It’s frustrating and a waste of time when I select a filter/tool such as Sharpen and select Subject and it totally cocks up the area it selects so I go into the Custom option and manualy paint in/out the correct subject area to what it shoud lbe. that’s fine it won’t always get it right, but then when I add another filter/tool say Adjust Lighting, and select Subject, it uses the originally incorrectly selected area so I have go through the entire paint/depaint process again. Same applies if working on the background. It’d be much simpler if (1) when you edited the Subject, it offered to make the remaining area the “new” background, seeing as the unselected area is not the Subject, and (2) if once a new Subject area is custom selected if it had the option to use the SAME new Subject area in every other filter/tool or background to save having to redraw the custom subject for every freaking filter. These 2 simple additions would be a huge timesaver.
In Topaz DeNoise AI (and the other members of that software family) I can define a mask and easely invert it with the INVERT function. It is a very, very, powerful and useful feature but I don’t find something equal in Topaz AI. Please explain me if I am doing something wrong.
Thank you.
Would be handy to speed up the workflow where AI selects water/waterfalls & the such as the subject, and it is the surrounding area that you wish to sharpen not the subject.
Has anyone else asked or suggested to be able to invert the subject mask for Photo AI? This could be useful for some post processing after using Photo AI the first time, to be able to come back and work with the background specifically as a subject. [Edit] - I saw someone else was asking about this so I gave it a vote.
We’re working on this specifically for the Remove Noise filter at the moment
Thanks for the quick reply!
When you say you are working on it for the ‘Remove Noise’ filter, would that also provide the same option/functionality when used with the sharpen filter in Photo AI too?
Photo AI is becoming better and better with each refinement as you release upgrades. Thanks for the great work on this very useful tool.
Thanks /Mike
It might look different for Sharpen. Currently, there’s a “subject only” toggle within Sharpen if you haven’t given that a try yet!
Sometimes the sharpening is a bit strong even with the sliders very low or all the way down; it may still be too much for the foreground subject, so an “invert subject” in the sharpen mode would give the option of leaving the foreground subject unaffected, while doing some global sharpening in the back ground with the “invert mask”. This would be different than the current “subject only” option because either choice on that option is still going to sharpen the AI defined subject. I guess I could go in and subtract the mask out of the main subject and then little by little add it back in to all the background, but that would be quite a bit of work to isolate out the AI defined subject that way.
Thanks for clarifying. I can see how manually subtracting from the mask can be tedious.
[It would be useful to have an option to invert the Subject mask
Thanks for your input. Currently you can manually apply the mask to the background if you’d like, but I can see how tedious that is and how an invert subject mask tool would be useful.
I’m used to being able to undo my last action in DXO, Photoshop, etc. (Mac OS Command+Z). But TOPAZ AI V2 doesn’t seem to do this.
Making adjustments can be a trial if I forget the original value, make a change I don’t like and then have to re-fine tune to get back to where I was…
Why is the Command+Z disabled in Topaz?
I agree, that would be really helpful. I’ll bring it up with our developers at our next planning meeting.
How advanced is this function now? Or does it already exist and I just can’t find it?
Don´t understand this too , in the late V1 and Sharpen Ai tool it was there and very useful.
Please integrate this invert tool again!!!
Please integrate this invert tool again!!!
It is more useful than substracting areas.
In sharpen Ai it was very useful.
Thank you
Please add subject auto selection from main screen to remove tool and include an ‘inverse mask’ option.
This way we can use the existing auto subject selection, which is quite good, in the remove tool, and as an example, click on ‘inverse mask’ to select everything but the subject!
In addition to my request to add the AI selection brush to the remove tool as well.
Thanks!
It would be great if you offered alt+click while painting to invert the option to work similarly to how many painting apps work (like Photoshop). I find it very inefficient to have to manually click add or subtract every time I want to add or remove parts of the mask. Allowing alt and paint would allow you to swap much easier and do small adjustments a lot easier as you keep your mouse in the same spot to remove your masking errors etc.
on top of that having a key + scroll to adjust the brush size would be extremely helpful if not swap that to be heel and key + for zoom.
I’d like to (selfishly) clarify that the Inverse Mask functionality (anywhere in PAI where masking is supported) should be possible Even If a Mask is Selected Manually & not be limited to just auto selections.
If that’s the case, then I endorse this suggestion!
Wholeheartely agree!
