Note that to host in Lightroom, Aperture or iPhoto you also need either the free Topaz Fusion Express add-on of photoFXlab.Īlthough I have all the Topaz Labs products, I most often use them as a filter applied to layers in Adobe Photoshop and only occasionally as a direct plugin to Adobe Lightroom. Yes, it gets confusing but you can buy Topaz photoFXlab and then use that to host your Topaz B&W Effects 2.1 and other Topaz products. Instead, you can use Topaz Labs’ photoFXlab ($79.99 at time of writing) as a host – and also as a plugin. To be fair, you don’t need Lightroom, or Photoshop, or Elements, or Aperture, or iPhoto to host Topaz B&W Effects 2.1. And that, in a nutshell, is the answer to the question, ‘Why use a plugin?’. Let’s face it, however we define value, we’d all like the solution to be easier than h arder, deliver the result sooner rather than later, be cheaper rather than more expensive and be gu aranteed rather than uncertain. Why use a plugin?Įasier, faster, cheaper, gu aranteed – we’re all conditioned to seek solutions that meet these criteria. You can get a 15% discount on your purchase by using coupon code rdavisphoto at checkout from the Topaz Labs Store.
#TOPAZ SIMPLIFY FREE ALTERNATIVE UPGRADE#
Regul arly priced at $59.99, it was released as a free upgrade to customers who licensed B&W Effects. I regul arly use several plugins for black and white conversion but in this review I’m going to confine myself to Topaz B&W Effects 2.1 – released by Topaz Labs on April 11, 2013. While it’s relatively straight forw ard to convert an image to black and white in either Adobe Lightroom or Adobe Photoshop (or Aperture, but I use Lightroom and Photoshop), there’s a level of creative simplicity that is lent to the conversion process through using a plugin.
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