A common thing that needs to be repaired in landscape photos is highlight blowout ( true blowout area as in all white with zero underlying image data to recover) in the clouds. I can’t find a way to do this and there are no prompts that can accomplish this that I’m aware of. I would like to keep my clouds and NOT do an entire sky swap, but simply generate and swap out the blown out area within the visable non blownout parts of the clouds, filling the blowout with a regenerated, blended similar cloud type thus keeping my photo as original as possible but eliminating highlight blowout.
At the moment, there isn’t a way in Topaz Photo to selectively regenerate true highlight blowout areas (where there’s no underlying data) while blending them seamlessly into existing cloud structure without doing a broader sky replacement. You’re also correct that there isn’t a prompting mechanism available currently to guide the AI in that specific way.
That said, your idea of localized cloud regeneration, filling only the blown-out regions while preserving the original cloud formations, is a great one, especially for photographers who want to maintain authenticity and avoid full sky swaps. We’ll be sure to share this suggestion with the development team as a feature idea for future consideration.
Really appreciate you outlining both the problem and the ideal solution so clearly. Feedback like this is exactly what helps guide longer-term improvements.
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So many of my landscape/sky photos from early digital cameras from the 2000 to 2010 had blowout prone sensors and to this day even with cameras over the past decade I still have to severely underexpose or exposure stack with multi shots to try to rid my photos of this persistent, patchy dataless evil. I have hundreds if not thousands of photos thus affected that I never deleted in the hope that one day they can be salvaged. So this type of repair, combined with your current upscaling, could help me bring to market many such old, but well-composed, comparatively tiny-1600 x 1200 sized blown-out photo files from first digital camera right up through my newest modern sensor 6000 X 4000 shots
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