Preserve Text with other enhancements is less effective in v3

Topaz Photo AI Bugs and Issues
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I am unable to get crisp edges to my text. Clearly I am doing something wrong but I am unsure what.

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Hi phunkidude-57854. Welcome to the community.

It looks like you haven’t selected the Text to enhance, you can do this within the Selection Tab next to the Controls Tab.

Here’s a link to the Topaz Photo AI help page

https://docs.topazlabs.com/photo-ai/features/preserve-text

Hope this helps

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Yeah I selected it

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I have shared this Preserve Text issue with the Development Team to look into fixing this issue in a future release. In the meantime you can use the previous stable version of v2.3.2 using the following link:

Topaz Photo AI | v2.3.2 | MacOS Installer

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Thanks John but v2.3.2 is still ineffective

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I think there has been a fundamental misunderstanding of what Preserve Text does (in the versions where it works prior to v2.4). It’s for text shape preservation during upscaling, not for smoothing text in an image that isn’t being upscaled, or has been poorly upscaled previously.

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How to have the same results?
Add [Preserve Text] Tried moving the function up or down in the order. Which I didn’t know you could do, until I tried it. But I’m not sure that matters.

1st, the new version of ‘Selecting Text’ is dubious (or not obvious how it works). I finally figured out that I needed to re-click the ‘Preserve -Text’ menu function to get it to “supposedly run”. There is no ‘Go’ or 'Finish button".

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] I’m using the new 3.04 version of topaz and just updated today. 6/19/2024
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The result of text preservation is unsatisfying in most cases. Text is distorted and blurred after upscaling the image, even if the text consists of known fonts. I suggest this to be a major enhancement point in the software and I really would like to see much better quality, especially if the text is selected.

Topaz Photo AI 3.0.4 and 3.1.0.2b Mac

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Text preservation does not preserve the text


Topaz Photo AI 3.0.4 | macOS 14.5

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I am circling back to let all our users know that we have released Photo AI v3.1.0, which we have been able to make some major Preserve Text quality improvements!

You will be able to download this update from your app directly or by using the following link here:

Topaz Photo AI | v3.1.0 | MacOS Installer

Topaz Photo AI | v3.1.0 | Windows Installer

You can check out a full list of the changes and fixes that are included in this release at the following link:

Please let us know if you have any issues updating to this version!

We appreciate your patience and collaboration while the Developers were fixing this issue :slight_smile: