It was supposed to end yesterday but the Topaz Holiday Sale is still live through the rest of today! This is your best chance to grab Photo AI or Video AI at 25% off, upgrade or renew your account, and/or pre-order Gigapixel 7. But hurry, the clock is ticking…
Topaz is best in class for restoring your challenged photos and videos. In my case, I’ve got almost 50 years of film-based still images (scanned), lo-res digital photos going back 20+ years and, more recently, lo-res AI-generated work that is too small on its own. Topaz Photo AI and Gigapixel solve that problem…
Here are some examples, starting with a 2004 non-DLSR digital portrait of a girl with glitter makeup. It’s noisy and grainy and mushy and of pretty much no use today. Unless!
Below is another example of photographing people with a non-professional camera… And again, Photo AI did an amazing job with the results – almost like going back in time and using the appropriate camera! (Please view all images in a new tab or window at 100%.)
It’s amazing how Photo AI brings back detail that you’re not going to get any other way, even with the competition’s “AI”.
Next is a scan of a 1983 35mm Tri-X negative (grainy aerial photo). Photo AI cleaned it right up:
A similar example, this time from a color 35mm negative:
Meanwhile, back in the present, stable-diffusion-type AI is allowing us to create amazing imagery, but usually at lo-res. Photo AI is necessary to fix that problem (enlarging and smoothing):
The soon-to-be-released Gigapixel 7 (shown here cropped) can do the same type of enlargement and detail recovery:
If you are doing video restoration, Video AI is the new go-to tool for this type of work. Click “Welcome to Video AI 4” on the Topaz website to see a sample video and catch the sale!
Without these tools from Topaz, most of my own photo archive would remain just that, an archive…