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Tutorial: How to Use the Masking Tools in Topaz Studio 2

The new Topaz Studio 2 features intuitive and easy-to-use masking tools! Choose from five types of masking or combine masking options for perfectly masked adjustments.  Here is a quick run-through of the five masking tools in Topaz Studio 2.

Brush Masking

To get started, I’ve imported an image and applied AI Remix to this achieve an artistic background on a creatively staged photo. 

I want to keep the cloud and ice cream cone but keep the swirl background intact, so this is where masking will come in handy. To access the masking options, click the square and circle icon beside the Effect Layer name. See the illustration below!

Below you’ll see the different masking options within Topaz Studio 2.

Brush masking allows you to apply or remove the applied effect in a more fluid way. You can selectively paint out where you’d like to remove the effect. Here are a few pointers on the Brush Mask panel: The Transparency slider controls the opacity of your brush mask from 0.00 to 1.00. The Radius slider controls the overall size, while the Softness slider controls edge softness.

Depending on how long you’ve been around the Topaz community, Edge Aware may not be new to you or may be completely unfamiliar. This unique technology allows you to have more freedom in masking: you don’t have to be excruciatingly perfect with your drawing technique, because our technology will intelligently identify edges and perfect your mask accordingly! All you have to do is keep the edge that you want to be detected between the red inner circle and the green outer circle. Our technology will automatically detect the edge. You’ll also see the Edge Aware tool featured throughout the other masking options in Topaz Studio 2.

Spot Masking

Depending on the content of your image and the effect applied, the spot masking tool may be the quickest one for you.

In this example image, I applied the Black & White effect from the Effect Layer panel. I want to keep the subject and her colorful sweater my focal point, so let’s try a spot mask.

With a combination of the Roundness and Transition sliders, you can change the shape of your spot mask like below to better accommodate your mask subject.

Gradient Masking

Ideal for landscapes or anywhere you want to create a natural transition, gradient masking is a powerful tool to have in your masking toolbox. In this example image, I’d like to selectively apply the Radiance effect layer to just the stars in the sky and not the house on the horizon.

The effect above the red line will be removed and the effect below the green line will remain. You can also grab the handles and rotate them to manipulate the order of the gradient. The white handle will collectively move the gradient while moving the green or red handle can create longer and shorter transitions. You can also easily change the direction of the gradient mask to be applied vertically. 

Color Masking

The color masking tool allows you to create masks based upon colors found in your image. 

In this example image, I’ve applied AI ReMix to create an artistic product image. Let’s say I want to retain the photorealistic red caps on the milk bottles. With the color masking tool, I can place the dropper over the red to select it.

The Range slider allows you to adjust for a larger or smaller range of colors. Since I wanted a precise selection here, I opted for a smaller range of colors.

Luminosity Masking

The luminosity masking tool allows you to create mask selections derived from the brightness in your image. In this example, I’ve applied an abstract swirl effect from AI ReMix.

I only want the swirls to be applied to the luminous, bright highlights in the image. Luminosity masking is an ideal tool for this situation.

By placing the dropper over the bright part of your image, you’ll mask the brightness and apply the swirl effect to the dark part of the image. So, since we want to achieve the opposite, we’ll place the dropper in the darkest part of the image (the right-hand corner of the water). You can adjust the Range slider accordingly to capture various lengths of color. With just a few clicks, the luminosity mask achieves exactly the artistic effect I wanted and in just right the places. Other masking tools would be infinitely harder to mask such a difficult area to distinguish.

These five types of masking tools were created to power up your workflow, so you can find an ideal tool for your unique masking situation. But don’t forget, you can also combine multiple types of masks to achieve your desired look! All you’ll have to do hit “Apply” after you finish with one type of masking to move right on to the next. 

We hope you’ll find Topaz Studio 2 an easy-to-use and intuitive tool for your creative and artistic digital images! 

We have several other tutorials on Topaz Studio 2! Here are just a few you might be interested in:

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Creating Imagery Driven by Imagination with Topaz Studio

Today we are going over a few adjustments in Topaz Studio, to show you the creativity and control you can have over your images.

Today we start with this image of a girl sitting on a stump overlooking a river. What we are going to do is make the background seem more painterly, while keeping her realistic. This way it looks as if she was dropped into a painting.

We will be using one helping of Impression, one spoonful of Ai Remix, and one healthy scoop of HSL Color Tuning. We will also be using masks, blending modes, and opacity setting to help control the effects of each adjustment and how it is applied to our photo.

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Wanna See how it’s done? Watch the video below!

 

With that being said, lets jump feet first into these edits.

