, etc.)Īnother feature I must expound upon is Exposure X2’s changes to a Photoshop file are non-destructible. Personally, I find this to be the selling point as a stand alone image editor. Like Photoshop, Exposure X2 has the ability to create layers. In black and white I always go Ilford HP5 400 my stalwart favorite film in the 1970’s. I think Kodak Kodachrome is still my favorite solution for a drab image. I have to admit I found myself opening an image in Exposure X2 to find a solution for an image that was not going my way. I have seen some amazing results by artists and photographers who specialize in this area. Only recently have I began to appreciate the movement towards replicating analog film. The retro-analog presets are the selling points for Exposure X2. I was able to import my Nikon NEF files and make changes as I would expect from Adobe Bridge, but with the inclusion of the various presets and analog film settings, I feel like this might be a viable if not a creative alternative. It lacks the catalog management of Lightroom, but making adjustments to multiple images is as simple as selecting several images at a time.Īs far as Raw files, Exposure makes for an interesting bridge program and camera firmware simulator. After opening a collection of images, I couldn’t help but make comparisons to Adobe Lightroom. Photoshop has had the benefit of decades to create the accepted icons for its editing tools, whereas Exposure X2 has to be straightforward with labels.įinding the file manager takes a second. On a large Mac with a 27 inch screen, this is less of an issue. On smaller screens it crowds out the image with oversized menus and file management strips. One of the downsides of Exposure X2 is the small editing window. A bit of hunting around and workflow begins to get the rhythm. A new photographer might find the interface perplexing. Starting Exposure X2 from Launch Pad or from Photoshop, the interface is both familiar but still cluttered. ![]()
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