Having trouble enjoying the Remove Tool. I’ve got a max-ed out Intel MacBook Pro 16" vintage 2019. It is quite fast in other apps, including photo editing apps; however, each progressive Photo AI 2.x update runs slower and slower. I know the future is Apple Silicon but I’m afraid Topaz Labs products are falling out of favor with me because my editing takes longer and longer. Literally, my MacBook Pro has every top-end option (except for SSD, I stopped at 4TB because in 2019, 8TB needed Steve Jobs salary!). Please help me understand how Remove Tool is suppose to work when all it does for 60+ minutes is runs the “Enabling…” button. Thank you.
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The remove tool is very slow, I have just posted a similar post, I’m using a Windows pc.
It is still in beta and Topaz said they will be speeding it up.
Hi guys, I’m running on windows 11 with an Nvidia 3090TI. After testing I now only use the studio drivers rather than the game drivers. On large images (40MB) doing multiple removes from that image (red box activated and quality max’ed) it processes the image in under 2 minutes. I believe that they have written the remove tool to take advantage of Nvidia’s AI libraries which are optimized in the studio drivers. If this is not present then your cpu will carry the computational load which the software is not optimized for. I can’t see them walking this back as they are using a third party libraries.
Having watched this running in task manager you see the load being given to the GPU’s 3D engine to do the compute.
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I’m using studio drivers on a RTX4060 8gb GPU.
I don’t consider 40mb to be large, some of mine 900mb.
Again: file size doesn’t seem to matter much, more resolution.
I tried remove on a smaller image and it is still very slow, about 60 seconds. But it made a complete mess. I tried to remove a post and it replaced it with a man with one leg in a white coat.
Yes, 1 to 2 minutes is what I have with a RTX 4060 as well.
The Mac with Apple Silicon is much faster here.
And for the above result: did you chose „erase area“?
Make sure you use the correct option, in this case choose choose “Erase Area” as the guidance. Note it defaults to Keep Area which will replace the object being removed:
Yes. I did it exactly the same as before, totally different results.
Even with replace I would not expect this result. There are no people in the image.
That is what I used. Never had this before. I redid it, no figure but wide post instead. Mine is not defaulting to Keep.
Got some woman now.
I’ve not had it before that image either. Really weird.
If I then remove the person, it does a clean removal, with exactly the same settings.
Where does it get these people from? Certainly not my images.
It has a database. Since images are not sent to the cloud, I don’t know if the entire database is stored on one’s computer though. I used it to replace a face on a much damaged old photo.
I probably should have said that I found that the best results come when you process and enhance the image first and then reload it to do the removal. This approach supports what @jo.vo stated re image resolution. Interestingly, when you are painting in the area for removal the base image is shown for you to paint on (not with any processing effects you have applied). This led me to try the two step approach which works much better. Thanks once again to all those contributing to the conversation I’m sure the dev’s will appreciate the real world feed back.
