I figured out that I would need to go through and review all 144 images in the collection I wanted to process for proper face detection. I also did cropping as needed.
I selected all and did an Export of everything.
After processing was complete and I closed the Export window, in the list view it showed under the Face icon “Off”
I just experimented and enable face detection on a single image, so in the list it shows it at 80. Exported. and Face Detection was off as displayed in the list again.
I feared I lost all of my customizations. But in reviewing the images the cropping looked good, but face Detection was off.
So I selected everything and clicked on Face Detection and it turned it on for everything again (showing 80 in the list display).
When trying to use Face Recovery on multiple images in a bulk process, all images selected, the selector switch is on, the face icon is shown on every image, but when processed ‘face’ is not added to the processed file name and the face recovery is not being applied to images after the first selection image. I can clearly see the difference by performing Face Recovery on an individual image afterwards.
The only solution is to select each image individually to allow ‘Detecting Faces’ to run with THAT image, But that takes any advantage of bulk processing away.
When I use Topaz Gigapixel v8.0.3 or earlier versions for a buch of video image sequences with a front face is talking filmed with close up, after a few pictuers processed, the face recovey simply turns of and continues processing without it. I don’t understand why it happening? Someone has the same expeience? I have Radeon RX 5500 XT GPU video card. The program recocnise it. Is it possible that the program conficts with my card, and this could cause this bug? Thank you, Géza Vas.
This has been happening to me for the last 3 or so updates. I with they would say if they even know it’s a problem and if they plan to fix it. Very frustrating.
Unfortunately that is a really old problem. I’m doing a lot of batch work and had this problem again and again. There was a small period where it worked, but one update later it didn’t worked again. Meanwhile there is a similar problem with the “model settings” option, which has to be manually activated whenever you start the software and whenever you open a new file. For my job I need do a lot of batch-work, but Gigapixel does not work reliable at all. For that reason Gigapixel has become worthless to me and because the can’t nor won’t fix that it is nothing bore but a money costing software grave. I would suggest, that you contact the support again and again and again. I will do so. When they still don’t fix it we need to find a way to motivate them. I am very angry!
I totally second that, folks. It is not only annoying, it totally sucks! Either they don’t care about that, they are not able fix that or they just won’t fix it. To me this issue runs since I bought the very first licence nearly 18 monthe ago. The issue was reportred by me and others again and again and nothing happened. More and more to me useless options, such as Gigapixel Print, Recover or Redefine - which ar just im,plemented to generate money with toys - but still the old issues!
But, folks, the issue above does only still exists, it also got company - namely the “Model Settings” option. This turns off right after any working-process and has to be manually activated again.
Using Gigapixel on a professional base is simply impossible! The result, Gigapixel produces in the very most cases is excellent, sometimes even like magic. But presently it cant’ take seriously. Unfortunately it is nothing more but a sad app for people who uye it from time to time or having fun with creating something on that AI base or whatever. I talked to collegues here and they agree to me: Fix that, Topas or take consequences and get off the adult business. Presently this software is worthless to me for issues you are not willingly to fix for years now! As a result I will contact PayPal for a pay back and never come back again! And I happily will write dowon my experiences with you in any forum etc. to avoid that other serious people step in your trap!
Gigapixel was updated totday. While the “Model Settings” issue was fixed the major issue with the “Face Recovery” is still there. That means the software is stillworthless to me, nothing more than an expensive toy. Sorry, Topaz, but that truly sucks. Shame on you folks!
Same here. It will only process a few faces at first. It almost feels like it’s random. Sometimes it will process 5 faces in a batch and then stops and turns off face processing for the rest. Other times it could be a whole folder processed and then the rest of the batch gets turned off … Very annoying. Having to do each image individually would take an incredibly long time to process 500 photos! Incredibly annoying!!
You need to arrow key down the list and wait for each one to do ‘Detecting Faces’ and the process button at the bottom lights up. The Face count will also turn from 0/0 to 1/1 or such.
But yeah, if you have a lot of pics to run it adds a LOT of time.
I just purchased Gigapixel and am using V 8.1.2 and confirming I’m seeing the same issue. The face recovery works great for individual photos but turns off when doing batch downloads. We really need a fix for this ASAP or at least a response from Topaz that it’s being investigated. I’m restoring a ton of old photos and being able to batch process is the entire reason I purchased Gigapixel.
In the previous version I was able to force all faces to be detected / used for the recovery model ( before 8 ).
But in gigapixel 8 I have to activate all faces in each images 1 by 1, which is terrible.
Can we do something for this ?
I know that the software try to do everything by itself, but I want to be able to brute force setting on selection as option like previous gigapixel. This is a major issue in my workflow currently.
Currently from my understanding if the image is large enough the recovery model is disabled by default for all faces.
Photo ai kind work around this problem, but crash often on large dataset.
And take forever to apply settings for large selection VS gigapixel who take just few seconds.
Please bring back the option.
Also BUG —
activate face recovery on selection,
then while keeping the selection,
activate recovery for all faces,
disabled the recovery model for the selection
Has there been any updates on this? I am currently having the same issue on 8.2.2. Defeats the point of purchasing the software. I bought it for batch processing, and face recovery does not work when I have the settings applied to all the images. Only the first image that is queued in the preview will have face recovery applied. I just wasted 12 hours batch processing upwards of 27,000 photos, only to find out face recovery didn’t work. This is extremely frustrating.
This bug is very annoying. I’m trying to process 1,000s of old family photos. Face Recovery works amazing, but the feature is useless with this bug. I guess all I can really do is wait until the bug is fixed, but it’s already been 3-4 months.
Another thing I noticed is that after 5-10 image outputs, the little happy face icon in the batch process list changes from On to Off for all images in the batch.
My solution so far.
Using MacroRecorder app (free version) and this macro I recorded.
The free version allows for 10 macro repeats so with 15 action repeats within the macro I get 150 files acted on.
Still a PIA but better than sitting there and clicking for every picture.
If the macro runs out of repeats just hit the PLAY button again to continue for another 150.
And you can’t use the computer for anything else while running or it stops running the macro.
I have this one set to wait 6 seconds (6000 ms) on each file to allow enough time to detect the faces. Adjust that if you need.
