The balance color and lighting don’t work very well. Does anyone else feel like this? Maybe at 20 opacity. Why does it have to rerender every single process when I zoom out
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Sorry I meant Lighting Adjustment rather than Balance Colour. Most of my shots have been of moths early morning using an LED light panel set a 6000 kelvin and Lighting Adjustment tend to result the green cast. That said I’ve just used it on one of the photos from this morning and the result is pretty good. First time I’ve seen that. Perhaps its the green background.
The sharpening and noise reduction rarely needs any adjustments and if they do its usually because the software has been unable to fully detect the subject.
Hi,
Yes, I was responding to what Lighting was doing to your image. Based on your snip above.
But what I was saying was that it looked as though PAI applied a Color Balance, rather than a Lighting alteration, even though you didn’t have the Color Balance option turned on… 
In other words, for that example it looks like the wrong feature kicked in.
I tried the Balance Color feature and was able to make the photo slightly cooler. The background was improved, unfortunately, the subject turned blue including the face. Maybe you could add the option to mask the subject to exclude from the temperature adjustment.
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Can you upload the original image file? I’d like to try and reproduce this.
As Adobe user it will need some improvements to convince me into using the Lighting and Color Balance options.
Adjust lightning seems more of an improve lightning, with unpredictable outcome.
slider up can result in either a darker or a lighter picture depending on what “AI thinks is best”
Similar for the Balance Color, the unpredictable outcome, and how it reacts on the slider.
Behaves much like a variable HUE slider, where its sensitivity varies per picture. (e.g. not just color temp as suggested). And auto setting most of the time too yellow.
For both already on the radar : it is slow as it fully re-renders all (de-noise / sharpen / …) and not available for RAW.
It is Beta, and we have seen the improvements from the first Photo AI Beta to the current version, so hope we will see the same for these new features.
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I find 2.0.1 to be a welcome improvement over my previous version. Well done! The color balance and light adjustment could be very helpful but I think the current auto choice is way out of whack. I messed around with both for awhile and did find satisfying settings. I very much approve of this new Photo AI version and look forward to adjustment to the auto choice for light and color, but I can surely live with it as is. This program can be a great time saver.
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It’s not working, just freezing up and finally quitting ??
Please submit a support ticket at support.topazlabs.com and we’ll be able to help you out using specific info about your computer.
I tested the program on a variety of black and white (scanned) photographs. It’s a good start. It’s certainly limited on handling artifacts (eg., cracks and scratches). Lighting adjustments can create a greenish or yellowish cast.
Balance colour is far too warm IMO
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Is there a specific workflow or file type that’s prone to the green/yellow artifacts?
As I stated, when I optimized the lighting adjustments on some, not all, of the black and white images I got a slight greenish cast. A light setting of +5 to +7 works best, and no greenish cast. See attached example below
Sy Holtzman
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Sy Holtzman
As I stated, when I optimized the lighting adjustments on some, not all, of the black and white images I got a slight greenish cast. A light setting of +5 to +7 works best, and no greenish cast. See attached example below
Sy Holtzman
before after
I MUCH MUCH like the slider bar better with the color grading under it - Thanks for all your hard work and updates
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It still says a RAW file cannot be edited yet.
On the lighting filter, it would eb sueful if you could add a @control Point’ so yeach controil point can have it’s own lighting adjustment.
As it stands at the momnmet, the 1 x lighting adjustment option, doesn’t provide for adjusting an image that has light and shade and you want to lighten the shade area but not the light area(s).
It makes more sense for gauging impact, doesn’t it.
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I am using those features, but having an “auto” white balance would be more useful to me than the “balance color”. I have to import again to the editor in order to do just that. Thanks.
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We’re working on integrating the new beta features into autopilot.
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Both Lighting and Balance Color didn’t work particularly well in any of the photos I’ve tested so far. Overexposed photos are too contrasty and much too saturated, which can hardly be improved with the slider, apart from the fact that the reaction to any change is much too slow.
