Topaz ReMask for editing photos

[Scott Shepherd]

I'm not sure if the discount code was secret or not, it was definitely a webinar related code, so I'm sure they know who was there. I doubt it matters, but they were very thorough in asking not to give webinar links out for the actual webinar, so I probably just transferred that paranoia over to the discount code

He did an example very close to the trouble photo I have, so now I think I can probably make it do even my toughest photo without too much trouble. It'll probably take me 10 minutes to get it done, versus the normal 1 minute

[Joseph Belangia]

I love me some PhotoShop and have become proficient in getting what I want.....but that's through a hell of a lot of trial-and-error, and sometimes that part has eaten into some profit. I had some chain link issues to deal with today, and checked out the Topaz site for their solutions. I like it. A lot. Purchased.

Good call, Scott. Thanks!

[Lee DeRaud]

I think not, I have Photosjop CS3 and CS5, also Photo Paint and when I installed it, I only see options to install it in both PS versions but not on PP, in their spec's they show PaintShop Pro, you can see the spec's here

It appears to work: just tried it with the 'trial' version. You have to tell CPP where it's located, but then when you restart it shows up at the bottom of the 'Effects' menu. One minor annoyance is that CPP's default layer is 'Background', and it complains if you try to start it on a background layer.

But at any rate, it starts up and displays its UI and the photo...haven't gotten past that point yet. As far as Windows is concerned, it's running as a separate app, and it and CPP are just passing the original and modified version back and forth. (For all I know that's how all PS plugins work, but I never tried using one under CPP before.)

[Andrew Mammoliti]

Lee so it works in corel photo paint? If so can you guide me to set it up?

Thanks

[Ruben Salcedo]

It appears to work: just tried it with the 'trial' version. You have to tell CPP where it's located, but then when you restart it shows up at the bottom of the 'Effects' menu. One minor annoyance is that CPP's default layer is 'Background', and it complains if you try to start it on a background layer.

But at any rate, it starts up and displays its UI and the photo...haven't gotten past that point yet. As far as Windows is concerned, it's running as a separate app, and it and CPP are just passing the original and modified version back and forth. (For all I know that's how all PS plugins work, but I never tried using one under CPP before.)

That's great news, specially for people that only have CPP, thanks for the report.

Ruben

[Lee DeRaud]

Lee so it works in corel photo paint? If so can you guide me to set it up?

Go through the ReMask install, then start CPP. Under Tools->Options->Workspace->Plugins, add the ReMask program directory (Program Files/Topaz Labs/ReMask/Plugin, more or less). Then when you restart CPP, there will be an entry under 'Effects' for Topaz Labs. The ReMask User Guide PDF has instructions for installing under PaintShop Pro, which is pretty much the same process.

I played around with it some more this morning...can't verify that it works all that much better than the built-in 'Cutout Lab' in CPP, but the user interface and preview functions are a lot nicer.

[Andrew Mammoliti]

It should function like it does in the videos on YouTube in ccp?

[Lee DeRaud]

It should function like it does in the videos on YouTube in ccp?

Yup.

Like I said, it's running as a standalone app outside of CPP: CPP launches it and passes it the original image and gets the (possibly) modified one back when you exit. In fact, I'm not sure it even knows what the "host" app is. (I just downloaded the PS SDK, mostly to see what's going on under the hood.)

Now, what you do with the mask when you get it back may be different, but I'm the wrong person to ask, since I've never used PS.

[Martin Boekers]

Where was this when I had to cut out literally hundreds of photos for a freelance gig? Although, getting paid hourly, I guess I probably wasn't thinking of ways to make my job faster lol.

For those of us that were around before the the digital age.....
The masks were cut to size on Rubylith then positive an negative
Kodalith films we made to expose the images in registration onto
photographic film. I once made a composite with 12 images. It took
me a couple hours of sizing and exposure after I had the lithos made!
Then a retoucher took over for the more complex areas.

Things that took days to do now can be done in less than an hour!

My idol at the time was Jerry Uelsmann. I went to quite a few seminars
that he gave insights on creating his art in the "analog" age. (Enlargers
and light sensitive materials)

Wow... I feel old!

[Andrew Mammoliti]

So do I need ps or ps elements to run this remask thing? Or can I just use ccp?