I received an email from Topaz saying:
Because you have an active upgrade license to Gigapixel, you’ll be getting a subscription at no extra cost to Topaz Gigapixel to use locally on your machine, or choose the cloud with unlimited image rendering.
So I assumed this would apply to the legacy Gigapixel AI v8.4.3 as well.
This version works by subscription ? Nope, goodbye. Thanks for all. I’ll keep the old one.
Cheers.
PhotoShop plugin message:
The plugin does not seem to work:
Now the older GigaPixel plugin does not work anymore, either:
Getting an Error:
Install went fine last evening on a 2020 M1 MacBook Pro. Problems with running included the stuck intro dialogs and failed processing of a web-sized image via Cloud.
My image from my website:
Error:
I can also try later on a 2023 M2 Mini, 2022 M1 Ultra Mac Studio and 4090 PC.
Comparing the Redefine Realistic Models:
Setting to Creativity “None” or “Subtle”, the old Model from prev. Version is much better and look more like the actual image.
The Model in this version is much to creative on the lowest settings.
But: It seems to be faster!
Speed (Setting creativity “none”:
Gigapixel v1.0.0: 640x480 6x upscale 42sec.
Gigapixel 8.4.3.: 70sec.
(Is this version using the "Holy Tensor-Grail from NVIDIA?)
The Select Faces Apply button greys out when a face is selected. I got around it by pressing cancel to make it work .
Regards.
But I dont understand why you ditch support for Intel-Macs. Because the Studio Version has included unlimited Cloud-Rendering! So everything is rendered on Cloud on older Intel-Macs! Why you don’t give us the possibility to use it with Cloud- Render only on our older Macs!
You can still use the prior version of your app forever
Working on some plugin fixes now
There should be no change in this version to be honest on that model
Unfortunately there are architecture constraints sometimes requiring us to move forward with new platforms and remove support for old platforms. Apple itself is doing the same thing with intel Macs.
On the My Products page it says I have Gigapixel AI v9.9.9, but it is 8.4.3.
I used Standard Max with a 640x507 photo and upscaled 4x using local render on my M2 Pro 12/19, 32gb Mac, MacOS 15.7. It took a bit of time to process and then said it was done. The image is totally black though, both on the screen and the exported image.
Will items in the cloud queue eventually time out if they are stuck? I have one that seems to be stuck at 100% preventing it from going to the next item in the queue. If I refresh it I can download the stuck item if I’m quick enough, but it almost immediately goes back to spinning at 100%.
If the 2 upsize models are the same in Photo and Gigapixel then does that mean the only upsize functionality that Gigapixel adds is Recover and Redefine?
I tried the same image in Photo using Standard Max and 4x. This time it worked. No black image.
No sorry I’m afraid not with Gigapixel 8.4.3 if you still continue to use Gigapixel 8.4.3 you will still continue to use purchase Cloud Credits
However, the message is saying that your because, your current Licence is active you are allowed to use the new Topaz Gigapixel v1.0.0 with Unlimited Cloud Rendering and Local Rendering until your current Licence Expires.
Unlimited Cloud Rendering is only available for the Topaz Studio version of Gigapixel 1.0.0.
In light of that, if you like the new Topaz Gigapixel version you can continue using it for the same price as your current Licence as long as you maintain an active Auto-Renewal Subscription no increase in price for years to come
Hope this helps
thats insane man! never expected this!!
No sorry I’m afraid not with Gigapixel 8.4.3 if you still continue to use Gigapixel 8.4.3 you will still continue to use purchase Cloud Credits
However, the message is saying that your because, your current Licence is active you are allowed to use the new Topaz Gigapixel v1.0.0 with Unlimited Cloud Rendering and Local Rendering until your current Licence Expires.
Unlimited Cloud Rendering is only available for the Topaz Studio version of Gigapixel 1.0.0.
In light of that, if you like the new Topaz Gigapixel version you can continue using it for the same price as your current Licence as you maintain an active Auto-Renewal Subscription no increase in price for years to come
Hope this helps
