For those who are interested in digital painting, I downloaded and tried Topaz Impression. I have been Topaz Simplify with good results, but this new program leaves me very dissapointed.
Below are the comments I sent the Tech people at Topaz
"I am trying to use Impression.
It take almost 2 minutes to load in all the preset previews.
Every time I change to another group of presets, more time is needed to load all the previews—one has to wait before being able to move sliders around.
Every time a slider is moved, excessive time is required to load the change.
I even tried reducing the size of the file, ands too much time is required after every change is made—this not true of your other software.
If one tries to evaluate several presets, too much time is required and in the end, the one you are on is not clearly labeled so you do not know which one you are looking at.
A simple "undo" command is not available.
Considering all the above, this program is not ready for prime time and in my opinion should not have been released until the operation is much faster and smoother."
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