I finally had a chance to try Topaz Photo AI on a few more image and all I can say is, wow! I am super impressed by the results. Its face detection and cleanup is nothing short of amazing. We finally have smartphone computational algorithm smarts for our "real" camera images! But this all-in-one turns the conventional post processing order on its head: you normally denoise as the first step, and sharpen as your last step. But with the all-in-one, I guess you'll use Photo AI as the first step and then further process in Neo or Lightroom? That might be a good video to do
thanks Carl and yep I have been using it first, but if you don't need any noise then maybe use it last for sharpening only - but for sure first is you need to denoise
That did a really good recovery job on that old scanned image Jim considering what it starts with. I've only had a play with Photo AI as a plugin to LR, but need to run a few examples from older images through it.
Thanks for watching Ken and yep I thought so too. I was impressed. I am hopeful it gets some masking and some additional options but it's a solid start in my experience.
Helpful video, thanks Jim. I am impressed with how often Topaz updated the individual filters so I imagine Photo AI will be developed briskly. I agree, definitely needs a cleanup brush hopefully with some edge aware capability. Wow, lot's going on in the world of post processing. Can't wait for On1 Raw 2023 to come out.
Thanks Steven and yes good point, the other products seemed to get updates about twice a day LOL. So yeah hopefully this one does too. I expect it will. And yes On1 2023 is very good and I hope you enjoy it was much as I have been.
G'day Jim I agree with you completely. 💯 I have Topaz's Photo A.i., as well as the other individual programmes, but I have been tending to use just A.I. now. I did a test from a HP print I printed out about 20+ years ago....I was amazed at the result, it wasn't perfect but good enough to print in A2 size on proper photo paper. 😀 Havagooday mate Greg
So far, Gigapixel seems to work better than Photo AI on improving lousy pictures (like snaps from online that are severely compressed or low-res). On regular photos, it works pretty well!
Yep it is good to have both in these early days of Photo AI since it doesn't have all the same controls etc. I am hopeful over time that Photo AI can do everything we need. Thanks Theo.
I wasn’t very positive about Photo AI, but it’s already a lot better than I originally thought. I hope giving it 6-9 months will make it into an excellent, time-saving solution.
Hi Jim: I have some user experience to share. In general, it does a good job. The App still needs some improvements. I put 100 photos to do a stress test, it always crash half-way (I use Mac Studio Ultra). Also, some burry old photos that I wish the App can repair, it tries to make up the face and it turns out that it looks a different person. In some landscape photo, one will not like every where in the photo to be sharpen, but it does. Hope they improve in future
Thanks much and yes I hope some additional options and refinements are added. It has a lot of promise but agree it isn't quite perfect yet. But it's a good start. Thanks.
Interesting. I have several photos taken with an iPhone 8 and I would like to improve those images. It would be nice to compare Photo AI with GigaPixel AI and see which works better. For some reason, I believe that Sharpen, Denoise and GigaPixel were not implemented in Photo AI as well as in the separate applications. The test of more photographers will discover it. And you are right, masking as needed is very important.
Thanks Rob and yes there is more capability in the individual products, but its harder, less efficient and thus takes a lot longer. I do think Photo AI will get a lot more in it in the future. Thanks for watching.
I have used this and it does a good job part of the time but mostly don't. you metion the artifacts yes loads and has spoilt some of my photo's so i deleted it.. I'm finding NEO noiseless AI is best for me. thanks for your input and time though Jim
Thanks much Lysander and yes I was thinking about that, as they are pretty close to being direct head to head competitors as an all in one tool. I will take a look. Thanks.
Hi Jim, am not massively impressed with this Photo AI to be honest - then again, I might be a little bit bitter and twisted as regards Topaz in that a few years ago I bought all their stuff on the premise that everything was free updates for life ..... well, they soon changed that after several months - much to my exasperation. Lysander raises an interesting point about you possibly comparing it with DXO Deep Prime - I'll eat my hat if Topaz gets anywhere near as good.
