Plugins were our traditional product, our original 17 products from Adjust to Texture Effects, they each functioned as a standalone architecture and each focused on achieving one type of look. However many of them require a host editor to run and you couldn’t run more than one at a time. With a plugin workflow you’d need a host editor like Photoshop, then you would send a layer to one of our plugins, do your work and then render back into Photoshop. The plugins were very powerful but they each took a bit of time to open, and weren’t very flexible to different workflow methods… because once you rendered back into Photoshop you couldn’t go back and make changes. And it took a good deal of time to open and close each plugin if you wanted to use multiples.
Enter Topaz Studio! With Topaz Studio we’ve broken down the different aspects of plugin products into adjustments (which are specific to the Topaz Studio architecture). Each adjustment is even more specialized at creating a very specific effect or look, but infinitely more flexible, they can be tweaked, rearranged, removed, added, blended or masked at any time in your workflow within Topaz Studio, they can also be combined to create an near infinite amount of custom image effects, allowing you to both replicate and extend the workflow provided by our plugins but in a faster, more flexible, and easier to use way.
