Topaz Studio / Photo - anyone tried it?

[LocalHero1953]

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I downloaded the new Topaz Photo this morning, and uninstalled the old Photo AI. I have no immediate need to use it.
Has anyone tried it? Any significant differences?

Edited September 30 by LocalHero1953

[jaapv]

I tried it - to me it was not worth the money. 

[LocalHero1953]

I have a subscription to Photo AI and they just substituted Photo - no change in sub.

[jaapv]

I don't have a subscription - outright buy.

[M11 for me]

What's then the alternative? Do you use Lightroom Classic exclusively?

I must say that I used Topaz products a while ago but not anymore since Adobe added great AI functions.

[LocalHero1953]

I use Topaz only for sharpening, which it does better than Adobe, but only for difficult images, not all of them. I guess Adobe will eventually up its sharpening game to match its Denoise AI, and then I'd drop Topaz. At the moment I can't do without it for recovering images where I've screwed up the focus (typically theatre shots where I've focused correctly, but the depth of field is too shallow to get every face sharp that should be sharp)

Edited October 1 by LocalHero1953

[M11 for me]

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vor 15 Minuten schrieb LocalHero1953:

I use Topaz only for sharpening, which it does better than Adobe, but only for difficult images, not all of them. I guess Adobe will eventually up its sharpening game to match its Denoise AI, and then I'd drop Topaz. At the moment I can't do without it for recovering images where I've screwed up the focus (typically theatre shots where I've focused correctly, but the depth of field is too shallow to get every face sharp that should be sharp)

I understand. Just visited your formidable website and see what you mean.

[LocalHero1953]

A bit more reading around. It seems there is little or no difference between the two versions, but the new version will become the subscription version, while the old one will remain as a perpetual licence with no updates. My recollection was wrong: I don't have a subscription, but bought my perpetual version last October. I have until October to decide if I want to revert to the old version - which I will do: it's good enough for my needs, and I'm sure Adobe will improve its sharpening.

[Ken Abrahams]

I think I have the new Topaz Studio. Apparently if you own two active programs such as Giga pixel and Photo AI you can to avoid the subscription. At $30 US per month subscription charge one would need to be using it and charging customers extra for prints. I sometimes use the resizing function and sharpening and or facial detail recovery.

The Gigapixel app is much better than the Photo AI upscaling. The first Topaz models would create the most extraordinary artefacts when increasing a slider but the newer versions, the artefacts are minimal. A vast improvement over a few years. Anyway this image taken with the Apo Summicron SL 21 at close range (200mm) to flowers and then applied an extreme crop. I wanted to see how upscaling, denoising and sharpening would go for quality. How far can I push the file and app before it becomes unusable or creates something different, an "accidental affect". It works pretty good and I think I still need to download the recent new version. Camera SL3

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Edited October 9 by Ken Abrahams

[Ken Abrahams]

9 minutes ago, Ken Abrahams said:

I think I have the new Topaz Studio. Apparently if you own two active programs such as Giga pixel and Photo AI you can to avoid the subscription. At $30 US per month subscription charge one would need to be using it and charging customers extra for prints. I sometimes use the resizing function and sharpening and or facial detail recovery.

The Gigapixel app is much better than the Photo AI upscaling. The first Topaz models would create the most extraordinary artefacts when increasing a slider but the newer versions, the artefacts are minimal. A vast improvement over a few years. Anyway this image taken with the Apo Summicron SL 21 at close range (200mm) to flowers and then applied an extreme crop. I wanted to see how upscaling, denoising and sharpening would go for quality. How far can I push the file and app before it becomes unusable or creates something different, an "accidental affect". It works pretty good and I think I still need to download the recent new version. 

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