Precision Contrast AdjustmentĪs you can see the Clarity Dynamics section from the Topaz Labs Clarity plug-in is now called the Precision Control Adjustment. See image below for an example of the bird as it looked in Clarity for Studio (click to see large view Flickr). By selecting Clarity, an interface very similar to Topaz Studio will appear that contains two adjustments, Precision Control and HSL Color Tuning. In Photoshop, the new Clarity update will now be linked as Clarity in Topaz Studio (Filters -> Topaz Studio -> Clarity) instead of in the regular Topaz Labs individual plug-ins. Topaz does a great job of walking you through this new process on the Topaz Studio website. If you have Studio already running, just go to the website to find the Clarity update by clicking this link. Instead it will be updated in Studio (to download go to my Tidbits Blog sidebar and for more info check out my see my Introducing the Free Topaz Studio blog) before adding the Clarity update. Before going any further, please be aware that Topaz is not going to update the actual Topaz Labs version if you own it.

The Heron above was not processed very much in Lightroom, all in Clarity Topaz Studio and a little in Nik Viveza to adjust the light on the birds head and wing tip. It is now much improved over an already excellent filter that is one of the best Photoshop plug-ins around. This week Topaz released an update to their very popular Clarity plug-in and it is a really nice upgrade.

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