Topaz Photo AI v1.1.9

Positives:

  • Subject detection works well and often selects what I would select myself. Only when there’s really low contrast between subject and background it selects a bit too much.
  • Processing speed / preview speeds feel quite a bit faster than a few versions back.

It’s becoming a bit old by now, but these issues that have been reported many times still remain:

  • Pixel shift down+right when sharpening. When ‘subject only’ is enabled you see a stretching of the top-left boundary and squishing of the bottom-right.
  • Recover face undoes the pixel shift, slightly detaching/misaligning the head from the neck.
  • Face recovery turns grey and blue eyes into brown eyes.
  • Denoise strength slider only works in the RAW model. On normal/strong models it does nothing. At least nothing I can spot with the naked eye. Strength 1 looks just as smooth as 100 to me, leaving no room to dial it down a bit.
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