![]() There, on the left, some awesome skin presets, cartoon presets, crisp presets, and stylized edges presets. The photo below shows the actual plugin look. Using some default filters from the Filter Gallery of Photoshop and this plugin from Topaz Labs called Topaz Clean, and wow! great and easiest way to do it and other filters in there to not just make your photo with cartoon effect but also some presets with realistic effects. So, I searched high and low and found this one great easy way to get a photo with cartoon effect. When a friend posted it on his social media, some of his friends wanted one too. Let’s be honest, as a beginner, using the pen tool is making you real mad. So, my problem then was, how to create cartoon effect for photos? I’ve searched through the University of Youtube to find ways and saw this one tutorial using the Pen tool. ![]() So, this friend thought like “hey! can you get a cartoon effect photo of me?”, well, to be honest, I really don’t know how to yet but I said yes. We know, doing a lot of manual editing from the said tools will give the image a more unrealistic effect, in which, you don’t want to happen. But, I wanted my photos to look more realistic. Of course, you can do that with the Photoshop tools like dodge, burn, spot healing brushes and all that. UPDATE: I just got word from Larry Becker (NAPP’s Executive Director) that NAPP members get 25% off Topaz plug-ins (check the member web site for details).As I have a huge passion for portrait editing, I’ve always thought, if only there’s something I can do to get the skin texture more smooth and more detailed. Here’s a link for more details on the new Topaz Adjust 4. While I can nit pick some of this little stuff (both of which really just make me kind of chuckle), you can’t argue with the quality it produces the ease of how it does it’s thing, and the incredible value for the price if you’re buying the plug-in for the first time (and of course, if you’re already a registered user, the upgrade is free). Those two minor things aside, this is a big step ahead for Topaz in refining and expanding their plug-ins. If my teenage son read that, he’d say “Duh!” Secondly, it goes on to tell the user that when you’re done with filter click OK or Cancel. I’m not sure it’s necessary to reinforce that. OK, so, ‘Why?” I just chose Topaz Adjust 4 from the Filter menu in Photoshop, so I was pretty sure the next thing that would appear was the Topaz plug-in. When you launch the plug-in from Photoshop’s filter menu, the dialog you see below appears: So, when I’m done editing I keep going over to click where OK should be, but instead it says “I feel lucky.” At that moment, I don’t feel lucky. Instead of putting it in the bottom right hand corner of the window (where everything from phone numbers in print ads to OK buttons usually wind up, simply because that’s where we’ve all be trained to look for them since just after birth), instead it appears below the center preview window. I do love the new interface-a huge improvement over the old one, but there are two little things that are driving me a little crazy (but, of course, these may just bother me-you may not bat an eye), but to me it seems like they stuck the “OK” button in the wrong place. So far, I agree with everything, except on my machine the stability part isn’t 100% there yet, as it does occasionally crash, but I imagine a bug fix will be on the way soon. …includes many new presets, the ability to handle larger images, a new user interface, faster noise reduction, and greater stability. Here’s what the gang at Topaz says is new 4: I use the Topaz Adjust 3 plug-in quite a bit, and this upgrade (which is free to existing customers, which is awesome) is a big step in the right direction. That’s not a criticism-you open it and you immediately know how to get around, and how things will work, and that’s not a bad thing. In fact, if you use Lightroom plug-in version of Topaz Adjust 4, you might not even realize you’ve left Lightroom, as the layout is so similar. ![]() Earlier this week I got my hands on the latest version of one of my favorite plug-ins, Topaz Adjust, which now sports a clean, new very, very, very Lightroom-like interface.
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