somehow the thubmnails generated by Photo AI 1.0.1 are following or not exif orientation. attached is a group of before after thumbnails. Actual photos are correctly oriented after processing with Photo AI 1.0.1 but thumbnails arent. Checked with xnview and windows explorer. see the “exif orientation icon on each corresponding thumbnail”
I’d love if it was faster:
- autopilot: if multiple images are loaded and CPU is otherwise idle, autopilot on all images in background.
- interactive: when bouncing back and forth between a configuration (e.g., changing the sharpening model), why not cache the last or previous results instead of recomputing?
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In case anyone else runs into this…
I found an issue with Photo AI (1.0.1) not retaining EXIF data. It turns out that if you have a “|” in the file path (volume/folder/file), Photo AI will not write the EXIF data to the processed file. My image management folder naming convention is “YYYY-MM-DD | subject or location” and that was causing the issue.
Support was able to track it down from the logs and they hope that it will be addressed in the next few weeks.
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PC or mac?
Mac - Macbook Pro M1, MacOS Monterey
Hi: I’ve been using v1.0.1 for a week or so. Two problems.
- The auto settings for birds don’t work very well. Insufficient noise reduction and too much sharpening. I mentioned this on a previous post.
- Too often the Photo Ai adjustments do not appear when I return to Lightroom Classic. Seems to be a bit hit and miss and I haven’t been able to pin down what I’m doing to cause it. Or, if I’m doing anything to cause it!
But when it works, or I get the settings to stick, I like the results.
Any advice please if it is me causing the problem?
AMD Ryzen 7 3700x
32Gb
MSI MPG X570 Gaming Plus
Nvidia GTX 1650 Super
Wish list…
- Batch converting with custom base adjustings for all or selectet images
This helps with a lot of pictures in one process. - Ad a preview button
No prerendering or analytics prozesses, speed up the prozess of a lot of pictures. - Open all side tabs, and we close it only with mouse click
- Ad one folder with many subfolders to import
Helps also to convert over the night many pictures in one process.
I think this helps a lot for many of us users… THX
First attempt at working with this face was concerning – I thought I had to manually recover it and results were scary (maybe because it didn’t need recovering?):
So I went to Gigapixel to see what would happen and results were good as usual:
Back to Photo AI, it felt competitive with its older brother and delivered this time 
The only difference was a slight tonal change (less red or pink than GAI). The source photo (taken 2004) had been treated first for color correction elsewhere:
• I don’t want subject detection to be automatic. Make the automation process a manual button-push. Give users a checkmark for enabling auto-subject-find just like the way we can have it not auto-upscale.
• Absolutely need manual brushing for removing/adding masking.
• I click on the preview to see the before/after. Please overscan the preview and let me pan a few pixels in all directions (100px?) without triggering a re-process. Usually a twitch of my mouse while clicking causes a lengthly reprocess. Don’t want that.
• I’m seeing very little CPU nor GPU utilization on my M1 Ultra. Maybe this is just not something that can be parallelized?
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I’d also prefer that we set a Preference in the Menus top of UI (that can be overridden if desired in the settings panel under Sharpen) to not automatically “Sharpen Subject Only”. The subject detection is still quirky - so that becomes an issue when the default is to sharpen only subject every time the product is launched.
I’m new to Topaz software, so i decided to get Photo AI instead of the three separate apps. As i read on the Topaz website it should be pretty much the same, even better.
I’m using a Win 11 system based on a i7 12700K processor with 32 Gb RAM. Shooting with a EOS R sending the CR3 raws to Photoshop CC.
The most annoying issue are the crashes, Photo AI just shuts down, stand alone or as Photoshop CC plugin doesn’t matter. This happen mostly when I ask al lot of processing, sometimes during saving, after I already got the preview.
I’ve noticed that the recover faces function often blur parts of the image around the face. Is there a separate mask for the face that doesn’t show any where? Would be nice to see/adjust this manually.
The mask function doesn’t do the job right, often misses part of the subject. As workaround I let Photo AI sharpen the whole image and I do the masking afterwards in Photoshop CC, witch is working fast en correct.
I find it strange that it is impossible to adjust the mask manually a brush to paint in or out a mask would be a great feature 
But, overall, the results are really amazing.
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Can’t actually install topaz photo ai setup. I saw an advert for it and since i had the suite I thought I’d get this and turns out I was eligible for it for free.
It’s not the installer. I’ve done a few things to make sure its working and updated. I’ve checked and installed other products from.msi files today, and they all install without issue. I even uninstalled other topaz programs and reinstalled no problem.
Not installing in safe mode. AM admin user. Windows 11 high spec machines have all prerequisites. Any one else expiernced this or has a fix?
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Crashes are often from the gpu processing. Try changing it in the Processor menu. And make sure your graphics drivers are up to dat.
This is a problem related to Windows, not to the installer: I tell you this because it happened to me too a few days ago, inexplicably fixed with the latest Windows 11 updates!
Anybody know when we might expect the next update? Things are going in the right direction I think, but still a way to go yet.
There is typically a new release end of each wk.
But there isn’t a fixed public schedule.
I took one of the example pics from the Topaz site to see how PAI worked, and as soon as you turn on face recovery, the subject loses eye color.
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Many thanks photomaker.
We’d love to take credit, but in this case I think it’s probably Apple’s fix. Happy either way!
I’m happy too! I’ll keep reporting results as the OS and PAI evolve.
