![]() ![]() If you read the previous paragraph with some extra attention you'll understand the true meaning of it. Instead of just giving you a few cookie-cutter effects, Simplify gives you a powerful set of tools to create the art that only you can make." The marketing from Topaz Labs suggests that you can "create beautiful paintings from your photos with Topaz Simplify. They'll embellish it somehow, but do not make you a better photographer. Filters, be it the old Cokin filters so many misused, or those modern digital filters, are no way to transform a bad photograph into a master piece. I know my share of people who once they find filters like those included in the Topaz Simplify pack think they've found the Holy Grail for their stardom path. So, from my point of view, you have to be careful when you, as a photographer, want to use Topaz Simplify. ![]() Not understanding, that the worst compliment a photographer can have is to hear someone say "our photograph looks like a painting". And although he could not even do a straight line with a brush, he started to churn out image after image transformed into paintings, through Photoshop, happy to receive compliments from people who said, over and over, "nice. Suddenly he discovered all he wanted to be was a painter. I remember, years ago, before all this digital wizardry was possible, how a photographer I knew fell in love with the basic filters available in Photoshop. ![]() It is interesting, but as everything in life, it has to embraced with caution. The idea of creating paintings from your photographs may be the wrong one to assume. Instead of just giving you a few cookie-cutter effects, Simplify gives you a powerful set of tools to create the art that only you can make. Create beautiful paintings from your photos with Topaz Simplify. ![]()
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