But I'm disappointed that Topaz still appears to do so little testing before churning out these weekly releases. In contrast, this is what I got, with no need for any experimentation, from Sharpen AI 4.1: Note the strange bloom towards the left, which doesn't appear in the preview. I think it's pretty good:Īnd now a setting of 50. Here's the output using the new Strong model with a much higher setting of 40. I think that's much too weak - it seems to be bending over backwards to avoid artefacts by doing very little sharpening. So, I'll stick with Sharpen AI for the moment.įirst, here's the export from Photo AI 1.3.0 with the Strong model with the low strength setting of 8 chosen by the Autopilot: Professional 59.99 (Full price is 79.99) also includes tools like sky replacement, single-click adjustments, over 100 extra filters, and effects, more than 100 borders, and 50+ textures. But that seems like a serious step backwards. InPixio is available in two editions: Standard 49.99 comes with all basic features like object removal, image montage, and cloning. There’s also a choice of high detail vs normal noise reduction. It also includes a dedicated sharpening feature, which is similar to Topaz Sharpen AI and allows you to fix blurry images as well as noisy images. So, my conclusions are that, if you work hard at it, and override all the default Autopilot settings, it's possible to get good results as good as Sharpen AI produces fully automatically. As mentioned at the start of this section, as of September 2022 Topaz also have a product called Photo AI. I suppose it's an artefact, but not like the usual ones. But something odd happened when I exported an image with the setting up to 50: it looked fine inside Photo Ai, but the exported image had a strange bloom. I then experimented with various stronger settings, which definitely improved the results. I've now done some tests with the Strong model (which includes the old lens and motion blur models), and discovered that it defaulted to a very low setting (8). When I overrode that default, it chose the weaker Standard sharpening model, which is what I've uploaded so far. What's odd is that the Autopilot decided it needed NR (it didn't), but not sharpening (it did). I later realised that it had defaulted to using the Standard model, not the new Strong model. I have an update to report - I might have been a bit too hard on TPAI 1.3.0, but it's still in the dog-house. It's kind of nice that you can go back and edit your original post, a novel feature compared to DPreview. I can see that Photo AI does not improve the camera-shake blur probably because, as you surmised, it is using the wrong AI model. I'm still getting to grips with how this site works. I think the three uploaded images are different, but in my initial post, the same image was erroneously used for all the inline images (now fixed). I like the image and decided it needed a gradient to reduce glare/flare in the left side sky. Sharpen AI and Photo AI results looked similar, so I saved the files and ran cmp (compare). You got them under 4MB! But I think there is posting error here.
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