Topaz Studio The future of creative photo editing. Edit your images beautifully with powerful filters and frictionless masking in a fine-tuned non-destructive layer workflow. Topaz Studio 2 has only one purpose: creative photo editing. This starts after you select your image and ends when you export your finished work. Its designed specifically around the artisanal post-processing workflow of carefully crafting a single image to your vision. Studio is the editor to use when you want jaw-dropping images and you are not afraid to spend the time to get them.

   Its for creating works that push the bounds of your artistic vision; the few that you know you will look back upon in years as one of your best creations. Thats why you won’t find library management, design tools, batch editing, or other common image editor tools in Studio. Theres a lot of photo editors out there that help you manage your workflow and make minor contrast adjustments. Topaz Studio is not intended for that. If it doesn’t contribute to the vision of creating singularly beautiful images through post-processing, then we are not including it.

   1. Cutting edge filters.
   Most image editor tools are the same: your Exposure in one editor is the same Exposure in another. In Studio, we ave thought about what common adjustments would look like if they were designed today, and updated them to their most modern and useful forms.

   2. Powerful selection and masking.
   Very rarely do you want to apply the same effect to all parts of your image the same. Studio considers masking and selective adjustments to be a core task, and features several innovations that make selective editing substantially easier and faster for you.

   3. Fully non-destructive layers.
   Mix and match filters and effects with different blending modes and opacity. Everything that you do in Studio can be edited and adjusted after the fact with a fully non-destructive layer workflow.

   Cutting-edge and unique filters.
   You will find that these aren’t your everyday image editing filters as soon as you give them a try. Topaz Labs actually started off creating Photoshop filters. We have condensed our decade of specialized post-processing experience into a set of the most useful filters available only for Studio 2. Here are some of the most popular ones that you won’t find anywhere else.

   AI Clear
   This AI-powered tool can actually sharpen detail while removing noise. Give it a try on your own images to see why some photographers say that AI Clear is the best thing we have ever developed.

   Precision Contrast
   When was the last time that using the Contrast slider produced a breathtaking image? Chances are, it blew out highlights and crushed shadows in your image instead.

   Precision Detail
   Normal sharpening tools usually increase edge contrast, which just gives the appearance of sharpness but also adds artifacts and halos. Topaz Detail enhances natural detail that already exists in the image. This unique technology helps you naturally makes your photos look more three-dimensional and adds a sense of beautifully natural sharpness to your image.

   Black and White
   Turn your photos into exquisite monochrome images that will emotionally move your viewers. The Black and White filter uses a unique BW conversion engine that emphasizes tone and texture in order to help you get BW images that pop.

   Explore and create Looks to transform your image.
   Topaz Studio’s filters work well individually, but the true magic happens when they’re combined together. Topaz Studio 2 includes over 200 “Looks” (pre-built groups of filters) that help you explore different beautiful effects for your images with a single click.

   Texture
   Explore hundreds of beautiful texture and tone effects, hand-crafted by some of the best photographers in the world. With over 200 included one-click effects, each with the ability to blend with each other in various ways, the only limit is your imagination.

   Impression
   Capture the essence of your photos without being constrained by rigid detail. Topaz Impression helps you turn photos into paintings like a true artist would: by intelligently applying real brushstrokes to canvas.

   Glow
   Create beautiful light effects in your images to reveal the hidden life in each moment you capture. Apply a wide range of looks from a pleasing subtle diffusion to spectacular electric and neon effects.

   Built with real users in mind
   Topaz Studio 2 doesn’t do everything, but it is really good at what it does do. If you ever find yourself needing that extra something in your photos, please give it a try. You will be pleasantly surprised!

   Powerful selective adjustments and masking.
   Theres a big difference between masking for compositing vs. selective adjustments. Topaz Studio focuses entirely on selective adjustments, and we think of it as a central feature of the product instead of an add-on. As you will see, this led to many design decisions intended to shorten the amount of time you spend refining your mask, like including edge awareness in each masking tool in Studio.

   Brush Tool
   Select different parts of your image by painting directly on it. Topaz Studios brush is edge aware by default. This means you can quickly paint over your selection without having to worry too much about staying between the lines. This is the fastest and most direct way to selectively apply an effect to your image.

   Spot Tool
   Emphasize a certain subject in your photo with the edge-aware spot tool. The spot tool is a quick way to draw attention to a certain subject in your your image. Since it is edge- and color-aware, you don’t need to worry about refining your mask too much.

   Gradient Tool
   Gradually level off your effect with the gradient tool. Topaz Studios gradient tool is unique in that its also adjustably context-aware, which creates much better masking experience. Its like having a graduated neutral density filter that also knows how to tell between foreground and background.

   Color Tool
   Create a mask targeted at the different colors in your image. This is probably the easiest masking tool to use: just click on your image with the eyedropper and this will automatically select the correct parts of your image. Great to selectively apply effects to just a single color range in your image.

   Luminance Tool
   Create a mask targeted at different brightness levels in your image. This tool will get you a perfect selection very quickly in images with a clear separation in brightness between subject and background. Also great for selectively adjusting highlights, shadows, or anything in between.

   Fully non-destructive layers.
   Layers are essential for creative post-processing because they allow you to apply effects in unlimited ways to your image. Lets walk through an example workflow that illustrates what you can do with them.

Whats new in Topaz Studio v 2

   Fix
   – No longer crashes on Mac when coming from Lightroom or opening certain TIFFs
   – No longer crashes when closing or opening an image after viewing Flare presets
   – Added a missing cancel button when using the open file dialog with unsaved changes
   – Recent file menu should now go away after you select a file
   – Crop overlay will no longer stick around if you click the crop button to cancel
   – Auto-located stars moving in some cases has been fixed
   – Flare presets have been cleaned so they no longer include their own star positions
   – Flare presets will now respect your chosen auto locate setting instead of applying their own
   – Made removal of stars more forgiving, so you don’t need to be as precise on large images
   – The dropdown accept option in plugin mode should now work as intended