![]() ![]() While exploring Borneo, a 400mm or 500mm lens would have given me much more possibilities to capture the elusive wildlife. When I was in Malaysia, I longed for a proper telephoto lens. WildlifeĪ great use case for Photo AI is wildlife photos. And the quality I could breathe into some of my more difficult captures positively surprised me. Now, a few months later, as I'm going through the photos of those travels, I decided to try Topaz Photo AI. Sometimes, my Canon 70-200mm f/4 lens wasn't long enough, and other times, I had to bump the ISO past what I felt comfortable with. During those travels, I took many photos, of which some lacked image quality. When they announced it last year, I was still traveling through Asia and didn't have much time to try it out for my photo editing. I find DXO PL6 better at RAW processing.Photo AI is the recent addition to the growing selection of AI tools Topaz offers. I bought the Topaz suite for processing scanned film and old JPEGs and find Denoise AI lacking for that purpose while I'm quite happy with the results I get processing JPEGs with Photo AI and it's the reason I bought it. I understand but Denoise AI by itself is not good at RAW because it needs further processing. In Photo AI there's a strength slider that goes from no noise reduction when set to zero to a lot when set to the maximum with a nearly infinite range in between. The same thing is possible with Photo AI. This is especially problematic when it gets it wrong which it often does unfortunately.ĭenoise AI does a better job with not getting it wrong and also more flexibility to reduce noise reduction when needed. If you try this in Photo AI you cannot get close, you always get noise reduction that cant be removed or reduced further. In Denoise AI if you choose "standard" and turn both noise and edge sharpness to 0 and the recover detail to 100 and export the file it almost shows the original image. Unfortunately denoise AI and Photo AI are not the same, they do not perform the same and you cant reduce the noise reduction enough in Photo AI. Here's the best compromise result I could get from Denoise stand-alone. Because of this, it seems to me that Photo AI is a way to combine all 3 along with the facial AI under one app. You can get the same results as Denoise by turning off everything but noise reduction. Each effect can be adjusted or turned off and on as needed with, for me at least, the results being identical. ![]() I downloaded the whole suite and from my experience Photo AI seems to be using Denoise, Gigapixel, and Sharpen all under the same interface. Not if you turn off everything but Denoise and adjust the noise reduction sliders to taste. The behaviour you show above is typical of Photo AI and does the same on landscapes and things and smoothes away a tree or bush etc. I've tried Photo AI lots of times now compared to Denoise AI and i prefer denoise AI as it retains more details when you turn down the sliders. Sometimes it's best to turn off facial when it does things like this. It was left exactly as in the original with no change. I dont want smooth photos i want natural looking photos retaining the detail even at the expense of leaving some noise.Ĭorrect but the hair wasn't smoothed away. It tends to obliterate the noise and the detail on a tree trunk for example. My main issue with Photo AI is that you cant reduce the noise reduction effect enough. The top of the ladies hair has been smoothed away. Your samples are good and i can see the issue with this one. MakeFUJIFILMModelFinePix S9000Focal length6.8mmShutter speed2.5 secAperturef/2.9ISO400Capture dateSat, 20:43:59 GMT Here are a few examples before and after. I've been experimenting with Topaz Photo AI for a few days and find it's very good at cleaning up old noisy JPEGs and scanned slides and negatives. ![]()
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