Hi, I too am frustrated by the competitions that have a total ban of the use of AI. My CC and others distinguish between use of AI for image improvement and image and/or object creation. The use of AI is still new. I am young enough to remember when some competitions banned digital images. That quickly changed. Use of stock or any object in an image that is not made by the maker has always been banned in most competitions. AI generated images are treated in the same manner. As a practical matter we are in a transition period, where software publishers must use the term āAIā to remain in business. Most image makers have little interest in competitions. They just want nice looking images. Makers in that class run the gamut from those who simply want an image showing the family at the local zoo, event photographers, portrait makers, product photographers, and/or fine artists.
We will just have to wait, hopefully not too long, until competition organizers figure out a fair solution, keeping in mind that there are some who like winning so much that they cheat at solitaire.
Hi, I have stopped using Photo AI in 2022 for lack of quality of the adjustments. However, seeing the recent results and the focus of your roadmap, I have restarted and am already more happy with some results. Since I am mainly doing wildlife photography and tend to photograph close to the ground, I am frequently facing issues with heat haze. The camera shows the eyes in focus, the resulting picture shows the green focus point, however, the result is not tack.
So, my primarily wish would be a particular emphasis on improvement of the eyes and eye-area. I did try the latest Photo-AI version on such heat-haze issues, however, the resulting eyes, or in particular the light reflection in the upper part of the eyes appears rectangular and extending beyond the eye after sharpening and slightly denoising.
I am very interested in the natural photorealistic result of AI as opposed to fantastical. I donāt want to have it perceived immediately as an AI construct of my image.
Hi Eric, one frustration that I have as a professional is that on a big project, if running into a snag I canāt get someone from Topaz on the phone. Time is money and the time it takes going back and forth through email on a professional job is frustrating. For example, I spent two days on an artifact problem that occurred using Photo AI and we had to start from scratch 3 times.
You asked what things weād like to see included: A big one that just came up would be a way to use AI to stretch a picture without incurring artifacts. For example, I have a seascape that is a 6 x 4 format and I needed to stretch it to 8 x 4. When using photoshop and then Photo AI to sharpen I got artifacts in the picture. It would be so nice to be able to stretch a picture and then sharpen all within Photo AI. Also, FYI, when I had to go back to a photo that was already upsized to noise reduce using a mask, the masking was incredibly slow and the circle to make the mask bounced all over the screen. This is on a Mac Studio Pro with the fastest processor and 64gb ram.
To support this goal, please consider adding functionality similar to Luminar 4.x DeHaze. Hereās an example (original on left, processed on right; no other processing than DeHaze). Thereās some color shift in this example, which I donāt like, but OTOH I have over-applied this (and could correct the shift). It is a useful feature and does in produce natural and photorealistic results. Look at the center - the near trees - for what the feature works best for. Of course, fog and haze can be photorealistic but what we sometimes want to do, I think, is create a photo that represents an better reality - a more striking or interesting one - than we see in the unprocessed photo.
The second shot shows the clarity this feature adds to the stream.
Please add basic functions of video and photo editing like āFlipā, āLevelsā, and āColor Correctionā
i.e. I must render an entire segment and load it up in Adobe Premier Pro just to flip, rotate, etc. Basic stuff.
I must be missing something basic because often I am unable to get a smooth output if I attempt to slow-mo a video with unusual frame rates, or incorrect frame rates. Could this be simplified? Perhaps a method to flag drop-frame to non-drop
I AM SAD TO SEE THAT WITH THE 3.2.1 VERSION, your product direction has also gone to forced yearly upgrade model, like Adobe. I love your app, but because of this new change I will not be recommending it to anyone anymore.
in Photo AI, i miss the feature to restore hair of people. I disable denoise in all effects . often this look very blur when it was blur from shooting. mostly on black or brown hair. blonde hair work better. The face restoration work good, but it look not good when the person have now a sharp face and the hair is not sharpenā¦ or are there settings so can enhance blur hair better ?. maybe a slector for hair can add so can sharpen with a special hair AI algorithm ?
Iāve recently switched to Linux and uses Rawtherapee for my Raw manipulation, but I canāt get the noise reduction and other features Topaz delivers. So currently I first have to boot into Windows do my Topaz work, then reboot into Linux and do the rest. (I might setup a Windows VM just run Topaz, but it is a bit overkill)
