[gatorguy]

Please note the Denoise AI is not like their old Denoise program (which is also excellent). And you probably should eliminate any other denoising/sharpening going on in LR or wherever before you apply these. I'm not positive if Gigapixel should be a first or last step, but I'm assuming last, otherwise any additional processing will be very computationally expensive because the image will be that much bigger. I have mainly personally used Denoise AI and Sharpen AI -- my wife is the "preparing photos for printing" guru, I'd have to ask her about that. I do know she said Gigapixel works great with some images, some others turn out weird. Which is to be expected with this tech. (Just as Sharpen AI can rescue some images amazingly from camera movement or slight missed focus but others will have too many weird artifacts.) All worth having in the toolbox though.

That's been my experience with the Topaz AI programs. I have the complete bundle and they have been helpful on the business side for making otherwise crappy customer supplied images usable.

For my own photos it's been too inconsistent, with Topaz Sharpen the worst offender. Sure I've rescued a few miss focus shots or the perfect focus eyes with motion blur on the hands. The first time or two it felt like magic. You aren't supposed to be able to fix some of that after the fact. I just can't count on it, too many times it got really weird results. I pretty much save it as last resort for those shots I just gotta have but stuff was just oh-so-slightly off.

For work it's usually fine since the options are worse or non-existent. Explain/show to the client how poor the initial image was and they are almost always pleased with what we were able to accomplish. For my personal photos I'm more picky.

Now is it an improvement over Genuine Fractals/Perfect Resize, my previous go-to? Yeah pretty much as long as we're careful with the settings. I've not used the supposed updated On1 Resize enough to comment. Long story but I have On1 on a separate system isolated from the network.

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Last edited by gatorguy; 10-05-2019 at 05:54 PM.

[ShaneSteven]

Topaz is really useful for professional users. Fast and easy to use.

[Zafar Iqbal]

I have to say, I was Impressed by it too.