HEIC images in portrait mode are saved at 90ºCCW when using v2.4.0 standalone
Mac mini M1 16GB
Not realy. I’m afraid that sharpening was the only added and active option in the processing.
Dear Topaz,
Please note the overwhelming user comments on how they don’t appreciate the new UI and talk to your UI designer. It may hurt his/her feelings, but at the end of the day your customers are more important.
Yours truly,
A longtime Topaz client
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Your computer has great specs – for the Intel era… Topaz apps are very challenged on anything less than M1.
Also, why run on the obsolete Big Sur? Your computer should support the current Sonoma (or at least the previous Ventura).
Update the OS and see if it helps. If not Topaz, at least your security situation will be much better! 
It tends to be people with negative views who post. I quite like the new GUI.
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Sorry dear developers at Topazlabs. Instead of this less user-friendly new interface, you should have introduced the option of user-defined presets. As a user, I can use my own presets to adapt the required functions and their parameters to my own camera, my own lenses and my own preferences. With a set of my own presets, I can work quickly and effectively.
I don’t want to have to correct the sometimes strange decisions of the autopilot every time I transfer the image from Lightroom to Photo AI. That is time-consuming and therefore unproductive.
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I agree, the ability to do a quick on/off of each enhancement made manual optimization pretty straightforward. Now you have to add it, adjust the settings, click done, look at it with the enhancement, delete that enhancement, look at it without, add it again, adjust the settings again, etc.
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Amen. Agree completely.
Agreed. All enhancements should be there right from start where you can enable/disable them by a simple mouse click and sort them to the order of your choice via drag and drop with the mouse. 
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The new Crop/Upscale features are far less useable than before. If I want to crop an image, then upscale the cropped section as a 600x600 px image, I used to be able to do exactly that. Now, the upscale feature gives the dimensions of the original image, rather than the cropped portion, so you are left guessing what the output dimensions will be. For example:
- Original image: 720x1280
- Crop a portion in a 1x1 ratio
- Set the Upscale output to 600px width
- Export the image and it comes out as 277x277px
When you are only exporting the cropped section, why is it upscaling on the dimensions of the original image rather than the cropped portion?
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What me confuses the most is that during cropping I do not move the cropping frame around but the image in the background instead!
Any UI change of this magnitude is going to divide opinion. This is why, in my opinion, such changes should be optional. If we could choose between the classic view and the new bare-bones one, everyone would be happy. As it is, those of us who like to customise our settings are left frustrated and annoyed. It’s also likely to harm sales going forward - why pay good money to go from an interface that you do like to one that you don’t?
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learning the new tools … appears the upscaling is a time suck and causes crashes … spending about 25 min just saving one image back to lightroom classic from topaz after the Topaz AI process and upscaling … it has NEVER taken this long… what a time suck
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I used to be a QA. Did you know you are doing free regression testing for Topaz? Usually most company don’t allow bugs out there on their release to public (we have QAs that got fired after a few times), but I guess not Topaz.
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Just put in the latest update. Program crashes alot.
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MMD
Yes, did mention this in the alpha, but somehow it did made it into the beta and release.
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But how to add them multible times, 2x denoise does wonders to iso 25600 images.
Just turn the autopilot off in the Settings.
That’s a valid question indeed. 
Along the way Adobe changed the workings of their Crop tool and I think this is the way it works now (I don’t have it open at the moment ). It took some getting used to.
