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 [...]
DxO Black Friday Deals DxO are giving significant savings throughout the Black Friday to Cyber Monday period. I have examined their products over the years and thoroughly endorse them. I have used DxO Photo Lab, the NIK Collection and DxO Viewpoint for years. I currently consider DxO Photo Lab to be the ultimate RAW converter, [...]
DxO Photo Lab 4 Released today! This time last year, DxO released Photo Lab V3 and, whilst I liked it, I commented that it wasn’t much more than an incremental release and that DxO was struggling to keep up with Topaz Labs in terms of noise reduction. What is DxO Photo Lab? DxO Photo Lab [...]
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 [...]
I've been an advocate of Topaz Sharpen AI since its release. Topaz has now issued an update with the following additional features: Auto-detect masking tool to generate base masks. "Auto-detect mode" capability which will allow Sharpen AI to select the best processing mode for your image. The masking tool can identify 20 unique subject types, [...]