Ah yes, that conversion to no more free upgrades for life wasn't a good one for sure. Sorry you were caught in that. I do need to compare to DXO as that does do quite an amazing job.
Hi Jim Thanks for showing us the all-in-one Topaz AI program. Looks like it has great potential. For now I'm primarily using Gigapizel AI and I'm always impressed with the results. By the way, I have a challenge for you. I recently went on vacation and only had access to my smart phone's camera. Quite a few pictures were taken in hdr mode which look okay on a phone screen but unrealistic on a bigger display. Do you know how to make the images look less hdr and more natural using Luminar AI or Luminar Neo? Thanks!
Hi Tom and thanks. That is a good question, and it might vary by photo, depending on how unrealistic they look and in which ways (too detailed? too saturated? etc). Likely in Luminar I would tone down the details and the color but again that's a guess bc I am not sure what "unrealistic" means in this context. Hope that makes sense!
@@JimNix It might have been just a guess but you nailed it. Adjusting the details and saturation made a significant difference. Thanks Jim. You the man!
PixImperfect covers the next step, colorizing an old black and white. Unfortunately, he talks very fast. Someone could cover some of his topics. The same for f64, he is also too fast.
Thanks Martin, hope you are well and Unmesh is pretty amazing TBH. I never thought of Blake as going too fast, he's fantastic as well. But yeah colorizing an old pic is a cool idea!
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I finally had a chance to try Topaz Photo AI on a few more image and all I can say is, wow! I am super impressed by the results. Its face detection and cleanup is nothing short of amazing. We finally have smartphone computational algorithm smarts for our "real" camera images! But this all-in-one turns the conventional post processing order on its head: you normally denoise as the first step, and sharpen as your last step. But with the all-in-one, I guess you'll use Photo AI as the first step and then further process in Neo or Lightroom? That might be a good video to do
thanks Carl and yep I have been using it first, but if you don't need any noise then maybe use it last for sharpening only - but for sure first is you need to denoise
That did a really good recovery job on that old scanned image Jim considering what it starts with. I've only had a play with Photo AI as a plugin to LR, but need to run a few examples from older images through it.
Thanks for watching Ken and yep I thought so too. I was impressed. I am hopeful it gets some masking and some additional options but it's a solid start in my experience.
Helpful video, thanks Jim. I am impressed with how often Topaz updated the individual filters so I imagine Photo AI will be developed briskly. I agree, definitely needs a cleanup brush hopefully with some edge aware capability. Wow, lot's going on in the world of post processing. Can't wait for On1 Raw 2023 to come out.
Thanks Steven and yes good point, the other products seemed to get updates about twice a day LOL. So yeah hopefully this one does too. I expect it will. And yes On1 2023 is very good and I hope you enjoy it was much as I have been.
G'day Jim
I agree with you completely. 💯
I have Topaz's Photo A.i., as well as the other individual programmes, but I have been tending to use just A.I. now.
I did a test from a HP print I printed out about 20+ years ago....I was amazed at the result, it wasn't perfect but good enough to print in A2 size on proper photo paper. 😀
Havagooday mate
Greg
Thanks for watching Greg and glad you are enjoying Photo AI as much as I am. Hope all is well!
Great video. I've got a ton of these old photos to work on.
thanks so much Greg and yep I thought it did a pretty good job on these old pics!
So far, Gigapixel seems to work better than Photo AI on improving lousy pictures (like snaps from online that are severely compressed or low-res). On regular photos, it works pretty well!
Yep it is good to have both in these early days of Photo AI since it doesn't have all the same controls etc. I am hopeful over time that Photo AI can do everything we need. Thanks Theo.
I wasn’t very positive about Photo AI, but it’s already a lot better than I originally thought. I hope giving it 6-9 months will make it into an excellent, time-saving solution.
