It has earned in my opinion, a C+ or D- for its re-design. I had to turn OFF autopilot because it overpowered my landscapes tone and color and had no subtlety in its approach. The masking brush is an abomination: It bounces all over the place and I cannot get the areas covered or erased with ease and completeness. The process of of selecting denoise, sharpening etc is difficult since the program places them in an order that I do want. Example: sharpening is places before denoise in the execution stack. I finally I had to delete everything and methodically select the functions I wanted so why not provide a blank page just to start with?
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Or, restore the ability to drag them up or down the list…
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Sharpen was always to be after Denoise as you would not want to sharpen noise! You can select Auto-Pilot to be off, and it will not add any enhancement and you can follow the order in the Add enhancement panel (Denoise to always be before Sharpen)
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I guess I was not clear.
In V3, If I selected denoise first, color 2nd, and then sharpen 3rd, the processing stack would show:
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Denoise
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Color
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Sharpen
Now in v4, the processing stack shows: -
Sharpen
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Color
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Denoise
It implies to me that Denoise is being run after Sharpen (color kind of irrelevant in this discussion). There is no way to move boxes around to get the proper order.
So how is that Topaz reversed the display and/or actual processing of the modules?
If you tell me that bottom of the display of modules is run first, the presentation by Topaz is a weird presentation. Normally, the 1st module to be run is on top of the stack.
r david parker
The order is reversed in v4, yes, mentioned in the [releases notes] - this was a long standing popular request from users, to align to every other program out there (example: Photoshop) as we were the only program in the “backwards” order. We now align to what other programs show for the order, from bottom to top. Think of it like layering layers on a cake.
See the mention below from the Releases notes:
(Topaz Photo AI 4.0 - NEW Dust & Scratch AI Model) and now reads from bottom to top. This was a popular request as we were one of the only programs out there using that prior order, and now this aligns to all other programs.
I do not have PhotoShop so I was not aware of the commonly accepted order of processing.
Thanks for the clarification.
r david parker
No worries! I use Photoshop a lot but had gotten used to the Photo AI order and I am scrambled using the new v4, will take some time to get used to it but it helps to see it as cake layers 
Happy editing!
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