Topaz Photo AI Review NOTE: Sept 2023. Topaz have just released V2 of this tool. Read the Topaz Photo AI V2 review. This is Topaz's flagship photo enhancing product. It is a combination of their three class leading AI tools, Gigapixel AI, DeNoise AI and Sharpen AI. I have reviewed these many times, and they [...]
Introduction There are only two contenders in the noise wars (IMHO) – DXO Photo Lab and Topaz DeNoise/Photo AI. These two have class leading image noise reduction and I have reviewed them numerous times. Towards the end of 2022, both DXO and Topaz issued new versions of their products. DXO released Photo Lab 6 with [...]
This is an interesting time of year for Topaz Labs. October is often the month where photo software houses, such as Exposure and DXO, release their 'major updates' to their flagship products. We already know that Exposure X6 is coming. I have no news about DXO Photo Lab 4, but I expect something along those [...]
Topaz Labs have just issued an update to their DeNoise AI program. This update adds: Low Light Mode Mask based selective adjustments Do these improve an already excellent product? Watch the video and read my detailed review below. Topaz DeNoise AI - In Use DeNoise AI in action For this test I took one low [...]
Sharpening - Final Step Almost all photos need a degree of sharpening. A sophisticated approach is to sharpen your image in stages: During RAW development After post processing After resizing RAW processors do so much that it's hard to know if they are doing step 1, step 2, or both. In post 1 in this [...]
In my previous post, I looked at using Skylum Luminar as the first step in your Digital Photography Workflow. The result was great, but there was still noise in the image and Luminar is not, in my experience, the best tool to deal with it. This post shows how easy and effective it is to [...]
