This is the first GP that has the new EULA with terms that are not agreeable to many of us here. If you load this you are changing the legal relationship between yourself and Topaz. Check with your lawyer if you are not sure.
Maybe it should not be called EULA (End User License Agreement) but CLOS (Company License Offer Start) instead.
In Germany, companies must have what are called ‘Geschäftsbedingungen’ (terms and conditions). You wouldn’t believe how often companies have tried to invent conditions that were later struck down by judges because the told conditions created a significant disadvantage for the customer.
A company sold prepaid phone cards that could be recharged with money. After 6 months, the company locked the card, regardless of whether there was still money on it. They stated that the remaining balance was lost. The judges ruled that if you paid for a service, it is not legitimate to withhold the service, and the service must be provided.
Hi David,
Apologies on missing your first comment. Meme of shame warranted.
I spoke with our product team and the quick export button will not be coming back for the time being - only because we are discussing on how to improve the overall export process for future iterations and how we can really improve on it.
So although it won’t return, please know we are working on bringing something better.
Feel free to continue sharing your thoughts in the Ideas section about it though!
I did see that, but the installer for 7.4.3 (and at the time, the Topaz website) still had clean and reasonable terms for the EULA on that release. The troublesome language did not appear until this installer, so I was careful to back out before agreeing or installing, and to delete the 7.4.4 file from my computer.
For me, it would speed up export a lot if we could have dimensions that are not aspect ratio locked in which we can specify exact pixel counts.
Currently, images which should be, say, 2160x1440 cannot always be specified (they will be out by one or more pixels in one dimension) and even when we can specify them, the export itself can also be out by one or more pixels from what was specified.
It is difficult second-guessing entering, say 2163x1442 in the hope we can accidentally hit 2160x1440 on export, or at least crop it back to 2160x1440 after export.
I think the root of the problem is that smaller images are rounded to the nearest pixel which can cause errors when scaling up.
It doesn’t look like this is going to happen. It was there in an earlier release of V7, so I would have thought it would be easy enough to reinstate. Best get used to many, many clicks…
In GP we need something reliable to quickly adjust color, same with PAI. Neither of the current included options really do much. I think a generic Levels dialog would go a long way.
I used to use a PS plug-in with 1-click color correction called PictoColor iCorrect EditLab Pro, but it went obsolete along the way (users would click on different neutral areas to adjust color, very effective). If Topaz added that type of thing it would be really helpful to whip an image into shape before exporting and avoid embarrassing discussions such as this .
*I do see what you mean about Bill; this was the least amount of face recovery in the bunch and that level of blending may have had an effect.
For color correction, especially for scanned photos, I use an older 32-bit (x86) version of Photoshop with the KODAK PROFESSIONAL ROC PLUG-IN. I’ve modified the default Kodak batch action to work with the ACES AP0 color space and 16-bit color depth, which significantly improved accuracy, particularly with older scans. I get the ACES AP0 profile from Raw Therapee and copy it to C:\Windows\System32\spool\drivers\color on my Windows system to make it available in Photoshop. The action is excellent for batch processing, not just for scanned photos, but also for regular photos.
Unfortunately, Kodak has discontinued this plugin (luckily, I got it in time). If you’re interested and use Kodak Roc Digital Pro, I’m happy to share the modified action and color profile.
Regarding Gigapixel AI batch processing, I’ve noticed an issue with the “Face Recovery” (Gen 2) option. When enabled during batch upscaling, it seems to only apply face restoration to the first image in the selection, while the rest are only upscaled. Are any of you experiencing the same behavior? This makes it very cumbersome when processing a large number of photos, as it requires manual processing of each image individually.