And can I point out that a Topaz Photo AI license costs almost as much as PhotoLab 6 Elite? The Topaz results are not in the same league for detail recovery and yes, I did try all the settings. I thought I’d check it against DxO’s DeepPRIME and DeepPRIME XD processing, and it was like night and day. It doesn’t create that smudgy watercolor effect you used to see in cheap point and shoot cameras, but it does leave you with disappointingly ‘glassy’ detail.

But it doesn’t really leave a lot of detail either. It is spectacularly effective, in that it will leave no vestige of noise whatsoever. Also, the ‘before’ example is always a worst-case version and does not reflect what rival software will do. Topaz Photo AI’s noise reduction is impressive, until you compare it to, say, DxO DeepPRIME XD. Topaz Photo AI can automatically apply a series of adjustments using its AI technologies to remove noise, sharpen details and fix blur, reveal detail in faces and – if you need it – upscale images to much larger sizes.

Topaz Photo AI takes three of its separate programs – DeNoise AI, Gigapixel AI and Sharpen AI, and bundles a simplified version of each into Photo AI, which will analyse your photos and fix what needs fixing with the magic of artificial intelligence, deep learning and neural networking. Its marketing can sound like snake oil, its results can sometimes be impressive. It’s not always easy to figure out how much of this is snake oil and how much is genuinely effective and Topaz Labs – and this is just my opinion – steers carefully down the middle. It can put expert adjustments in the hands of amateurs. Either that, or it can achieve in seconds what it might have taken us hours to do manually. We’re told AI can work magic where traditional photo editing science has failed. Sharpen can’t fix all blur types, despite the claimsĪI is everywhere in photo editing software right now, from subject recognition and masking, to sky replacement, to noise reduction and detail recovery. Remove Noise doesn’t reveal much (or any) detail Very expensive for something that may help or may not

+Noise isn’t just reduced, it’s obliterated

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