I just installed 3.4.2 on my Mac. Oh no! Now every time I start Photo AI it loads your sample image and runs autopilot. I absolutely HATE this. It didn’t happen with 3.4.1. How can I turn off this annoying time wasting new startup?
Edit: I found a new option in Settings to turn this off. Great!
Yay! Glad you found the Pref setting. Even after I set mine to stay off it turned itself back on a few times. Guess it felt it had better images than mine… 
BTW (besides Happy Holidays), I had no " " clue what a modal is (still don’t). I asked during beta and no one explained. No one clarified what you’ve mentioned here either - to the several testers who made the same points.
At least I’m not the only one! 
Its the way it works. We get regular, often weekly updates as features are added and improved. More opportunity for feedback!
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I did my test and it’s ridiculous.
3200x3286 picture with Super-focusing the head only renders for 5.14 minutes.
A cropped to 1640x1640 version with the same selection renders for a 1.15 minutes.
Do your cropping beforehand, people, then align your cropped refocused image to the main image.
A modal in this context is a child window of the main application window that disables user interaction with the main window behind it.
Thank you!
3.4.2 was released, but notes only mention a Mac problem fixed. There are both Windows and Mac 3.4.2 versions for download though. Was there also a change for Windows?
Yes it appears it’s just a MAC update. They have done this before. I guess when they do a build they do it for both to keep everything in sync. I have a PC and updated anyway, otherwise I would keep getting notice in the app that there is an update available.
Today I set up a Win 11 laptop from Santa - Acer Predator Helios 18. Intel i9 14th gen. RTX 4090. My primary motivation for the laptop was to work with Adobe beta products I don’t want on my desktop PC (including Ps & 3D Substance suite products). But also to run my Topaz PAI & GAI there to gauge performance differences vs my desktop tower.
I just tried using PAI with a 2250 x 4500 px .tiff & SuperFocus - that on my desktop PC was generating ETAs of b/wn 25 - 35 mins. (which I always cancelled and never ran). Interestingly, this new laptop gave an ETA and completed a SF processing/rendering in 3 minutes.
Unlike any other demanding AI from the other apps I’d installed and quickly tested, the laptop fan roared like a son of a gun when I ran the Topaz PAI app processing for those 3 mins. I debated whether to make s’mores near the side vents, given the heat it generated.
New toy! Congrats and welcome to the 4090 Club!
I watched this recent Topaz video. I don’t use Video AI, but it is interesting that Topaz has worked hard on improving the user interface. One thing that caught my eye is that they have tabs now so that you can quickly compare different settings. I wish we had a way to compare that in Photo AI. As many here know, Denoise AI and Sharpen AI had a compare view and it was very useful. Unfortunately, Topaz removed the compare functionality in Photo AI. They have added it into Video AI though (although done as tabs). I sure would like some sort of compare functionality in Photo AI.
Introducing Topaz Video AI 6: Smarter, Smoother, Stronger!
Be careful what you ask for. LOL 
You may want to read some feedback from users who upgraded to the new UI.
As a reminder, all I asked for is this:
If you reread what I wrote, rather than what you imagined I wrote, then it will be clear.
No one is arguing with Topaz for choosing the software production method that they believe is best, but what matters are the results. Now three releases of new releases in six days seems to me perhaps a little excessive and, again in my humble opinion, an indication of poor quality control of the product before a release. For some time, and I am not the only one reading the forum, I have thought that the Quality Assurance control in Topaz is absent or reduced to the bare minimum: perhaps beta testers are used, without remuneration I think, to establish the good functioning of the product, who are not necessarily specialists in the QA process. Now I do not want to boast about my almost forty-five years in the industrial development of basic software, but the QA phase and in particular the non-regression tests between one release and the next is, in my humble opinion, perhaps for any company in the sector the most expensive phase in terms of both human and financial resources. I often have the impression that this phase is often poorly considered by Topaz with the results that are then seen: it is not the new features introduced that perhaps need a running-in time but the regressions often introduced in existing features that push me to still consider PhotoAI unreliable and unstable. In any case, I believe that this policy is not the same followed by competitors and in any case such a frequent quantity of releases is something more unique than rare in the world of industrial software.
Agree. It has been a frequently requested feature to have a PAI Comparison View.
Don’t put it on the beta testers. Issues are regularly reported re: the products that are not addressed (or, answered). Some beta testers spend hours testing & reporting what works & what does not. Plus, desired features are raised as requests. And, testers represent a spectrum of technology and applications needs. Not every rolled out release is run by testers.
I am a QA for 16 years. Topaz can get away with it their product is not a check out counter. I contract to test airline shopping cart for example, did regression testing, I try to use automation to test, but sometimes dont work well, read from a text file too, etc etc. imagine booking a round trip ticket for $1 when it goes live. Topaz not having any QA testing, saves money, they save money on all the different types of hardware too, etc. etc. SO they will keep doing this. Even Photoshop had a quick fix last week because of a Apple crash. My 2 cents.
