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Microstock Photography Forum - General => Software => Software - General => Topic started by: LesPalenik on May 11, 2014, 23:05

Title: Topaz Clean 3
Post by: LesPalenik on May 11, 2014, 23:05
Topaz Labs runs this month a promotion for Topaz Clean that can be used to smooth and clean portraits/faces, but you could use it also to control surface texture in other type of images.

The current promotion ($14.99 instead of regular $29.99) will run until May 31, 2014.
For more information or to purchase it at the reduced rate, use the link below:

Topaz Clean (http://www.topazlabs.com/aff/idevaffiliate.php?id=861&url=http://www.topazlabs.com/clean)

and enter "mayclean" as the discount code at the checkout to get 50% discount

I have to admit that I haven't used this program very much before. I tried it again recently, this time on an image of a large airplane and the program did a really good job of getting rid of the noise in the shadow areas and all kinds of scuff marks on the fuselage. You can see the Before and After examples on the Topaz Clean review on my blogsite:

http://advantica.wordpress.com/2014/05/10/topaz-clean-review/ (http://advantica.wordpress.com/2014/05/10/topaz-clean-review/) 

Another user reported that she uses it with a great effect on cleaning up fractal images. Not something I would think of, but apparently the program smoothes it nicely without loosing the fine details.
 
At this price, it's a simple and cheaper alternative to Topaz Simplify or Denoise plugins for cleaning up some images that could be otherwise rejected by the stock agency inspectors. As another possibility, if used with the Flat Style preset, the program creates a highly simplified version that could be used to generate a different variation of the original image - similar to some modes in their Simplify plugin.