![]() ![]() It doesn’t create that smudgy watercolor effect you used to see in cheap point and shoot cameras, but it does leave you with disappointingly ‘glassy’ detail. But it doesn’t really leave a lot of detail either. It is spectacularly effective, in that it will leave no vestige of noise whatsoever. Also, the ‘before’ example is always a worst-case version and does not reflect what rival software will do. Topaz Photo AI’s noise reduction is impressive, until you compare it to, say, DxO DeepPRIME XD. ![]() Topaz Photo AI can automatically apply a series of adjustments using its AI technologies to remove noise, sharpen details and fix blur, reveal detail in faces and – if you need it – upscale images to much larger sizes. ![]() Topaz Photo AI takes three of its separate programs – DeNoise AI, Gigapixel AI and Sharpen AI, and bundles a simplified version of each into Photo AI, which will analyse your photos and fix what needs fixing with the magic of artificial intelligence, deep learning and neural networking. Its marketing can sound like snake oil, its results can sometimes be impressive. It’s not always easy to figure out how much of this is snake oil and how much is genuinely effective and Topaz Labs – and this is just my opinion – steers carefully down the middle. It can put expert adjustments in the hands of amateurs. Either that, or it can achieve in seconds what it might have taken us hours to do manually. We’re told AI can work magic where traditional photo editing science has failed. Sharpen can’t fix all blur types, despite the claimsĪI is everywhere in photo editing software right now, from subject recognition and masking, to sky replacement, to noise reduction and detail recovery. Remove Noise doesn’t reveal much (or any) detail Very expensive for something that may help or may not I would recommend the individual Topaz softwares, but not their new Photo AI.+Noise isn’t just reduced, it’s obliterated So I was looking forward to Topaz Photo AI's subject detection, which will mask your subject and allows for some strength adjustment, but anyone who uses a brush to mask specific areas, will find this subject detection wanting. It would also be nice if you could mask certain areas rather than it have edit the entire image. You can save DXOPureRaw2 as a DNG or JPG, but JPG is useless if you have any light areas as it blows out your highlights. I just finished a trial of DXO PureRaw2 and, while it does a good job, left me wanting a few more options, such as being able to save as TIF. ![]() It's supposed to make the denoising and sharpening quick and fairly automatic, but with a little bit more ability for user input and adjustment compared to DXOPureRaw2. The good news is that Topaz offers 30 day money back guarantee, so I was able to get a refund. Topaz folks are looking for feedback, so hopefully fixes and improvements will be forthcoming. Exact same image sharpened with Topaz Denoise AI comes out very well. For any difficult sharpening situations, such as a heavily cropped bird in flight, it was next to useless. I found that even at the lowest strength setting, sharpening was too strong. Does a good job with its Auto denoising, but sharpening is so much worse than in their individual Sharpen AI software that itis hard to believe it is made by the same folks. Used it for a few days and, in my opinion, not ready for launch. ![]()
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