If I had a magic fairy wand and could make Photo AI V 2.0 into what I would have wanted, here it is.
And, I would love to throw money at the developers to have these core type features of my fairy wand wishes actually work at 100%.
( Btw, I do landscape nature work, not facial enlargements, so I won’t comment on face stuff.)
Being able to blow up photos even larger than 6 X and have those blow ups be true and accurate to the photos with lovely detail, as if I had shot whatever older image with a $10K lens let’s say.
In other words, no hallucinated weird leaves and wrong sized leaves/needles/grass/moss, and so on.
Also, no furry rocks, furry water, furry pine needles and so on.
No giant square hunks of complete blurry areas right next to perfectly sharp areas, despite no depth changes.
I would love to have the software much better trained to understand in the first place, what a rock is, or tree/log, water, etc, and where one ends and another begins. Also, a much nicer/detailed and realistic blow up of water, or water falls.
I would love to have boulders that blow up with the fine grain of boulders and not have the green/yellow, etc., moss on the boulder turned to big leaves. Also, not have the rock area itself look like large clumps of clay stuck together.
Less baffling controls/tools that often don’t make sense in the context they are portrayed as, nor when you try to mix them.
For instance, the new sharpen V 2, the more I turn it up, the more PAI V2 hallucinates new strange and wrong sized leaves/grass/moss? I thought it was a sharpen tool, not an add more leaf, etc., models tool.
I’ve dinked around with PAI for countless hours and I still am not certain at times what slider is doing what in conjunction with the other sliders. I don’t have that problem in any other photo editing software. It does not have a logical flow, at least not for me.
I would like to not have to add blur to already sharp photos to have the software decide it can only add the models for grass, leaves, rocks, etc., after I add blur.
I would love to have a working, professional quality level of batch processing with nuanced controls and that can handle thousands, or at least hundreds of old photos accurately and without crashing.
I would love to have presets I can make and save that are specific for me and not tied to auto pilot in any way. And I would have a complete turn off feature for anything auto pilot, which I thought V2 was supposed to have, but does not near as I can tell. I’ve shut off everything I can find, and there’s still auto pilot stuff going on.
I would love to have a normal sharpening ability, like a tiny radius setting like PS has so I can finely adjust the thickness of the sharp edges, such that blown up blades of grass don’t look like green twigs, etc., the way it is now.
There’s more, but you get the idea. As I said before in another comment, I don’t need Photo AI to be Photoshop, or Capture One, Lightroom, etc. I just want to blow up beautiful photos with more detail. It is WHY I bought the software.
You gave me a small taste of what could be in “parts” of some of my photos, but then that gift gets taken away in other parts of the same photos, all photos, without exception. All versions of the software back through Gigapixel, without exception, give, and then take away, the thrill of what could be.
Please continue work on the core reason most of us bought the software, to blow up photos and add fine detail that wasn’t there. Then, keep going, making those core features better and more awesome. Anything else feature wise doesn’t make any sense to me for why I spent my money here.
There’s my fairy wand wish list.
I wanted to add. Imo, the key to being strong in the market, is honing in on those one or two things that no other company is doing, or doing well, and drill down that specialized development hole harder and faster than anyone else perpetually.
The more you diversify beyond what attracted users in the first place, the more you spread yourself thin, water down what is unique about your company and lose that specialization or obvious advances over your competition, and thus, lose your user base.
But the core functions will have suffered massively (as I would assume that you will not have stocked up the team exponentially).
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