Hello all.
Just bought the Topaz bundle.
Main reason is I want to restore some old photos from the 20’s & 30’s.
As I used a scanner there is a lot of dust still on the photos and I was under the impression that Gigapixel could remove this? At least from the advertisement on the front page.
How do I go about doing this? Or have I misinterpreted this as a function?
Many thanks
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Hi 50cc.
I don’t work for Topaz and I’m afraid you’re correct neither Gigapixel or Photo AI were designed for this functionality.
Topaz states that their AI Model’s were only trained on millions of colour digital images and not Black and White or Scanned images.
Having said that, myself and many others have achieved miraculous results on both Scanned and B/W Images using the Topaz Applications.
If you go back to the scanned image example on the Gigapixel main page and enable Fullscreen you’ll see that the girl’s face has indeed been recovered and cleaned up which is one of the highlights of Gigapixel and Photo AI.
However, on further inspection of the overall image, as you scroll across you’ll see that only some of the noise has been removed the rest is very in defined and muddy, detail has been lost from the girl’s necklace, brooch and the cushion.
I would recommend using Photo AI for your recovery work with a combination of using Selections and Masking different areas for both Denoising and Sharpening to achieve the results you require for your images.
As a bonus to aid you with your restoration work
Here’s a handy FREE Plugin and an excellent YouTube tutorial which explains how to remove repeating textures
Pattern Suppressor tutorial v2
The FREE plugins/actions can be downloaded here: http://ft.rognemedia.no/ 184
This tutorial demonstrates how to remove periodically repeating patterns in Photoshop using the FT-plugins by Ronald Chambers, and the accompanying Photoshop actions
Hope this helps
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Thanks for this. Unfortunately I don’t have Photoshop and I am not in agreement with Adobe’s business model, so if you have any other suggestions it would be greatly appreciated.
Hi 50cc.
Apologies for not replying sooner you didn’t reply to me directly so, I don’t receive an email from Topaz telling me you answered my reply.
I would still recommend Photoshop because, Topaz Gigapixel and Photo AI work as filters also, it has a number of auto AI filters that wood suit your restoration task.
For instance, AI dust removal, an AI Restoration Neural filter, Dot Pattern removal and a Colourisation AI filter.
Also, you can buy a one year subscription from Amazon’s Black Friday deal for £62:99, have it for a year then cancel the subscription.
If you still don’t want Photoshop then any of the other image editors available will help in restoring your images