1. Impression

First we’re going to start with Impression. Go to  the adjustments drop down menu and select impression. The VERY FIRST thing I want to do is mask out my girl, this way any effects we put on the photo does not affect her in any way.

So, go to the mask icon, which is the white box in-between the adjustments name and the eye icon, and click it. This will open the mask menu. We’re going to select a slightly smaller brush, keep the masking area white, and the mask its self black. Select the black square, to be sure we have the black MASK OUT brush selected, and color in the girl and her hair. When this is completed select done at the bottom.

Now we’ll get into the adjustment settings.
Select the first brush to apply to this image. I want this to look a bit like an acrylic painting and a little messy.

  1. Number of strokes: Medium
  2. Brush Size: .53
  3. Paint Volume: .18
  4. Paint Opacity: .50
  5. Stroke length: .29
  6. Spill: .29
  7. Smudge: .09
  8. Coverage: .74

Next we will go into the lighting drop down at the bottom of this adjustment menu just to give the image a more vibrant feeling, like you often get with acrylic paint.

Lighting drop down:

  1. Brightness: .-07
  2. Contrast: .19
  3. Highlight: .14
  4. Shadow: -.24
  5. Vignette: .14

We are also going to add a little bit of texture to give this image a canvas feeling to play more of the idea of making this more and more like an acrylic painting in the background.

  1. The Texture we are going to select is in the 3rd row 2nd column.
  2. Texture Strength: .40
  3. Texture Size: .39

Woo!

Now that we are through all of that bring the opacity to .71, and lets move on to the next adjustment.

As you can see this brings an impressionistic feel to the background.

The colors still seem a little muted to me so we’re going to add an Ai ReMix adjustment to add a little bit a texture and bring some life to this color!

2. Ai ReMix

Go to adjustments menu, select AI Remix.
First thing we are going to do with this adjustment is copy the mask from the previous adjustment.

Click the mask icon on the previous adjustment, and select the hamburger menu (in-between the invert icon and the reset icon). Click this menu and select copy mask.

Close that adjustment but using the arrow at the top, and select the mask on the AI Remix. Go to the same hamburger menu on this adjustment and select past mask. This time we are going to add a little bit to this mask. Select a grey brush and brush in the tree stump, that way the Adjustment doesn’t fully affect this area.

After completing this close the masking menu, by clicking done, now we can go into the actual setting of this adjustment.

  1. The style we are going to choose is in the 5th row 2nd column, it looks like a pasture, click and apply. We aren’t going to do too much to the setting, so close the drop down menu and go into the opacity.
  2. We are going to set our opacity to .37 and the blending mode to color.

This allows Ai ReMix to adapt better to the colors of the image and the previous adjustments.

With the addition of the Ai ReMix the look of a textured background is a lot more evident in addition, the color of the water is more vibrant, the yellow of the trees pops (but isn’t distracting), and we even added a bit more green to the mountains across from her. I would still like to play with a few of the colors in the background, to make the seem more painterly, so we’re going to apply an HSL Color Tuning adjustment.

3. HSL Color Tuning

The Final Adjustment is an HSL Color tuning.

We are going to apply the mask from the first adjustment one more time, but since we already have it copied all we have to do is going into the mask menu on this layer, go to the hamburger menu and select past mask.
Now we get to play with the settings of the adjustment.

The colors we’re going to edit the overall color, yellow, aqua, and blue.

  1. Yellow Settings:
    Yellow Saturation: .21
  2. Aqua Settings:
    Aqua Saturation: .35
    Aqua Lightness: .24
  3. Blue Settings:
    Blue Saturation: .39
  4. Overall Settings:
    Overall Hue: .15
    Overall Saturation: .17
    Overall Lightness: -.07

No we are going to go into  the detail settings

  1. Details: .26
  2. Suppress artifacts: .08
  3. Color Sensitivity: .28
  4. Finally go to the opacity and bring it down to .72.

As you can see all these setting make the background mimic an almost impressionistic acrylic painting.

Additional tip:

Since we haven’t had a tutorial on digital frame either I thought I would take the time to add an extra tidbit to this top tip.

Now I’m going to do a pretty simplistic frame with the default setting because I like the way it fits the photo, but what I am going to go in an edit is the texture around the frame.
We are going to select 2nd texture out of the 1st row, this is actually one of my favorite textures in studio as a whole so I tend to lean toward it often.

After selecting this texture we are going to go down to the color setting, because I want the colors of the frame to play more off the blue of the water; and instead of picking a frame that mimics the color we’re going to edit the color of this frame to our liking.

