For those w/out a host, I could understand selecting a Sky to alter color or light.
But that kind of masking isn’t currently available in those PAI settings panels. And, more control of gradation, saturation/opacity, luminosity would really be needed too to work with something like that effectively.
Plus, that’s a more esoteric type of adjustment. I was under the impression PAI was supposed to be a pre-processor. And, in that role, there are many features still to be corrected and added before leaping into the esoteric (or, surreal) realm. IMHO.
any thoughts about adjustment to any roadmaps to figure out how to add some of the things Magnific has been rolling out in their new uprezzer? The amount of dreaming it allows is different on some level from what TopazPhoto is doing, but the results still look really good.
Mostly, I just prefer working in Topaz so this is my little plea for some of what they’re doing to migrate into the app. Thanks y’all!
I visited the Magnific site and was not so impressed.
Of course the images look really impressive at first sight if you just look at the output.
BUT when you compare the original photo you’ll see that Magnific often changes things or replaces them by similar but not identical things, e.g. plants or stones.
Also it does change faces so that they’re not fully the original - and that even with the advertisement images on their website…
I want the output image to be higher resolution and improved detail BUT stay as true to the original as possible. There, TPAI is quite good (although strange enough in some cases still a bit behind Gigapixel).
I buy when the software does something new that I want, otherwise I don’t buy. If what is offered at the time of purchase isn’t worth the money to me, I’m not “buying a promise” in the hopes that something may be offered in the future that may be valuable to me.
Hi - still testing the ability of improving sharpness and detail for very small pixel sensors like the 48 MP sensor of the DJi Mini Pro 3. As I can see, Photo AI 2.1.4 always would like to use the Sharpen tool, which does not the best the Plugin can. I get the best results by combining Sharpen (reduced, no denoise) and Removing Noise (by using Recover Original value of around 20 and reducing the denoise by 50 %). The problem remains that the result looks plastic to a certain degree. And this is where my biggest wish in terms of further improvement comes in: pls give us the grain feature again.
Thanks, Markus
You can turn off the auto “pilot” in PAI to make your own slider choices. But, as shown in the snip above, there are a lot more discrete settings (that work well!) that users can set in the older Topaz products. Which is desirable.
Hi - I really have my doubts about the AI of 2.14. In an image where sharpness is ok, but it is underxposed at ISO 2000, Photo AI only suggests sharpening. Did I miss something?
I used to experience the same thing. It either suggested DeNoise (when I thought it needed sharpening) or vice versa. That’s why I turned my Auto-Pilot off.
One thing for you to check in your personal setup of PAI. How do you have your Preferences (Edit Menu) set? Look at the Prefs related to Denoise, Sharpen and High Quality Images (they’re in the 2nd cluster of Prefs). You may need to adjust some of the preferences to suit the type of imagery you most frequently produce…
For example, if you tend to shoot a lot of low light, high ISO images, you may want to set your High Quality Images Pref to default to denoising (then you adjust the sharpening manually).
You can alter the Preferences to suit any given images you plan to be processing. I don’t know if you work with single images primarily (that’s what I do) or with batches. But if you know you’re going to be working with images that aren’t especially noisy but may be soft, you can adjust what the AI is looking for or compensating for.
Granted, the “promise” of “AI” (which implies all-knowing, all-seeing perfection with no effort on the part of users - I almost feel as though I should genuflect when mentioning it …) is that it should detect such things. But, until it really and truly does, that’s one suggestion of a way to work with it.
Thanks - will turn AutoPilot off first and see what is happening.
I have rechecked with DeNoise AI 3.7.2 and seen that sometimes the denoising is better/stronger but very uneven and kills structures whereas PAI does a better, more even job. So, on the whole it is getting better but far from being perfect.
As usual, the Autopilot is highly unreliable, unpredictable, and often selects the wrong AI model. You should disable the Autopilot and choose the model yourself. It will yield much better results.
