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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
