I really like the image quality photo AI offers so far. The results look much more natural than the separate programs.
Now that the monitor color space bug has been fixed, it seems there is one more bug in regards to color management. I noticed that the saved images from Photo AI don’t display properly in the Windows Photo viewer (the legacy one, which many still use in lieu of Windows Photo because it is color space managed properly). The image looks brighter and flatter than it should, as if it a linear tone curve encoded image.
There are a couple of little things that would be really nice to have as well:
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When saving a TIFF with LZW compression, Photo AI currently only offers 8-bit output. It would be nice to have 16-bit output with LZW compression. Sharpen/DeNoise/Gigapixel AI can do this, so not sure why this was dropped from Photo AI.
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Offer a choice of output color space for JPEG and TIFF output. Sharpen/DeNoise/Gigapixel AI can do this. Furthermore, it would be nice to have more choices for output color space. In particular, Display P3 (DCI-P3 but with D65 white point and sRGB tone curve) would be a nice additional option that the older AI programs do not offer. Even better, allowing custom selection of output file color space would be great. This could easily be implemented using LCMS as part of the program’s engine.
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Masking features, especially if there can be separate masks for sharpening and denoising. The cropping in gigapixel ai would be a welcome feature too (I’m adding to my post at work , forgive me if that’s already there in photo ai. )
