If I buy AI for $199, will I also get the 3 individual apps? It's not a permanent buy as it states, but only includes a one-year update/upgrade.
Hi Fred,
Thanks for reaching out!
A nice perk for purchasing the Image Quality Bundle is that you will receive Topaz Photo AI for free.
Once purchased, you can claim Topaz Photo AI for free here.
Let me know if you have any other questions.
Best,
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Taylor Pettiford
Support Specialist
Topaz Labs
I can see what you mean as there is a big improvement using it on an old photo with Gigapixel.Gigapixel is the least used of the three for me. Much of that is that I don't have a lot of cases where I need what it will do. I would recommend you try it on old photos.
Here's a picture of me, my dad and Bossy. I ran it through Gigapixel, which automatically upsized it 2x. I then resized it with LR hitting "auto" and "B&W" as it had some funky yellowing. It could use some retouching as it has a lot of spots and perhaps make a few other adjustments, but you can see the difference Gigapixel made.
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Gigapixel:
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And, just for comparison, here it is running it through Sharpen. I ran it through LR to remove color and "auto" adjustment to level the playing field. It compares well in some regards to Sharpen, but the faces are much better IMO. Well, mine and my dad's. Bossy's not so much.
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And just for comparison, here is the original run through PS photo restoration. This looks better in some ways. It cleaned up a lot of spots, but there is more detail preserved in the two Topaz versions. I believe the best results would be had with Gigapixel and some work cleaning it up.
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Thanks Fred, that is handy to know.Topaz has 4 products. Denoise, Sharpen and GigaPixel...Those were their 3 core products, each addressing separate issues. Each of those 3 products started to add cross-over features... sharpening and denoise... and then AI was added to Giga... Giga's primary function was adding/upscaling... suitable for iphone jpegs and RAW files that were/are heavily cropped... Then they added "Photo AI"... which combines the 3 core products into a single product. Development on the 3 core products has basically stopped with all resources now being devoted to Photo AI. As AI models have improved, those improved models have been updated/added to Photo AI... This short post is not intended to describe the changes that have occurred in AI in the past year... suffice it to say, they're extensive, which has caused several changes in direction... If you have bought the 3 Topaz core products (their imaging bundle) then you get Photo AI for free, at this point. Photo AI is updated every Thursday evening. Photo AI is where Topaz is headed... I am on their beta team, and there are significant AI improvements and new features already in beta... The 3 core products are no longer being worked on, and will eventually go away as the 2 major OS makers (MS and Apple) lock them out... Photo AI is a work-in-process... but is the direction Topaz is headed...
So my free version of Photo AI is automatically updated every week? Or uninstall and reinstall every week is needed?... Photo AI is updated every Thursday evening....
You can't update a trial version.Is your version free? My (free) version is 2.06. I found no way/where to update.