If you’re like me you have decades of old photos in your collection, from scanned prints and negatives to lo-res early digital captures clogging up a hard drive. These beloved images do not hold up well technically in today’s hi-res digital world, but thankfully the software exists to salvage these challenged shots to the point Read more about Blow it up! ON1 vs. Topaz for restorative upscaling[…]
Topaz is currently running a Holiday Sale of 25-35% off through January 7, featuring Topaz Studio (comprising 3 new apps, over 20 new models plus countless features and updates). So what can you do with all of this cutting edge tech? In fact, you can do so much with Topaz Studio that I have to Read more about Topaz Super Bloomin’ 8X Realism for 2026 – on sale![…]
It’s every photographer’s favorite time of the year: Black Friday and Cyber Week discounts on our favorite software! Here is a quick overview of some of my favorite current sales: TOPAZ 43% off Topaz Studio is here. The ultimate subscription has everything you need for images and videos. Save $170 for your first year. Early Read more about BLACK FRIDAY BEGINS! Topaz, ON1, Skylum, PhotoWhoa[…]
Topaz has come up with a way to provide rolling access to their latest AI models and other technical advancements while making their ENTIRE collection of “Topaz Studio” apps and cloud services available at a reasonable price. Right away, to take advantage of this, you need to check the status of your Topaz account to Read more about Topaz 9/16 deadline: Is your account ready?[…]
ON1 Software just released its latest image upscaling offering, Resize AI 2026! It is an obvious alternative to Topaz’ Gigapixel AI (which I also cover on this blog). Before we get started with the smackdown (discussing the pro’s and con’s of each software option), let me say I am long-time “friends” with both developers, so Read more about TOPAZ vs. ON1: AI Upscaling Smackdown![…]
I’ve just finished a months-long project involving re-rendering previously created AI abstract images, using Topaz Gigapixel AI Redefine along with NVIDIA 4090 GPUs. The results are a huge set of very interesting and very usable textures and images for many different purposes! What are “Abstract Extracts”-? My 9 month project was over 3 years the Read more about FREE IMAGE SAMPLE PACK –Plugs ‘n Pixels “Abstract Extracts” from Gigapixel[…]
This is an exciting time every year with our favorite software developers pulling out all the stops to give us their best deals! Each year I round up the offers, choosing from some of my own most-used resources, so you can connect with them efficiently. Here’s the quick-access list at the moment, below which I Read more about QUICK SUMMARY: Digital imaging software Black Friday deals[…]
Topaz has just released a couple of exciting upgrades to both its Photo AI and Gigapixel AI apps! Since I have so many examples to show, I’ll keep the words to a minimum (more product details can be found at the end of the post). I was using the pre-release version of each app as Read more about JUST RELEASED! Topaz Photo AI and Gigapixel AI new versions: Super Focus, Redefine and more![…]
In Part 1 of today’s “Radical Enhancement” series we looked at Topaz Photo AI and how it can help recover and restore even very lo-res and fuzzy digital images from years ago. In Part 2 we will explore how the latest Topaz Gigapixel compliments Photo AI and offers slightly different technology to help you achieve Read more about RADICAL ENHANCEMENTS #2: Topaz Gigapixel AI, new version[…]
On August 22, Topaz released a new update to their flagship product, Photo AI. Within this single app you can choose and stack several Enhancements to denoise, sharpen, upscale, color correct, adjust lighting and recover faces. See the bottom of this post for technical details. My own photography collection consists of 25 years of digital Read more about RADICAL ENHANCEMENTS #1: Topaz Photo AI, new version[…]