As you can see by the screen shot below this picture of a seagull in the Boston Harbor was edited using the Topaz Labs Simplify 4 plug in. This time I used the sketch effect – pastel preset to convert my image from it’s original to this soft one. Looking on the right side of the screen you will see a highlighted box, that is one of the tabs that I mentioned before in my prior review of the program; when you hover your cursor over and adjustment tab it will tell you what it does. What I did here was after applying the effect, I lowered the simplify size in my global adjustments to bring back some of the detail that had been softened by the preset. Content with the image I clicked OK and back to PSE to save.
Again, Simplify is an easy to use program to let you convert your images into digital art with many ways to use your imagination to create the look you want. So what do you think of this conversion?
(This post was sponsored by Topaz Labs but all opinions and images are my own.)
Before
After
Images by T.Dashfield Photography 
Don’t like it at all…. give me the “before” even if the sky is a little bright near the gull, it still looks natural to me.. not a big fan of this type conversion…
Thank you for your input 🙂
Ooooh, I love them both, but I think the “after” is gorgeous. It looks more dynamic to me! 🙂 –Lisa
Thanks 🙂 It’s all a learning curve still so who knows what may be created next.
I like the conversion however I probably would have darkened the final image a little to separate the seagull from the sky more.
Thanks for your input, Ted. I am still learning the program and I just might go back and try that.
I see what you’re after, Teri, and I like it but wish the sky was a little darker.
Coming right up!