Image 2: Sean McCormick’s LR5 Essential Development Preset Toolbox was used to apply his LR TB63 Tone Curve preset to the image in Lightroom. The technology has come a long way, but you have to thank Adobe and Photoshop for giving us the capability to have all this fun! So kudos to Adobe (in spite of all this Cloud mess) and kudos to all the plug-in companies that are now producing reasonably priced, inventive plug-ins for us Photoshop “nuts!”….Digital Lady Syd A while back it cost almost as much as Photoshop itself to get them, and now there are so many reasonable choices and so many incredible effects. I am constantly amazed at how far plug-ins have come in the past several years. That was it and you get this nice fairytale look!Īs you can see, there is definitely a very complimentary nature between these plug-ins, even though they are made by two totally different companies that use totally different methods to create the effects. (See my How to Use Those Handy Blend-If Sliders! blog.) A Layer Mask was added and areas that did not look like it fit in were painted out with a soft black brush. The This Layer black tab slider was split (ALT+click on tab) and set to 69/143. A stamped layer (CTRL+ALT_SHIFT+E) was created on top and this was what made the image really work – the Blend If sliders in the Layer Style. (See Digital Lady Syd Reviews Alien Skin Snap Art 3 blog for more on image settings.) I had created a preset that used the Raw Sienna Haze preset with several of the sliders adjusted to get this pleasant result (all the settings were lost). The Snap Art plug-in used the Impasto Landscape (Small Brush) preset. I really love how the two plug-ins together created this very painterly and sculpted look – it really makes me want to sit on the bench and enjoy the surroundings. I used this image previously in my Snap Art Review without the new Topaz ReStyle plug-in applied to it. The flower centers were once again made more sharp than the rest of the image by adding more Photorealism and small Brush Size to a Mask on the flowers. In Snap Art an Oil Paint (dry brush) saturated preset was applied. The flower centers were kept sharp by masking out the effect using the Basic section Mask. This image looks very soft since the Detail Structure slider was moved left. The Baby Blue and Pink preset was used in ReStyle. Just another example of how plain white flowers can be changed into a beautiful color palette and turned into a lovely oil effect. Not all the presets looked great, but the Teal Frost looked beautiful – no changes! It now has a beautiful winter feel – Amazing! The last step involved adding a New Layer and painting a frame around the image. ![]() I really liked the result – beautiful sketch – but it just did not have any real pizzazz! That’s when the image was opened in Topaz ReStyle. Three Layer Masks were created in the plug-in to direct the tone and focus throughout the image. The Landscape Charcoal preset was selected. Same image as the first one, but this time the original RAW file was converted to a black and white on a Virtual Copy in Lightroom using the Lightroom B&W GA Infrared 01 preset that turned this image into a fabulous looking shot to begin with! (Once again, just goes to show what a good image to start with can do.) I wanted to see what Snap Art’s Charcoal effect would look like since the Colored Pencil effect looked so nice. (See settings under Image 2 for more details.) In Alien Skin’s Snap Art 3 the Favorite section’s Oil Paint (thick brush) preset was applied followed by Topaz ReStyle’s Cream and Plum preset was selected. Above is a beautiful purple mum from a dacha in Belarus. This photo was from the countryside outside Minsk in Belarus – it was such an interesting and beautiful area to photograph. (The preset in Snap Art was Colored Pencil Landscape-More Coverage.) I also have to admit that the wonderful Topaz Clarity was added first to give me sharp edges for the pencil look. ![]() (The preset used was Leaking Red on Blue.) What I like about Snap Art is that it lets me try different mediums of art – I have never tried a colored pencil image, but I loved how the treatment worked with this image. For the above Topaz (see my Tidbits Blog for website link in sidebar) ReStyle was added first to get a gorgeous fall color palette that gives this image a totally awesome feel. I think they are a perfect match – both have creative aspects but emphasize different elements. Both of these plug-ins have captured my “inner creative me” so it seemed logical to try to combine them and see what happens. I did recent posts on my Fun Photoshop Blog called Digital Lady Syd Reviews Snap Art 3 and Digital Syd Reviews Topaz ReStyle. Get Great Results with Alien Skin Snap Art 3 and Topaz ReStyle Together!!
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