Just purchased a new MacBook Air, (Sonoma 14.5) and would like to use Studio 2 on it, as I do on my desktop. I know Studio 2 is discontinued. I’ve checked to see if the Studio 2 plugin file is located in the adobe photoshop 2024 plugin folder, and it is. I also tried downloading the Studio 2 installer from Topaz and reinstalling. Would appreciate any suggestions that you have. Thanks.
I have the same issue with new Mac Studio. Would appreciate a solution as well. Thank you.
Hi there - I got here by searching the topic of how I can get Topaz studio 2 to work in Photoshop 25. Really frustrating isn’t it! I’ve used Topaz 2 for years on an old Intel iMac which finally I had to stop using owing to continuous crashes and my new Fuji XT5 files not being compatible with the version of Lightroom I had (you can’t upgrade to the latest versions on the old Intel iMacs). I ported all my data to a new MacBook Pro M4. The plugins migrated within my Photoshop 22 folder. Once done, Photoshop 22 wouldn’t work without me installing Rosetta. Weird. Isn’t that for operating windows?? Anyway - so as you’d obviously do when you have the latest Mac OS - I then upgraded to Photoshop 25. Opened up - no Topaz. Checked the plug in folder - it’s not there. So I grabbed the files from the separate folder that came across on the transfer and dump them in the plug in folder. Re-start Photoshop 25. Nothing doing.
Obviously nobody has responded to your queries above, so wondering if Topaz have decided not only to drop Studio 2 but also not to provide any help?
Bingo! Yeah they Dropped Studio2 and many other legacy products. I knew that when I upgraded to a Mac this week. I know where you’re coming from, I love the legacy products and still have some on my older laptop which for that reason alone is still running mohave.
PS 2021 still runs on my new computer and Studio 2 is still a plug in for it in my case but it isn’t working either. I tried Studio 2 as a standalone. Also not working. Yeah, they say on the website they don’t support the legacy products. Upgrading was a trade off for me. I couldn’t stand my old intel Mac stalling and crashing all the time and PS taking 15 minutes to load. Now I’m a happy camper with sequoia but it was a trade off - I knew I’d have to say goodbye to my topaz software loves. I’m going to try one more thing a fresh install of studio 2, but I doubt it will do any good. The one thing. Topaz folk will do for you is verify whether any further efforts on Studio 2 2ill bear any fruit. (my great love is Impression1 - still runs on my old Mohave…)but never again on my new Mac. Also you can probably pick up an older Mac laptop somewhere cheap which runs older software that will s upport studio 2.
Another great software favorite I had (other than topaz_ could not keep up with all the Apple changes and upgrades. I imagine its a hopeless challenge. On the bright side, Topaz Gigapixel is amazing.
Studio 2 does work on newer Macs with the most recent MacOS. I use it on my 2019 iMac running Sequoia 15.3 as a plugin with Photoshop 2025. Unfortunately it did not install as a plugin on my 2022 MacBook Pro. I’m trying to figure out how to get PS 2025 to recognize it as a plugin. If anyone knows how to get it working as a plugin rather than a standalone app, I’d appreciate the tip. Thanks.
