That may be, but they should remove them from the plugins
Version 2.0 is unusable. It crashes as a Photoshop plugin, it crashes when using as a standalone. It won’t edit an image. How do I get back to ver. 1?
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On a 2023 M2 Mac Mini (not Pro) I am not seeing any crashes, either as a standalone or via PS Beta’s Filter menu (v25.1). File>Automate lists Photo AI and creates a layer but does nothing else (using either RAW or JPEG).
Same holds true for PS release (24.7).
Use the Releases link above to download any other version.
I can confirm the same. Gigapixel as a plugin in Photoshop no longer works since the PhotoAI v2 update.
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Starting from version 1.5 (including this new 2.0.0), after having processed the noise (with any model) the engine re-initializes and processes a second time, doubling the time taken compared to the 1.4.x version. This double processing happens not always, but most of the time. I also noticed that the GPU does not exceed 60% load. (iMac Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2019, 3.7GHz 6-Core Intel Core i5, 40GB RAM, Radeon Pro 580X, OS X Ventura 13.4.1)
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I agree that the problem needs to be fixed so that Gigapixel can be used again as a plugin in Photoshop.
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You can download the latest v1 here:
Topaz Photo AI v1.5.4 - Topaz Photo AI / Releases - Topaz Community (topazlabs.com)
And on this link, you’ll see all the versions from the first to the last:
Sujets Récents sur Topaz Photo AI/Releases - Topaz Community (topazlabs.com)
Also, I can’t wait to see the Strong v2 models for sharpen in the next Photo AI update.
Thank You!
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Hi Anthony,
I have been using your latest version of Topaz AI V2. I do like most of the improvements.
However I don’t like the Adjust Lighting or balance. When I used the lighting it turns my photos Green, this isn’t adjusting the lighting its adjusting the colour on the whole photo. Lighting should just adjust the brightness either darker or brighter is it not? as for the colour balance the AI doesn’t really adjust anything, from what I have noticed I have to do this myself. Maybe some of the other users have better results. If I do get better reults on other photos I will be happy to let you know. However I will say I do like Topaz overall and It has even fixed quite a few of my really bad blurry images.
One other thing I think Topaz could do is when we crop if our horizon needs to be straighted, could this be included in the the crop feature?
Beginner question… when should you use Photo AI vs the indivisual apps (DeNoise, Sharpen, Gigapixel)?
If you have PhotoAI, do you need the other apps?
don’t mention, during my investigation “why is this working with beta and not with release” I’ve found what I told you.
Didn’t mentioned beta as I’m using msi release and msx beta so paths are different and can lead to a confusion
Really glad info helped you!
I use the msi installers for both release & beta versions so easy for me to apply to both.
I’m not sure where you want comments about the Noise Remove Standard V2 and the Sharpening Standard V2, but…
So far, especially on images where I’m having to upscale 2X, I think they BOTH work better than the old standard versions. They seem a bit less twitchy than the old Standard versions, and so far I’m not getting halos when I sharpen.
AND, the ability to brighten an underexposed image while processing in Photo AI (as long as I remember to turn it off when I process the image and send it back to Lightroom), is nice. It makes it a little easier to see how my adjustments are affecting the image.
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I’ve noticed a bug making a comeback. If you crop a photo directly in photo AI and then export the new, cropped image, it will retain the same thumbnail as when it was uncropped. But it’s beautifully cropped once opened in any image viewer, albeit with a slight bug. On opening, the viewer will show the uncropped image for 1/2 second and then correctly display the cropped image.
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So basically the answer is no. I can customize how they work, but if I wish to disable it altogether, I still cannot. In your screen capture, I do not see the lens blur model. I really do need to disable that model altogether.
New adjustments of lighting and color are very slow. They are not fit to work with real files in my opinion. Today, large photoshop files is not an exception. So, waiting for a minute or two after an adjustment until the file updates is counterproductive IMHO.
I don’t know if you have Adobe Creative Cloud, but the Photoshop Beta can be a good step at restoring older photos. The neural filters do an excellent job restoring photos. The Color Halftone filter reduces moiré patterns, and the Scratch Reduction does a good job removing scratches and dust particles. There are some other restoration tools as well, but I find those are the ones that I use most for my particular photos. Pair it with Photo AI and your results will turn out very nice.
Thank you, I do, though I usually mostly use Colorize. I’ll have to test some other filters going forward.
I’m also enjoying Generative Fill using text-to-image from scratch or for expanding Stable Diffusion renders (which are enlarged in Photo AI either before or after!).
Lot of problems with this release.
- Lost the ability to revert to auto-pilot settings.
- Sharpen Standard v2 severely over-sharpens images. I find I need to dial it back by at least half.
- While I appreciate that the denoise model will fix some minor blur and the sharpen model will reduce some minor noise, I find that if both models are used each are active anyway. This makes no sense and there is no logic as to how to correct it.
- Lighting and color adjustments are of zero value to anyone working with RAW images. They are extremely gross adjustments and does not obviate the need to edit in Lightroom or other editing programs. Combine that with the inability to export the image as a DNG and those features are less than useless.
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