Many of you are familiar with Topaz Clean. An additional filter to Adobe Photoshop that alters the quality of your work.
Anyone who knows me now, knows that I despise Topaz Clean.
A few years ago, only a few designers in the MDC had Topaz and they were idolized. Many would write tutorials on how to achieve the "topaz" look without topaz through a series of sharpening and Gaussian blurs. I was fortunately crafty with finding things online and managed to download a free version of the filter, and oh boy was I hooked. I used Topaz like it was a saving grace to all my graphic and I thought it looked perfect once I used the filter. If i didn't like the way my graphic was turning out, I didn't worry because I thought that a little bit of Topaz would fix it. Oh how I was an idiot.
Topaz destroys the quality of what would otherwise be amazing graphics. It doesn't matter if you lower the opacity of the filter, the graphic always ends up looking either over-sharpened or too blurry, and that's if you somehow managed to avoid making the model's face look alien like. When I'm in a live-stream and I see the person starting Topaz, I cringe.
When someone asks me if I have the link to a free version of Topaz, a little piece of me dies. Save yourself, don't look for the devil. The devil in this case being Topaz, of course.
Rather depending on Topaz Clean for a good quality graphics, the best thing I can tell you is to use high quality images. HQ images might be a little harder to find sometimes, but it's definitely worth it. Also, do not increase the size of images as that also deters image quality. For HQ images of models I recommend going to their galleries as images in galleries are often well sorted and frequently updated.
Now, please, for the love of God, stop using Topaz Clean. This has been a public service announcement, please continue with your day.
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