What's NEW in Topaz Photo AI: Significant Workspace Changes
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- Опубликовано: 14 мар 2024
- In this video, I demo the latest version of Topaz Labs Photo AI - version 2.4.1.
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In this video, I demo the latest version of Topaz Labs Photo AI - version 2.4.1.
Check out the Topaz Labs Photo AI here:
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I do not have a current discount code.
I am a Topaz Labs affiliate and will earn a commission if you purchase anything using the link directly above. Please read my Code of Ethics Statement:
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Can you denoise the same image side by side with all available softwares that are on the market in one video, please? With at least 5 different pictures such as underexposed and well exposed high ISO images where you try to recover shadows, human faces and other random details. Denoising birds and feathers are great examples in the technical world but how do these softwares compare when editing more challenging images like family or travel images? What software would be better to save and I mean literally save underexposed or even well-exposed high ISO images? Even if they would still contain some noise but preserving details would be a priority. Also, having underexposed low and high-ISO images when recovering shadows can have a different editing process. Thank you.
Another new thing I’ve seen on another video is that you can now work in layers. For example you can add a second sharpening and sharpen a different area in the image with different parameters, or do lots of denoising to the background and then do light denoising on your subject. I’m looking forward to trying that out soon.
With this new way of using enhancements, Topaz took a huge step forward and I think it is an excellent change. What I still don't like is that when I save an image and I have the option to automatically close the image, i still have to close that menu which I forget regularly and when I pull an image into the workplace, this menu is still there.
On the other hand, I love the ability to specifically enhance certain parts of an image.
Thanks Dave
Thanks for this. I have an earlier version of Photo AI that I might now update. I’m looking forward to your comparison series next week.
Thank you Anthony for your valuble reviews, can you please when reviewing such software (denoise, sharpen etc.) to try it also on portraits because not all of them treat human skin the same, some of them make it plasticy and some treat it better, in my tests, the Lightroom Denoise is the best so far for the skin.
Thank you for holding my hand through the interface “improvement.” It’s like a big store where they decide to move everything and it takes months to find things, again. I’ll be interested in your NR comparisons. For me, it depends on what looks best. Maybe because I am “lazy” Intend to stack with Lightroom’s RAW Denoise. It did a very pleasing job on all of the low light photos I took in Carlsbad Caverns. I also have DxO which usually feels too aggressive) and Photo AI (which I have been mostly using to 2x up scale small jpeg files).
Good explanation 👍
I got Topaz about 2 months ago. At $199 for the entire package for the Photo AI 2, it is a most have. It is an investment. Wish I have done it sooner. Doing new update as I wash this video. Thanks
Thanks!
I love your videos and learn so much from them. Big Thanks for doing them. I do have a question: What is the difference between going up to File and using Plugin Extras verses right clicking on the image and using Edit in Photo AI?
Good question. Anthony has explained this in similar videos but didn't in this one. When you use Lightroom's Plug-in Extras to send a Raw image to Photo AI, the image returns to Lightroom as a DNG file. If you use Edit In, it comes back as a TIFF. The advantage of DNG is that it preserves the advantages of editing camera Raw files such as more precise color temperature correction (if you wanted to adjust color temp in Lightroom), so it's worth doing; you would lose those advantages with TIFF. You could still edit color temperature in Lightroom on a TIFF file, but not as precisely as with DNG. DNG is an Adobe open, uncompressed format for Raw files. TIFF is not a Raw format. However if your original image was JPG, using Plug-in Extras to go from Lightroom to Photo AI returns the file as a JPG, not DNG, while using Edit In still returns it as a TIFF file.
@@sounderdavis5446 Thank you so much for that explanation!!! That really helps.
@@sounderdavis5446What if you don't use Lightroom?
Thanks Anthony. I have been using Topaz AI for some time and have no reason to complain. I just checked the preference and noticed “lens correction”. Acc to my workflow, I do lens correction already in LRC before going into Topaz AI for the final touch. Applying lens correction once should be sufficient, or? Any thought? Thanks!
Hi Mr Morganti, Can I mention that you can turn Autopilot off in Preferences. Also in this 2.4.1 release theyve added things like Adjust Lighting and Balance Colour Tools, but why are these greyed out in your example abaove and not available?
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Hi Anthony! Is Topaz Photo AI do better job on sharpening or Lightroom?
Hi Anthony. Thanks for the video! I have a question about using Photo AI's RAW mode. Is there a way to tell Photo AI to modify the format of filename of the .dng file that gets saved back to Lightroom? Currently it uses the exact same name with a .dng extension. If I'm exporting to compare the noise reduced version with the original, the exported jpegs have the same name and get versioned by Lightroom, i.e. myphoto.jpg and myphoto-2.jpg. With the Photo AI non-RAW mode that creates the TIFF file, it alters the name of the file and adds '-Edit' to indicate it was modified by Photo AI making it much easier to export and compare. Thanks!
Is there a way to both upscale and denoise in LRC? Thanks.
That's a pretty big shift in colour between the original RAW and the DNG from Topaz AI. The reds in the bird, especially, lose a lot of saturation and shift towards orange. I've come across similar issues often in denoise software - not just from Topaz - but it seems more pronounced in this example. Is it something you see to this extent in other images processed with the new Topaz AI or is it only this noticeable in this image? Thanks for the video.
I see this too. In removing color noise, saturation will decrease and colors can shift, and the more noise removed--this image was very noisy--the greater the potential shift. To some extent, you're taking out color that wasn't really present in the subject; it came from the sensor and high ISO. (Think about how the background changes, too.)
I didn't see this flamingo in the zoo, so I may be wrong about this, but the color in the Topaz edited version looks more natural to me for flamingos generally.
But I don't think Photo AI makes a great one-stop editing tool; I think you also need to use a general image editor like Lightroom to optimize Photo AI's results. If you shot this image and remembered or just wanted this flamingo to appear more red as in the unedited image, it's easy to fix that back in Lightroom without reintroducing color noise.
I never .use Lightroom's Noise reduction. I find it much quicker and easier to use
Topaz denoise, if processing multiple images.
I noticed that the color of the processed Photo AI appeared somewhat muted or less vivid especially the background. Is it just my monitor?
Why does Topaz Photo AI make the files so much bigger? I've been using it as a PS layer because I don't want a 200MB picture file.
I'm not getting 200MB files doing this (though I am getting 75MB--bigger than I'd like, but, hey...). But the reason we don't get the same returned file sizes might depend on the sizes of our original Raw files. (I'm using a camera with a 22MB Micro 4:3 sensor. Maybe you're using a 60MB-sensor full-frame camera.)... whether you really are sending a file from Lightroom to Photo AI Anthony's way, as shown in this video (Plug-In Extras, not Edit In, so you get DNG, not the bigger TIFF file back in Lightroom),... and whether you're Upscaling in PhotoAI (I'm not, routinely, anyway, unless I do a big crop).
Can you be more specific about what you're sending across, what camera you used, what file format comes back, and what settings you chose in PhotoAI? All these can make a big difference in the file size returned from PhotoAI or another third-party app to Lightroom.
To answer your question more generally, in my experience, using a third-party app (not just a Topaz app, but many others as well) with Lightroom will blow up file size significantly. Sometimes when it gets 200+MB high... hey, I've seen 1GB external-app-edited files, from original 20MB Raw images!... you can get it down to a smaller size with no obvious loss of image quality using Photoshop's Image > Image Size, or another scaling app. Sometimes.
The "remove" is totally useless.
Delete my previous comment ... I can not find it to delete ... I determined the major factor to taking so much time to save is my external drive where I have all my photo files. Sorry for my initial ignorance.