Topaz Photo AI 3 Review - Is it Worth it?

Topaz Photo AI 3 was recently released and promises numerous different ways to improve image quality. Between denoising, sharpening, resizing, and even making color and light adjustments, Topaz Photo AI 3 aims to be an all-in-one image quality improvement tool for all of your photos.
In this video, I give an honest and thoughtful review of the new software, showing off how it works and its features.
To purchase Topaz Photo AI 3: www.topazlabs.com/topaz-photo...
0:00 - Introduction
0:42 - New Interface
1:28 - Denoise
3:29 - RAW vs Tiff Files
4:10 - Sharpen
6:30 - Preserve Faces
8:56 - Balance Color
10:07 - Adjust Lighting
10:53 - Example 1
12:10 - Example 2
13:10 - Generative Remove
14:14 - Conclusion

[@WesleyPinkham]

Honestly some incredible models at work here. Also, love the joshua trees in the snow. thanks for this update/review.

[@AustinJamesJackson]

Glad you like them!

[@jeanettflynn]

Thanks for a great overview. I will upgrade.

[@AustinJamesJackson]

Good choice!

[@sdlcman1]

I tested it with a variety of photographs. The worse the photo, the better you'll like it. I took some really bad low resolution photos directly from the web just to test it and was amazed how much they were improved just by batch processing. If you have tons of decades old photos that you plan on digitizing, It would be worth it just for that.

[@AustinJamesJackson]

100%! Thanks for sharing.

[@johnchedsey1306]

Good overview of the product. I actually think I'll probably hold off another year for any "AI' software like this. I currently have the Topaz sharpening plug in which does just fine for my needs. I suspect that another year of development will bring far better software, so I'll save my money for the time being.

[@AustinJamesJackson]

Great idea!

[@jayeshtopiwala3219]

Floating panel needs to be docked on right hand panel empty space.

[@AustinJamesJackson]

👍

[@TheKingsOutlaw]

I wish you would have demonstrated the Remove.

[@AustinJamesJackson]

I tried a few times and the processing time was so long. It took multiple minutes to even remove one small thing, and I’m using a fully loaded 16 inch MacBook Pro that is 1 year old. It’s just awful.

[@petescafidi]

I was mainly interested in the image remove function. I ended up subscribing to Canva Pro ($15 monthly) that does this in seconds, under a tab called "image grab" and another called "image erase." Hope this helps. This was a great vid as well, so thank for posting.

[@timkasper544]

Stop moving the slider so fast

[@AustinJamesJackson]

You're welcome to pause and play the video if you'd like it to go slower.

[@fakeaccount3415]

Reduce the playback speed

[@HanSolocambo]

TIme to process 1 image is ultra fast. But good luck batching 20+ images. The more you batch the slower it gets (from 1s. for an image to more than 1 minute for an image). Topaz WAS good. Now it's shit.

[@AustinJamesJackson]

Yeah that makes sense. I don’t do much batch editing, but I’ll have to give it a shot.

[@dougharder6258]

The face of the man lost a lot of definition. I think the original looked much better even with the noise. I tried the free demo and thought it did a horrible job.

[@AustinJamesJackson]

Interesting. I don’t work much with people photos so I’ll have to do some more testing!

[@the-birdman-of-panama]

I agree. The man lost definition and Photo AI turned his skin waxy. The second example, with the landscape, was unsalvageable, at least with this software. The Photo AI took the photo from "blurry" to "dizzying."