This prevented the adjustment from affecting the WHITEs and the middle tones. With the WHITEs beautifully bright but the dark tones a bit too dark to fit with the painterly look, I pulled up the curve at the dark end after pinning the WHITEs with four dots right on the line from the middle to the upper right. See immediately below for a Curves lesson.Ĭurves adjustment to bring up the dark tonesĬurves Adjustment to Bring Up the Dark Tones As I wanted to open up the middle and dark tones only, I applied a Curves adjustment after the image opened in Photoshop. I was thrilled with the artistic, painterly rendition so I simply hit OK. Under COLLECTIONS I clicked on BuzSim and then clicked on the first item in the list of PRESETS, appropriately named BuzSim. Once I installed the program I opened the original image in Photoshop, hit Filter > Topaz Labs > Topaz Simplify 4. When I created the original pelican image below, I knew that it was perfect for BuzSim so I bit the bullet and got ahold of the licenses for a slew of Topaz products. I have been intrigued by Topaz Simplify BuzSim images for years. Topaz Simply BuzSim breeding plumage Brown Pelican head portrait Please remember that if you are shopping for items that we carry in the BAA Online Store (as noted in red at the close of this post below) that we would appreciate your business 🙂 Your doing so is always greatly appreciated. For best results use one of our many product-specific links after clicking on one of those you can continue shopping with all subsequent purchases invisibly tracked to BAA. As always–and folks have been doing a great job recently–please remember to use our B&H links for your major gear purchases. Today’s blog post marks 133 days in a row with a new educational blog post. I had my pre-op chest x-ray done after lunch. I had a private client on Thursday morning and we were blessed with wonderful light and pelicans, a displaying Brandt’s Cormorant, and my first Elegant Tern on digital.

Topaz simplify 3 settings