This week we’ve added a hover effect to the Object Selection Brush that will provide a preview for the mask generated when clicking the hovered point. There will be a slight delay between moving your mouse and the preview showing up. Additionally, we’ve added a fix for the ProPhoto input color shift as well as a fix for intermittent crashing during cropping.
As always, a full change log is below.
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I’ve been emailing with tech support about the DLL error and was told the team was working on resolution. Was that in this release because I continue to receive the error after running the update through PAI.
I just installed this PAI 2.2.1 rel to my Win 11 PC (using as Ps 2024 plugin).
The hover on the Object Selection Brush is orders of magnitude better than the mere crosshair with no indication of where it would be applied. That said …
I still would like to request that for the Object Selection Brush, the former (tested) operations be implemented in the production version. That is, the ability to paint over a selected area, see the overlay as one is painting and then have the area designated by the overlay “Brush” strokes fill.
I can imagine instances where the hover AI approach implemented in this release might be welcomed by some users. That said, more is not necessarily better when it comes to AI functionality. In some (many) cases, user control is preferable. I find the hover approach glitchy and hyper-sensitive. If I hover, even for an instant over an unwanted area, it’s already being selected by the Object Selection Brush (e.g., the brush is being too overly “helpful”). Not everything that’s sexy is good - in tech (and elsewhere). That includes AI.
I’d like to see the tested method of painting a swath of visible overlay with the Object Selection Brush on top of areas of an image we’d like selected re-instituted for better user control and greater efficiency of selection ops.
Even if users are offered 2 options as ways to use the Object Selection Brush (hover or paint) that would be okay also.
I found the pre-production, tested method to be much more efficient (I could achieve my selections in fewer steps) and accurate and the selections weren’t so overly energetic selecting more (or less - when too literal based on the hover point) than I desired.
My TPAI licence expired with v2.1.4. Since I now only use it occasionally to remove unwanted clutter at the edge of frames, I see no point in paying to upgrade until perhaps the ability to save masks for use in other programmes becomes available, as was the case with Topaz Mask AI. I do use Topaz Sharpen AI still, even though it is no longer being updated.
My Ryzen 7 3700X + RTX 2070 Super is almost instantaneous, but I can see a slight image size increase on the preview side of the screen that returns to normal as I come off hover.
Thought I’d try the “keep area” option with the remove feature - yes I know “remove” is still beta, but selecting a face in the keep area, PAI added a new face. LHS is the original, RHS is the new face. I was expecting the keep area option would just remove everything except the masked keep area.
I noticed that in your screen capture, you have a “Use Neural Engine” button enabled. I’m using v2.21 on Windows 11, and I’ve never seen that button before. Is that just a Mac thing, or is there some setting I need to use to activate the button in Preferences? I just went through Preferences screen-by-screen, and did not see anywhere where that button could be enabled.
If you select a face to remove it recognises that it is part of a person and will replace the face. You need to select both the face and the person to have it removed completely.
Sharpen seems to default to ‘100’ for minor noise, which causes speckles and other issues.
In this case, Autopilot did not select Sharpen. However when I manually enabled Sharpen, it sets minor noise was at 100.
