I was comparing TPAI vs their marketing material. Clearly, some photos were downscaled (should have been upscaled, right?). However, after trying TG 7, I see a little improvement in some cases over TPAI. But it’s superiority is not huge/ and sometimes new TG7 models lose to TPAI. I just don’t see a reason for TG7 to exist. They just need to incorp new models to TPAI and move on, imo.
It’s all said in the filenames. In my screenshots. Just they are compressed too much, you cannot see clearly. Those are jpg’s, dumped from the marketing page from your link.
Thanks, in my own tests, the GP beta and PAI release were on-par with enlargement.
I too wonder how the revived GP fits in – perhaps its price point is lower, and for those who don’t want PAI bells and whistles, it’s an appropriate choice.
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But it’ not that much lower, right?
PAI is $200, normal price. Gigapoxel is $100?
I would not buy either.
C’mon. Nobody pays those prices. TG should be ~25% of TPAI anyway.
It is still half the price.If you already have DeNoise and Sharpen AI, why buy PAI?
But there is no control, how do you reduce sharpening?
It should just be enlarging.
If I had no other image editing app (but I do, ha!) I would use either GP or PAI for enlargement, sharpening and noise reduction (as well as facial recovery). I have 50 years of technology-challenged photos (film scans, early digital) as well scans of historical family photos and lo-res AI (stable diffusion) renders that all need some sort of help to be used commercially in the modern world.
As for not owning either of these Topaz apps, what else would you use for all of these features? One of Topaz’ main competitors offers AI upscaling but it’s not in the same league (but of course offers creative stuff that Topaz no longer does).
Here is Gigapixel upscaling an AI render 4X:
The competition:
Full-frame view:
I didn’t buy it - I had a whole Topaz photo bundle, so I got PAI for free. But now… Should I buy a Gigapixel? I don’t think so. PAI is more convenient to use - it’s all in one place.
I did not buy it either. I bought Sharpen AI and upgraded DeNoise and Gigapixel. PAI for me does not work as well as Sharpen AI. DeNoise is ok but I find DxO better.
@rarimas @Hbie As it stands right now, in my tests with extreme facial recovery from a 1905 postage stamp on a postcard to my great-grandmother, Gigapixel 7 (beta) is doing the best job. Here are the results:
GP6:
PAI:
GP7 (beta with Standard model, cropped for privacy since it’s not released yet):
For anyone interested, the Gigapixel 7 pre-order sale (and general Holiday Sale) is live through the 30th.
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But face recovery just blurs faces, why have it so extreme?
I don’t use face recovery.
A couple of things to address your comments:
- Facial recovery does not usually blur faces. Perhaps the stamp was a bad example. Here is one of my grandmother from about Christmas 1939 that began blurry but did not end up that way (GP 6.3.3)!
BTW, it dawned on me today that the Facial Recovery in GP 7 is not yet fully implemented, but it still gave me the best results with the Franklin stamp face.
- Why so extreme? I like to push Topaz software! What’s the point of running eleventy-eight jigapixel images through it that already look great? How would that be impressive?
I’ve got a ton of old family photos as well as my own film scans and early digital images that need extreme makeovers to be at all presentable in the current technological climate. Topaz apps are the only ones that can pull this off.
I tried to do this same photo with one of the main competition’s apps – first, it couldn’t even open a greyscale image:
Then it couldn’t work on “large faces”:
So the Topaz apps are a necessity for doing this type of restorative work.
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Any idea when Gigapixel AI 7 will be released?
They said mid-January.
If faces are quite large and sharp, then it blurs them. I was told, it is only designed to work on small, poor quality faces.
Why it auto selects, large faces in Gigapixel, I don’t know. There is not enough control in Gigapixel often it over sharpens images.
Your first 2 stamp images you have overdone, the face recovery. The last looks as if no face recovery has been done.
Haha 
That’s an absurdly niche scenario, but yes, G7 looks better here I wonder if the reduced face recovery in PAI could do a pretty good job, too?
