Snap Art does have some cool art fx to play with.
It does, though Exposure (the company) has been quiet for a few years now (?).
Yeah, I wondered if they went out of biz. I used to love their products. But didnât they change the company name? Or, at least they changed the flagship product name from Exposure, I believe,
They went from Alien Skin to âExposureâ.
And along those lines, Microsoft Remote Desktop became âWindows Appâ (seriously!).
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Topaz Girl teaches: âProblems? What kind? Obstacles are there to be overcome. Thatâs how not only new Francisco Goyas are born in a new AI era!â
Hollywood facelift!
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I have a weaker GPU, Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU (8 GB). Itâs enough for individual pictures, I only take pictures for fun. Super Focus (SF, so far only Beta) often works great for me, sometimes it takes me 10 minutes, usually half that or even less. Iâm in no hurry as Iâm a customer only for myself, but I would like a faster process due to the need to try different combinations of algorithm parameter values, which may not be just a few minutes.
Sometimes it does strange, ugly things. My cat wanted to have a picture taken and SF improved it the best of various options, see the first picture. But it also returned a strange thing to me (second picture), with some kind of artifacts (incurable pain of generative AI) and a disgusting coloration of the catâs whiskers â clearly visible on the right hand. So the cat really doesnât have yellow and red whiskers and he is very unhappy.
SF always took slightly under 5 minutes (the examples are using SF only). Why the whiskers and not somewhere on a piece of wall in the shade? The cat wouldnât mind it there. The original size of the photo is 6000 x 3368 pixels (4.58 MB in jpg compression, 57.82 MB without compression).
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It sounds as if youâre experiencing the same thing Iâm reporting. That NVIDIA processors are more able to handle the newer, more demanding, Topaz âbetaâ models than AMD processors. Which is why Iâm opining about how to âgooseâ the performance of my installed AMD RX6800 XT processor in my desktop W11 PC which is my flagship processing system and where I have all my production software running. Sadly, Iâm not rich enough to change that system after only 2 yrs of use⊠(darn my ticket for the billion $ lottery).
I think where we differ is that even though Iâm my only âcustomerâ too, I get into a creative flow and would like to accomplish my post-processing (even if on a single image - which is all I do, not batch) in a responsive way (meaning any one processing activity should be under or around 5 mins to keep the workflow and creative process ârhythmâ from stalling as I try to accomplish image creation goals while the artsy inspiration is with me). Not wait 35 minutes or more for the pre-processing portion of one image to post-process or complete.
I agree with you that pros (those being paid for their work) have the added pressure of an ultra fast turnaround if they hope to make any profit on their billable retouching or post-processing work.
I think itâs useful to report how different systems are responding to the current models (beta or not) and Topaz products and explain why itâs valuable (pro user or not) to be able to use imaging tools that are not only are accurate, helpful or not (in various ways to various users) but also for those tools to be responsive on various types of systems in use out in the world (Win/Mac, AMD/NVIDIA, etc.).
To me, by sharing that info as feedback, the companyâs leaders, developers & product mgt can ascertain requirements for their most loyal and ongoing customers. While also trying to attract new customers.
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Right! I knew it changed somehow. I started using it as Alien Skin. Thx.
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Nvidia - does care about software (since 2008) and Hardware.
AMD - does care about Hardware - did start to care about software in 2024.
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I have both now. I can run the newer models on the NVIDIA laptop (knock on wood) in reasonable processing times. Not on my AMD desktop PC - which is my primary system I need to work on. I donât know why it differs (or, should differ) but it does. (Maybe those extra yrs gave RTX a leg up, eh?) Consistently. 
But when the motherboard on my prior PC âfriedâ while using a Topaz product I specâd the custom build replacement with AMD because of all the issues rptd in the Topaz forums by NVIDIA users at that time 2 yrs agoâŠ
Because AMD and Nvidia have two completly different architectures that work differently and you need to develop diffrently for both (easy explanation).
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Makes sense.
Hi there,
Is there anyway to remove these images on the right panel? I donât need them. Iâd rather have space for recent images.
Kind regards
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If they are the sample images Topaz provides for learning PAI go to Preferences and you can turn off the switch on the option to show them.
Prefs are under the Edit menu.
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I looked in preferences but could not see that option.
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Hi,
Once you open your own images it will disappear,otherwise it will stay there even if you remove folder.
Well, gee, youâre right. Itâs no longer there.
I had turned it off when those pics 1st appeared. I donât check Prefs for each use.
This snip shows all thatâs there now thatâs still related. It used to be a separate controllable line item. But I believe Jayesh is correct about how to make them go away now. As you add new pics they will fill the 6 slots (?) that are available. In past, some users had asked how to hide even their own pics that they didnât want displayed. I donât see a way to turn that off anymore either. But it may be in Prefs somewhere. I like seeing my recent pics, so I didnât pursue hiding my own shots.
Good luck. Sorry that was a swing and a miss re: Prefs.
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No worries 
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