Why are these Topaz Programs so damn big

Topaz Products Product Technical Support
1

Topaz Sharpen AI is 2.79GB,
Topaz Mask AI is 2.54GB
Topaz Studio 2 is 1.19GB
Topaz Noise AI is 1.11GB
Topaz Adjust AI is a more modest 409MB

Mask and Sharpen are bigger than Photoshop.
Why is this? Surely it’s totally bloated. These programs do very limited things.

I’ve a small SSD and these programs are killing it. Sharpen is slow and they others are very prone to crashing. I’ve very tempted to uninstall them and forget about Topaz.
Sharpen I think is the only one worth having and they are not cheap.

2

They are large because they include models for AI processing.

3

@Hector1970
Have you checked the size of games? MS flight sim starts at 91 GB. Time to upgrade your computer.

1 Like
4

I believe MS Flight you can fly around the world and it contains all that detail.
Topaz Sharpening is only sharpening a photograph.

5

Yes, but it has to sharpen photos taken all around the world and it is a lot smaller than flight Sim. :smiley:

1 Like