Photo AI shifts image slightly

[Propheticus]

To be sure: the pixel shifting when applying sharpening is not limited to the preview.

Reports of this behaviour go back a while:

Topaz Photo AI v1.3.0

When Sharpen is turned on the image shifts a few pixels.

Topaz Photo AI v1.2.9

PAI 1.2.9. Win 11 Pro desktop PC. Processor = Auto (AMD RX6800 XT, Intel i9 12th gen). .JPG image test. No previous processing to it by me. I hadn’t been able to test in past week. Over 3300 households w/out power in northern CA neighborhood for 4 days. So I’m commenting on things new to me. Changelog above has virtually nothing new relative to issues I experience (or, features I’ve requested in past roadmaps), so can’t comment on them. My standalone implementation launched & ran. I did see 2…

Topaz Photo AI v1.2.9

Still existing problems : slight move shifting of the picture when sharpened … can you please fix it once for all the sharpening sliders are at the lowest level, but still it sharpens a lot … Thanks

Topaz Photo AI v1.2.7

Yes. It is significant! Down & to the right. Some releases it’s less noticeable than others. This is a lot.

Jan’23

Topaz Photo AI v1.1.9

Positives: Subject detection works well and often selects what I would select myself. Only when there’s really low contrast between subject and background it selects a bit too much. Processing speed / preview speeds feel quite a bit faster than a few versions back. It’s becoming a bit old by now, but these issues that have been reported many times still remain: Pixel shift down+right when sharpening. When ‘subject only’ is enabled you see a stretching of the top-left boundary and squishing …

Topaz Photo AI v1.1.8

Same PC specs as immediately above. This time working with Ps 2023 Plugin (to ensure it launched, processed, returned processed image to Ps layer stack). Am seeing the same thing as prior releases. When Sharpening is used in PAI (plugin) I see a significantly more noticeable ‘hop’ (aka, pixel shift) after the image is processed and returned to the Ps layer stack (and I turn off/on the layer Eye icon). Also, PAI Plugin introduced all sorts of artifacts into the image (it’s as if it copied all …

Topaz Photo AI v1.1.8

Still getting a slight shift on sharpened areas.

dec '22

Topaz Photo AI v1.1.3

Since I don’t see most of these mentioned in the known issues, I’ll link to my post from 1.1.2: Ok, the pixel shift has been acknowledged but only mentions preview It’s not only in the preview, upon sharpening the subjects (or whole image) is shifted in the saved/exported image as well. This has an interaction with face recovery which undoes the shift, displacing heads relative to the (sharpened) body it’s attached to. I’ve found mentions of this issue going back to version 1.0.4. The (de…

Topaz Photo AI v1.1.3

Win 11, Ps 2023 Plugin. Working with full-color to BW converted (in Ps) .tif image. I wanted to see if anything quirky would happen with a BW image. It didn’t. I didn’t see any artifacts (rainbow or otherwise), blurry patches (there’s lots of empty sky that seems to give others issues…) or distortions of any kind after the processing by PAI. It is an image I’d previously done processing on (in addn to the color → BW conversion). PAI detected (or else it was just lazy ) the image didn…

oct’22

Topaz Photo AI v1.0.5

Anthony, I just tried the Ps 2022 Plugin vers. on my Win 11 Pro desktop PC also. 3 Issues were a Problem: 1- The plugin is back to not opening full-screen when launched from my Ps layer stack. 2- The processed image saved back to Ps is showing a significant Pixel Shift/Hop which it hadn’t been doing in the run of recent releases. 3- To get the test image sharp enough it ends up showing a lot of over-sharpening artifacts (‘snow’) back on the Ps layer. ** Orig. image is a jpg snip from one o…

Topaz Photo AI v1.0.3-v1.0.4

I’m not enjoying this to be fair. Denoise and Sharpen now do a good job. I would be happy if this app just combined the lot into 1 convenient do it all app Photo AI settings are way too strong. 1% starts like at 40-50% level of the old apps. Please bring back the levels of control. Denoise function kind works on and off. Presumably it struggles with subject detection. Sharpen is completely broken to me. It is like early v3.0 all over again. embossed out edges, high contrast, pixel shifts. Jus…

Aug '22

Topaz Photo AI v0.6

Just a quick test on this new version & i’m seeing pixel shift to the right and down when sharpening is applied.