So go to the frame color setting menu at the bottom and set them to the following:

  1. Frame brightness: -.22
  2. Frame contrast: .27
  3. Frame Detail: -.26
  4. Frame Saturation: .25
  5. Extra color strength: .88
  6. Extra Color Hue: .57

As you can see this just adds an extra touch to our image to give it more of a professional presentation

Well thats it for this Topaz Studio tutorial! Join us next time to see what you can learn.

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How to Use the Color Theme Adjustment

How to use the Color Theme Adjustment

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How to use the Color Theme Adjustment

How to use the Color Theme Adjustment

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What You’ll Need

[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][vc_column_text]This beginner level walkthrough is really easy to follow along. You’ll only need a couple things to follow along with me:

1. Topaz Studio. You’ll need Topaz Studio on your computer if you’d like to follow along during this tutorial. It’s free to download. Color Theme is a Pro Adjustment, but you can start a 30 day free trial if you don’t own it.

2. An Image. Grab any image to follow along with or you can download the flower image here.

3. No more than 10 minutes. I kept it short and sweet. You’ll be done with this tutorial in under 10 minutes.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][vc_separator][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][vc_column_text]Don’t have Topaz Studio? Topaz Studio is free to download! You can get it now by using the links below. If you need more information about Topaz Studio, check out this overview: Introducing Topaz Studio[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][vc_column_text]

Free Topaz Studio Download

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Watch the Tutorial

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Overview of the Color Theme Adjustment

[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][vc_column_text]The Color Theme Adjustment allows you to harmonize your image’s color palette to create an overall stronger composition based upon Color Theory. If you aren’t familiar with Color Theory, it is the rules and guidelines followed by artists for color mixing or visual composition of specific color combinations. These rules are based upon the color wheel, which is comprised of three major categories: primary colors, secondary colors and tertiary colors. If you feel like you need a little bit more of an explanation on how Color Theory works, Adobe has a great visual tool that really helped explain mixing colors to me. (I’m a hands on learner and found it super beneficial). You can checkout their free online color mixing tool here.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][vc_single_image image=”60227″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” onclick=”link_image”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][vc_column_text]

Categories of Colors

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Primary Colors

Red

Blue

Yellow

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Secondary Colors

Green

Violet

Orange

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Tertiary Colors

Yellow-Green

Blue-Green

Blue-Violet

Red-Violet

Red-Orange

Yellow- Orange

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Types of Color Schemes

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Analogous Color Scheme

[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Analogous color schemes contain at least three colors that are located next to one another on the color wheel. Compositions that feature an analogous color scheme will usually have great harmony that create serene and comfortable designs. Analogous color schemes are commonly found nature (such as sunsets or landscapes).

To create an analogous color palette, first choose one color to be dominate, a second to support, and then a third supporting color. You may also use black, white, and grey as an accent.When creating an analogous color scheme, ensuring there is enough contrast between your colors is important to avoid the appearance of a monochromatic color palette.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][vc_single_image image=”60247″ img_size=”large”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]

Complimentary Color Scheme

[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel are considered to be complementary colors Examples of this are red and green, blue and orange, or violet and purple.

Complementary color palettes create high contrast and a very vibrant look when the color are used at full saturation. This color scheme can be difficult to achieve without becoming overpowering. This color scheme is great to use if you are wanting to create an area of emphasis within an image.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][vc_single_image image=”60256″ img_size=”large”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]

Triadic Color Scheme

[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]A triadic color scheme contains three colors that are evenly spaced out around the color wheel. One example of this color scheme is red, blue, and yellow. This color scheme is known for being vibrant, even when using less saturated hues.

Creating an effective triadic color pallette can be difficult because careful balance is needed between the three hues. For the most effective displays of a triadic color scheme, use one dominant color and two accent colors.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][vc_column_text]These are just three examples of color schemes and the three that I most often use. I suggest researching other effective color schemes if you would like to learn more about all the possibilities.

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An image opened in Topaz Studio, edited with the Color Theme adjustment to have a complimentary color scheme. All panels are currently visible.

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The Basics

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The Color Theme Adjustment has a very different appearance than a lot of the other adjustments within Topaz Studio. Instead of the typical sliders you will see 10 swatches and a color picker that is followed by 3 sliders.

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How this Adjustment Works:

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The first row of 5 swatches are colors pulled from your original image. You cannot edit these swatches. These five swatches are the 5 most dominant colors in your image and are ordered from darkest to lightest. The hex code of each color swatch is located beneath the swatch.

Row 2 of Swatches:
The second row of 5 swatches are the filter colors. You can change these swatches by clicking on each individual swatch and then selecting a new color from the color picker located below the swatches. If you are needing an exact color, you can input a hex code beneath each color swatch. If you ever need to reset a swatch, double clicking on it will reset it to its default value.

