Textures can be used with support for modifying the look and feel as well as blending mode and opacity of the texture. Within the adjustment layers are lots of options, but one of the more powerful ones is the namesake Textures adjustment shown here: Here’s what the masking module looks like for both:

In addition, some adjustment layers support custom masks and there’s global mask support (handy for Lightroom users). With support for duplicate layers, show/hide, delete, reset and drag & drop reordering – this is the best layering system I’ve seen outside Photoshop itself.

However, the power of this product lies in its customization which starts with an extremely advanced layering system that is faster and nearly on par with Photoshop: Whereas Impression was painful to use because it was so slow when it first came out, Ii never had any performance issues on my 5 year old system with Windows 10.Īt its core the user-interface is designed for users to browse the massive library of over 130 customizable effects to create great images in a single click. When you start the product you are greeted with a user interface that will seem familiar to Impression and Glow users, but this is a significantly faster and more powerful variant. You can download this preset from within the Texture Effects Grid View Browser and searching the community presets for the word ronmartblog. Here’s the before and after of the image edited in the video:

Take 15 minutes to at least watch the video tutorial, but read on to see why I really like this product! Video Tutorial / DemoĪ video is worth a thousand words, so here’s both a demo and a deep dive tutorial on how to use this powerful product:

It begins with an extremely powerful user interface that allows for complex layering on par with Photoshop in an app that can run stand alone or integrated into Photoshop, Lightroom, etc… It goes far beyond by allowing nearly endless customizations that made me quickly realize that this is really the ultimate preset building tool that just happens to support your textures, borders, light leaks and more. If you are familiar with Analog Efex (and if you aren’t don’t bother), then think of this as everything that products offer and much more.

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