When going through the recommended edits, I wonder why each step must be re-processed when making a minor adjustment on the last step. For example:
Sharpen
Adjust Lighting
Balance Colour
First - making a slight tweak to the temperature in Balance Color results in the preview being executed again for Sharpen, Adjust Lighting, and then finally Balance Colour - which was the only item being adjusted. If there is a good reason for this behaviour, I’d love to know it. If not, I wish for this behaviour to be corrected because it adds a lot of time to the editing process.
Second - and this really should be a topic all on its own - Balance colour ALWAYS ends up with an image that looks like it is going through a yellow filter… the results are always horrendous! No matter how many times I dial the temperature back to something more normal, Topaz doesn’t learn my preference.
Reprocessed Enhancements
The Enhancements are reprocessed each time because, it’s not like stacking Layers or adding Predefined Filter Effects these are Intelligent Enhancements that interact with one another.
Basically, as you refine or adjust one, the others act and reconfigure accordingly besides, this all happens in a blink of an eye or fraction of a second if you like.
Balance Colour
The Balance Colour Default can be adjusted within the Preferences Menu as can most of the Autopilot Settings.
Simply goto the Preferences Menu or use the keyboard shortcut and press Command/Control plus the Comma key ,
Once the Preferences Menu Window has opened, click on the Autopilot Section on the left or click one of the Enhancements in the list below and the Options will appear on the right
Here’s a link for information about the Autopilot and Configuration Options
Thanks for the reply And-e.
The refinements, now make more sense to me but I would not call this blink of an eye… I sometimes wait up to a minute depending on the image and the number of processes for this to happen. The machine I am running on is not that old either… it just past 3 yrs and is a MB Pro with M1 and 16G mem. Also, I am not willing to commit to applying the enhancements to a whole image based on the zoomed in crop. I zoom out so I can see the effect over the whole image before I decide to save it.
On the balance colour side, I thought that AI would do an analysis and make reasonable adjustments based on that. Setting a preset value in preferences seems to be at odds with the term AI in the name of the product.
I misread your original post, I believed you were asking about the Enhancements within the side panel updating in a blink of an eye when you were in actual fact referring to the Preview screen constantly updating when you move to different areas and then, waiting for the process bar to finish again and again.
Photo AI defaults to a hundred percent view and only updates that, viewing area, and when you move to a different viewing area the screen updates only that area again.
Basically, this is because, if you’re only viewing a small window why update the whole image.
The good news, there’s a couple things you can do to remedy this behaviour.
Return to the Preferences Menu and under the General section, you’ll see the Default Zoom option, Click on the Drop-Down menu and select Fit to Screen as your new default and Save.
Now when you open an image Photo AI will default to Fit to Screen and when you apply your Enhancements, wait for the whole image to process then, once it’s finished, you’ll be able to Zoom in and Scroll to different areas of the screen without having to wait for the screen to constantly update every time.
Second remedy, if wish to leave the Default Zoom set to a hundred percent then, you can use the keyboard shortcuts to do the same thing.
Simply apply your Enhancements and when you’re ready press Command/Control 0 equals Fit to Screen, again allow Photo AI to process the whole image and if you want you can press Command/Control 1 equals hundred percent view and the preview won’t constantly update each time.