Lightness: 
This slider allows you to create a tint or shade of the selected color. Decreasing the value will create a darker shade, while increasing the value will create a lighter tint.

Details:
During the editing process, you may find that the small details were lost. This slider enables you to bring back the really fine details of the image.

Suppress Artifacts:
When drastically changing image color, you may notice some image artifacts occurring. Raising the value of the Suppress Artifacts slider will ensure those artifacts are blocked out.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][vc_column_text]

Add the Color Theme Adjustment

[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][vc_column_text]NOTE: For this tutorial, we will be starting from scratch, so I’m going to close the effects panel and the workspace panel to allow more space to enlarge the image. You can do this by clicking on the border edge arrow. To open them back up, click again.

There are two ways to add the Color Theme Adjustment in Topaz Studio.

  1. Click the More Button in the Adjustment Buttons to show a list for all Adjustments. Click the Color Theme Adjustment to add it to your Adjustment Stack.
  2. Go to Menu > Adjustment > Color Theme Adjustment to add the Color Theme Adjustment.

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Adjust your Color Swatches

[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][vc_single_image image=”60366″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center”][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][vc_column_text]Tip: When picking what type of color scheme you’d like to create take into account the colors that are already existent in the image. Making less dramatic color shifts will result in a more natural overall edit.

Try It: After deciding what type of color scheme you are going for (in this case I chose a complimentary color scheme of red and green). Click the leftmost color swatch and work your way down the line changing each swatch to better harmonize your image. If you want your color to be lighter or darker, you can do so by moving the lightness slider to the left or right.

When adjusting color, I like to keep the HSL histogram visible during this editing process because it is very easy to see how you are affecting the overall color of your image.

 

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Histogram before and after the Color Theme Adjustment

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Before and After

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How to use the Color Theme Adjustment

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Here you can see how even a slight change in the color palette can make a drastic change.

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Change the Blending Mode

[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][vc_single_image image=”60393″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center”][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][vc_column_text]While I’m satisfied with the color I changed the flower to, I feel it doesn’t look very natural especially in the shadows. They seem too oversaturated for me. A great way to fix this is by changing the blending mode and opacity of the Color Theme Adjustment.

Try It: Click through the blending modes and see how each one affects your image. Experiment with some of your favorites to see what effects you can create with them. Some of my favorite blending modes are the Darker Color, Overlay, Soft Light, Saturation, and Color Blending Modes.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”60394″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center” onclick=”link_image”][vc_column_text]

Normal

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Color

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Saturation

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Soft Light

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Before and After

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How to use the Color Theme Adjustment

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The Color Blending Mode creates a more natural effect.

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Final Tweaks

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Opacity Slider

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Try It: Select the Opacity Slider and move it left and right to see how it affects your overall image. Once you are satisfied with the look of your image, move down to the Details Slider.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][vc_column_text]

Detail and Suppress Artifacts Slider

[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=”60418″ img_size=”large” onclick=”link_image”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Located at the bottom of the Color Theme Adjustment Panel is the Detail and Suppress Artifacts Sliders. The Detail Slider affects very minute details, so if you are needing overall image sharpening, I suggest checking out our Precision Contrast or Sharpen Adjustment. After you are satisfied with the Detail Slider, move on to the Suppress Artifacts Slider. This isn’t always necessary, but I always add a little touch of this slider just to make sure my images are crystal clear.

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Before Detail Slider

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How to use the Color Theme Adjustment

How to use the Color Theme Adjustment

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Gallery

[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Here’s some other images that I created using the Color Theme Adjustment. While I don’t go over any of these in this blog article, I do go over the waterfall image in the video tutorial. I was able to achieve all these effects with only the Color Theme Adjustment and a little bit of the Topaz Studio Integrated Masking. I’ve also shared the 5 Color Theme Adjustments I used as one effect called Color Theme Basic Tutorial. You can find this effect by searching it in the Topaz Studio Community.

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That’s It!

[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]From bold and colorful to subtle and realistic, the Color Theme Adjustment has the ability to achieve it. I hope I’ve inspired you to try out new things within the Color Theme Adjustment and realize the endless possibilities within Topaz Studio.

We’ll also be adding more tutorials and videos so be sure to give us a follow to learn more!

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About Taylor L. Seaton

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Taylor Seaton is a 2016 graduate from Angelo State University. While attending ASU, she obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts with a concentration in Graphic Design and an area of emphasis in Business Management and Marketing. She also played volleyball at the collegiate level. She is currently the Social Media Manager at Topaz Labs.

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