This is of course far from perfect at launch and it's still possible to get better results by going through each image individually and selecting manually the best possible level of whatever improvement is needed. Just throw a full folder at it and be happy with the automatically processed outcome. The raison d’être for Photo AI is this new Autopilot tool which is supposed to analyze every image separately (which it does but this will take a loooooooooong time) and find the best possible combination of denoise, sharpen and upscale for each picture. Now both are done in one go and result is to my eye better than the previous tedious TIFF export from one tool to next. It also looks like the IQ is better in cases where both AI Denoise and AI Sharpen are needed on the same picture. Which is too late because I already own this SW but what I mean that now I could actually throw a full folder of RAW images at Photo AI and let it handle them automatically. I never use Auto Mode because the result is horrible compared to even the basic manual settings I typically use for panny images and a mere 30 second fine tuning can usually improve that.Īfter testing Autopilot with few "difficult" images I have previously processed with separate Topaz tools before, I'm sold. This is more than just bundling tree separate apps: Denoise, Sharpen and Gigapixel under one UI but the whole point is the new AI tool aka Autopilot that can analyze RAW images and decide which of these three tools to apply and how much.Įach separate tool does have a similar Auto mode but it absolutely sucks. I did just download my free copy of Photo AI and the initial impression is very good indeed. Wasn't that impressed on my first run with it. They did put some of their older Mask/Remask AI into the new Photo AI.įor me, it does seem to need some more work from current Version 1.0.0 before it gets up to what their prior apps can do. The Photo AI program is smaller in size than the other AI software, but to me it seems less on the editing side verses the stand-alone AI apps, but they do have hardware stipulations for Photo AI needed to run the thing. I really do not see a reason to upgrade to the new Topaz Photo AI though if one has the older Sharpen AI and DeNoise AI - other than using the older versions slows you down a bit. I noticed Capture One seems to be heading itself to go subscription only in the future (It's a mix now.) and even their new iPad editing app is a $5 monthly subscription only plan to use it (Which Apple seems to be pushing their app makers into that model as well, and probably for a cut on the action too.). ![]() Once they go subscription, they seem to run out of improvement ideas for marketing, imho. Subscription made it so they didn't need to do any updates and why it is still pretty much the same. ![]() Click to expand.When Adobe laid off 800 people and went to their subscription model, they got lazy and sat on their laurels so other editing software popped up doing more things and often better.
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