Archive for March 2011

With Topaz Labs Simplify, you get to be an artist creating beautiful imagery that blends the line between photograph and painting! With Simplify, you have quite a few choices for artistic effects such as my favorite, the traditional Buzsim which softens an image creating a painterly look, along with Cartoon, Sketch and more. Here’s a…

These colorful lorikeets are so much fun, and amazing to watch! They have brush tongues that sip nectar, and they are the most outgoing of parrots. They’re not afraid of anything, and will land on you if they think they’ll get a nectar treat. I love their colors, and personalities! To create a painterly look,…

It’s warming up beautifully for spring in Florida!  There are wonderful opportunities to photograph nesting birds and their young in St. Augustine Alligator  Farm. The birds are easy to photograph, patience is key for nice poses and a telephoto zoom doesn’t hurt. Many of the birds are nesting right next to the boardwalk, those with…

Want to create a fast and easy colorful sketch effect without breaking out the Prismacolor pencils? You can use Topaz Labs Simplify for an artistic rendition of your original image. Mouse over, or hover the stylus over the image above to see the before and after images.  To vary the look of the sketch effect,…

Topaz Simplify offers the photographer an artist’s palette of creativity. With so many artistic filter effects available at your fingertips you can create beautiful imagery with a hand painted look. For example, this beach scene was given a watercolor look through one of the easy to use presets in Topaz Simplify. You can also give…