As I get my hands dirty with it beyond the 5-7 hours I’ve spent in it, I will be sure to report any limiting factors here. So far I do not have anything to report about the Con’s of Texture Effects. I will be up a lot later every night playing with the different possibilities in Texture Effects. This is critical especially if you have never been in the Plugin before.

The user interface is user friendly and quite easy to navigate.

It takes a bit of time to load them in, but once they are there they are readily accessible on the fly!

You can upload your own textures right into the Texture Effects Machine.

As if there weren’t enough great presets in the program you now have access to any preset that has been shared on the Topaz Labs community.

The ability to share and download other peoples presets very easily is incredible.

Each adjustment is responsive and happens in real time.

The plugin is fast… I mean wicked fast! Once the textures are loaded in on the initial launch it just soars.

From Textures to Color Overlays and custom built presets the possibilities are limitless. I was pleasantly surprised by the numerous functions in Texture Effects.

There are many more applications in the plugin than Textures.

While you can apply textures for various effects you can also apply many more useful effects: Often times I refer to plugins as Tools, if that is the case, this is the whole Workbench and then some. Topaz Labs just launched their newest software addition, Topaz Labs Texture Effects! While the name implies this is a Texture based application plugin, I can assure you it is much more. Not Just a Texture Effects Engine, Quite Possibly an Artistic Workflow Workhorse

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