# Gigapixel v8.1.2 **URL:** \ **Category:** Releases\ **Created:** [January 15, 2025, 8:00am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065 "2025-01-15T08:00:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lingyu](https://community.topazlabs.com/user_avatar/community.topazlabs.com/lingyu/32/109071_2.png) [@Lingyu](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/Lingyu)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2025, 8:00am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065/1 "2025-01-15T08:00:00Z")
Hello! A patch this week with fixes for Redefine text prompt on Windows, camera profiles for new Raw files, and fixes for Gigaprint. Please continue to share your images and tests and let us know of any issues you encounter. We’ll be updating Gigapixel regularly to address your feedback. Thank you! * * * v8.1.2 Released January 15, 2025 Windows: [**Download**](https://downloads.topazlabs.com/deploy/TopazGigapixelAI/8.1.2/TopazGigapixelAI-8.1.2.msi) Mac: [**Download**](https://downloads.topazlabs.com/deploy/TopazGigapixelAI/8.1.2/TopazGigapixelAI-8.1.2.pkg) * * * Changelog: - Generative AI model preview now indicates when preview needs to be reprocessed after processing settings are changed - Redefine text prompt now correctly applies in local or cloud processing for Windows - Fix Redefine text prompt applying to all images in a batch - Added camera profiles for Canon R1, Canon R5 Mark II, and Nikon Z6 III Raw files - Add Fuji GFX 100S II profile - Fix switching from Gigaprint to Edit tab while rendering in Gigaprint - Fix credit cost showing incorrectly when attempting cloud render with insufficient credits - Update print assistant link to use [https://docs.topazlabs.com/gigapixel-ai/about-gigaprint](https://docs.topazlabs.com/gigapixel-ai/about-gigaprint) * * * Lingyu Kong Technical Product Manager Image AI ---
**Author:** ![Fotomaker](https://community.topazlabs.com/user_avatar/community.topazlabs.com/fotomaker/32/23659_2.png) [@Fotomaker](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/Fotomaker)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2025, 1:01pm UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065/3 "2025-01-15T13:01:07Z")
Win 11 laptop. GAI Standalone. NVIDIA 4090 processor (though I suppose that’s irrelevant since I’m trying to run processing in the “Cloud”). I’ve been waiting over 10 minutes for a single image (16MB) to process in the “Cloud” using GAI Recover. It is still at 0% - the 1st 6 minutes the job was sitting in a queue. There has been no progress to the Cloud processing. It’s still at 0%. And the (blankety blank) program debited 26 credits to submit this single image that’s not processing. Something is very wrong. I get sophisticated generative image processing completed in Ps almost instantaneously and they debit me 1 credit per submission. It just finally completed at 11 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![RDPA](https://community.topazlabs.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@RDPA](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/RDPA)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 12:13am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065/4 "2025-01-16T00:13:17Z")
So no fix yet for Redefine not working on Apple Mac M series yet then? ---
**Author:** ![Lingyu](https://community.topazlabs.com/user_avatar/community.topazlabs.com/lingyu/32/109071_2.png) [@Lingyu](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/Lingyu)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 12:51am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065/5 "2025-01-16T00:51:32Z")
The application does save outputs, with limited memory to avoid consuming too much memory. How many images do you view before you notice that the results are no longer saved and reprocessing is needed? ---
**Author:** ![Lingyu](https://community.topazlabs.com/user_avatar/community.topazlabs.com/lingyu/32/109071_2.png) [@Lingyu](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/Lingyu)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 12:53am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065/6 "2025-01-16T00:53:25Z")
We are working on a fix for the noisy output from Redefine. Currently in testing to ensure it is functioning as intended. ---
**Author:** ![RDPA](https://community.topazlabs.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@RDPA](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/RDPA)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 1:00am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065/8 "2025-01-16T01:00:31Z")
Thank you for updating. Much appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![Lingyu](https://community.topazlabs.com/user_avatar/community.topazlabs.com/lingyu/32/109071_2.png) [@Lingyu](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/Lingyu)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 1:40am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065/9 "2025-01-16T01:40:46Z")
