On the preferences there is an adjustment for “model strength” that helps with this issue
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Here’s a sample that I did in ten minutes this morning, combing Photoshop Beta and Topaz Photo AI. I’m still trying to get the order of each program right, but the results are pretty good, considering most of the time was taken up getting the Generative AI to look plausible.
That’s really something how much the Firefly can fill in…
That’s great! Reminds me of some manual retouches I did about 25 years ago in PS for a local wedding photographer. She was shooting medium format and had the little paper strip that holds the roll together stuck in the film plane, leaving a diagonal rectangular blank spot on each image…
I was able to reconstruct the bride’s dress, flowers and veil. AI would have been perfect for this and so much easier!
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Super impressive!
Guess what, I just got a notification for a very highly produced YouTube ad re: capturing images & using Photo AI for processing. In it, the text testimonial quoted, “Over 1 million ‘Costumers’ are using Photo AI.” I didn’t realize the people who design costumes would be such a huge market for them… that too is impressive.
Thanks, and that video sounds interesting (please post or PM).
Here it is! From YouTube.
The reference to over 1 million “Costumers” using Topaz Photo AI follows spoken testimonials by a number of guys. I guess mostly “costumers” (ie, costume designers) & guys use the software.
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Thanks! One always wonders who’s out there using Photo AI! Though they didn’t interview all million, hmm! 
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I’m using LrC to cross edit into Topaz AI and today after I did the update it keeps crashing. I can’t batch load to Topaz AI from LrC and even singe portraits with a lot of faces, it crashes almost immediately.
Any fix? Can I roll back. I’m using NVIDIA graphics as well.
2.0 worked as Photoshop Elements plugin the first couple times I used it Now it crashes all the time esp. if I try to refine the selection.
Congrats you broke it!!!
App crashes consistently if I even just put one image in and just mess with it for a bit. If I start a batch upscale as fast as I can it only gets through 4-5 imgs till it crashes. It does not freeze or show any signs of performance dip it just crashes. I am using 3070 laptop that I just purchased this year so in no way is my hardware an issue. This application was the best on the market just 2-3 months ago but due to rushed updates has significantly gotten worse and worse.
Maybe test your updates before you screw your users.
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Here’s an update that is suppose to “fix” the crashing with face recognition enabled
https://downloads.topazlabs.com/deploy/TopazPhotoAIBeta/2.0.1.0.gfg/TopazPhotoAIBeta-2.0.1.0.gfg.msi
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My father was a photgrapher and my mom would ‘colorize’ photos for the customers- this was back in the 40’s; that Sailor photo looks genuine for the day.
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Hello all. We determined the cause of the Face Recovery crash in Topaz Photo AI v2.0.0. I just made a short post about it and pinned it to the top of forums, with three options for a workaround before we release a fix on Thursday in v2.0.1.
We are very aware this is a hefty bug introduced in this latest version and spent most of today and the weekend figuring out the cause. We are doing our best to continue improving your experience with Topaz Photo AI and Topaz Labs software.
I am thankful for your patience with us.
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What will the fix be, hopefully it wont disable the use of the RTX GPU for processing?
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It really is terrific! And, does look like the really well done hand coloring of photos! That’s a lot of work to have created in the time period when there weren’t all the computerized systems. My Dad - who was in advertising - used to be able to create effects like that too for commercial purposes. I have a lot of respect for people who have talents like that b/c I understand what goes into it.
I will second others here who asked to please stop using resources for more features, when the basics have yet to be working right. I specifically purchased your software to blow up photos with AI which would add more detail. I wasn’t wanting anything else. All the other photo editing tools I need are in a plethora of other software that does that work just fine. I see others here seem to like color correction, etc., but I don’t get it.
Anyway, blurry patches alone is “game breaking”, and it’s still not fixed, but I can color correct now?
I will add in, 2.0 is crashing to desktop when I load my larger photos, and frankly, I’m seeing little difference in anything, save a bit more speed with basic models, standard, etc., no noise, etc., settings added.
The sharpen standard 2.0 is a bit better, not as fat of an oversharpen.
I’ve test blown up hundreds and hundreds of photos trying to figure out how to get results that work, but that goal still alludes me. Now you have added more complexity to a program that imo needs to go back to basics and get things right there first.
I posted the idea of having a pro version and a fun time version. I still stand by that. You guys seem to be wanting to make the “everything” software for the masses, with pros as a side note, to keep the income stream going. Fair enough, but seems to me it would be easier, or perhaps less frustrating for everyone, to have a more expensive pro version do the pro things, “right”, with a team focused on that, and a “cheap” fun version that blows up grandma’s face easy peasy, that is a completely different animal and different team.
I hope this feedback is helpful in some way.
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Totally agree Luminar, Lightroom, Photoshop, Affinity, Radiant Photo, SNS-HDR will all do image adjustment just fine and way better than Topaz Photo AI. I duck out of those software to denoise, enlarge and very occasionally sharpen using a Topaz product. But you are driving customers away, I actually googled other software offerings last night to check them out for their enlarging and denoising abilities. You have taken something quite simple and purpose built e.g Gigapixel and Denoise and made the process quite cumbersome now. It’s actually quite hard and time consuming to now adjust, sharpness, noise and enlargement models when all you want to do is enlarge. It really feels like you should be sticking to your knitting…
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I posted the idea of having a pro version and a fun time version. I still stand by that. You guys seem to be wanting to make the “everything” software for the masses, with pros as a side note, to keep the income stream going. Fair enough, but seems to me it would be easier, or perhaps less frustrating for everyone, to have a more expensive pro version do the pro things, “right”, with a team focused on that, and a “cheap” fun version that blows up grandma’s face easy peasy, that is a completely different animal and different team.
Or at least give the separate versions Gigapixel, Denoise, Sharpen an update (maybe some updated models?) while keeping up with the “our paying users are our guinea pigs” routine that seems to be the deal with PAI…
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Just upgraded to V2.0 and from the get go, I’ve got it running without issues (W10, Nvidia GTX card).
I like so far what I see, specially the new (Beta) Standard Sharpening V2 compared to the older versions. It’s a bit more agressive but that’s what the sliders are for.
Also, impressed with the color balance, nice to have, worked well although needs manual fine tuning.
Light enhancement also doing a good job on the few pics I tried (all JPG’s from NEF using NXStudio).
What I don’t like: resizing should be (IMHO) a feature by its own, without any filtering applied. I.E.: if I have the original file size and I just want to redux the size, it should be made without any other adjustments, as a choice. The way it is now, I’m forced to reduce both controls to “1” and even so there’s something done.
Speed: slower than ever (as far as I tried right now). Maybe dealing with smaller size images (Z9 files 8256x5504) will do the trick. I usually open the JPG’s already downsized to 4500x3000 px.
Will keep trying, however, overall, IMO, I can see it’s an improvement from the former versions.
