Would it be possible to be able to Paste Images from Clipboard right into Giga or PhotoAI ? That way, it doesn’t have to be saved to a hard drive first–the program can do that and just save it into a pre-existing folder (perhaps “Topaz files” in My Documents?)
That way it would be much easier to grab images from any website or PC app and get right to work, upscaling and saving it. Doing a batch of pasted images should be possible too… just keep pasting in the images until you are ready, then click OK and watch as Gigapixel/PhotoAI does it’s magic!
Yes, I’m sorely missing this feature every time I use the product.
And to be able to also Copy a rendition rather than saving it would be even better. E.g. Right-click a preview image and select Copy, or just pressing CTRL-C to copy whatever preview the mouse is over.
My two most common workflows are as follows:
1: One-off upscaling of existing images on disk
Use Irfanview to scroll through small images, to spot ones that I need for a project.
Crop a region of interest to use for the project.
Save the cropped image to PNG in the same folder as the source image.
Alt-tab to gigapixel, click browse.
Navigate to wherever that image resided on the harddisk (takes a long time)
Use Gigapixel as usual to find a model and settings to upscale the image.
Save the image by wading through the slow Export process.
Rename the exported image to the same as the source image.
2: One-off upscaling of selected video frames
Open video in Virtualdub
Scrub to a frame of interest.
Press CTRL+1 to copy the frame to the clipboard.
Alt-tab to irfanview, paste the image and save it to disk.
Alt-tab to gigapixel, click browse.
Navigate to wherever that image resided on the harddisk (takes a long time)
Use Gigapixel as usual to find a model and settings to upscale the image.
Save the image by wading through the slow Export process.
Open the scaled image into Irfanview, press CTRL-C (copy)
Alt-tab to photoshop and press CTRL-V (paste)
Proceed with using the scaled frame.
With Copy-Paste the first process would shrink to 5 steps, and the second process to 6 steps. The number of steps is not commensurate to effort and time wasted. With copy-paste a 1-2 minute process could be shrunk to 10 seconds! That’s an order of magnitude workflow speedup.
CTRL-C, CTRL-V is the workflow when using multiple programs, since the steps can be performed at the speed of thought rather than constantly being hindered by each UI’s process dialogs.
I’ve created a gigapixel-specific FR to address the other side of the coin; being able to also copy (CTRL-C) the output from Gigapixel/PhotoAI which would close the round-trip loop. But as I wrote, there’s a separate FR for that, and the OP only requested pasting into the Topaz app(s) with this FR. So I’d consider this specific FR done.
