Given your expertise level and what you’re experiencing it does sound like you may need to submit a trouble ticket to Tech Spt staff specifying the same things you did in this user forum thread… along with your example shots (which certainly illustrate your concerns!).
Good luck! Hope they can address. Sounds like you’re a loyal (as well as savvy) user.
I have submitted a support ticket with all of the screen shots. But I really appreciate your concern. The first thing I did was create the support ticket. I am only sharing here for the benefits of the Topaz Community. I am sure that other Mac users are having this problem. I just came home from a private lesson in which my student is having the same issues that I am having and he also is using a Mac Pro with the latest Mojave update 10.14.5.
Fotomaker brought up the fact that I had the small detail slider adjusted to high so I wanted to show you the same image with the detail slider at a very low amount. As you can see this is not the proper behavior of the small detail slider. The first image is a screenshot so you can see the slider amounts and the second is a jpeg zoomed in so you can see the results and the third is the original with minor adjustments from DXO Photolab 2 with Prime noise reduction added.
Okay, that is very different results. And, I am not debating/defending software design approaches. I just have a scientific bent so like to test diff ideas (hypotheses if you will…) to narrow down what affects what.
So I will volley one more time then stop playing… Here’s what I would test if it were my pic ( just for scientific method kicks):
If those all seem to handle an image differently then I (since it’s my scientific test, afterall) would be tempted to want to understand how each s/w producer noted (Adobe, Topaz, DxO) defines terms like clarity, diff sizes of detail, contrast, etc. to understand what their algorithms are written/employed to address.
But you have inspired me to do some personal photo composite work to spark my synapses & try to find the possibilities vs limits of what the products I have can achieve. Thx for the motivational boost!
Using your jpg clean photo I opened it in Adjust AI and set the small detail to 0.15 with the attached crop. I don’t see the bad result you get on your Mac, so I think it is a Mac/Topaz issue. Though going higher on the detail doesn’t look good for faces.
No matter what image I give adjust ai or precision detail, be it tiff, jpeg, add noise reduction, add sharpening or don’t I get the same results. I have been working with Topaz detail ever since the product came out many years ago, it being a big part of my workflow for adding localized detail enhancements and have had wonderful results. This problem I have shown you is a very recent problem and I think the latest Mojave update 10.14.5 has something to do with it. I have confidence in Topaz that they will sort this out. By the way the clarity sliders work like they are supposed to. I will grab a stock jpeg photo with no adjustments added and just apply a small amount of small detail so you can see what I am explaining. Thanks for your concern and I appreciate your determination to help.
Notice Small Detail Slider set to +.39 using Legacy Detail 3.0 Closeup of the Adjust Ai Small Detail Adjustment(Right side no Detail Applied, left side detail applied) Example showing Topaz Legacy Detail 3.0 resultsOh oh. Something happened to the reply I posted after doing another test!!! And my posting above has ZERO to do with the thread above. It was related to a whole different discussion thread relating to color shifts when using Adjust AI 1.0.3 in AUTO STD mode. I don’t know what the heck happened but it would be nice if this post just above was re-joined with the series of related posts so there’s some continuity to the issues that people are raising. Thx! I had another post related to this one and they all tied into 3-4 other posts from earlier today on the same topic!
It’s missing. I posted it hours ago. I even processed another jpg image and tried adjusting the warmth (blue/yellow) slider then added notes to respond to several comments that were posted here.
I don’t know why 1/2 the thread that was on this topic would disappear. But it is very very frustrating.
Don split it into two separate topics which makes sense since the blurring has been fixed.
But I didn’t post under blurring in the 1st place. Just under color shifts. Two sets of related posts in a single thread on that topic got moved then…
You did as this thread was about blurring & problems with Small Details adjustments on a MAC. Your, and others, posts on Color Shifts are in the thread on color shifts.
