I also have to agree. As posted here just a few minutes ago in another thread.
You also had a perfectly good UI in the Gigapixel products allowing mass-editing of models and values, I have no idea why you threw that away for Photo AI and replaced it with a basic film strip (which loads forever when faced with many images).
What I would have expected from Photo AI:
- Based on the same UI as the existing (good) products, but being able to combine Sharpen/Enhance/Denoise for the first time there (so I don’t have to use 3 products every time)
- And -just optionally- (if the user wants to) being able to use the autopilot to suggest settings, which one can correct/overwrite for all selected images at once (in the proven UI)
- and some CLI functionality to make life easier
But what we actually got was:
- Always forced Autopilot, many times the results are not as good as in the old single products.
Also not happy with the default plastic face look many images get. I understand that Barbie is currently the film to watch, but that doesn’t mean, that I want my pictures to look like that
I had to set face to 20% from the default 80% to get some sort of OK results… - Also no way to at least disable specific models (to force autopilot to so something right)
- New UI with basic film strip, which doesn’t allow batch operations (applying models/values for more than one image) and is extremely slow when faced with lots of images (thousands)
- Unsuable batch features, see here
- An ‘apply to all’ feature, which is useless as it also copies the individually detected values for the first image over to all other images (and not just selected models)
- A CLI which only does the same thing one can already do in the UI (run every image through autopilot)
- A remaining Blurry Patches issue, which doesn’t seem to be addressable
I very much hope that future road maps address such issues. The last few months I can’t say that anything has been improved in that direction. All I read about is updated models, keyboard shortcuts, camera support and so on…
If that continues I will also not renew (as many others, from what I have read in various threads).
The product itself has great potential. But the way it is now (compared to the old products) that potential is -sadly- not being used.
P.S. The way Photo AI stands now, one wishes that Topaz Labs would at least continue to update the old products. But sadly it looks like it’s the end of the road for the old AI programs. Even if the new king in town is not yet ready to follow in the footsteps…
IMHO
