Topaz Photo AI CLI (version 2.2.1) --lighting --color options are not working

[swiiwii]

Installed Topaz Photo AI version 2.2.1 on mac os x.
Then I use the following command in the terminal to process a folder of images

“/Applications/Topaz Photo AI.app/Contents/Resources/bin/tpai” --cli “/Users/xxxxx/Desktop/test-input” --output “/Users/xxxxx/Desktop/test-output” --overwrite --format jpg --quality 95 --lighting --color

Before running the command above I already set in autopilot with the following settings

• Adjust Ligting strength to be 40
• Balance Color:
  • Default Temperature value to 50
  • Default Opacity value to 50

But it appears that in the output images, the ligting and the balance color are not adjusted at all.

Could you please help? I’ve been stuck here for quit some days.

Thanks a lot.

[Konrad82]

Hi.

Let me start by saying that I believe the docs are outdated.
You don’t have to type the whole path to the executable as suggested anymore it is enough to open a terminal and type tpai since it is now added to PATH during the installation.

Regarding your problem, I’m facing the same issue. I believe it is a bug or it is not implemented due to the BETA status.
To be fair they say the options are EXPERIMENTAL .

When I run a command like

tpai --cli ~/Downloads/image.jpeg \
        --output ~/Downloads \
        --format jpg \ 
        --quality 85 \
        --override \
        --lightening 
        --color \
        --verbose

it claims that both options are executed

Overwriting Autopilot values
Overwriting White Balance Adjust enabled to true
Info | [CLI] Set "White Balance Adjust" "enabled" : "true" 
Overwriting Exposure Adjust enabled to true
Info | [CLI] Set "Exposure Adjust" "enabled" : "true" 
Info | [CLI] 1 images saved 
Info | [CLI] Finished processing all images 
Info | [CLI] CLI finished 

However, I cannot see the configured settings in the outputted image

It would be great if Topaz could comment on this issue.

[swiiwii]

The docs are really outdated, even the image shown here Command Line Interface | Topaz Photo AI are not exactly the same CLI optyions of the most recent version, and information inside it are also outdated. Plz Topaz help us. Thx.

If you could make the --lighting and --color options in the CLI work it’d be great.

[Konrad82]

@swiiwii I don’t work for Topaz. have you reported this problem to them?

[swiiwii]

Yeah sure I know that, I’m just hoping people from Topaz to see this thread because I saw sometimes they reply to these bug issue threads. Let’s wish us good luck.

[john.topazlabs (John S)]

This is an issue that our team currently investigating.

If you are still experiencing problems, please reach out to us at the following link:

Topaz Labs | Support Page

[swiiwii]

I hereby confirm that this issue has been resolved with the latest version of topaz photo ai (2.3.0).