Topaz Labs plugins in Lr

[MCAsan]

I was going to do a trial of the Topaz Lab plugin collection. It seems as if half the app become direct Lightroom. The other half have to have a Fusion app as a front end towards Lr. What is up with two very different implementations?

Also Topaz has a public beta of Studio where it looks they have watered down the capabilities of many of the standalone plugins into a single package.

Any and all comments on what Topaz is doing is appreciated. I am rethinking doing the trial.

 

[TheDrift-]

I have a few of the topaz plug-ins but I always tend to use them from Photoshop, I am not sure of the other implementations.

 

[Mark0]

I have a few of the topaz plug-ins but I always tend to use them from Photoshop, I am not sure of the other implementations.

Me too but it's only usually Topaz DeNoise. I'm not a fan of software suites in general like Nik Collection etc.