Topaz Photo AI

[ColytonJohn]

Is anyone here using Topaz to sharpen blury images?

I've just tried the free version (full functionality but edits can't be saved) and the results were very impressive. The only downsides I can see are that processing takes a long time and it costs $150. The former I can live with and, I suppose, the latter too as it's has to be worth it to recover otherwise 'lost' images but before I hit buy it now thought I'd ask here for opinions.

Cheers,
John

[Alan_H]

I bought the three Topaz products AI sharpen, AI Denoise and AI Gigapixel some time ago and then they released AI Photo which came as a free download with my subscription, it has had a few updates since then and works really well, now i only use AI Photo and let it work in auto

At a night football match Had an ISO setting of 12800 and the difference it made was astounding

Matt Klaskowsky has some good videos on it

Alan

[Alan_H]

Forgot to say, I use it as a plug in in Lightroom but do not use edit in and go to plug in extras as this will work on a RAW file

Alan

[ColytonJohn]

Thanks Alan.

My first DSLR (and one I still use as a spare) is a 7D which has woeful low light/high ISO performance as does my G10 travelling camera so I have many, many images that could do with a tweak to remove noise hence my interest in Topaz. The trial that I've just downloaded does consist of Sharpen and Recover Noise ability plus 'Enhance Resolution' (is this AI Gigapixel?)

Cheers,
John

[Alan_H]

I don't know if enhance is as tweakable ( is that a word) as AI Gigapixel but it works similar to enhance in Lightroom and Photoshop all using their own algorithms, I assume that the stand alone products are for people who really want to have full control of adjustments

Alan