Topaz Photo AI v2.0.0

I got CS4 Master (over £2000 although I can’t remember exactly how much, other than it hurt a lot). Only to discover that it was STILL (and this isn’t long before CS5 was announced) only 32 bit which made it impossible for some of my very large projects!

I use Affinity Photo now for that work and I the rest of the Adobe stuff is either by Affinity, Blackmagic or just FOSS.

1-st image cannot be selected with a highlight on thumbnail:

Clicked on 1-st thumbnail, but no highlight here:

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Also, settings cannot be applied from the 2-nd image to the 1st.
After this was attempted, for the 1st image, when clicking its thumbnail, this image does not get loaded into the preview and navigator - the previous image says there. The Right Panel shows blank settings, while the info popup above the thumbnail shows settings identical to image 2.

P.S. I happened to play with images from this thread (credit: Nikkor Z180-600mm sharpness wide open | Backcountry Gallery Photography Forums)

This version doesn’t appear to do anything. Can I go back to an older one?

Yes. You can.

Topaz - your issue

Trying to use the software in batch (over 100+ photos). Using RTX 3080. It just kept crashing after a few successful photos.

Yes, my experience too, Paul. GAI definitely worked for me prior b/c it was my only recourse for upscaling inside Ps.

I don’t want any (Filter or Automate menu) of my older Topaz plugins/features disabled unless I disable or delete them.

I find I get different results w/the diff. generations of tools and I want to maintain the flexibility to access diff. generations from inside my Ps (annual) workspace as plugins on an as needed basis. It’s bad enough (I’m still upset about it!) that I can’t install 4 of the “classic” Topaz products I loved & used regularly once I got my Win 11 PC.

For now, I’m not uninstalling PAI 2.0, but I do want my GAI Ps Plugin working again for the reasons stated. Thx. in advance, guys at Topaz, for correcting that.

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Let’s face it! I do a lot of family history type work and being able to use Recovering Faces is a must for older photos. And of course even contemporary shots need help.

Here are several examples, starting with one from 1918 and moving through the years using scans of prints and film to lo-res digital.

From prints:

From 35mm film (scans not spotted ahead of time. These are not my relatives, ha!):

In this case with Wynonna, Photo AI’s Adjust Lighting and Balancing Color went a long way toward fixing this dark scan, closely matching what Radiant Photo offers while of course adding facial recovery.

Finally, a lo-res digital image (this was the very day Arnold first made his infamous “girly man” comment, and I was there to hear it (with a stupid little popper camera) :wink:

As per the comments above, I’d rather have what Topaz is currently offering in terms of exposure and color correction than nothing at all (which IMO was a glaring omission), and it can only get better with our feedback.

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Did you do other coloration on the guy in the sailor suit? It looks retouched from the original pretty notably. Almost like a hand painted retouch. But I suppose it could have just been a tad overly denoised and then warmed a lot to get that look too.

Yes, Radiant Photo tends to de-dingify (make less dingy?) photos! Which is great. Even if it tends to over-saturate and sometimes needs to be beaten into submission (so to speak) so it doesn’t look like our images fell into a vat of full-strength paint.

No, the colorization seems to have been done back in the day, though I also enjoy using Photoshop’s colorization option.

Yes, Radiant is a great starting point but usually needs to be backed-off a bit ;-). Unless you’re going for the Instagram look! It’s like young people with earbuds, the result has to be loud and pop!

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We added a fix for this error loading model. Please run the installer for Topaz Photo AI again and the updated model no longer has this issue. @Imo this is what fixed it.

We are adding a toggle in Preferences > General to allow switching between 4 letter and 3 letter file extension. However, 4 letter is recommended to avoid potential ambiguity. This will be released in 1-2 weeks. @jmlphotography @Paul_Coddington

Both v1 and v2 are available in this release. We are looking to phase out the v1 Remove Noise - Raw models in time as the new models should produce better results.

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Why are we calculating everything again when only adjusting the Opacity in the Balance Color … seems to be a waste.

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Some of the previous products had settings designated “Post-processing”. If I’m remembering right, they weren’t recalculated linearly along with the other AI settings.

That would be a helpful approach for the Lght & Color settings in PAI too; to be indie ‘tweaks’ after the fundamental settings are acceptable. IMO.

Same. The minute I do any sort of facial detection (and practically everything I do is portraits) version 2.0 crashes within seconds. This was not an issue before the upgrade - is there a way to go back to a previous version while this gets sorted out?

Crashes after 5-10 pics.

Download speeds to Brazil still with very bad speed

In Radiant Photo, you can select the Subtle preset in the left hand side Smart Preset panel. It will give a less Instagram look. :grinning:

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https://manual.radiantimaginglabs.com/1/en/topic/choosing-a-smart-preset-collection

Thanks, but I am not seeing that at all.

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You may try click on the tiny arrow and expand the selection bar.

its probably for the stand alone people not everyone uses many programs

Ah ha! It almost looks like the items below it have already been expanded. There’s probably a better way to denote this secret menu. Great tip though!

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