This week we’re introducing a new masking tool - “Object Selection Brush”. This brush is intended to be a point-and-click masking tool that provides quick and accurate results. Currently there is no on-hover mask preview for the tool, however this feature is planned for a future release. Any feedback regarding the tool will be taken into consideration for future updates. You can find this tool Select Subject → Brush Type options as shown here:
As always, a full change log is below.
Please give us any feedback or report issues with this release. We’ll be updating TPAI regularly to address those pieces of feedback and issue reports. If there’s a specific image you’d like us to see, you can send it us at this dropbox link.
Be prepared for pushback from Apple folks. The installer fails to open because Apple doesn’t like that it didn’t come from the App Store. You’ll need to allow the install via the System Settings/Privacy & Security tab…
That’s me done… thanks for all the efforts in the last year but I’m not doing another year when so much is still beta or not working well (brightness on Raws anyone), plus moving up version numbers to leave people (inc. me) behind with bugs outstanding. I’m not sure I got a solid version in the year. Anyway, no matter, my money not others. I wish everyone here (devs and customers) a Very Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year (slightly delayed if you celebrate the Chinese version, but I’ll remember this place when I let off some Firecrackers… well “snaps” more likely…)
(One last question, if I may, is there an Alpha or Beta 2.1.x where x is greater than 4 and would it be a better version to end with?)
All the Best and Take Care of yourselves…
J
P.S. Pity if a Remove that would work on my 6GB RTX 2060 comes along, but that’s life…
P.P.S. Seems a pretty poor update to get a whole new x.x.? version number tho… I refer you to the last three words in the P .S. to finish…
I’m not sure what a “Superpixel” Brush is … is it a “Quick Fill” Brush? What is it intended to do?
Because, behaviorally, what it actually does also starts with an “s”. I think of it as the Snaking Brush. Because it sends out snaking tendrils. Unless something besides the name changed and it’s become more edge aware for Selection Brush cleanups.
Two weeks ago in 2.1.3 I reported issue with colors.
It’s not minor issue, Topaz Photo AI is just broken and unusable.
Some people confirmed the issue.
Now you are releasing 2.2.0 and issue is still there.
You don’t test it with Photoshop at all? You have some regression tests? Some QA people?
How this software is developed?
I understand someone want to provide more features to sell the software for new people but what about someone who already paid for the software? You just don’t care?
Steps to reproduce:
open any image in Photoshop
convert to profile ProPhoto RGB (this is default when working with RAWs in Lightroom!)
run Topaz Photo AI on layer
enjoy totally broken colors
I understand that people make mistakes, but this is not acceptable.
Uhm. People are testing in Photoshop. But not everyone works with ProPhoto… That doesn’t mean “PAI is Just Broken & Unusable” in Ps, that’s a sweeping, accusatory toned generalization implying PAI doesn’t work at all in Ps as a plugin. It may (or may not) be working for you if you are using the color space you’ve chosen to work with. That’s the lead. Not PAI is broken. Also, are you sending your pre-color graded images to PAI or post?
ProPhoto had a large colour shift on my images, .I changed to Adobe RGB in Photoshop and the colour is the same or close to the original, when using PAI. On ProPhoto profile red was going orange/brown.
So I have a MacBook running sonoma, using Lightroom rc and I upgraded topaz AI 2.2
and it’s not working. It spins and spins at the bottom after checking there is no person detected. It was working correctly before I updated.
If you haven’t already, download the new installer from the top of the page (as opposed to in-app updating). Manually delete the previous version from Applications.
That was the one that threw the issue… I always use the one at the top of the page… Just for S&Gs… I’m gonna delete the app. and see if I get the issue again… standby…
Found it… There are 2 settings in the system settings/security tab.
I had changed it this morning while trying to get one of the Legacy apps to install…
If it’s set App Store and Identified developer, I get the same message as you, but the installer contines to run…
If I set it to the first one App Store… The installer won’t run unless I allow it going thru the “you tried to run Topaz yadda yadda…do want to continue?”
The implementation of the Object Selection Brush is weird. At first I thought it was not showing any kind of mask, then I saw that the mask drawing is delayed by a few seconds. I’m not accustomed to that. Is this what will continue to happen on systems that aren’t particularly fast?
