I just compared the histograms of Sharpening Standard V2 to Sharpening to the original RAW file. The histograms of the 2 versions of sharpening were the same. Both of them moved very slightly to the left (darker) as compare to the RAW. Truthfully looking the images I couldn’t see any difference. But maybe some images with different histograms will behave differently.
No issues here with Affinity Photo 2 and Photo AI 2.0
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Testing the Photo AI 2.0 initial release with today’s new Photoshop 2024 Generative Fill (starting with an empty canvas and using a text prompt). Enlarging 4x.
If that is true then it will be interesting to see how many smartphone snappers will go out and buy a rather high end computer (PC or Mac) with a strong GPU and NPU (Neural Engine) and then spend a couple hundred dollars for Photo AI, learn to use it all, export photos, and then upload to their social media accounts/online storage to view on their smartphones. I have my doubts that enough will buy to swamp the Mac/PC using photographers with traditional cameras.
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Gee, this is like deja vu! I just mentioned that as a great app for PAI (& GAI, ahem) File > Automate scaling as a Ps Plugin (for low res Firefly assets) in the past day or two. It’s almost as if I knew. 
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Topaz Photo AI 2.0 is fantastic! BUT just an update (released today) to Photoshop 2024, and Topaz Photo AI 2.0 wasn’t there under FILTERS as usual. I just copied the Topaz Photo AI 2.0 plugin from earlier PS, pasted into the PS Plugins folder, and all is good. So ya know, Adobe’s messing with ya!
Well, that’s interesting. That your filter wasn’t in the Filters list (and that they released Ps 2024 before Adobe MAX…?). Did you have any prior Topaz filters (like the ‘classic’ ones)? If so, did they transfer to the Ps 25.0 rel.? And, were you using the Ps beta before updating to the latest commercial release?
I’d hope that the PAI installer installs into the Adobe Ps Common Programs folder - which was always the one that ensured filters carried forward from one annual release of Ps to the next.
Unless Adobe changed that for this year.
My experience migrating Topaz plug-ins:
On the Mac I just dragged the items from the 2023 Plugins folder over to the 2024 one:
Photoshop 2024:
Both Gigapixel and PAI show up in File>Automate.
Invoking PAI only gets me this layer and nothing else (no GUI, etc.):
Accessing Gigapixel gets me its own layer plus the GP interface as expected and works properly.
Filter>Topaz Labs only shows PAI but opens PAI as expected. No GP to be seen.
Photoshop beta (25.1):
File>Automate shows both GP and PAI (same setup as 2024 Plugins folder). GP launches but will not finish processing the preview and takes a long time to cancel. PAI creates its layer but nothing else happens.
Filter>Topaz Labs only shows PAI but opens PAI as expected. No GP to be seen.
Is there no longer a common plugins folder as many ops are complaining that Photo AI doesn’t install in PS 2024 … but I noticed that they updated PS just in the last day or so …
If the folders have changed they have done a disservice to plugin providers that mean you either have to point at Topaz as a plugin folder or reinstall Photo AI or drag the plugins over to the new folder.
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Thanks! 
That helps to know what it did & how you handled it.
I don’t want to lose any filters (etc); including current or no longer developed past ones from Topaz (it was bad enough I permanently lost 4 fave older Topaz filters in the migration to Win 11).
I’m going to ask in the Adobe community before I update Ps…
As for testing a reinstall I suppose we will be getting that opportunity later today…
My system is WIN10 with PS 25 (2024) and plugins including PAI work fine. Yes there is a common plugin folder
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I can’t see from your setting, but did you have Select Subject enabled? Perhaps that’s the problem. I have similar pictures of birds, rabbits, and squirrels that inhabit my yard, and I’ve yet to experience your results. Or, perhaps, it’s unique voodoo to Version 2.0.
Yes, I’ve been playing with the Photoshop Beta for a while and have found that the new Neural filters work great in concert with Photo AI. Here’s a sample of a restoration I did with a couple of Generative Fills: Topaz Photo AI v2.0.0 - #178 by windspear
Yes the reinstall works fine, another user in another thread reported it.
