For this week we have taken the beta Remove Noise models out of beta. They will now replace the previous Normal and Strong models, and the old Strong is kept and re-labeled as Extreme.
In the background there was a large overhaul of the engine that runs the processing of images. We have not run into any new issues but if you run into strange behavior please let us know. There should not be much different for now but this allows us to more easily add stuff in the future. The main user-facing change this adds is that now exporting will use the cache if possible which should drastically speed up exports for images you’ve already previewed.
As always the full change log can be found below.
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.
Since upgrading to 1.3.9 I get many “Error: Could not run model” I’ve been using Photo AI for many months and have never gotten this error before 1.3.9. When I retry, a few work, but even after a reboot, some photos give the same error.
Does it happen only with specific models? I would recommend maybe trying a reinstall and see if it persists. Posting logs may also be helpful for debugging.
2023-06-15-18-00-31.tzlog (191.3 KB) Topaz Photo AI Installer Log.txt (1.5 MB)
Here is install log and the log for 2 photos that received the error. One was Remove Noise - Normal and the other was Enhance Resolution - Low Resolution. Both on Autopilot.
At what point are you getting these errors? Is it while previewing, and are you doing anything else at the time or is it just while exporting? Are you able to get it to work by moving the preview and/or restarting the export?
Looking at the code it seems like that error is only raised when the output from the model is empty, so need to find out why that’s happening.
I get the error on the final export. Preview works normally. I tried to upload the 2 photos but they are TIFF files and I’m not allowed to upload them. I am using Lightroom Classic and I’m sending to Photo AI TIFF files which are produced after some adjustments and cropping of the .ARW file.
Thanks for the information. If you can’t get past it at all then I can recommend downgrading to 1.3.8. for now. I’ll take a look to see if I can reproduce tomorrow.
Has the Turing Noise Reduction problem been fixed that others reported recently. I notice that the v1.3.8 + v1.3.9 make no mention of a fix or known problem. Now that you’ve removed the original Noise Reduction v1 I can’t use v1.3.9 as it creates very bad artefacts on some images (not shareable for confidentiality reasons but I note that others have sent images).
I uninstalled an earlier release, checked in Registry Editor for Topaz AI entries per a forum note (not present). GPU is an NVIDIA RTX 3070 Ti.
Scenario: I batch process with the MBP via LR on the soccer field to send directly to the team for posting. I find there is no way to set the sharpening to lens blur so it automatically remembers the setting when I send AI a batch of photos. Instead with each batch sent, I have to go in and reset AI to the settings I prefer before I apply. This takes precious time which I cannot afford when under a time crunch to deliver photos. The standalone version of Denoise for example did remember how I wanted the files to be processed. I need the ability to have AI remember my preferred settings for all processing aspects. Ver 1.3.9
I have deleted and reinstalled v1.3.9, but am still getting an error message when I run either the lens blur or motion blur models.
Using as a standalone on a Mac Mini M1 16GB, Ventura 13.5, Auto.
I keep getting this error for 99% of the photos I am trying to process. This started with the v1.39 update. I have reinstalled, same errors. MacBook Pro late 2018 2.9 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i9, 32gb ram, 1TB drive. The Sharpen Models listed in my app are Standard, Strong, Lens Blur and Motion Blur. I see no Extreme?
