#New changes to topaz studio free#

See screen cap showing AP running out of Zoner, and Topaz Studio available as a Plug-in in AP. In addition to what I wrote above, I have TS in my AP plug-ins menu. Anyone able to get it working as a plugin to AP on Windows? I tried to use Topaz Studio plugin with Affinity Photo but it crashes.

Don't know why I can access all the plug-ins and others can't. I do like that the plug-ins are available in the top menu on Studio, but so far don't see any other reason to change. My main image editor and host for Topaz plug-ins continues to be Affinity Photo. Except for Remask 5, they are all accessible from Studio (including photoFXlab). I have Topaz Studio installed, and all 17 of the Topaz plug-ins. Certainly if TS doesn't support all the Topaz programs, that will be a reason to stay with PFXlab. So when I want to use a Topaz app, I need a front end. My editor of choice is Photo Ninja, and it doesn't support plugins. I look good fat, I'm gonna look good old. The only reason I can think of for Topaz Studio would be if, for some reason, your favorite editor just couldn't use a given Topaz plugin (for whatever reason), and Topaz Studio could. Make updates paid (small amount) and make the plug-ins better that people want. Instead they try to invent a new wheel several times over.

But if not even Topaz Studio supports all plugins, then maybe this issue weakens this reason.Ī modular editor seems interesting, but I can't help but feel that maybe this ship should have been launched 7-8 years ago.įXlab should have been what is today Topaz Studio, a modular editor with editing features wich can be upgraded with new features and easy installation of new Topaz Labs plug-ins.Ī lot of people are screaming for a new version 2.0 star effects plug-in but Topaz Labs keeps ignoring it because it wouldn't bring any money(free updates). Most of the better editors support *.8bf plugins, so I don't see why one would NEED a hosting platform for the Topaz plugins, or for an additional editor/host to support them. Would appreciate any comparisons of the two as front-ends. I'll try TS for myself, but I suspect that, with my so far limited use of PFXlab, there are aspects of that program that I may be missing. Since I've already purchased PFXlab, the difference in price isn't an issue for me.

#New changes to topaz studio free#

Given that usage, are there any advantages to using TS as the front end rather than PFXlab? (I'm speaking of the free version of TS.) My use of it would only be as a way of accessing the other Topaz programs. I'm not interested in using TS as an editor. I have PFXlab to use as the front end for the Topaz plugins.