![]() (This means that you can now enlarge photos of people and their faces will pixellate less, with much better overall image quality than was previously possible.) With the latest v6.1 update that we tested in this Topaz Gigapixel AI review, the software brings about significant improvements to face recovery when upscaling photos. Previously, enlarging images without introducing artifacts and pixelation was impossible.Īdobe Photoshop provides a solution with their ‘Preserve Details 2.0’ tool, and so does inPixio Photo Studio and a handful of other alternative editing software and online tools… but none come close to Gigapixel AI. Topaz Gigapixel AI also features automatic face recognition, allowing you to enlarge portraits and group photos while preserving details and sharpness. It offers batch processing and proprietary photo enhancement technologies to ensure a simple, efficient and powerful means to increase the original size of a photo by up to 6x. #3 is the DeNoised version, while #4 is the final processed but NOT denoised, not in Lightroom or otherwise.Ĭamera, Sony A6400 with 18-105 f/4 zoom, 1/125 sec F/5.6, ISO 12,800.Gigapixel AI is a downloadable image editor which uses artificial intelligence to enlarge images by up to 600% without any noticeable loss in quality. The square crops emphasize the difference. When a picture needs only good denoising and a little extra sharpening, DeNoise is still king. ![]() I honestly hope that if Topaz ultimately intends to go all-in on Photo AI that they make it selectable. That was all that was needed, and batched through the whole thing in half an hour or so. Except for gnarly noise, they were otherwise fine, so I tried true and trusty DeNoise AI. It did a fine job but took a long time and I had 160 images to finish. Processing, I culled down to the keepers and took one into Photo AI. I have a flash and know how to use it, but I hate the look and would rather tame some noise than destroy the look of the ambient. Huge room, hundred or more people, entertainers, speeches, awards. I shamelessly shoot at 6400 and higher when needed, and I use half-frame APS-C cameras so things can get a little noisy. I am impressed with all of them, but I only use Photo AI when I need what it offers, It is indeed an amalgam of the earlier three, but it has some issues yet, one being that it is doing so much at once that it's slower. Personally, I like retaining the control that DeNoise AI gives me. If Photo AI comes out on top, does it make DeNoise AI entirely redundant? And if DeNoise AI wins, does it mean Topaz Labs has wasted its time on the new Photo AI? Give the video a look and let me know your thoughts. Whatever the result, you can only deduce that there must be some form of cannibalization going on. ![]() It's a fascinating experiment, simply because it's putting a company's products up against each other. That brings us to this great video by Anthony Morganti, in which he puts the new Photo AI up against DeNoise AI, to see which one works better at noise removal. It sounds amazing, but how does it compare when used against its own individual products? Very recently, however, Topaz Labs released Photo AI, which is an all-in-one software that removes noise, sharpens, and increases resolution with a single click. If you bought them as a bundle, you still had to use them independently of each other. You could (and still can) buy them all separately, or buy them as part of a bundle. The first two are self-explanatory in what they do, while Gigapixel AI adds resolution to an image, which can really help if you want to print an image at large sizes. Until a short time ago, Topaz Labs' products were separate, in that you had DeNoise AI, Sharpen AI, and Gigapixel AI. ![]() If you're not familiar with Topaz Labs' editing products, for a long while now they've been up towards the top of the tree for correcting noise in an image and sharpening as well.
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