I understand why some people don’t like the new UI; I do.
But honestly, it shouldn’t be the main topic when the most important things, which are the basic program’s functionalities, are totally messed up now.
I personally like the new interface. Even if there are no nodes, it reminds me of node-based interfaces, which I constantly use. Like Fusion or ChaiNNer.
But it’s not perfect, by any means! I prefer Gigapixel for the bottom part of the UI, for example.
We should be able to choose the list or thumbnail view for the images. When I have 500+ images loaded, the filmstrip is very unpractical because I can’t see the names of my files. I can’t just check if the 00356 of my image sequence is okay.
I agree with some people when they say that it’s painful to constantly have to adapt to a new UI. Stick to one idea, but then please don’t mess with the core functionalities.
Anyway, I don’t see many people talking about the more important issues, like how the tool itself works totally differently now. Photo AI just became useless for me overnight. I don’t know how we can use it to upscale low-resolution portraits; try to remove noise, then upscale these denoised 100x100 images.
It’s a big deal that the upscale process comes after all the other enhancements. That makes no sense to me if we can’t choose to have it done before (like all the previous versions). On top of the fact that we can see the images at 100% of their original (not) upscale size.
I mean, how do you evaluate a noise reduction here? lol, or sharpening.
I had no speed problem before, and I don’t remember reading people complaining about that for V1 and V2. It got faster over time!
Yes, of course, if someone upscale a 4000x4000 image to 8000x8000, it has an impact, but not every single person upscale already high res images. Come on guys, it’s literally your area of expertise, upscale and clean up compressed and low resolution images.
It’s my first interaction with this forum. I never complain in general because I know bugs are constantly worked on, and at the end of the day, each new release never broke my basic workflow, which is: upscale this, remove that, restore this face,… sharpen, export.
Until now. Photo AI clearly regressed in its basic function.
I constantly see people whining about nonsense and UI this and UI that. Who cares if the software does what it should do—fast and without crashes? I personally only care about the results, and I want to be able to be efficient the same way with 1 images or 500 images.
When the UI changes, basic functionality gets constantly wrecked (same thing happened with video AI; it’s way better now, but it took a long time). I didn’t buy all of these software for the UI but for what they do.
I don’t get this way of developing softwares. Topaz has amazing models for restoration, I use Video AI for years, I love it! But they constantly mess up the most basic things. I don’t get it.
Anyway, I thought that the 2-week release thing would be good. It didn’t change much; now we have to wait longer to see if something is going to be fixed.
x.x.2 should be very week, like before, bug fixes… x.2.x should be every two or three weeks. 2.x.x should be every few months. But this can work only if the 2.x.x is not totally messed up.
- You can fix this by letting people chose when the upscale occur, at the beginning or the end (as before)
- When there is no upscale, we should be able to see the images at its 100% size, like before.
