![]() Once Topaz ReMask has rendered your mask, save it to your Desktop under the name "temp." Then go back to Lightroom, hit Reset, and adjust the sliders so the model looks good, and bring this version into Photoshop as well. Don't worry that the model's skin looks blown out and terrible we are only using this overexposed version to get a mask. However, and this is important: if there is not enough contrast between the model's hair and the background, move Lightroom's Exposure slider to the right until you seen nice contrast. ![]() I will present some tips that I have learned after using this plugin for several years now.Īfter adjusting the image in Lightroom, I retouch it in Photoshop, then make a "stamped" or "composite" layer with no mask (Option/Alt Merge Visible from the flyout menu of the Layers panel) and invoke ReMask 5 (Filter -> Topaz Labs -> Topaz ReMask 5.). I tried Vertus Fluid Mask, but it didn't even have a user manual! OnOne has a masking plugin that is great, but for some reason I gravitated to ReMask by Topaz. There are many more things i just dont like about A1 but I would be writing alot so i will try to keep this post short.At some point, it is beneficial to settle on a single Photoshop masking plugin and learn its intricacies. I expected that the A1 version would be better than remask but its a downgrade IMHO. The compute mask/recompute is faster in A1 than Remask however if the algorithim doesnt doesnt do a good job on selecting the mask, then the faster computer/recompute time is a moot point. The only thing I noticed an improvement on is speed. The brush in remask is just a colored ring which is more usable to me. The brush is totally colored green/red/blue and you can’t see very well the image thru the color. Remask appears to select the mask better overall on the first ilteration and as a result I have to spend more time cleaning up in A1. First - the tricolor method of selecting in Mask A1 is not as good as Remask. I use this plugin for portraiture work and I have switched back to Remask 5. I have been using A1 for about 3 months now. They are about as silly to do this as Vizzini declaring that our insistence that Mask Ai is certainly the same product as ReMask to be “inconceivable” to which Inigo suggests “you keep using that word I do not think it means what you think it means”. Yet it’s supposedly a completely different product. The free upgrade from InFocus to Sharpen Ai was way more of an upgrade than Remask 5 to Mask Ai. As for Mask Ai it is not different in capabilities than any rewrite of an existing product and typically less sophisticated. I found I was actually using Studio fairly often until Studio 2 and now I rarely ever use it even though every few weeks I open it and consider using it practically every case I just close it and use the classic plugins directly. It seems odd to me that with both Remask and Studio, the new and improved products that have to be purchased, albeit with upgrade pricing for previous owners and are no longer part of the upgrades for life product line, the new versions are both retrogrades in terms of capabilities and workflow finesse. I just hope Mask Ai doesn’t “fall by the wayside” as time marches forward. Heck, Mask Ai cannot even be used in Studio 2, as of today. ![]() Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been a Topaz user for many, many users and really appreciate these free updates, but not at the expense of further development and refinement of existing products. Personally, I’ve never understood their “free upgrades for life” strategy because giving stuff away doesn’t make you money. What concerns me at this point is that in recent years Topaz’s development methodology seems to be: 1) release a product before it’s really ready, 2) release a flurry of initial updates while initial sales are running hot, then 3) forget about this product because we need to move on to the new thing that’s going to make us money. I’m still “on the fence” about asking for a refund. When little bits-n-pieces remain, I’m finding the current automated brushes generally do too much. I’d like to have a simple cut/keep brush that would enable me to manually manipulate the mask, as necessary, to perfect it. What Mask Ai desperately needs is some cleanup tools. In my limited testing of Mask Ai I have, so far, found the initial computed mask to be better (more complete?) than Remask 5 at least, for the images I’ve tossed at it.
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