In all fairness, that is most software companies routine these days.
Agreed with your at least comment.
Using V2.0 Beta on Sonoma (14.0 Beta (23A5337a)).
It works beautifully.
Only issue I have seen is the beta Balance Color which produces strange colors.
The sharpening is simply amazing. Here is a small detail of that same picture:
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I don’t think we are the core market anymore. This is clearly going to be meant for people without Lightroom to fix up their iPhone photos. They see the writing on the law with Adobe adding in their own RAW DeNoise so now they need to do something it can’t do. Which is work on none raw images.
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BalanceColor Seems to effect slot of people.
Me too.
I think they want to make everyone “happy”. They are putting a lot of resources in raw and plugin functionality too. I have no use for functionality that I have in LRc or PS, but based on the comments there are people who want them.
Hi guys , i am new here so i suspect its stupid question…
ive updated my camera to new model and i know some programs may not be able to read newer cameras RAW files …is the same rule apply to Topz ai?
topaz ai is ver 2.0
camera is Panasonic s5iix
and when throwing RAW at it i have pink compression like blocks ?
any thoughts?
thanks for any advice.
It’s likely like you suspect not supported RAW file yet.
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B/c the updated ‘Gigapixel’ features - as a plugin to Ps - are better than Ps’ scaling features. IMO. That’s why it’s critical. Also (usually, but not for every image) I prefer the Topaz denoising to Ps’. I very infrequently ‘shoot’ group people shots & ditto post-pandemic, with increased street crime, street photographs that include smaller faces. But PAI is better than anything I’ve used in Ps to restore or sharpen up faces.
With my entirely Ps workflow, I rely on high caliber Topaz (& other 3rd party) plugins to be efficient. Both traditional Topaz creative ones & current functional ones.
BTW, I believe this will become even more important if/when Ps releases to the masses some of the Firefly features they’ve been mass beta testing since earlier this year. That will gen low res content that needs ‘cleaning’ & scaling.
They use Lensfun. And seem to update the version of it to support newer gear on a regular basis.
Is your gadget on the Lensfun supported list. You can check it via a Google search of Lensfun.
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crash logs for face detection failures. Tried using both GPU (nvidia 3060) as well as CPU models just in case. offending image is also attached here. 33 faces granted, but I’ve done even more successfully. =) Let me know if I can provide anything else! I have even more log files on this as I have attempted different file formats, models, AI processors, etc. I can only upload 2 files though.
2023-09-12-12-26-7.tzlog (11.6 KB)
2023-09-12-10-05-40.tzlog (182.1 KB)
2023-09-12-10-08-1.tzlog (1.7 MB)
This looks like it borrowing color from the squirrel and adding it to the grass.
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I’m also still seeing this huge RAW color shift issue in the latest 2.0 version. When will this finally be fixed?
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Its NVIDIA not TPAI thats the problem
I agree with devenpsc - TPAI has outgrown it’s original focus - denoise, sharpen and upscaling - and in doing so has lost the niche, lost the quality, lost users, and IMHO lost focus on what Topaz does well.
I liked the idea of TPAI having all three products in a single piece of software. I’ve stuck with it and I “hope” TPAI is getting there with that core focus.
I dont like the add-ons that will always be done better by products that focus on RAW editing, and in my view not what Topaz is for.
I’d be extremely happy if there was a refocus on the 3 core products in TPAI.
Not sure if the engineers at Topaz are aware - the original Denoise and Sharpen are still producing better, reliable and repeatable outputs that TPAI, even in V2.0 cant do!!!
I guess, I am, along with many users, frustrated that a great original product has gone through so much develoment and not really shown any significant improvement.
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And that is the winning statement!
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Which is honestly their greatest weakness if they are. Relaying way too much on open-source community to add support and to fix bugs. The glass list is actually pretty damn small and isn’t being updated regularly from my check. Explains why having Lightroom export to TIFF instead of DNG works so, so much better for me for their stuff. Especially the annoying color shift when working with RAW files that happens.
Assuming that is actually accurate they are relaying on that.
There’s much to improve upon the original core features of Photo AI. I hope Topaz developers focus on stability and enhancement of existing features for a better user experience, rather than experimental new features. Especially considering the questionable usefulness and accuracy of colour balancing.
I know this doesn’t help but calling PAI v2.0 from within Affinity Photo 1.0 works fine for me. Possibly re-install PAI.
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