Topaz Photo AI v1.0.1

[rudy.moons-3566]

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.

[rakesh.patel-3975]

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?

[richard_m_h]

Crashes are often from the gpu processing. Try changing it in the Processor menu. And make sure your graphics drivers are up to dat.

[JakSpoon (Jacopo)]

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!

[zen195345]

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.

[Fotomaker]

@zen195345

might expect the next update?

There is typically a new release end of each wk.

But there isn’t a fixed public schedule.

[warren.schultz]

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.

[zen195345]

Many thanks photomaker.

[anthony.lawn]

We’d love to take credit, but in this case I think it’s probably Apple’s fix. Happy either way!

[plugsnpixels]

I’m happy too! I’ll keep reporting results as the OS and PAI evolve.

[mv-3613 (Michael Vinther)]

The Face Recovery works really well for young people, but for people with more “weathered” faces the results are not very good. I would prefer if it would preserve more of the skin texture.

[john.graybosch]

I’m getting strange repeating artifacts when I try to do a denoise. It’s most visible on a blue sky. Please see the original and the denoised. Honestly, that’s not usable… Please address. Note: the forum is compressing the jpegs heavily, it’s much more visible as 100% quality jpeg. It also blurred out the cloud as well…