Right away the image I am working on looks pretty good. I go in and automatically Apply the Look. My Look is saved in a Look Category called My Looks and contains only ones I created since Topaz Studio 2 was introduced. This could get long but here we go – wish the Community was available for downloading it. See how there are 8 filters included and two additional filters added on top (Color Theme and Edges again). Augustine from 1906) where a screenshot of the settings was taken as they appear in Studio. The screenshot shows a different image I am working on (a B&W Shorpy image called Cathedral Place at Charlotte Street, Plaza de la Constitucion, St. Topaz Studio Basic Looks Settings for these Images And always do your Topaz Studio changes on a duplicate layer since it does not support Smart Objects. Go to Image -> Image Size and set Resolution to 300 ppi – the size can go really crazy like 0.5 X 0.7 inches so uncheck Resample, next look at the sizes and change if needed, then recheck Resample before exiting – the image will downsize and upsize just fine in PS. IMPORTANT: With old images, the size and resolution needs to be reviewed first – most have resolutions like 3200 pixels/inch since they were probably scanned. See Image 1 (Cowboys Image) for all the details on how this image totally post-processed. The top image is called “ Cowhands Singing after Day’s Work” – Quarter Circle U Ranch roundup in June 1939 – thank you Shorpy for finding this gorgeous image! (If you love historical images, you have got to check out Shorpy.) Click the link to see the original black and white image. Therefore, I will share the settings below so if you want to create the Topaz Studio basic Look and save it, you are welcome to use it. I would post it to their community, but I do not believe they are doing this at the moment. That is what I did with a Look I call my SJ BW to Painted Color. And these Looks are saved just like a Filter preset is saved so it can be used over several times. The really cool thing is that each filter in the Look can be manipulated individually and additional filters can be added to get an effect. Looks can contain many different filters so different results can be achieved.
#INVERT COLORS TOPAZ STUDIO HOW TO#
I have blogged several times on how to colorize black and whites (see end of blog for lots of links), but with a few of the Topaz Studio filters, very nice painting effects can be achieved fairly quickly.Īll the blog images used a Studio “Look” to get the colored effect. While playing with Topaz Studio 2 recently, I discovered several filters that could be combined to create very colorful and painterly looking images out of black and white ones. HOW TO CONVERT BLACK AND WHITE IMAGES TO COLORFUL PAINTINGS WITH TOPAZ STUDIO 2Īs most of you know, I have been working on learning to paint in both Photoshop and Corel for a long time – it is a very challenging process and sometimes I do resort to using my favorite Topaz (for website link see my Tidbits Blog sidebar) filters to use with my paintings.
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