![]() ![]() If you're like us, photos come out flatter than you’d like. Give your photos that extra natural pop.ĭo your photos look perfect straight out of the camera? Topaz Clarity uses intelligent contrast technology to give your photos more punch, completely naturally. The natural way to make your photos more powerful. Camera Straps & Accessories Sale - 20% Off.Today is the day that Topaz Labs releases Clarity, a new plugin for processing images. At some point today, Topaz Labs will release clarity to the public.Īnd I had the opportunity to beta test, attend a webinar on Clarity, and review the new plugin before the public could get their hands on a copy of this great tool. Normally I would summarize what a product does and the feature list, but doing that wouldn’t do this great product justice. So for the next few sections of the review, I quoted directly from Topaz Labs about this product can do. “Topaz Clarity is the ultimate tool to create compelling and powerful images by intelligently enhancing contrast and clarity with absolutely no artifacts or halos. ![]() Using a proprietary technology, Topaz Clarity effectively improves local contrast without halos or noise, giving you remarkable results with minimal effort.” Topaz Clarity Features With just a few clicks you can easily manipulate your micro, mid-tone and overall contrast, transforming your image from ordinary to extraordinary, while maintaining the natural feeling and tonality you are after. The results are compelling images with a very natural look.” Features include: “ Topaz Clarity uses proprietary technology that allows you to quickly and easily adjust various levels of contrast with no halos or artifacts. “Clarity Module- The Dynamics section of this module allows you to selectively adjust contrast in your image, without adding halos or artifacts, resulting in a very natural looking, yet compelling image. The contrast sliders range from micro to high, and refer to the original image contrast variations allowing you to increase or decrease the contrast in that specific variation. The highlight of this module is the ability to adjust mid-tone contrast quickly and easily, something that would normally take many steps to achieve. The Tone section gives you the ability to adjust the tone levels to retain a high range of tones in your image. It includes black, white, and mid-tone sliders that can bring back details in the shadows and highlights that would normally be lost with high contrast adjustments”. “HSL Module– Topaz Clarity is the first to use a quality enhancement method in the Hue, Saturation, and Luminance adjustment module, which can produce strong adjustments with much less artifacts and noise. It works by breaking your image into 8 different colors, giving maximum control over the colors in your image.” The HSL module allows you to selectively enhance specific colors in your image. “Advanced Masking Technology– We have incorporated several new features in the masking module to allow for more precise masking. You now have the ability to feather the mask and control the color range.Ĭlarity offers three different types of brushes normal, edge aware, and the new color aware. In addition, there is a separate mask for the Clarity module and the HSL module, which allows for much greater control of adjustment areas in your image.” You also have the option of choosing a gradient mask that includes linear, radial, and reflected types of gradients. “New User Interface– We are premiering a brand new user interface that is more intuitive, polished, and user friendly. As requested, both the navigator window and the buttons are larger and easier to view. The masking section is condensed, even with the addition of new masking features.” The modules themselves are streamlined for quicker and easier adjustments. This will enable photographers to quickly identify which presets would be most useful for their particular image.” Before Topaz Labs Clarity “Over 100 Presets– For the first time, we have categorized the presets by types of photography. ![]() The above image was taken with a Canon PowerShot Elph 100 HS in the morning in poor lighting. Since the little guy was so shy I couldn’t get a shot of her. But that wasn’t the point for this image. I took this image mainly to see what Topaz Clarity could do with it. I first imported the image into Adobe Lightroom and made a copy of the image so I can share a before and after styled example. I cleaned up the image and got the lighting and color the way I wanted it. After Topaz Labs ClarityĪfter I finished processing in Lightroom, I pulled the image into Clarity. I tried out a few of the presets and ended up using one of the presets designed for macro shots. I then adjusted the sliders until I came up with the above image. ![]()
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