I agree Sven, I think with a bit more refinement it will be quite a good tool. It's already doing pretty well for me.
Hi Jim: I have some user experience to share. In general, it does a good job. The App still needs some improvements. I put 100 photos to do a stress test, it always crash half-way (I use Mac Studio Ultra). Also, some burry old photos that I wish the App can repair, it tries to make up the face and it turns out that it looks a different person. In some landscape photo, one will not like every where in the photo to be sharpen, but it does. Hope they improve in future
Thanks much and yes I hope some additional options and refinements are added. It has a lot of promise but agree it isn't quite perfect yet. But it's a good start. Thanks.
Interesting. I have several photos taken with an iPhone 8 and I would like to improve those images. It would be nice to compare Photo AI with GigaPixel AI and see which works better. For some reason, I believe that Sharpen, Denoise and GigaPixel were not implemented in Photo AI as well as in the separate applications. The test of more photographers will discover it.
And you are right, masking as needed is very important.
Thanks Rob and yes there is more capability in the individual products, but its harder, less efficient and thus takes a lot longer. I do think Photo AI will get a lot more in it in the future. Thanks for watching.
@@JimNix You are right, it is more complicated and inefficient to use the different applications separately.
Thanks, Jim
I have used this and it does a good job part of the time but mostly don't. you metion the artifacts yes loads and has spoilt some of my photo's so i deleted it.. I'm finding NEO noiseless AI is best for me. thanks for your input and time though Jim
Glad to hear you are enjoying Neo's Noiseless AI Andrew. Thanks for watching.
Great video, Jim. Could you compare Topaz AI and Photolab 5 Deep Prime? It would be good to see a comparison on the same photo.
Thanks much Lysander and yes I was thinking about that, as they are pretty close to being direct head to head competitors as an all in one tool. I will take a look. Thanks.
Hi Jim, am not massively impressed with this Photo AI to be honest - then again, I might be a little bit bitter and twisted as regards Topaz in that a few years ago I bought all their stuff on the premise that everything was free updates for life ..... well, they soon changed that after several months - much to my exasperation. Lysander raises an interesting point about you possibly comparing it with DXO Deep Prime - I'll eat my hat if Topaz gets anywhere near as good.
Ah yes, that conversion to no more free upgrades for life wasn't a good one for sure. Sorry you were caught in that. I do need to compare to DXO as that does do quite an amazing job.
Hi Jim
Thanks for showing us the all-in-one Topaz AI program. Looks like it has great potential. For now I'm primarily using Gigapizel AI and I'm always impressed with the results. By the way, I have a challenge for you. I recently went on vacation and only had access to my smart phone's camera. Quite a few pictures were taken in hdr mode which look okay on a phone screen but unrealistic on a bigger display. Do you know how to make the images look less hdr and more natural using Luminar AI or Luminar Neo? Thanks!
Hi Tom and thanks. That is a good question, and it might vary by photo, depending on how unrealistic they look and in which ways (too detailed? too saturated? etc). Likely in Luminar I would tone down the details and the color but again that's a guess bc I am not sure what "unrealistic" means in this context. Hope that makes sense!
@@JimNix It might have been just a guess but you nailed it. Adjusting the details and saturation made a significant difference. Thanks Jim. You the man!
@@tompatton2086 haha awesome glad I could help and lots of guesses around here LOL
Pixelup and remini are good phone apps for this
which version are you using in this tutorial>? I does not look like 4.1.0 , that I why I ask.. advise?
This was right after release so maybe v1.1 or something, I cannot recall exactly
4:46 What on earth does 3.79 eggs mean?
PixImperfect covers the next step, colorizing an old black and white. Unfortunately, he talks very fast. Someone could cover some of his topics. The same for f64, he is also too fast.
Thanks Martin, hope you are well and Unmesh is pretty amazing TBH. I never thought of Blake as going too fast, he's fantastic as well. But yeah colorizing an old pic is a cool idea!