Topaz Studio's image display is blurry compared to Lightroom?

[wsalopek]

Hi folks,

When I open an image in Topaz Studio, the image looks quite “low res” / blurry as compared to the same image opened in Lightroom. The file is a Sony ARW…it doesn’t seem to matter if I click on “HD” or “Original” in Topaz Studio (in fact, there is no change at all, isn’t there supposed to be?). Also, in TS preferences, I have “high quality” in “image preview quality” selected.

I thought maybe Lightroom’s default sharpening of 40 (when importing RAW files) might have something to do with it, so I dragged the slider to zero, but, there’s still a huge resolution difference between TS and LR.

Please see attached images, which are screen grabs of about 100% zoom. You might notice that the LR screen grab shows a DNG file (I have LR set to convert all RAW formats to DNG on import), but when I used the ARW file, the blurry/sharp results were exactly the same.

It’s very hard to judge the effects of Clarity AI, etc, when the preview in TS looks so downgraded.

[Artisan-West]

Lightroom and Photoshop apply corrections to the RAW file while Topaz Studio doesn’t. The simple thing is to make a preset with a correction such as the one I did below. I only guessed at the settings shown since I didn’t take the original picture and I had to use your Jpg original. Just make a preset and then apply it when importing your RAW file.

[GeorgeP]

I have the same problem with Studio and the problem has nothing to do with Lightroom. I checked the raw image in Faststone and the saved image from Studio in Faststone and there is a significant loss of detail.