[CORE FEATURE FOCUS] - Refocus on core features (Gigapixel/DeNoise/Sharpen) - No more fancy features

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Thx, I hope the CLI also works in this version.

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AMEN to this!!! I wish that the TOPAZ Team would rethink a bit more and listen to users!!! Donā€™t compete with Adobe, be an ally!

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Using V3.2. I disagree 100%. I want more features and more control. What I want most of all is a lot more control over the lighting and color. Itā€™s the lack of that control makes Photo AI poor for processing my Sony RAW files. For now, I process with DXO PhotoLab and finish processing TIFF and JPEG files with Photo AI.

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Honestly, I think the flow you are following now is the right one: TPAI must do what it knows how to do at its best and not imitate the various Photoshop, Lightromm, DxO etc. because it would still come out a loser; I donā€™t think Topaz has the critical mass to imitate companies like Adobe and consequently it would only add primitive and botched features to TPAI. If TPAI had, for example, concentrated more on solving the anomalies and limitations of face recovery, today it would have no competitors on the market in that sector!

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So what you are telling me is Photo AI is not meant to be a RAW editor. If so, why bother with having it compatible with RAW files at all.

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I think this is the problem of Topaz today that perhaps they have not yet found an answer to.
Should Tpai be a ā€œgeneral purposeā€ image editor like dozens of others on the market (with a know-how that is difficult to achieve) or should it be a ā€œspecial purposeā€ tool with few features (denoise, sharpen, face recovery, and a few others) but of very high quality that ā€œgeneral purposeā€ editors do not have or if they do have them they are of lower quality?
I hope that Topaz chooses the second path or it will continue to have a product full of problems and that will never be a competitive editor with the competition.
Letā€™s not even talk about the price, in my opinion absolutely out of the market both for what it currently provides and for the robustness of the software

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