Got it, I was able to reproduce and created a task to fix this. It looks like the caching behavior is affected by the feature to notify when settings are changed. ---
**Author:** ![rayinsanmiguel](https://community.topazlabs.com/user_avatar/community.topazlabs.com/rayinsanmiguel/32/57792_2.png) [@rayinsanmiguel](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/rayinsanmiguel)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 2:42am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065/10 "2025-01-16T02:42:27Z")
Lingyu: I have yet to see any difference between Redefine with face recovery and Redefine without! I think the previous poster was querying whether you’ll be able to achieve faster processing speeds with Redefine on the M series. It’s unbearably slow at present! Another point. The progress bar for the full previews in Redefine is still pretty useless. ETA on one file I ran was initially 2m, then 55m, the 62m; and it finally completed the task in 35m! ---
**Author:** ![TPX](https://community.topazlabs.com/user_avatar/community.topazlabs.com/tpx/32/194727_2.png) [@TPX](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/TPX)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 3:30am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065/11 "2025-01-16T03:30:02Z")
[![](https://www.hardwareluxx.de/images/cdn02/uploads/2025/Jan/fiery_wifi_ow/nvidia-editors-day-blackwell-architektur-006_1920px.jpeg) ](https://www.hardwareluxx.de/images/cdn02/uploads/2025/Jan/fiery_wifi_ow/nvidia-editors-day-blackwell-architektur-006_1920px.jpeg) With RTX 50XX both shaders and Tensor Cores are able to process AI workloads (as far as i understand right). A full parallel processor. ---
**Author:** ![Fotomaker](https://community.topazlabs.com/user_avatar/community.topazlabs.com/fotomaker/32/23659_2.png) [@Fotomaker](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/Fotomaker)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 4:15am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065/12 "2025-01-16T04:15:10Z")
Are scholarships available to upgrade processors? ---
**Author:** ![rayinsanmiguel](https://community.topazlabs.com/user_avatar/community.topazlabs.com/rayinsanmiguel/32/57792_2.png) [@rayinsanmiguel](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/rayinsanmiguel)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 4:46am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065/13 "2025-01-16T04:46:06Z")
And can they make you a better photographer? ---
**Author:** ![TPX](https://community.topazlabs.com/user_avatar/community.topazlabs.com/tpx/32/194727_2.png) [@TPX](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/TPX)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 5:07am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065/14 "2025-01-16T05:07:12Z")
> [@Fotomaker](#): > > Are scholarships available to upgrade processors? Not that I know of. I recently read that millennials were the first and last generation to build their own PCs. My nephew (15) recently had to have his father help him find the wifi mac address in his smartphone so that I could let him into my wifi, he couldn’t find it himself. ---
**Author:** ![TPX](https://community.topazlabs.com/user_avatar/community.topazlabs.com/tpx/32/194727_2.png) [@TPX](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/TPX)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 5:48am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065/15 "2025-01-16T05:48:03Z")
@dakota.wixom Preview is nice, export is wrong. I thought that the starting point might be the problem. * * * When I generate a preview and in the frame of the preview I have my motif that I describe, the generation is correct (the preview frame is the starting point). However, if I start the export, I am sure that you start somewhere at the edges (generating the tiles), so the starting point would be incorrect, and therefore the result would be incorrect. Because the first generation sets the base. My theory so far. ---
**Author:** ![Fotomaker](https://community.topazlabs.com/user_avatar/community.topazlabs.com/fotomaker/32/23659_2.png) [@Fotomaker](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/Fotomaker)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 6:29am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065/16 "2025-01-16T06:29:54Z")
That’s great! Figures it’s the kids that can do it!!! 😉 I was at the SFMoMA (art museum) in the past week and there was (essentially) a baby (certainly a very very young toddler) in a carriage tapping away and doing whatever looking at images & videos (not just randomly hitting) on her parent’s phone. I didn’t even learn to read until 1st grade in school. My spouse built a computer back in the dark ages. But I can’t imagine it was anything like they are now. Closest I came (with my non-tech background) was spec’ing components for ppl with the skills to custom build for me in the past 2 yrs. I’m jealous of ppl who can do that stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Fotomaker](https://community.topazlabs.com/user_avatar/community.topazlabs.com/fotomaker/32/23659_2.png) [@Fotomaker](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/Fotomaker)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 6:31am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065/17 "2025-01-16T06:31:08Z")
