Mac
by sfmorris

Comment:
Powerful looking portrait of your horse.

I've found the best way (that I have found so far) of avoiding the banding in the sky is to first do noise reduction on the sky with some other tool that handles solid areas better. I create a duplicate layer and run a heavy NR pass on it, then often add a little gaussian blur as well. erase through and merge. That smooths out the sky better and the Topaz NR then creates less halos and banding.

canada-geese
by sfalice

Comment:
Not an obvious use of Topaz, but you've done with it what I have used PSP's clarify adjustment until now. Just using it to give the photo some visual pop. Nicely done and cute duckies geesies.

Message edited by author 2009-05-01 21:33:59.

Graffiti in the back alley
by bmartuch

Comment:
My eyeballs have been ripped out of their sockets, and are now lying on the keyboard! Excellent subject to use Topaz on.

Media Bull...
by awpollard

Comment:
An udderly fascinating bovine behind.

-oil-derrick-
by sfalice

Comment:
No longer a photograph, but very pleasing. I can see something like this used in an advertisement or presentation for the oil industry.

I think what I may start doing, is when I get an effect I like, save it as a preset, so I can reproduce it and figure out what I did.

Message edited by author 2009-05-01 09:17:21.

Gelati-Maker
by BAMartin

Comment:
Gives it a lot of pop, but still looks natural. I might not have recognized this as Topaz, though I would have recognized some tweaking went into it.

Missing Entity
by angkokweng

Comment:
Wow! First ribbon in a relatively short amount of time on the site! Congrats!

The Face in the Sea
by colorcarnival

Comment:
Whoa! Huge difference!

IMG_9703fence-crop.jpg
by Bear_Music

Comment:
Really brings out those patterns of the sand. Textures galore!

Abandoned
by bmartuch

Comment:
Overboard worked well on this. I see a little of that tell-tale halo effect. I get it with PSP's clarify as well. Maybe during the actual SC we can figure some way to minimize that.