Please put the previews back.
Hi Terry.
Although it would be nice to have the Previews back, the Previews were removed because, on numerous occasions people have reported that the Previews didn’t match the final image Rendering
The difficulty is as the Preview and final output aren’t actually connected because, they’re are Genaitive AI meaning, every time the image is Rendered that is a completely new Generation of the image regardless of it were the final image or preview hence, the inconsistencies between the two.
In addition I suspect, it has something to do with the difference between Rendering a Small Window compared to the whole Image
So, hopefully the Boffins at Topaz can somehow find a way around the difficulties and are working on a solution.
Terry, don’t forget you can Vote for your own suggestion
Hello!
We’ve removed the cropped preview option (small/medium/large bounds) across the generative models because it was causing more confusion than value. With diffusion-style generation, changing the input area produces different outcomes, so the cropped preview never matched what you’d get in a full export.
The best way to preview is to send the full image to the Cloud Render queue for fast and unlimited previews. You will still see slight differences between local and cloud results, but the differences will be less than that of cropped previews.
Thanks for your reply Tyler! The beauty of a preview was that it often did a better job of reproducing the selected area than the overall render. Unfortunately, the only way to save it was with a screenshot. I’m guessing the same results could be achieved by rendering a crop of the image. An even better solution from my perspective would be to have a crop refinement tool that could be applied on top of or combined with the overall rendering.
When you’re Rendering the whole Image that is a High Resolution output however, Rendering the small preview area then talking a Screenshot is only the resolution of your Monitor Screen for example 1920×1080 and you’re further compounding that by only grabbing a small portion of the already Low Resolution Screen.
You’re guessing right, by taking away your ability to grab a Low Resolution Screenshot has done you a favour thereby forcing you to Render a much Higher Resolution Crop instead.
A nice suggestion, although I suspect difficult to implement but, you never know.
In the meantime it’s probably best for to use Gigapixel as Plug-in within Photoshop
- Place your image on a new Layer then make that Layer a Smart Object
- Then open the Smart Object Crop your image and send that to Gigapixel via the Automate Method
- Add Enhancements and Render the image
- Then Export back to Photoshop and Close the Smart Object
- Next simply Right Click on the Smart Object and Select Rasterize Layer
- Finally Composite and Blend the Layer with the image
Topaz doesn’t officially support Smart Objects however, you won’t be using the Smart Objects that way merely opening a Smart Object and sending that image to Gigapixel as though it were a separate image
This is a work around for Photoshop and Topaz because, the Topaz Apps don’t recognise Photoshop’s “Don’t Delete Crop Pixels”
Hope this helps
This sounds like a feature request I’ve submitted that behaves similarly to Face Recovery. When faces are enhanced this is a cropped refinement that is blended with the overall result. Sounds like a nice feature but unsure how difficult this is to implement.
Also related were requests for segmentation and controlled enhancements:
- Request | [Redefine] Finer Creativity Levels
- Request | Segmentation Features
- Enhancement Request | Controls for Redefine Creative
