It’s here, and it’s a little bit early – our favorite time of the season, when our favorite apps go on sale at the best prices of the year! Today Topaz announced its annual Black Friday specials as follows:
“Up to 67% off bundles. Studio Collection. Filmmaker Pro Bundle. AI Creator Bundle. Built to make each workflow easier. The choice is yours. Pick your favorite to get the latest image and video enhancement models. Black Friday starts now.”
In my last post I told you about the Wonder 4 model being available in the Topaz Web (Cloud) App, but just yesterday it became available for local access from within the new Topaz Photo 1.8.0 update, as seen here:
I spent some time today enhancing and restoring random images such as historical handwritten documents, old newspapers, vintage maps and other such lo-res images downloaded years ago. Here are the 4X results as seen within Topaz Photo‘s comparison view using Wonder on its own. See the thumbnail at the upper right of each screenshot for an overview of the original image:
I downloaded this lo-res image in 2012 and present it here as originally saved:
Using Wonder 4 at 6X gave very impressive results! Individual guitar strings and frets were restored as were fingers, clothes and facial features, using the default Medium setting:
Another 6X upscale of a lo-res web image:
It is well worth your while to look into the Topaz family of standalone and web-based apps if you haven’t already done so, or to renew your subscription at these best-of-the-year prices.