Topaz Photo AI is officially out! This update includes some new icons and several bug fixes to ensure everything is working perfectly.
If you own DeNoise, Sharpen, and Gigapixel with up-to-date licenses then you have access to Topaz Photo AI!
Please give us any feedback or report issues with this release. We’ll be updating TPAI regularly to address those pieces of feedback and issue reports. If there’s a specific image you’d like us to see, you can send it us at this dropbox link.
Updated various camera profiles to have proper exposure baselines, including logic for determining camera make/model, and adding several new cameras
The windows installer now checks for AVX2 support before installing
Removed padding around the app icon on Windows
Filters are now hidden when refining subject or selecting faces, and the save button is disabled
Fixed “COne” folder being created on computers with multiple hard drives and don’t have Capture One installed
Fixed some images having incorrect cropping
Fixed Mac Capture One plugin not working on files with spaces in them
Fixed auto-upscaling showing check when using plugin mode that doesn’t support resizing
Partial fix for crash on some monitors with custom colorspaces
Partial fix for window being larger than the current monitor’s display
Going forward we’d like to share a bit about what major feedback the team is actively working on addressing, to give an idea on what you can expect in the coming weeks. There are no promises these will be completed and ready by any specific release, only that they’re in the pipeline. Here’s the current list:
Subject refinement is not precise enough
Autopilot takes too long looking for subjects or faces, particularly in cases where the user knows there aren’t any
W11 RTX3060 Standalone
In this case the Autopilot activate Denoise Recover Face and Sharpen . Not bad but I am finding the Sharpen and Recover face too high.
And for me it looks the color/light shift I show previously on 0.10.2 with input TIFF file is over , good
Of course still my RAW files (Nikon Coolpix P1000) are still not usable ,
allow disabling of autopilot (yes I know you want PAI to do ‘everything automatically’ but you also need to give users some control over things)
allow batch processing with and WITHOUT autopilot, manual settings can be applied to batches of images
manual masking brush/tools similar to Sharpen AI
select/deselect faces for face refinement
provide input box to allow custom scaling values
Nice to haves:
auto levelling button for colours/contrast etc.
Lastly, resizing with enhance-natural does an amazing job with people/faces/hair, which is a main reason I would like to be able to disable autopilot and use 2x + enhance-natural on batches of images.
That ico is something else…still puts COne folder on my G:\ drive for no reason. Can’t just delete it bc the msi installer just puts it back, at this point it’s whatever…if it wants to live there, fine.
Initial scanning of image PAINFULLY slow now, much slower than before, and does it upon initial file opening as well as upon first save, so 2X the pain. Apple M1.
This German guy (in English) does a good video. He compares several photos using Photo AI to Denoise AI, Sharpen AI, and Gigapixel AI. I agree with him that unless Photo AI gets much better and offers more controls to use when the auto settings get it wrong then it is somewhat disappointing and not as good as the separate products. Over time I expect that Topaz will make great strides to improve Photo AI. Nothing happens overnight though.
I hope though that Topaz will truly get the results up to the level of the 3 separate products, while combining them in one and also providing more control when you want or need to override the auto settings.
The refine slider seems a bit more sensitive in this version which is an improvement. However, I still think a masking brush that the user controls would be so much better.
I want to be able to mask (select) areas of the image to either allow or prevent processing.
Congratulations, this is something I’ve been super excited to watch as you’ve developed it!
Unfortunately masking isn’t working very well for me yet, and I can’t improve it with the Refine tools (actually, it seems the refinement sliders do nothing now; a couple beta releases ago I did see them affect results, but today on 1.0 it seems inoperative). Masking is a feature I use in almost every image to avoid “sharpening the bokeh”, so I will watch with interest to future updates.
Also, sharpening isn’t producing good results on this image no matter whether I use Lens Blur or Motion Blur, and even turned down to very low levels. Note what it’s doing to some areas of the feathers, turning them into scaliness. I think Sharpen AI is currently doing a little better job with this?
I can provide the image privately if you want a test case, just ask. Not sure if you ask here on the forums if I’ll get an email notification, but email is my preferred communication channel.
Keep up the excellent work! Image processing is getting interesting for sure.
Wow!!! Not sure what happened between the latest beta versions and this release version but time to load/process on my M1 Mac w/Monterey 12.6 16G Ram just slowed down by a magnitude of about 10X
great idea… however for batch use it’s NOT practical… i’m talking batches of 100+ images.
1)…Photo AI is much slower than using denoise then loading into sharpen.
2) you CAN’T force sharpen to all images as in Sharpen
3) Photo AI reduces saved files size up to 50% for JPEGs
What happened to “use these settings for all” option? It was really useful for processing image sequences where I wanted each photo to have the exact same settings
As others (& I previously) have commented, I’d still like Brush Tool Masking, the ability to un-designate Faces Detected, an integrated Crop Tool to set the bounds of what we’d like to upscale via resizing (enhanced resol.) and a 16-bit TIFF LZW Save option (if I missed it, I apologize…). And, I’d still prefer the Auto-Upsize new feature located adjacent to the Resizing settings in the righthand settings panel.
I’m able to pre-process a range of images using PAI that I will then post-process in Ps 2022. Windows 11. Auto processor option in PAI.
First, thanks for the new software. The idea is great and my first tests were very exciting!
Here I had a problem to maximize Photo AI window on external monitor. I use a notebook with a Full HD screen and an external monitor, connected by HDMI, with 4K resolution. On the external monitor the window does not maximize, does not occupy the entire screen and does not work. The notebook screen goes black, as if showing a part of the Photo AI window. I had to turn off the external monitor. Denoise, Sharpen, Gigapixel work perfectly on the external monitor. Please test better using Photo AI with dual monitors.
Another issue: when saving the file in jpeg, during processing, Photo AI displays the estimated size of the file. However, it always shows a size far above the final result. Last time, it showed an estimated 63MB file but saved an 11MB jpeg. This information is wrong and therefore seems useless. Perhaps the estimation of the file size is not being done in the best way.