We’re releasing a new version of Topaz Gigapixel with more improvements and fixes. These include app and installer stability, fixing face recovery artifacts, and support for JXL files.
I have to switch on face-recovery “hair” and/or “neck” in the settings to make the Software work. Otherwise, it does not enhance any image and the imge is always shown very small in the left upper border (and can not zoomed in)
In this release, working with a batch of jpg files to upscale, the process get stuck around 10 images, in my personal case. reverting back to 1.3.1 restore this to having no problems at all.
My computer is an NVIDIA GTX 5900 24GB, 64 GM of RAM, Intel 9, I expect no memory or processing problems as with prior versions, it’s a surprise this new version had this one.
Well, just an FYI,
Also, I remember bugging the tam before about setting a counter in Topaz Photo AI, I am surprised Gigapixel don’t have it, is the one that lets you know how many images of how many in total are currently being processed, it’s really useful to know when a process takes a while if we should be patient or just give up an canceling it, and the scrolling feature after each image processed is not informative at all of where in the process we are at some any point.
A quick test of improving a photo from Windows Spotlight Images in the browser. Originally, it was compressed and at a resolution of 1920x1080. I increased the resolution by a factor of four using three variations in Gigapixels. The first was with High Fidelity v2 to smooth the background, the second with Wonder 2 to improve most of the details, and the third with Recover v3 in high mode to further enhance details not as well improved by Wonder 2. Finally, a last pass with the Sharpen Wildlife model from Topaz Photo to slightly boost the sharpness of the parakeets.
Here is the “before/after” comparison in my image comparison tool:
Hello!
Please download from the link above and rerun the stand alone installer to repair issues.
If it continues to occur, it may require a full uninstall and fresh reinstall of the application. Users who have experienced similar issues as you’ve described resolved the problems with those steps.
