This week’s update adds a preferences panel for customizing autopilot that we really think y’all are going to love! You’ll have a lot more control than previously over what processing it does, and can outright disable types of evaluation that won’t apply to images you expect to be working with - for example, a wildlife photographer disabling face detection. We also added lens correction and a whole slew of bug fixes!
If you own DeNoise, Sharpen, and Gigapixel with up-to-date licenses then you already have access to Topaz Photo AI!
Please give us any feedback or report issues with this release. We’ll be updating TPAI regularly to address those pieces of feedback and issue reports. If there’s a specific image you’d like us to see, you can send it us at this dropbox link.
This release is definitely a step in the right direction!
Can we please also get settings added under ‘autopilot configuration’ to set what type of enhancement filter is applied when auto-upscaling is enabled ie. natural, graphics, low resolution or ‘auto’.
Also a setting for noise removal: normal, strong, none, or ‘auto’ is needed.
Slight issue is, when prompted to download the updates in PhotoAI (using Win 10 btw), they do download and then I get the message that it is not a Windows installer file and the application crashes
Earlier both the My Products page on the website and the Topaz Photo AI app were serving up .pkg files for Windows. I’ve noticed that the My Products page now properly serves up a .msi now though.
So for the mean time downloading from the site is probably the best way to upgrade, as the in-app update still doesn’t work for me on this end.
PAI 1.0.2. Win 11. Standalone. Processor = Auto (so don’t know if using AMD RX6800 XT or Intel i9 12th gen).
I really like the start of building Prefs options! I customized some of the settings. Will see how it works. I found that after I made my Prefs changes I saw less intense halos around the edges of the objects in my landscape photo (SF Bay Bridge - stitched pano - shot with P&S (Sony RX100 ii)).
Suggestion re: the Prefs panel (snip attached): I wasn’t sure if when I clicked the “X” if it would nuke my customizations … if others agree, could you pls. instead add a 2nd button (below ‘Use Default Settings’) that says something like “Apply Custom Settings” (or something that conveys that. When a user clicks on that it not only saves their custom settings, but also closes that popup Prefs box. It is nice to be able to get at that from both the top of the UI & adjacent to the Autopilot section of the settings panel at right.
My 1st curr. rel. image experiment. Before changing the Prefs PAI was adding horrendously obvious halos around bridge edges and continues to do odd things to water texture (SF Bay) that looks like weird worms.
Curr. PAI rel. test with downsized version of image above (had been processed in Ps before resizing for ‘export to Web’) - so PAI working on a pre-processed image. Really distorted the image structures & water, added intense halos:
Result after changing the PAI AutoPilot Prefs in the popup box - to me, the water weirdness and edge halo-ing is now a bit less evident than the previous PAI runs with the same image (I left enable lens corrections set to on which was how the default came up):
Haven’t tried the Ps 2022 Plugin yet. Will try other images with both versions.
I like the addition of different Prefs. Options (as a design principle, even if tweaking may be needed with user feedback).
It’s great to get the feedback (in Changelog post) of what’s next in the development queue also. It’s definitely tracking to some of the most common feedback concerns that are posted!
Standalone ran fine with Sony ARW raw image test (same specs as immediately above). Subject selected was just the bird.
Guess the birds must get fed a lot. It let me get very close and was ‘posing’ w/out moving. This retained the bokeh of the ferry in the background too - as desired.
Clearly, this is just the pre-processing. I’d next take it into Ps to do the “creative” processing.
How do you refine the subject manually? The autopilot seems to sometimes select things that aren’t the subject (particularly when the photo is of birds in a vegetated area). I’d like to manually direct the program to the right subject, but can’t see how to?
