Sadly, the more I use PAI, the more discouraged I become. I did a follow-up evaluation of the previously posted image without any preemptive noise reduction by DxO prior to processing with PAI. The Following is a comparison of the PAI image with prior treatment with DxO vs a PAI only treatment. Notice the grid pattern in the Image when edited by only PAI?
Hello Engineers! My goal is to process raw DNG files (taken with a Leica Q2 monochrome) in PAI before I attempt any other exposure edits in Lightroom Classic. Regrettably, I still cannot open these raw files in PAI 1.0.1. I have mentioned this problem in this forum earlier.
These are large 87MB files taken with a 47 MP sensor. They won’t open in standalone mode nor as a plug-in for Lightroom. I can open them as TIFF copies, but that is not my intended workflow.
Perhaps I just won’t be able to use PAI in the way I have outlined. Please let me know if Topaz intends to address this shortcoming, or if it has chosen not to process larger raw files from Leica cameras.
Computer: iMac (late 2015 model with an intel chip)
OS: Monterey 12.6
Best of luck with the continuing efforts.
It does not for me. Tried with “open-close-open” and as Amin. Not working.
Works in all other Topaz programs…
What OS are you on?
PAI 1.0.1 Win 11, Ps 2022 (curr. rel.) Plugin. ARW original image (opened via Ps ACR into Ps).
Subject selected was the man and a small portion of one of the zippers hanging on the wall (in a quilts & textiles museum exhibition).
I’m experimenting with working primarily with the sliders - manually.
With this image, A.P. turned on denoising (which wasn’t particularly noticeable in the image. The setting set by A.P. was relatively low). A.P. didn’t turn on (or at least didn’t mention applying) sharpening (which the image really needed).
I left the denoising switch set to ‘on’. But I pulled the slider all the way to the zero position (far left of slider bar).
I expanded sharpening and pulled that slider up to about 1/3 position on the sharpening strength slider bar.
I was happier with the result (both denoising and level/quality of sharpening) by doing that manual setting than by accepting the A.P. settings. Takeaway: For me, a fully auto product wouldn’t cut it. It has different taste than I do (for better or for worse…).
Processed PAI image saved back to my Ps 2022 layer very slowly but otherwise w/out issue (it is not a large file; relatively - it’s from a 2013 Sony RX100 ii P&S cam - basically 3500 x 3200px image size, rounded). I reduced the opacity on that PAI layer by about 3% to hide any halo-ing around the sharpened zipper art edges but get the benefit of the other sharpening. I wasn’t about to start masking around all the zipper openings…
It seems there are many people here saying the results are less than good, in this case the image is a scan of an old printed photo and all settings are Auto Pilot … nothing less than amazing as you can see from this comparison. Although there is something that I would like to see and that is that hair is included in the face recovery as, in this case, the subject is correctly selected but you can see that the hair that falls in the face recovery confines is recovered nicely:
I am having the same issue. Version 1.0.1 will not install at all. The curious thing is that I use Avid Media Composer, and there are a number of AVX2 plugins in that program, and they all seem to work fine. The CPU, when I run dxdiag does not show AVX2 support.
Hi, I bought this software and I’m liking it very much!
The only problem, is that I have so much images (same size, type, style) to transform at once, but to do that, I have to configure each image individually.
It would be very interesting if an “batch” option is added to process hundreds of images at the same configuration.
Thanks in advance.
Windows 10
Raise a support request at the main website as it seems the problems may be with your computer. Support will be able to advise if there is an issue with dragging from the finder onto the open application as there are no issued with Windows 11.
I would prefer to have the ability to manually mask what I want the AI to enhance. I keep getting half the hair enhanced with the rest blurred out and I can’t use the image. It seems the AI can only do faces? It doesn’t seem to upscale much else.
I have the same issue - i have i5-2500k and RTX 3070 . And now i cant use anymore my 3070 after Photo AI update to v1.01 . This is really bad - please support Topaz team to fix it ! I wont change all my PC platform because of AVX2 compatible CPU …
needs the ability to copy/paste setting to a batch of images, or select all. the auto settings are too strong, i have to manually refine and change every setting, which defeats the object of having auto in the first place. A custom preset option would also be useful.
Go to Help, Open Log Folder and upload the log txt file here for the devs. Use the PC with UpArrow for the upload.
A comparison between Noise ai preview and Photo Ai preview. Noise is on the left. Photo ai is smearing detail, even with the raw noise setting on 2. the preview is much brighter and there is a colour change.
As a head’s up to anyone concerned about the recent addition of the AVX2 check in the installer, we’ve realized the hardware requirement is merely AVX, and we will be correcting the check within the installer for this week’s release. We apologize for the inconvenience.
@'ing those who’ve brought it up, so they see this message: @jwmek577-21673 @halasim @denis.hoare @murrayj.ca @dfree70 @lemans99
For landscape photography PhotoAI is nowhere near to the quality of the separate applications. The subject detection almost always fails and selects parts of trees, lawn, … Even worse the automatically selected denoising strength removes details.
Just compare the footbridge in the middle. Denoise:
PhotoAI:
…or the farmland in the middle. Denoise
PhotoAI:
