I’m new to this but wanted to point out a bug when using Topaz v2 after editing
a Sony A1 photo in Adobe Camera Raw using the new denoise feature in that app. Weird artifacts appear when using sharpen and denoise together. To wit:
The bug that Photos sent from Apple Fotos app to TPAI can’t be saved when they’re in landscape is still there 
Crazy Cat Lady?
@AiDon @yuan.liang @yazi.saradest @anthony.lawn Interface shows Preserv text affecting while balance area.Don you check white balance
with this part of your chert ?
Source Photo uploaded
If you are good arround your PC files there is way to fix that:
go to: c:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Affinity\Photo\2.0\Plugins\
and rename TopazPhotoAI.8bf to something other
then go to: c:\Program Files\Topaz Labs LLC\Topaz Photo AI\
and copy TopazPhotoAI.8bf to a previous location where you renamed old one
it works here
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Yes, better but in no way useable.
Seems that 8 is the crash limit start for Face Recovery … moving the location in the navigator initializes face recovery an it crashes.
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Balance Color is not useable as you can see here, in fact this is quite an extreme example because of the underlying colors in the image and the result is so far OFF … the original image clearly shows in the navigator …
On the left (in another app) is the original and the right is what I would expect …
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PAI V2, at least for me, is a an improvement. Raw noise models have better utilization of the GPU. Raw V2 models are much better. If used as a plugin, I really don’t see any use for the “adjust lighting” or “balanced color” controls. Same adjustments can be done in PS or LRc or …
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Why am I not able to set the install directory upon uninstalling the old version and installing this one?
I had this same problem after install. This is how I fixed it:
shutdown everything, re-boot, re-install, re-boot, problem gone.
If you are on windows, delete the registry entry for Topaz Photo AI before installing.
Thanks very much for this Krbo. It worked on both the release version of AP2 & the latest beta versin which is release candidate 2.
I agree Don. For me too Balance Color is a complete waste of time. Image1 is the enhanced image from TPAI with it’s attempt at colour balancing while Image2 is a screenshot from the progam itelf. As you can see the saved image is not the same as the preview in TPAI. Image3 is the result from my normal workflow using DxO Photolab 6 & Affinity Photo 2. The latter is more true to the scene, I have also included the original raw file.
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I do not see the point of adding these corrections to TPAI as other editing apps handle them much better & with more control.
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I have to agree with that, trying to be everything for everyone is fraught with danger. They should focus on what they do best.
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A couple of days ago somebody reported elsewhere in this forum (I can’t find it now, of course) that Gigapixel had stopped working through File>Automate in Ps since installing PAI v2. I tested it on my Windows 10 PC and found exactly the same - the new layer is created and then nothing, GAI doesn’t even open. So I uninstalled PAI v2 and guess what? GAI now works perfectly. I think I’ll leave PAI uninstalled until it’s finished.
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I have the same problem with Face Detect causing crashes with a Nvidia (4090 in my case) GPU. While trying to work around that issue I also found that my earlier Topaz Sharpen & Denoise Plugins for PS Elements don’t coexist with the Photo AI 2.0 (and same with ver 1.5.4) Plugins for PS Elements. I can get the earlier product plugins to show in PSE, or I can get the Photo AI plugin to show in PSE, but I can’t get all of the three plugins available at the same time in PSE.
I came back to read this thread today. Topaz I think you need to slow down. Stop spending advertising money and stop adding new features UNTIL you can get stability and the basics down. Your core work is good but now you have competition from Adobe for DeNoise and High Pass Detail sharpening as described by f64. Right now I will not likely extend my subscription when it expires. As I stated above I could not go to PS with a PSD. These are basics.
Please take this as feedback, not good or bad, not right or wrong, just information for you to make choices.
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Howdy!
I’m very excited to see the updates in v2.0! Great work!
I was hoping there would be a fix from 1.5.4 where Nikon Z9 images had a magenta cast. Now, instead of a magenta cast, it’s teal. A previous message said the magenta cast was a known issue processing Nikon NEF files and provided a workaround that doesn’t quite fit my workflow (e.g. I cannot make any changes to the image at all before processing from Lightroom to Topaz Photo AI.) Any ideas when this one might be fixed? Huge thanks in advance!
ETA: Windows 10 and Windows 11 (both with latest updates). Latest firmware for Z9.
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Have to agree with Paul Coddington on this. Three letters are a DOS limitation that belongs in the past. We can still use it, but .TIFF, .JPEG and so on are more descriptive and useful. (I’ve been in the game since the mid 1970s.
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