grichie5

I use Lightroom CC for initial processing and then move to Photoshop. I have tried to add a "digital frame" using the Topaz Studio 2 plug in or filter with mixed success. I find that if I add a frame to the original un-cropped image, there is no problem. However, I frequently do some cropping and the digital frame feature of Topaz Studio 2 gives issues. I can open Topaz Studio from the filter menu but when Studio opens, it shows the original image, not the new cropped one. There seems to be no way to add a Topaz frame to a cropped image. How it persists in remembering the original photo, even when I open the saved cropped one, is beyond me.
Just before writing this, I opened an image in P/S, heavily cropped it, saved it under a new name. Then I closed Photoshop and restarted my computer. I then opened P/S, opened the newly saved image and went to Topaz's studio 2. When this program opened, it showed the original image, not the cropped image. There appeared to be no way to create a frame for the cropped image. Maybe there are computer gremlins after all.

speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

Just do it all in PS, it does not matter if the image is cropped or not, you'll just make your own frame just the way you like!

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

Sounds like Topaz has the problem. But try saving the cropped image with an entirely new name so that Topaz can't or won't go to the original named image. I can't imagine that it is going to open one named img_0293.crw after you renamed it home.jpg.

grichie5

I did try that as noted in my post. Topaz still opened the original image.

grichie5

The answer to the issue with Digital Frames in Topaz 2 came to me in the middle of a night's sleep.

When the cropping tool is selected in P/S, there is a small menu check box item that lets you choose to keep, or delete the cut pixels. Unless you check this box, the pixels outside of the cropped area are retained, but hidden. In this case, Topaz Studio 2 picks up the hidden but retained pixels.

Not sure why you would want to retain the piels outside of the cropped areas, but I'm sure the answer will come during another night's sleep.

NCMtnMan Loc: N. Fork New River, Ashe Co., NC

Topaz Studio 2 now has its own cropping tool. Try using it. I think your problem is within PS and how it handles cropping. It does discard the pixels unless you tell it to.

rfcoakley Loc: Auburn, NH

its nothing to do with Topaz. If you crop in PS without checking "delete cropped pixels," all of my PS plugins process the uncropped image.

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

This makes perfect sense.

grichie5

Thanks. That's what I woke up and discovered last night at 2 A.M.
Adobe allows keeping the cut pixels in case you want to re crop. Using the crop tool a second time, when you have not deleted pixels, offers you the full original image for cropping.

Now if only ON-1 digital frame could be taught to recognize that I want the preserved but hidden pixels to remain hidden and ignored when I use digital frame, my world would be complete.