Then in the Effect Mask tab, I lightly painted out the grill so as not to overdo the sharpening effect on it. On a +From Stack layer (composite), the new Detail 3 plugin setting using just the Large Detail set to 0.53 was selected. Back in photoFXlab, Adjustment tab settings using the Dynamics slider (my favorite), Sharpness, Highlights and Shadows were applied. The only change was to the Vignette which I centered on the car and adjusted the vignette sliders. (See my Digital Lady Syd’s Review of Topaz photoFXlab v1.1 blog.) Next the Black and White Effects plug-in (this plug-in does things like no other filter I have seen) and from the Opalotype Collection the Hand-Tinted Chiffon preset was applied. In Photoshop I went immediately into Topaz photoFXlab, their new plug-in interface that I love. I first started processing this image in Lightroom (see the RAW image below) with just the Basic sliders. If you look close at this guys face, you can see a slight smile – Detail really brought that out. Since I am such a big fan of Topaz anyway, I decided to use several of their plug-ins on this image from the 39th Annual Daytona Turkey Run Car Show, the largest in the US. All I can say is Love It! Love It! Love It! #Topaz detail photoshop upgradeThis upgrade was definitely needed – and what I like most is that you can now localize the detail. Detail 3 makes sharpening so much easier and gives several ways to adjust your sharpening to get the detail effect you want. (For Topaz website link see my Tidbits Blog sidebar.) To sharpen an image I usually use the High Pass filter, Unsharp Filter or convert to LAB and do localized sharpening on the L channel. The above was my first attempt at trying out Topaz Detail 3 and I am not disappointed.
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