> [@rayinsanmiguel](#): > > can they make you a better photographer? Not much chance of that! But maybe they could make me a better compositer… (which I love doing). ---
**Author:** ![jo.vo](https://community.topazlabs.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/f19dbf/32.png) [@jo.vo](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/jo.vo)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 6:34am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065/18 "2025-01-16T06:34:08Z")
> [@TPX](#): > > millennials were the first and last generation to build their own PCs Yes, and before that we could also even fix our computers ourselves in the good old times where those chips were socketed and not soldered on the mainboard. Who here has changed an Agnus or Denise chip? ---
**Author:** ![producr7485](https://community.topazlabs.com/user_avatar/community.topazlabs.com/producr7485/32/176358_2.png) [@producr7485](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/producr7485)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 11:29am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065/20 "2025-01-16T11:29:37Z")
Gen X. I built my own PC. I built it starting from individual logic gates, created a microcontroller, from there built a microprocessor, and then programmed that in assembly language of my own design. ---
**Author:** ![andymagee-52287](https://community.topazlabs.com/user_avatar/community.topazlabs.com/andymagee-52287/32/102446_2.png) [@andymagee-52287](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/andymagee-52287)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 7:08pm UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065/21 "2025-01-16T19:08:23Z")
I’m a baby boomer, and have built my own PCs, but then again I’m an Engineer. 😇 Photography is just a hobby… ![P1149964cropdns2-topaz-redefine-2x](https://community-cdn.topazlabs.com/original/3X/4/e/4e2e44b5294b4bd04d48b5df43ee830aaca8d09f.jpeg) Hand Held using Olympus E-P5 with Zuiko 215 mm @ f/5.1, 1/400 sec, ISO 200. ---
**Author:** ![rtypegear](https://community.topazlabs.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ecb155/32.png) [@rtypegear](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/rtypegear)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 7:21pm UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065/22 "2025-01-16T19:21:53Z")
Hi, recently there was an option to detect and fix faces. I’m looking for tools for creating games and I wonder if it would be possible for you to add an additional option where I circle/mark the area where the face should be and gigapixel tries to recreate it or generate it anew? I mainly need pixel art for games where I first increase the resolution of the character and then try to re-generate a blurred face or a completely invisible one (due to previous pixelation) so that the head gets a new face. ---
**Author:** ![rayinsanmiguel](https://community.topazlabs.com/user_avatar/community.topazlabs.com/rayinsanmiguel/32/57792_2.png) [@rayinsanmiguel](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/rayinsanmiguel)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 8:21pm UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065/23 "2025-01-16T20:21:58Z")
Despite the time limitation on my M4 Mac, I have been playing around with Redefine on some low res scans of colour slides of mine from 25 years ago and more. I have been finding that in many instances a good setting is to have “creativity” at 2. Any higher it introduces too much that isn’t in the original image. It does especially well on foliage, less well on architecture and non-caucasian faces. ![Screenshot 2025-01-17 at 6.42.08](https://community-cdn.topazlabs.com/original/3X/7/d/7d33cab3b41f519d28a26108c4a96668171973e5.jpeg) Left: Creativity at 2 Right: Creativity at 3 Note that the signboard and person look more convincing at 2. As does the Khmer temple. At 3. the temple now has a Roman arch! ![Screenshot 2025-01-17 at 6.33.24](https://community-cdn.topazlabs.com/original/3X/e/f/ef56477e3513d5b4b974c4358799848f4b0fd263.jpeg) Left: Restore Middle Restore with additional sharpening in TPAI Right: Redefine with Creativity at 2. Note however that the statue now has flowing tresses and a European face. I haven’t yet tried this with Creativity set to 1. Otherwise, I suppose I could blend the two images in layers. I’d be interested in the thoughts of others, using Redefine on photos NOT to create AI images. [Next page](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/gigapixel-v8-1-2/86065.md?page=2)