Topaz Photo AI-Introduction As a professional software developer, one of the first things I did after getting a digital camera that could shoot in RAW was to write some automatic (batch) processing software for it. My reasoning was simple—I was taking hundreds of photos with this new toy, but getting the best from each photo [...]
This blog post looks at the 'holy trinity' of photography software. Three products that, when combined, provide everything you need to develop your RAW images and edit your photos. There is some overlap between the three, as each continues to add to and refine their capabilities. Yet I don't view them as competing with each [...]
DXO Pure RAW Sometimes I forget how spoilt I am with the photo software tools I use. DXO Photo Lab has been my go to RAW converter for years. Yes, I've dabbled with Luminar and still use it occasionally, but I always go back to DXO because it is so good. But most of you [...]
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 [...]
Regular readers of this blog will know I'm a big fan of Luminar. I last reviewed it here. As a RAW editor it is second to none. But Luminar has gone through many incarnations, and recent versions have seen a very poor attempt to implement Digital Asset Management features. I say 'poor' because all that [...]
