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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 [...]
The Langdale Valley In March 2014, I did a day trip to the UK lake District. That may not seem unusual, but I live near Gatwick Airport, in the south of England. It is a long drive and I wouldn't want to do a drive, a photo-hike, and then the return drive in a single [...]
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 [...]
How to do an Image Resize Without Losing Quality Easy! Just put it into Photoshop and do a re-sample, right? Absolutely not! If you are enlarging an image, you face this reality - pixels need to be added and your image's quality will suffer. But only if you use a standard method, such as bicubic [...]
Gigapixel AI vs a High Resolution Image In a recent comment, to a previous Gigapixel review, Barbara asked me if the Canon EOS R5 + Gigapixel AI upscaling would be a reasonable alternative to the EOS R6. (Topaz Gigapixel AI is my recommended tool for enlarging images. I have reviewed it many times, throwing many [...]
Gigapixel AI 5.3 - what's new? The new Gigapixel AI 5.3 release adds a specialist 'Art' setting, designed to make high quality enlargements of pictures featuring artistic subjects, such as a painting. This interests me because I sell 'Art' versions of some of my photos, created using the Art Filters in Topaz Studio. Below is [...]
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 [...]
One question recently raised on Topaz’s forums was whether the Topaz AI was really that good. Some went as far as saying the products were not much better than Photoshop. Others said they were too expensive. As a photographer, these comments surprised me. I only use products that work and have no particular loyalty to [...]