I’ve been using it some more, and …
1.Boy is it SLOW compared to the stand-alone versions. I can manually open Denoise,Sharpen,GP and save the file before PAI is even near completed. Macbook Pro M1Pro/16GRam. Activity Monitor doesn’t show a lot of GPU/CPU use… it’s just SLOW…
2. Massive output files. Fed it an Olympus ORF RAW file, upscaled 2x. Resulting file was 492MB in size from a Source File of 18MB
It’s not usable in this format. How did it get released?
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I couldn’t agree more. So far, it is easier to use Denoise and Sharpen AI’s separately than trying to do both in Photo AI. Both faster and much more effective. I am finding that Photo AI as it is presently working, is only good for reducing noise. Sharpen is either too aggressive in most cases even set to strength of 1, and just can’t sharpen without halos and artifacts for distant objects. Somehow I expected it to be able to get a similar result as the default result in Sharpen AI, but the results are not even close.
Topaz is trying to do two things at once here:
Integrate their various products (good). Over the years they accumulated way too many separate little apps, good as each one was (and still are). More recently these offerings were whittled and distilled down to three apps for photos + one for video
Offer an Auto Pilot approach (questionable). Is it meant for beginning users? For efficiency? It might be a good feature if it worked faster AND recognized what the user wants to do, but it’s not doing either 100% [yet]
I would recommend continuing to pursue the integrated approach WITHOUT the forced Auto Pilot. At the very least, let the user decide if they want to wait through that processing step. Otherwise, Photo AI can just be a convenient means of accessing the technology of the Image Quality Bundle (the “Big 3”) under one roof – and that’s probably enough.
PS: I can’t speak to the file size bloat, I’m not sure what’s going on there.
Developers, please add the option to disable auto pilot. For me, the output is worse with auto pilot than manual adjustment 99% of the time. Thank you for your consideration.
I downloaded it, installed it, able to open a file and then it just closes. All the time.
Ryzen 5 5600X
16 GB DDR4 RAM
RX 6800XT+RX5600 XT
What do you mean by: able to open a file?
Can you see the picture in PAI after opening or you just point to it in PAI browser and then it shuts down?
I open it through the browser, the PAI is doing something, then shut down
Maybe play with the Processor settings. See if CPU works. Are your graphics drivers up to date?
CPU, GPU not working. GPUs are used for gaming fine.
Not sure exactly what you are doing. Can you double click on it to open it?
Please open DeNoise, Sharpen or GigaPixel them go to Help, Graphics info., press the Copy button to then paste here.
Raw images from my Pixel 6 have a red tint in Photo AI but not in Sharpen AI. This happens even without any effect enabled. It’s also preserved after exporting. Is there anything I can do about it?
Exactly the same here: Sharpen, Denoise and Gigapixel work fine, but Photo AI 1.0.0 crashes in (or immediately after) the “detecting subject” step. Windows Log shows the same faulting application (qt6Gui.dll), same exeption code and fault offset.
And I also happen to have a Nvidia RTX 3070…
Damn, sorry to hear that. My best bet is that this is related to the “Nvidia Optimus” laptop gizmo that does the switching between dedicated and integrated graphics, so probably a driver issue (?), who knows. Topaz will probably fix this with an update
Is it OK if you switch the processor to CPU?
Nope, same behavior. it still crashes even if I disable the dedicated card completely in BIOS
I totally agree Merek. AI is never going to be 100% accurate in selection so a means of adding and /or subtracting from the mask is essential.
Selecting one or two faces in a crowd is currently not possible so its back to the old products for me.
Will watch out for updates
Sadly, it’s not possible to select faces for Face Recovery on GPAI either.
Is there a full installation kit? I don’t have enough HOURS to wait while this thing downloads 17 of whatever it’s downloading. Download speed is so low it doesn’t even register.
