But we believe delivering a workflow that is responsive to our customer’s needs takes priority over the individual application model and its specific benefits. Sure, there’s benefit to having one application do just one thing.
This change enables us to update products simultaneously, as well as speed up processing simultaneously when we find an improvement we can make to the engine. So slow and expensive, that with our highest profits, we were still only able to get about 3 to 5 major updates released a year. However, there’s not a lot we can do with the old model – it was extremely expensive and slow to work on. Free updates is a costly promise to keep, and we’re committed to keeping it. This change was necessary to allow continued development of Topaz products. However, standalone launch will require Studio for any product that gets the In Studio designation, like Clarity in Studio and Impression In Studio. That’s why we’ve gone to extra lengths to ensure you can still launch your plugins directly from your preferred host editor, pushing Studio to the background. We understand being comfortable with a specific interface, and not wanting to adopt a new workflow. It would also significantly slow down your workflow, because instead of using the integrated toolset you’d still have to launch each new product as a standalone product, then render back into the application as a flattened image, it’s much slower and less flexible. Even if we updated Impression to use the new engine, as a standalone product, it would be the same thing you get with Impression in Studio, but without access to the rest of the tools available in Studio. The updates we made to Impression were not possible to create inside of that old engine.
If you’d prefer not to use Studio or forgo the upgrade you may continue to use impression 2, however Impression 2 won’t be updated further, all updates to Impression will be made to Impression in Studio.The short answer is: NOTE: you will need Topaz Studio installed to claim your free Impression Adjustment that makes up Impression in StudioNo, this is an upgrade to a newer version of Impression that’s only available through Topaz Studio. You can still happily use the Impression 2 plugin, but the updates we made are not possible inside of that old engine. If you are just getting started with Topaz Studio, you can download Topaz Studio here:
No, As always, the update from Impression 2 to Impression in Studio is 100% free, as part of your free upgrades for life! You’ll need to download and install Topaz Studio (a FREE application) to use the Impression in Studio update. You will now have full access to Impression as an adjustment.
The Topaz Studio application will check your Plugins Account page for you, and add Impression in Studio to your Topaz Studio Account.