Gigapixel AI should open by itself after installing the update. Your plugin configurations should now be reset. Follow any prompts displayed relating to installing plugins.
Major Changes
Native Apple M1 support
Drag and drop DMG installer for mac
Updated visual theme
Batch model downloading option
Improvements
Reduced Very compressed model pixel shift
Reduced GPU memory usage when face refinement enabled
Reduced installer size
Allowed expanding file list to show >3 files
Cleaner edges on transparent images
Fixes
Fixed preserve source format using TIFF for some JPEGs
Fixed black lines in output at certain sizes
Fixed crashes on some hardware combinations
Fixed incorrect backend selection on Windows 11
Fixed face refinement not working on machines with old GPUs
Fixed process failing silently if face detection model not present
Improved wording of various dialogs and tooltips
Fixed long file names overlapping other text
Fixed time measurement displayed in file list
Fixed batch processing handling images out of order
Fixed custom crop tool aspect ratio ignored
Fixed “Save As” file suffixes not matching batch mode
Fixed certain JPEGs showing 0x0 dimensions
Stopped model downloads cancelling each other
Require model downloads (fixes many hardware compatibility issues)
Fixed photoshop plugin crashing on mac
Fixed auto parameter calculation in plugin mode
Fixed some cases of exiting without output when used as plugin
Prompt for plugin installation when photoshop detected
(Ignore the high edit count, this is my original post and I’ve moved the extra stuff into a second post.)
I love the new batch download for models, allowing me to get them all the first time I run it up. Much appreciated!
Oh and thanks for this new version, I’m keeping my fingers crossed it’s great! Plus probably a good idea that you skipped 5.9 if iffy versions are around on the Internet, even if 6 seems to offer more to Mac users I’m fine with it making the big jump (vs. 5.10).
Also while I’m asking how does the support period work, can you still get bug-fix updates to the version you are using (I guess x.x.*) after support runs out or do you have to go back to the last stable version?
The reason for asking is I don’t really think I’ve gotten a version that improves on 5.4.5 during my whole, soon to expire, year of support, as nothing came out that worked better, so I didn’t get a new version at all and wonder if another year is a good idea until people say it’s got a lot better (rather strangely, yet usefully, I was told that if I turned off all the new features in 5.8.0 it would work the same as 5.4.5, which didn’t quite meet my criteria for an updated version).
P.S. Any chance on Windows it could appear as a context menu send-to option?
Alas I see it’s still broken for my designer stubble example from v5.8.0 (see Gigapixel v5.8.0 - #77 by jmlphotography) and I assume I should just leave Face Refinement off by default?
(Life is too short, for most images anyway, to go beyond trying 5 model types to 20 options with Face and Blur each on and off. Let alone manual control.)
I plan to stick with v6 for now, rather than 5.4.5.
Also why when doing the preview is it much slower than when doing the final image (4x or worse for a small part of the image vs. the whole one). I have it set to use my RTX2060, but is the preview done by the CPU?
Graphics Info says “preview limit 6603 pixels” regardless of “allowed memory consumption” being Med or High, if that is helpful - what does it mean? Oh and 32GB DRAM, 6GB VRAM; Win10Pro 21H2; Nvidia Studio graphic driver 511.65; 4k display.
Time to update this now that you’ve migrated to the drag-and-drop method of installing. Gigapixel AI won’t open by itself, so just tell Mac users to run it after copying it to their Applications folder.
Edit: and congrats to the Topaz team for moving the whole suite to drag-and-drop install. It’s incredibly easy to update now, and has saved this Mac user from permissions hell that I would get with the installer.
I am primarily a Mac user, but also use Windows, and that would be a nice improvement. Often I have windows covering the drop area of Gigapixel (or any Topaz app)—as a Mac user I have the Dock but in Windows, the context menu makes a lot of sense.
For an application to appear on the context menu just right click on an image, select open with, then search for the application you want to open it with from the other option and click on the executable.
After that first time it will appear with it’s own entry in the open with option.
Unfortunately, 6.0, while a nice performance improvement on my M1, continues the very bad habit of overwriting RAW files. When enlarging non-RAW files, GAI follows the settings inbox preferences for file renaming quite well. But when applied to RAW files, GAI overwrites the original. Perhaps there is some technical reason for this, but it seems to me very undesirable behavior.
I believe it will overwrite DNG files as that is an output format. If it is a RAW file test it by making a copy and send both files to support after raising a support request. You may need to upload to a file sharing site first if they are large files and send the link.
Thanks, but I know how to set the file preferences. As I said in my comment, it works fine with non-RAW. It’s the RAW that’s the problem. And this is not a new issue. It is a known problem.
Right. And from my point of view, that is not optimal. For now, I make physical dupes of all RAW files that I want to process through Gigapixel. Thanks for your support suggestion. I will follow up on that.
