*Topaz Impression 2, a major upgrade to a radical digital painting conversion program. w/ @topazlabs

July 2, 2016 by tyson robichaud photography in Photography Apps, Software tutorials / reviews and tagged 2, artistic, Digital Painting, Filter, free, impression, lightroom, oil paint, photography, photoshop, plugin, sale, software, Standalone, Topaz, trial, watercolor | 5 Comments

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Summer is upon us, and so too are the deals and updates showering us with their bounty. If you’ve been around for a little while, you may have seen my article written after getting to beta the original Topaz Impression. (spoiler: I loved it). Now, Topaz has released Impression 2 with new tools and filters, and get this, it’s free for those of us who bought the original Impression. If you’ve not yet updated, or you’d like to give it a free trial, you can go directly to Topaz Labs Website HERE. If you’d like to buy it, use this link, and input “2IMPRESS” at checkout to get the normally priced $99 program for 40% off ($59.99!).

If you’d like to see more from me, and read more about why I love Impression, c’mon in…

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*Focus on this. MacPhun Focus 2 Pro on sale for 25% off w/ @wearemacphun

March 5, 2015 by tyson robichaud photography in Postprocessing techniques, Software tutorials / reviews and tagged 2, aperture, blur, bokeh, focus, lightroom, macphun, photoshop, plugin, pro, selective focus, software, Standalone | Leave a comment

I’ve slowly been crawling out from the pile of work I’ve created for myself and have gotten around to playing with MacPhun’s Focus 2 Pro. The beauty of this program is it’s ease and remarkably intuitive skill set. After playing with and reviewing Tonality Pro, I was very curious to see what else MacPhun had to offer. If you are a Mac OS user, have a look, download a trial and play around with this fun program. On sale through the 15th of March, you can download a free trial, or purchase it HERE. Normally $39.99, it is on sale for 25% off, or $29.99 for the next 10 days. Upgrades from Standard to Pro can be had for a mere $14.99 as well! Come on in to see some of what you get with Focus 2 Pro.

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*Panasonic Lumix 20/20 vision! v.1 vs v.2

December 19, 2013 by tyson robichaud photography in General ramblings, Photography gear and tagged 1, 2, 20mm f/1.7, compact, comparison, CSC, lens, lumix, micro 4/3, MILC, optics, panasonic, pancake, photography, system, version | 29 Comments

What the what? Why did Panasonic replace a seemingly near perfect lens with one that from initial reports didn’t remedy the AF speed which was really the only major gripe about the first version? Well, let’s see…

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*All Alien Skin Plugins are 50% off until the end of the month!

July 25, 2013 by tyson robichaud photography in General ramblings, Postprocessing techniques, Software tutorials / reviews and tagged 2, 3, 4, 5, Adobe, alien skin, aperture, apple, bokeh, exposure, lightroom, photoshop, plugin, sale, snap art, software, windows | 2 Comments

If you’ve been waiting for an Alien Skin software sale, now may very well be the time. I’ve not ever seen them offer any more than 50% (I don’t even remember seeing a half off sale in the past!) so it is as good as I’ve seen it!

I like the AS plugins a lot, and have been absolutely loving the new Exposure 5. You can read my take on some of their plugins via the links below, and you can buy any of these directly from AlienSkin.com (click here). I get no kickbacks from Alien Skin, and have no monetary incentive to sell their plugins, I just really enjoy using them and for those who may also be interested, it won’t get much cheaper than this. Go get you some.

Exposure 5, the best gets better

Bokeh 2, blur it out

Snap Art 3, release your inner artist