the noise outside the subject was great but its affecting the eye of the bird. the center eyeball is supposed to be black, not blurry black and white
Steps to reproduce issue:
- load image
- wait for auto pilot to finish
It’s difficult to tell from your low-res upload, but it looks to me as if the bird is out of focus. Try using the Sharpening model on the subject only (or just the eye, by refining the mask) to see if you get a better result. Autopilot does not always achieve the best result and some tinkering is often inevitable.
Try upscaling the image slightly using the Upscale module at the bottom of the app – this might give the photo enough pixels to bring the eye back!
here you go Ray, adding more context below.
maybe clicking the uploaded image works? but according to fast raw viewer the bird and the eye is in focus. i also remember the sony autofocus green box got the head, i don’t no longer have a screenshot since it was deleted in my camera. but below is the one i got from my pc.
this image is a 200% zoom. i tried to see what it looks like when sharpened is only turned on. and this is what i got. its very close to the original. even the edges of the wings, they are very similar.
now if i turn on denoise and turn off sharpening.
it’s actually making it worse. It’s as if it doesn’t know that the subject is already sharp and making it worse. It’s as if all the eyes and the side wings are noise.
hi preston. i think i have enough resolution?? im zooming in at 200% though.
or are you telling me, to apply the crop to my desire, upscale, then apply denoise?
but how come I’m only having this issue with the photo above? the other photos don’t have issues.
below is an example of a heavily cropped photo and zoomed in. I used autopilot here and it did the job well.
If this behavior is only happening with that image, this could possibly be an image that just is giving our current AI models a hard time whereas the program has an easier time with your other images.
I don’t want to discount that this certainly could be a conflict related to one or two of the modules in use here, so I’m passing this along to our Topaz Photo AI team to see if they are able to take a deeper look into this.
Please send me the file and I can check what is happening.
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Hi Lingyu,
I just uploaded the file with the name _A7R6261.ARW
Thanks for sharing the file. I had and was able to reproduce the issue you are seeing.
It seems that the bird is so small that Topaz Photo AI is having difficulty improving this part of the image. I would recommend the following to get a better result out of the application.
- Crop the image. I cropped it down to about 1.5k x 2.2k pixels.
- Upscale the image. I used 3x upscale.
This improved the image quality for me.
The Raw Remove Noise and Sharpen models are not good for such a small subject and improving the detail there.
Let me know if that helps and if you have further questions about this.
oh no thats sad, i usually work with 800-2000 images per shoot. its too tedious for me to involve custom workflow for images that have these issues. that would take me days to complete.
auto pilot applied to all photos really suits my use case at the moment. maybe ill just do this for print outs but for web photos its not worth it.
this shot was just way too far. i might just archive photos like these…
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