This week’s update adds more control over the various filters, as well as a ton of bug fixes and performance improvements! There’s also new support for a command line interface, which can be used to process images without ever opening the application window - perfect for automation!
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.
Try using graphics instead of natural, is that any better? Also, if they listen to what I have been saying for a while now, we should have control over this in the AP configuration. See my post above ↑
Win 11. Processor = Auto (AMD RX6800 XT, Intel i9 12th gen). Installed over .2 rel.
Launched Standalone 1st. Launched w/no issues using Sony ARW raw image.
Ran AutoPilot. Test image (see street photo scene image below - no faces) retained photographic-quality with the AP processing. There are lots of small textural details in the image. Details did not get overly-smoothed, halo-d or converted to odd wavy shapes. Retained a photographic quality. Both zoomed in in the UI & pulled back to normal view.
Because of the Changelog mention of new sliders I tried moving all the sliders under Denoise & Sharpen in different ways & combos to experiment & see how impacted the A.P. only result. With subtle slides, nothing went radically off - which is an improvement (at least for this image) from prior experiences. Very positive!
Also tried the Ps 2022 Plugin (I’m assuming there’ll be a Ps 2023 in the next wk or so from Adobe MAX…I usually wait until others with mult. test computers find the bugs - I don’t ever install immed.). Plugin launched with no issues. Functioned like the standalone. Able to save back to Ps layer. I used slightly different settings. But PAI still retained photo quality. Saved back to Ps layer okay - I reduced Opacity 5% as a tweak. To see what impact that might have.
Just tried an ORF (Olympus) raw and DNG (created from ORF raw using Adobe dng Converter). Both opened and were processed by PAI A.P.
Picked a night photo for one test. AP did fine with that. Removed the color noise w/out over-smoothing.
In the DNG, AP selected the mural & center tree as Subject. I’m finding that - more often than not - I must turn off Sharpen Subject Only due to the positioning and coverage of the subject overlay.
NOTE: One odd UI bhvr - possibly needing a fix… I got in the habit of doing a CTRL + W to close images b/c there was no Close Image button or File menu option. With rel. 1.0.3 even when I do that, I see the supposedly closed image appear again when I launch a new image. I then tried a “Close All” but the same thing happened. When I did either of those closing procedures nothing appeared in the workspace of the UI. The previously closed image only flashed up there when I opened the next image.
DNG from ORF (using AP settings but Sharpen Subj Only Turned Off): Mural & center tree detected as Subj for kicks I activated Face Detect - it didn’t think the mural portrait was a face.
I’ve tried all 3 and they don’t change the outcome at all. It always ends up blurry as soon as I upscale the image. I really hope they can go this one last step to give us the option to turn Enhance Resolution OFF.
Calling from Affinity Photo and V1.0.3 AutoPilot was extremely faster that previous releases. Like the additional sliders under Remove Noise and Sharpen. I do think they give a bit finer control.
The install procedure was faster for me and I was glad to see the preferences I set in the previous version were carried over to this version.
Using Mac mini M1 (2020) 16GB and 1TB, Monterey 12.6
Experimenting with 4x enlargement, otherwise Auto Pilot. This is a screenshot from Instagram of one of the photos I posted there. Very nice cleanup! Gigapixel was always my favorite Topaz app, glad to see the legacy continues in Photo AI.
When processing a RAW file I cannot save any result . Program exit without saving any file (checked tif and jpg)
While processing a TIF looks to save OK
I send my RAW file to Dropbox
Very similar results here. Tried processing 3 different jpgs. Processes nicely but will not save file to either tiff or jpeg. Get error message ‘cannot save file’ then program silent crashes. An unusable file is created. Autopilot changes only. Other settings in export: No prefix; Suffix is PhotoAI1.0.3; Location: Original Folder; Format either TIFF with no Compression; Bit Depth 16-bit. With JPEG I set quality to 100. Setting output to ‘preserve original format’ also led to silent crash. I tried a tif file to save as a tiff file and got message ‘cannot open output file’ but the program did not silent crash. I was able to press cancel process and go back into the program. Worked fine in v1.0.2.
Tried this rel. earlier. Closed out PAI for several hours.
Tried new images. Still getting same odd bhvr noted in test earlier.
When I close an image I’ve worked on (either using Close Image, Close All Images or CTRL + W) so that no image appears in the UI workspace then I open another (diff.) image, the image I’d just closed before opening the new image flashes up before the new image opens.
BTW, I’ve been using raw images to test so far - a mix of ARW and ORF and raws from those sources converted to dng using Adobe dng Converter.
It’s happening every time in the Standalone. It isn’t a one off experience.
TPAI 1.0.3 may have problems creating output files after having optimized large TIF:s. I repeatedly get “Error creating output file” independent of to which file format I save. Saving to original location, lots of space, lots of memory, fast computer.
V1.03 is crashing randomly on me when processing a stack of images using autopilot. This happens when using folders on local SSD or on remote NAS drives. GPU is an Nvidia RTX 2080
I too am having this problem. Win 10, i7 7th gen, Nvidia 1080, 64 GB ram.
I load up about 200 .nef files and let it go to work, it gets through about 30 or 40 files before it closes without warning. I have plenty of disk space.
I can simply open the program again, drag and drop the files where it left off, and it will start again, so it’s not dying on a bad file.
Would be nice if it would give off some kind of death rattle, any type of error to indicate what’s happening.
Also I noticed a bug where if I load some files up via drag and drop, then tell it to remove them all, I cannot just drag and drop the files into Photo AI again. I can manually tell P AI to open them by navigating to the folder through the interface, and that worked fine. But no more drag-and-drop until I closed and opened the program again.
There is an ascii text log file, I’m running it again right now to hopefully catch something useful. It seemed to not like my display calibration last time, which completely confuses me… I use the Calibrite system, which should be pretty normal as such things go.
Something is wrong with the new Standard sharpening option. When it’s enabled in combination with Face Recovery, the backgrounds - along with the edges of some faces - get offset diagonally. This doesn’t happen with Lens Blur sharpening. The effect occurs on the display and in the exported results. Compare these examples to see the offset. (I’m working with JPGs in standalone mode.)