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Recently I have been starting to work with the Topaz processing program, and they are going to be a nice addition to my Nik Software program. I can see already that I will sometimes combine the two programs on an image.
Here is an image that I had done some earlier processing on, but wasn’t happy with the look, so gave up on it for a while.
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I started to work with some of the Topaz programs and and really liking the Topaz Simplify 4. This program can transform your photo into a variety artistic styles including paintings, sketches and cartoon line drawings. I especially like the variety oil painting filters. I used one of the oil painting filter to give this image a soft painted look on the needles, which I liked.
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Next step I went into my Nik Software’s Color Efex Pro and used the Detail Extractor with the Fine selection. This would have been way to detailed had it been applied to the original image, but with the softened details from the Topaz Oil Painting, the Detail Extractor work very well at adding some details back in. I then softened down the saturation a little in Nik Software’s Viveza program.
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